We Live in the World

We live in the world when we love it.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Experience Increases Our Wisdom

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

~ Josh Billings

A Pessimist

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Between Men and Women

Between men and women, there is no friendship possible. 

There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

~ Oscar Wilde

A True Friend

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

~ Aristotle

How Use Doth Breed

How use doth breed a habit in man!

~ William Shakespeare

Every Child

Every child is an artist. 

The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

~ Pablo Picasso

Freedom and Love

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. 

If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, 

a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. 

To love is not to ask anything in return, 

not even to feel that you are giving something - 

and it is only such love that can know freedom.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Ever Since I Was a Child

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. 

To me, the function and duty of a quality human being 

is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

~ Bruce Lee

Love is a Conflict

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

~ Mangnu Hirschfield

Do Not Write

Do not write so that you can be understood, 

write so that you cannot be misunderstood.

~ Epictetus

The American Dream

The American Dream has run out of gas. 

The car has stopped. 

It no longer supplies the world with its images, 

its dreams, its fantasies. 

No more. 

It's over. 

It supplies the world with its nightmares now: 

the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...

~ J.G. Ballard

Life is Something

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

~ Fran Lebowitz

A Day for Toil

A day for toil, an hour for sport, 

but for a friend is life too short.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Every Minute You are Angry

For every minute you are angry 

you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action, Looks, Words, Steps

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet 

by which you may spell character.

~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

An Angry Man

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

~ Cato the Elder

'Tis Sometimes the Height of Wisdom

'Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

~ Cato the Elder

Character Builds Slowly

Character builds slowly, 

but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

~ Faith Baldwin

Honesty is the Best Policy

Honesty is the best policy - 

when there is money in it.

~ Mark Twain

A Ship in Harbor

A ship in harbor is safe, 

but that is not what ships are built for.

~ John A. Shedd

A Human Being's First Responsibility

A human being's first responsibility 

is to shake hands with himself.

~ Henry Winkler

Confusion

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!

~ William Shakespeare