samba e amor

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. ~William James



You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda



A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~G.K. Chesterton



The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. ~Henry Beston, The Outermost House, 1928



When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells



Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. ~Max Frisch



Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. ~Norman Cousins



Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~Democritus



A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary. ~Author Unknown



The view that a peptic ulcer may be the hole in a man's stomach through which he crawls to escape from his wife has fairly wide acceptance. ~John Allan Dalrymple Anderson



Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax. ~Philip Dow



What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings - they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. Nonetheless they embody the concentrated experience of the race. ~Norman Douglas



O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller



I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. ~Flash Rosenberg



Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? ~Flann O'Brien



Lost time is never found again. ~Benjamin Franklin



It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball. ~Pete Sampras It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets me just that much closer to heaven. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ~St. Augustine



For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian. ~Mabel Maney



Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison