"Before you taste anything, recite a blessing." ~Rabbi Akiva
"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." ~Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu)
"You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins."~Jim Stovall~
"The province of knowledge is to speak; the privilege of wisdom is to listen." ~Anon
"Thousands kiss the books outside, who never look within." ~Anon

Monday, October 3, 2011

Herman Melville - true places

"It is not down in any map, true places never are." ~Herman Melville

R. D. Laing - avoid pain

“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.” ~R. D. Laing

Dana Bate - Wisdom

"Wisdom flutters through the mind like a butterfly only to be captured in someone's net and pinned to the wall in the dead form of words." ~Dana Bate