Enlightenment

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak. ~Satish Kumar

Lack of Friendship

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Ripe

A ripe melon falls by itself. ~Zimbabwean Proverb

Start With Me

I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. ~River Phoenix

How Old?

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
~Satchel Paige

Unlearn

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. ~Gloria Steinem

Liberty or Death

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. ~Harriet Tubman

Childhood

I said I'm hungry enough to eat a horse! I didn't say nothin' about carrots! ~Dennis the Menace

Humble

Don't be so humble, you're not that great. ~Golda Meir

Perspective

When it comes to things in our own lives, they can be too close to be seen in a proper perspective. We easily get caught up in situations, carried away, eventually losing our perspective. We can be easily puffed up with pride over a trifle, or become prey to melancholy. But if we see things in perspective, we can appreciate the wonderful scenery around us. ~Shundo Aoyama

Poetry

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~Kahlil Gibran

L'shanah tovah

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? ~Mahalia Jackson

A Regular Guy

I'm not a big guy and hopefully kids could look at me and see that I'm not muscular and not physically imposing, that I'm just a regular guy. So if somebody with a regular body can get into the record books, kids can look at that. That would make me happy. ~Ichiro

Choosing Evil

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. ~Jerry Garcia

Justice

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
~Mary Shelley

A Father

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. ~E.B. White

Looking

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Illustration by: Ted Nasmith

Spirit-World

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense... ~Beatrix Potter

To See

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ~Dorothea Lange