Solo

Life is playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
--Samuel Butler

History Lesson

Insofar as there is a lesson in history, it's that human beings are not good with large sums of money, anything over $136.
--James Grant

Not

Not always so.
--Suzuki Roshi

Teach Yourself Stuff

That's what research is: You teach yourself stuff. The true, true discovery--you've got to just do it yourself. You can't read about it.
--Daniel Nocera

Where You Are

If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
--Wallace Stegner

Love Many

The best way to know God is to love many things.
--Vincent van Gogh

The Feeling

Maybe they even indulged the feeling that they each must have a double in some parallel universe, happily living the life they'd imagined for themselves in their youth.
--Richard Russo

It's A Shame

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
--William Faulkner

Long and Short

The days are long, but the years are short.
--Gretchen Rubin

Blind, Pitiless Indifference

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
--Charles Darwin

Good One

Whatever you are, be a good one.
--Abraham Lincoln

Adaptable

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
--Charles Darwin

Recovery

Recovery keeps people from being junkies and keeps people out of mental hospitals and keeps them from drinking and assaulting each other. But it does not explain all our pains and all our madness. In fact, I think it is the modesty of its purposes that keeps the recovery movement from slipping into cultish insanity. We resist the seductive assumption that any one system might solve everything.
--Cary Tennis

Times of Change

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
--Eric Hoffer

Exists In The Mind

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
--David Hume

Natural Speech

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
--Tennessee Williams

To Be Lived

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
--William Butler Yeats

Keep Going

If you are going to go through hell, keep going.
--Winston Churchill

The Reverse

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Socialism is the reverse.
--Soviet Union joke