Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

Ramakrishna

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

Dave Brubeck

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort.

Rubye Fields

If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity.

Eric S. Raymond

Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. . . .If, however, we do not use our anger to define ourselves clearly in every important relationship we are in--and manage our feelings as they arise--no one else will assume this responsibility for us.

Harriet Goldhor Lerner, The Danc

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Trammell Crow

The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world, membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

Charles C. Morrison

These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

Charles Manson

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

Reese Witherspoon

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Dorothy Day