Niccolò Machiavelli

"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
   Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 - 1527); Italian politician and writer.

Muhammad Ali

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

Wilbur Wright

It is possible to fly without motors,
but not without knowledge and skill.
Wilbur Wright

replace:
knowledge and skill = imagination

Isaac Asimov

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Isaac Asimov

Chuck Reid

"In theory
there is no difference between theory and practice,
but in practice, there is."

Chuck Reid

Richard Bach

I gave my life to be the person I am today. Was it worth it?
Richard Bach

Richard Bach

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

Carlos Castaneda

'"Your problems is that you think you have time"
Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda

LORD BYRON

'Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange;

Stranger than fiction.

LORD BYRON, Don Juan

Miguel de Cervantes

Facts are the enemy of truth.
Don Quixote , Miguel de Cervantes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jonathan Swift

"There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy."
       
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)-Irish politician and writer

Theophrastus

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."

Theophrastus (372BC-287BC); Greek botanist, humorist, & naturalist

Marquis de Sade

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others."

Marquis de Sade

Unknown

Life isn't measured
by they number of breaths we take,
but by the moments
that take our breath away.

Unknown

Carlos Castaneda

"It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos."

Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda

“No! I am never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don’t feel that way any longer.”

Carlos Castaneda, The teaching of don Juan

Carl Sagan

Somewhere, something incredible
is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.


Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda

““Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.””
Carlos Castaneda

Stephen Hawking

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined,
and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

Stephen Hawking

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Remember the Golden Rule:

Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

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Life sucks, but it's better than the alternative.

Franklin P. Jones

"You can learn many things from children.
How much patience you have for instance."
- Franklin P. Jones

Lav Tolstoi

"Nowadays everybody designs laws, 
 it is easier writing than doing"
      Lav Tolstoi (1828-1910), Russian writer.

Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are,
we see them as we are.

- Anais Nin