My Beautiful Things
- Real Candles on a Christmas Tree
- Cool Crisp Clear Autumn Day
- Cat Purring on My Chest
A simple truth — If I have learned anything in my life, it is that the only one who can make me happy is me. This truth allows me to understand that I must not expect others to make me happy, but receive their gifts openly and with joy, and that others are living their lives fulfilling their own happiness.
Michael Schueler
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe
There is nothing wrong with being afraid. When you fear, you see things in a different light.
don Juan Matus
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps. …when a man has fulfilled these four requisites there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his acts lose the blundering quality of a fool’s acts. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have only lost a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.
don Juan Matus
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Philpotts
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
Anatole France
The Fates lead him who will; him who won’t they drag.
Joseph Campbell, quoting an old Roman
Love thine enemies, because they are the instrument of your destiny.
Joseph Campbell
The intelligent man always fights for the lost cause, realizing that all others are merely effects.
e.e. cummings
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
No one who speaks German could be an evil man.
Officer at the Sideshow Bob trial — Cape Feare, The Simpsons
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Charles de Montesquieu
Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.
Russell Kirsch
Do things that have never been done.
Russell Kirsch