Changes

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
--Armistead Maupin

Closer To The Sun

The sun can only be seen by the light
 of the sun. The more a man or woman knows,
 the greater the bewilderment, the closer 
to the sun the more dazzled, until a point
 is reached where one no longer is.
--Farid ud-Din Attar

Surprised

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
--Gracie Allen

Then You Read

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
--James Baldwin

Not Logical

If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality healthcare, if they tell us that they're offering a good deal, then why is it that the government--which they say can't run anything--suddenly is going to drive them out of business? That's not logical.
--Barack Obama

Leader

If in the darkness of ignorance,
you don't recognize a person's true nature,
look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
--Rumi

Pursued

It seems that happiness, like peace or passion, comes most freely when it isn't pursued.
--Pico Iyer

Regret

Do I regret this life? Is it, despite all our brave words, a cheat and a waste? Does it make any slight difference to the universe that we are present?
--Garrison Keillor

Ham (and Eggs)

If we had ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs.
--Anonymous

Influential

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
--Scott Adams

Agriculture

All agriculture is at its heart a business of capturing free solar energy in a food product that can then be turned into high-value human energy.
--Allan Nation

Emotions

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
--Vincent Van Gogh

Rich

I call that man rich who can satisfy the requirements of his imagination.
--Henry James

Bugs

If you are not a Buddhist, you think there are Buddhists and non-Buddhists, but if you are a Buddhist, you realize everyone's a Buddhist--even the bugs.
--Shunryu Suzuki

Decisions

Every decision we make in life has both a price and payoff.
--Bill Roberts

Free

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stumbling

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
--Charles F. Kettering

Wonderful

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
--Marilyn Monroe

Wag

Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.
--Samuel Butler

Something Nice

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
--Nancy Friday

Sociable

The sociable solitary is an easily pained but far from unusual breed; one distinguishing characteristic is that farewells are forever on the brink of being made.
--Anthony Lane