Friday, October 29, 2010

Travel

From Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894), novelist and poet
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.


Because after the affair, she gets the house.

Photo credit: Jason M.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Memories

From Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894), novelist and poet

Death is conquered by the memories we leave in the minds of the living.

Either that or good medical care.

Photo credit: Eduard Trag

Friday, October 22, 2010

Life

From Charan Singh, mystic (1916-1990)

Man's life does not commence in the womb and never ends in the grave.


Unless, of course, you're buried alive.


Photo credit: Emil Liljeström

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Knowledge


Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.


I just wish you weren't so opinionated.

Photo credit: Ove Tøpfer

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Time

From Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well.


Kind of like you're doing, right now.


Photo credit: Frank Köhne

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Truth

From the Dalai Lama

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.


Which is why we keep getting mugged.

Photo credit: Miguel Saavedra

Monday, October 18, 2010

Meeting

From the Dalai Lama.

Every person you meet is changed by the meeting. You alone have the power to determine how.


I just wish you hadn't chosen to meet with me.

Photo credit: Carl Dwyer

Friday, October 15, 2010

Seeing

From Antoine de Saint-Exupery, writer and aviator (1900 - 1944)

It is only with the heart that one sees rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.


Unless you understand physiology. Then it's eyes for seeing, all the way.

Photo credit: Iudit

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Kindness

From Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.


But 2:30 AM is always be too early.

Photo credit: SP Veres

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Inspiriation

From Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.


That and someone to pay off our student loans.

Photo Credit: Victor Iglesias

Monday, October 11, 2010

Liberty

Epitaph on the grave of Matilda Joslyn Gage, suffragist, abolitionist (1826-1898)

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven -- That word is liberty.


It would have been fruit pie, but that's two words.

Photo credit: Pablo Celsi

Friday, October 8, 2010

Greatness

From Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.


Until the restraining order was issued.

Photo credit: Steve Todey

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Knowledge

From Hal Borland, journalist (1900-1978)
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.


Knowing weeds, I can appreciate herbicides. 

Photo credit: Lars Sundstrom

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Darkness

From Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844 – 1900)

And if you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.


But only after buying flowers and taking it to dinner.

Photo Credit: Janusz Gawron

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Writing

From R.K. Narayan, novelist (1906-2001)

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.


But you need an agent if you want to get paid for it.

Photo credit: Aaron Neifer

Monday, October 4, 2010

Danger

From Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.


That's just how it works when you fight zombies.

Photo credit: Ali AlMuallem

Friday, October 1, 2010

Heaven

From Nicolas Caussin, preacher and moralist (1583-1651)

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.


I'm sorry. Who did you say you were, again?

Photo credit: Wouter Otto