Choice

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

--William James

Identity

Men on frontiers, whether of time or space, abandon their previous identities. Neighborhood gives identity. Frontiers snatch it away.

--Marshall McLuhan

A House

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

--Jerome K. Jerome

Eternal

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

--John Lennon

Capital Be

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

--Henry David Thoreau

High Station

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

--Tennessee Williams

Rare Feeling

Being a kid means not feeling safe. That's why children are so happy when they are made to feel safe. It's a rare feeling.

--Lance Mannion

Maintenance

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

--Kurt Vonnegut

Returns At Last

Whoever degrades another degrades me,
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

--Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)

All Things

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

--Rene Descartes

What We Say To Ourselves

It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. That's where the suffering comes from.

--Pema Chodron

All a Sham

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

--Anna Sewell

Me Too

I think the message of Jesus is "Me too" and "It's weird down here."

--Annie Lamott

Personality

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

--Norman O. Brown

To Allow Mystery

To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, "There could be more, there could be things we don't understand," is not to damn knowledge. It is to take a wider view. It is to permit yourself an extraordinary freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you may be right.

--Barry Lopez

Disorganized

Is there a "disorganised religion"? Yes. As far as I know, Judaism has no hierarchy, not even any central theological arbiters. It's every schmendrick for himself! That may be a reason why Judaism has become a hostage to Zionism. I mean, what matters more, a bunch of words in an ancient language, or real estate?

--Mooser

Humans Are Divided

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

--Dave Eggers