The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCExperience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerThe subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCOurs is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776