partthree

Life is not easy. I paint the memory of happiness.
-Anvar Saifoutdinov

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
-Jameson Frank

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of apin; and some of our griefs... have their source in weakness which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
-Joseph Conrad

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
- Golda Meir

(this is for that person...she knows who she is...)
...please know that I'm forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me...
-Holden McNeil in Chasing Amy (97')

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
-Charles A. Lindbergh

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The perception of beauty is a moral test.
- Henry David Thoreau

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Throeau

...and so castles made of sand slip into the sea....eventually.
- The late great..Jimi Hendrix

Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
- Heraclitus

The way up and the way down are one and the same.
- Heraclitus

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
- Heraclitus

A dry soul is wisest and best.
- Heraclitus

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein

Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
- Loren Eiseley, The Chresmologue

The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us.
- Loren Eiseley, The Chresmologue

Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakeable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou.
- Chaung Tzu

I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
- William Shakespeare

... We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
- Ray Bradbury, "G.B.S. - Mark V"

Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.
- Loren Eiseley, Strangeness in the Proportion

A moment's halt - a momentary taste
Of being from the well amid the waste -
And lo - the phantom caravan has reached
The nothing it set out from - oh, make haste!
- Omar Khayyam/Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
- William Blake

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
- Theodore Roethke

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
- John Fowles, The Magus

You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.
- Loren Eiseley, Obituary of a Bone Hunter

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
- John Fowles, The Magus

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
- Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One lives but once in the world.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, after Hippocrates

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man errs as long as he strives.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

I love those who yearn for the impossible.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
- Robert Frost

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course, there is then no question left, and just this is the answer. The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead.
- Wynn Bullock

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City