When We Try
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. — John Muir • See this smart saying in our shop.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. — John Muir • See this smart saying in our shop.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. — Henry David Thoreau • See this smart saying in our shop.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. — Robert Louis Stevenson • See this smart saying in our shop.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. — Henry David Thoreau
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable. — Albert Camus
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. — Epicurus • See this smart saying in our shop.
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession ofpresents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. — Howard Zinn
It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean. — Katharine Hepburn
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. — Carl Jung • See this smart saying in our shop.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. — E.M. Forster
Your time while asleep, when you leave this house and yet are still attached to it, is to be thought of as a sacred journey that you take daily to connect to the one universal subconscious mind and experience the bewildering wonder of what transpires there. — Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov