If you want something done, ask a busy person. Benjamin Franklin Read more
If you want something done, ask a busy person. Benjamin Franklin Read more
Impossible to carry, but once you shoulder it, it’s the lightest thing in the world. G. I. Gurdjieff Read more
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry […] Read more
Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown’d, Crooked eclipses ‘gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave […] Read more
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. William James Read more
Cold Mountain is full of weird sights; people who try to climb it always get scared. When the moon shines, the water glints and sparkles; when the wind blows, the grasses rustle and sigh. Snowflakes make blossoms for the bare plum, clouds in place of leaves for the naked trees. At a touch […] Read more
The candle is not there to illuminate itself. :: Nawab Jan-Fishan Khan Read more
What does not destroy me makes me strong. Friedrich Nietzsche Read more
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen. Albert Einstein Read more
Wee, sleekit, cow’rin’, tim’rous beastie, O what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi’ bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee Wi’ murd’ring pattle! I’m truly sorry man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union, An’ justifies that ill opinion Which makes thee startle At me, […] Read more