Wisdom in Words

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. -Alexander
Woollcott

Take time to come home to yourself everyday. -Robin Casarjean

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it,
anything but live for it. -Charles Caleb Cotton

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own
self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of
consciousness. -Joseph Campbell

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.
-Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet (1861-1941)


If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The
literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -Spencer
Silver, the originator of Post-it Notepads

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the
right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-Dorothy Nevill

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at
play. -Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (500 B.C.)

Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference
there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception
for man's own advantage. -Sri Aurobindo

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.
-Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet (1861-1941)

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
-Oliver Goldsmith

Collected over time by
Marylee Manson Armour
Posted January 20, 2008