people puffs

not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. just common sense and love will do.
~ myrtle anvil

you grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
~ ethel barrymore

the greatest tragedies of history occurred because of leaders who acted with intellectual stupidity.
~ d.a. battista

if only the sun - drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers, and scientists are keeping society together.
~ rita dove

in three words i can sum up everything i've learned about life:
it goes on.
~ robert frost

if you don't think of the ultimate meaning of things as being separate from you, then there is no 'other' to address.
it's like fish trying to decide whether to relate to the ocean - they're in it.
~ robert fulghum [on how americans talk to god]

as one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
~ k. hepburn

when you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.
~ gene hill

people obey the law for one of two reasons: they either love god or fear punishment. when both of these break down, the result is an environment that breeds violence, poverty and anarchy.
~ jack kemp

not all writing must be concise. there is room for the grace note, the courteous phrase, the touch of oil that lets the gates of a sentence swing without squeaking.
~ james j kilpatrick

there is a time to admire the grace and persuasive power of an influential idea, and there is a time to fear its hold over us.
the time to worry is when the idea is so widely shared that we no longer even notice it, when it is so deeply rooted that it feels to us like plain common sense.
at the point when objections are not answered anymore because they are no longer even raised, we are not in control: we do not have the idea, it has us.
~ alfie kohn

it is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
~ miss manners (judith martin)

nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
~ jean-jacques rousseau

education is when you read the fine print;
experience is what you get when you don't.
~ pete seeger

wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

the past gives us experience and memories; the present gives us challenges and opportunities; the future gives us vision and hope.
~ william arthur ward

the paths are many but their end is one.
~ alan watts

none are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
~ benjamin whichcote

the hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
~ oscar wilde