Thursday, February 21, 2008

Miscellaneous

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952



But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey



Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.

Scott Adams



So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



No human thing is of serious importance.

Plato



I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe



Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring



By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

Katherine Mansfield



Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung



Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.

Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism