00 » If your philosophy doesn't grow corn, I don't want to hear about it.
01 » You cannot talk your way out of problems you behaved your way into.
02 » Men were born to hunt. If you don't have a target for your life, you are not a man.
03 » Truth is like a lizard, who leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away.
04 » Wonder opens one to all sorts of ideas, but skepticism runs them through a rigorous filter. I don't want to believe. I want to know.
05 » In their quest for truth, skeptics suspend both belief and disbelief.
06 » You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented, but then you read something and discover your connection with all the people who have ever been alive.
07 » Science discovers how the Cosmos works without explaining gaps in its understanding as supernatural phenomena.
08 » Faith is believing in something you know is not true.
09 » My flight into the clouds of heaven ended with a descent back to earth as the sun of reality melted the wax on my wings. But it's great to be down here where the rubber meets the road.
10 » In a fire, the oxygen and fuel disappear as they are transformed into flame, so it's fruitless to go looking for them. Just enjoy being in the light.
11 » I like to think everything will be OK in the end. If it's not OK now, then it's not the end.
12 » The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms--there is life on other planets, and we will find it in 20 years.
13 » It's morally as bad to not care if a thing is true if it makes you feel good as it is to not care how you make your money as long as you have it.
14 » I don't want immortality through my work. I want it by not dying.
15 » True mercy is relentless, impartial justice--not favor, grace and divine intervention. The source of crime and immorality is the belief that one can escape the consequences of his or her actions.
16 » Spirituality is about love and forgiveness, tolernace of others, how our lives fit into a greater scheme of things, why we are here and what happens when we die.
17 » The man who views life the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
18 » It's easier to sprinkle yourself with a little blood and water than to purge yourself of malice, to secure salvation without disturbing one's habits.
19 » After 45 years of trying to make religion fit my experience, then trying to make experience fit my religion, I adopted Ludwick Wittgenstein's motto: I prefer the world as I find it.
20 » Give up your map of hopes and fears, and travel that clear road between desires and expectations by dealing with the world as it really is.
21 » In Zen, spirituality isn't thinking about god while peeling potatoes. In Zen, spirituality is just peeling the potatoes.
22 » Every morning before entering the world of chaos and competing beliefs, check the batteries in your bullshit detector.
23 » Serendipitous discoveries are made by being in a specific frame of mind, being focused and alert because you're searching for something.
24 » In this universe, everything must cooperate for anything to happen.
25 » The world is too much with us. Trees, for example, interest us more than what is rustling their leaves.
26 » Play fair. Don't hit people. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Paint, sing, dance, hold hands and watch for traffic.
27 » The time to be connected is now. It's always now, so it's always time.
28 » Morals are inescapably situational, for we do not live in a static world of immutable absolutes--some questions have more than one answer.
29 » Experience is the best teacher, because it gives you the test first and the lesson after. The things we learn for keeps are those we discover for ourselves.
30 » We only know what we interpret. We can't peek over the edge of our interpretations to see things in the raw.
31 » Life isn't about things. It's about the quality of our relationships and the meaningfulness of our work.
32 » Live fully, love well and let go.
33 » Saying Yes! to life is being present in the here and now to experience it.
34 » There are seven days in a week and SOMEDAY isn't one of them.
35 » Regret is living in the past, fear is living in the future, and peace is living in the present.
36 » If you want to get to the fruit of the tree, you'll have to go out on a limb.
37 » Wisdumb is thinking of something stupid but resisting the urge to say it.
38 » More than a few characters inhabit the theaters that are our minds. Discover your many selves. Be all those characters waiting to seize the stage and run wild.
39 » Passion is rooted in who you are and arises from an inherent ability to play the music that is you. If you passionately want to do something, you can.
40 » Loneliness doesn't come from having nobody around, but from not being able to communicate what is sacred to you.
41 » Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. ~Anthony Hopkins
42 » It is the journey that enlightens, not the destination. 43 » Be yourself. Everybody else is taken. 44 » You only live once but if you do it right once is enough. 45 » Don't indulge the last moments of your life with sour grapes about who you might have been. Celebrate all the people you have been. 46 » If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. 47 » Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated and drunkenness sobered, but stupid is forever. 48 » End your journey of life in content, as an apple falls when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it and thanking the tree on which it grew. You drew in life-giving breath--give it back. 49 » There is no completeness without sadness and longing, for without them there is no sobriety, no kindness. Wisdom without kindness and knowledge without sobriety are useless. 50 » The only true wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness and can be reached only through suffering. 51 » Self importance is our greatest enemy, for it requires us to spend most of our lives feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow man. 52 » Happiness is like moonshine--make your own and you'll never run out! 53 » You're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality has become better than your dreams. 54 » Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. 55 » It takes strength to live in civilization for community with its slings and arrows is man's true Darwinian test. 56 » If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there. 57 » If you hang out with people who don't share your passion and your values, your real peers won't find you. 58 » You are the only person you'll spend your entire life with, so now is a good time to build a healthy relationship with the man in the mirror. 59 » It's never too late to be who you might have been. 60 » One often finds his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it. 61 » Loving someone is as much about who you are as who they are. 62 » Opportunity knocks so often it has sore knuckles. 63 » You cannot discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a very long time. 64 » A horse you don't want to ride will, sooner or later, put you on the ground. 65 » Decisions are easier when you give up your need for approval and your fear of failure. 66 » There are two kinds of power: accepting or rejecting, which are passive, and initiating, which is active. 67 » Diversity is the breathe of life. Don't abandon it for any single form that catches your fancy. 68 » Our universe would be a sorry affair if it did not contain something for every age to investigate. 69 » We could bear the poignant truth that birds sing beautifully for a time then become a pile of lifeless feathers if we could embrace the possibility that there are other worlds to sing in. 70 » It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Confucius
71 » A realist is a an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A cynic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned. 72 » Even the best cookbook is no substitute for even the worst meal. 73 » The past: the present rolled out for understanding. The present: the past rolled up for action. 74 » When all is said and done, more is often said than done. Actions make things so, not words. 75 » Cars have big windshields and small rear view mirrors to remind us it’s more important to know where you're going than where you've been. 76 » There' a time in the life of every problem when it's big enough to see but small enough to fix. 77 » Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. 78 » It is not the strongest nor the smartest who survive but those who best manage change. 79 » Insanity is doing the same thing but expecting different results. 80 » A man should be proud of the place where he lives and live so his place is proud of him. 81 » Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. 82 » Show up, pay attention to what has heart and meaning, say what you know is true and accept the consequences. 83 » When disaster strikes, be prepared to deal with it as a survivor, not as a victim. 84 » Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it. 85 » I cook with wine and sometimes I even add it to the food. 86 » A house is where you hang your hat and eat your meals. Home is where your heart lives, that other place where home has always been. 87 » A crime worse than burning books is not reading them. 88 » I'd go back to my 20-year old body if my 50-year old brain could come with me. 89 » Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. 90 » We were born to be wireless: the last cord we were connected to was cut at birth. 91 » How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. 92 » If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, let's get wasted and have the time of our lives. 93 » Intellectuals say simple things in a complicated ways. Artists say complicated things in simple ways. 94 » I'm not as good as I once was but I'm as good once as I ever was. 95 » Fate and free will are attitudes. You are free to choose one course over another. The winds will be favorable or not according to the set of your sail. 96 » Avoid people who will not laugh, for they have no health in them. Those who take things too seriously have no sense of proportion, balance or relative values. 97 » The core of innovation is trial and error. Fail as long as it takes, and be strategic about what you learn. 98 » We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. 99 » Life's disappointments are harder to take if you don't know any swear words. 100 » Aging is a steep price to pay for maturity. 101 » When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. 102 » It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. 103 » I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. 104 » Happiness isn't having the best of everything but making the best of everything you have. 105 » If you fail to plan you plan to fail. 106 » When the student is ready, a teacher will come. When the teacher is ready a student will come. 107 » If you are too big for little things, you will be too little for big things. 108 » When you don't feel like going to work, go to work and perhaps you'll feel like it. 109 » Your friends are god's way of apologizing for your relatives. 