Live and Learn

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation. --Charles Cook

I'm not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization.--Booth Tarkington

 No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible. --George Chakiris

 Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. -- C.S. Lewis

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. --Albert Einstein

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

 "A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. "

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them."

 One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.--William Shakespeare

 "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow."

 “Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.”

 Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo

 There is something of the marvelous in all things of nature.--Aristotle

 Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. 

He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.--Mark Twain

 Food is an important part of a balanced diet.--Fran Lebowitz

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~Oprah Winfrey

From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw.--Edgar Allan Poe 

 Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius

 The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks – Sir James Mackintosh

 
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

 "It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it."

 A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him - Frederick Douglass

  
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.--Romeo and Juliet