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a more mystical concept of animals.
Remote from universal nature, and living
by complicated artifice, man in civilization
surveys the creature through the glass of
his knowledge and sees thereby a feather
magnified and the whole image in distortion.
We patronize them for their incompleteness,
for their tragic fate of having taken form
so far below ourselves. And therein we err,
and greatly err. For the animal shall not
be measured by man. In a world older and
more complete than ours they move finished
and complete, gifted with extensions of the
senses we have lost or never attained, living
by voices we shall never hear. They are not
brethren, they are not underlings; they are
other nations, caught with ourselves in the
net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the
splendor and travail of the earth.
— Henry Beston, "The Outermost House"
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. — Sir Edmund Hillary
When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. — Samuel Johnson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. — G. K. Chesterton
The tree, which moves some to tears of joy, is, in the eyes of others, only a green thing that stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees. — William Blake
"Did you not see the holy relics?" asked the Bishop.
"Nay," replied Joan. "We found the woodland better suited to meditation. For the holiest relics molder into dust at last, but budding trees are the thought of God, and, unlike the thoughts of men, are ever fresh and ever young." — Richard Ince — When Joan was Pope, 1931
You don’t really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein
No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet. — C. S. Lewis
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. — William Blake
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. — John Henry Boetker
Try not! Do, or do not. There is no try. — Yoda
If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. — Edgar Watson Howe
Kindness antedates psychiatry by hundreds of years; its antiquity should not lessen your opinion of its usefulness. — Rosewell Gallager, M.D.
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. — Pablo Picasso
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way. — Christopher Morley
Age is not important unless you’re a cheese. — Helen Hayes
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The rest will be given. — Mother Teresa
Obstacles are cowards, but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. – Orison Swett Marden The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level. — Marcus Aurelius
Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways; but where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses. — Dayak Proverb
What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead. — George Bernard Shaw
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized. — Blaise Pascal
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. — Arthur C Clarke
When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value. — Thomas Edison
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. — Bertrand Russell
Man, like a bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year all at once. — William A. Ward When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes. — Howard W. Newton
Statistically, 100% of the shots you don’t take, don’t go in. — Wayne Gretzsky
Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment. — Sydney Smith