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- An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything. ~~~ Address of the Duke of Shao to King Li-Wang - China ca. 845 B.C.
- Yet in living moments as they are is peace, and patience in itself is wisdom! ~~~ Once
- Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ~~~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and comforts, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails. ~~~ Sir Edward Burne-Jones
- Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. ~~~ William Shakespeare, Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence act II, iii)
- Truth is something you stumble into when you think you are going someplace else. ~~~ Jerry Garcia
- A yielding, an obedience, a willingness to accept these notes as the right notes, this pattern as the true pattern, is the essential gesture of performance, translation, and understanding. The gesture need not be permanent, a lasting posture of the mind or heart; yet it is not false. It is more than the suspension of disbelief needed to watch a play, yet less than a conversion. It is a position, a posture in the dance. ~~~ Ursula K LeGuin, The Telling
- Love the pitcher less, and the water more. ~~~ Sufi saying
- Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. ~~~ Rachel Carson
- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. ~~~ Albert Einstein
- Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured. ~~~ Anonymous (attributed to Mark Twain)
- Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~~~ Alan Alda
- As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. ~~~ Ursula K LeGuin
