Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
Don’t let mistakes be so monumental,
Michael Franti, C. Young
And don’t let your love be so confidential,
And don’t let your mind be so darn judgmental,
And please let your heart be more influential
Ninety percent of science fiction is crap, but then ninety percent of everything is crap.
Theodore Sturgeon’s Law
Thou hast power only to act, not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result, and without succumbing to inaction.
Bhagavad Gita
People don’t change their minds. They die, and are replaced by people with different opinions.
Arturo Albergati
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Samuel Butler
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Epictetus
What kind of legs would you build me?
Aimee Mullins