I remember a medicine man in Africa who said to me almost with tears in his eyes: "We have no dreams anymore since the British are in the country." When I asked him why, he answered, "The District Commissioner knows everything." —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: wonder power knowledge dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. —William S. Burroughs More about this quote Tags: wonder questions learning knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway. —Clyde B. Aster More about this quote Tags: humor language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More than kisses, letters mingle souls. —John Donne More about this quote Tags: power words romance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. —Abbie Hoffman More about this quote Tags: success revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: wonder mind religion perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There’s no quick fix for grief. No shortcuts, no easy answer, no way to erase it. Only time can do that, and even then, just barely. —Alyson Noël in Night Star More about this quote Tags: time memory grief sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. —Josh Billings More about this quote Tags: love perspective envy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. —Dorothy Parker More about this quote Tags: children home parenting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: life happiness hell Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. —John Ruskin More about this quote Tags: quality economics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. —Anthony Trollope More about this quote Tags: law gravity inevitability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Good taste is the enemy of comedy. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Tags: comedy taste Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. —A.R. Ammons More about this quote Tags: attention wonder beauty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Self-love is the source of all our other loves. —Pierre Corneille More about this quote Tags: love self-love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email