Catcher In The Rye

Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around--nobody big, I mean--except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye, and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
--J. D. Salinger

Savage

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
--Bertrand Russell

Wellness

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
--Abraham Maslow

A Dearth

While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.
--John Paul Stevens

On and On

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
--Chuck Palahniuk

Blur Line

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
--Arnold Toynbee

Quite Insane

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
--Nikola Tesla

Too Much

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.
--William Wordsworth

Quest

He says the primal quest
ain't nothin' but a second guess.
Sometimes you just do your best
to compromise.
--Dave Carter

Releases It

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our Neighbor

Our neighbor is anyone who needs assistance, whether friend or stranger. We cannot expect to correct all the ills of the world but we can help the people with whom we come in contact. This is our spiritual service.
--Elizabeth Sand Turner

The Blues

White folks don't understand about the blues. They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
--August Wilson (title character, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)

The Art...

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
--Marcus Aurelius

Anything Else

The sad fact of contemporary American economic culture is atomistic individualism. Anything else is decried as communism.
--Dave Hanson

More Rational

My trend has been toward more rational and less romantic as the decades go by. I keep seeing the harm done by religious romanticism, the terrible conservatism of romanticism, the ingrained pessimism of romanticism. It builds in a certain immunity to the scientific frame of mind.
--Stewart Brand

Acceptable

The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.
--Jaron Lanier

Too Vast

The mind considering itself--I shudder; it is too vast, a space without dimension, filled with cosmic events that are silent and immaterial.
--E. L. Doctorow

What You Can

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
--Theodore Roosevelt

Affection

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
--C. S. Lewis

Grace

Gracefulness is an idea belonging to posture and motion. In both these, to be graceful, it is requisite that there be no appearance of difficulty; there is required a small inflexion of the body.
--Edmund Burke