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THE DIARY OF PETRICHOR

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QUOTES OF THE TERRIBLY SANE

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another. -Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of discussion. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga. -R.K. Narayan, novelist(1906-2001)

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future". -Henry M Wriston, 11th president of Brown University (1889-1978)

Everything you've learned in school as `obvious' becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. -R. Buckminster Fuller, engineer, designer, and architect (1895-1983)

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." -John Brunner, science fiction writer (1934-1995)

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style. -Aldous Huxley, writer(1894-1963)

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. -Walt Whitman, poet (1819-92)

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. -John Andrew Holmes

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. -Ludwig Van Beethoven,composer (1770-1827)

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. -R. Buckminster Fuller, engineer,designer, and architect (1895-1983)

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. -Barnett Cocks

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do? -Epicurus, philosopher (c.341-270 BCE)

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist. -Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer,Nobel laureate (1861-1941)

Realization makes every place a temple; the absolute endows all beings with the true eye. When you come to grasp it, you find it was ever before your eyes. If you can see clear what is before your very eyes, it is what fills the ten directions; when you see what fills the ten directions, you find it is only what is before your eyes. - Taken from Zen and the Ways - by Trevor Leggett (1978) Shambala Publications

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -Dalai Lama

If you don't execute your ideas, they die. -Roger von Oech, author and consultant

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color-blind. -Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

No two persons ever read the same book. -Edmund Wilson, critic (1895-1972)

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? -Thomas J. Watson, industrialist (1874-1956)

You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (1929-1993)

The only gift is giving to the poor; / All else is exchange. -Thiruvalluvar, poet (c. 30 BCE)

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. -Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

God never occurs to you in person but always in action. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. -Garrison Keillor, radio host and author (1942- )

Without darkness there are no dreams. -Karla Kuban, novelist

Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn. -Kalidasa, dramatist (c. 4th century)

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony. -William Henry Channing, clergyman, reformer (1810-1884)

Lightly moving forward. - Unknown