Muffin dog

Wisdom from the Pandora's box.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. - Peter De Vries

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. - David Hobson

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. - Joseph Campbell

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. - William Blake

There is no use worrying about things over which you have no control, and if you have control, you can do something about them instead of worrying. - Stanley C. Allyn (like school :D)

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. - Swedish proverb

Compassion is the basis of morality. - Arnold Schopenhauer

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. - Thomas Aquinas

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, jr.

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. - Aboriginal activists group, Queensland, 1970s

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. - Dorothy Thompson

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness. - Dorothy Thompson

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West (I adore this quote so much)

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. - Robert Half

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. - Janis Joplin

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. - Edgar Cayce

Beauty is a fragile gift. - Ovid

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. - Calvin Trillin

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live. - Godfrey Reggio

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. - James Thurber

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death. - Annie Lennox

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. - Edvard Munch

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. - M. C. Escher

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. - Jean Paul

How terrible it is to love something that death can touch. - Unknown

It is from their foes, not with friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls. -Aristophanes

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read. – Pliny the Elder

Words have the power both to destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. – The Buddha

The wisest men follow their own direction. – Euripides

And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. – William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on. – William Shakespeare

I cannot live without books. – Thomas Jefferson

It has been said that democracy is the worst kind of Government except all the others that have been tried. – Winston Churchill

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. – Dom Helder Camara

The great masses of the people … will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. – Adolf Hitler

As to diseases make a habit to two things – to help, or at least, to do no harm. – Hippocrates

I do not feel obliged that the same God who has endowed us with sense, religion, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. – Galileo Galilei

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out the window. – Steve Wozniak

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous toy. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep - into evil. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (I love this sentence too)

I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We are always in our own company. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers. - Ruth Brown

A girl is a person who screams at the mouse and smiles at the wolf - Shyam Kapoor

And from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring! - Laertes

Noisy creatures, crooks, and assorted voyeurs would love to be invisible. For you the option may be a matter of survival. - Cheshire cat

Countless generations of termites would only digest a mere fraction of the volumes here; and they wouldn't be one wit wiser. - Cheshire cat

Cats are color blind, you know. Kaleidoscopes hold no interest for us. - Cheshire cat

Scythes, hips, and the hangman's noose all do it. Why not you? - Cheshire cat (about swinging)

Seek and ye shall find, they say. But they don't say what you'll find. - Cheshire cat