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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.


-Aristotle

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"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance."

William Wirt

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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.


-Akhenaton

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"Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion."

Philip Wylie

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"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"

James Thurber

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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.


- Anthony Burgess

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An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

-Henry Miller

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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Dag Hammarskjold

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"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony."

Emma Goldman

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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

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"The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living."

Owen D. Young

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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

John Ruskin

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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

-Douglas Noel Adams

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“Maybe I'll live my whole life just getting by. Maybe I'll be discovered; maybe I'll be colonized. You could try to train me like a pet, you could try to teach me to behave, I'll tell you that I haven't learned it yet, I ain't gonna sit, I ain't gonna”

- Ani Difranco

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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.


-Mel Brooks

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"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."

Peter Ustinov

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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

- Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

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There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.


-Rudolf Bing

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.


--George Carlin :whistling

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"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

Mary Wollstonecraft

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“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

-Albert Einstein

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"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

Thornton Wilder

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"Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.


-Truman Capote

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"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."

Leo Tolstoy

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.


--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere."

Bram Stoker

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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.


--Abraham Lincoln

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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Mark Twain

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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.


--Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

Samuel Johnson

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Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.


--Nathaniel Hawthorne

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"In George Bush you get experience and with me you get -- The Future!"

Dan Quayle, 44th U.S. Vice President

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.


--Buddha

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"Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire."

Edward Young

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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.


--Dante Alighieri

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"The secret of eternal youth is arrested development."

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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"You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go."

Ralph Steadman

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.


--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I agree with that quote 100%! :thumbsup:


"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."

Edith Wharton