Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

James Frazer

Sometimes life hands us a mirror and dares us to take a look.

L.M. Fields

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

William Shakespeare

All gardening is landscape painting.

William Kent

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.

Leslie Vernick

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Bryant H. McGill

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.

Bhagavad Gita

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Alfred de Vigny

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

Julia Roberts

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi