We have the ability to survive anything except ourselves. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
We are each a dozen people who were all the same child. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. – Aldous Huxley
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
We are spirits clad in veils. – Christopher P. Cranch
In the circle of life there is no top, no corner, and no straight lines. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? – John Lancaster Spalding
Before I travelled my road I was my road. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. – Stanislaus I of Poland
The future influences the present just as much as the past. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. – John Muir, 1869, My First Summer in the Sierra
One does what one is; one becomes what one does. – Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. – Author Unknown
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. – Robert M. Pirsig
