There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. – Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies
Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. – S.A. Sachs
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. – Thomas Carlyle
You can see a lot by just looking. – Yogi Berra, also often quoted as “You can observe a lot by just looking.” (origi
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. – Leo Rosten
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. – DrSeuss
[T]hings are entirely what they appear to be and behind them… there is nothing. – Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. – Zen Saying
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. – William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. – Evelyn Waugh
You are in the perfect position to get there from here. – Abraham–Hicks
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. – Buddha
We come to this work because the alternative, being consumed by the effort to ignore the mystery of being, is no longer acceptable. – Ken McLeod, Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention
We become aware of the void as we fill it. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
