"There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive."
David Attenborough
Monthly Archives: August 2016
"Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld."
Martha Beck
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is. " Shirley MacLaine
"What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does."
J. K. Rowling
"We can learn something new anytime we believe we can."
Virginia Satir
I must have been about nine or ten years old when I encountered the word “ochre”. I didn’t know what it meant and I must have read it in a sentence something along the lines of, ‘The leaves on the tree had turned ochre.’ I remember looking up the word to make sense of it and probably found a definition along the lines of, ‘An earthy pigment containing ferric oxide typically with clay, varying from light yellow to brown or red.' My confusion would have expanded further, when trying to understand how to pronounce the word I would
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."
Wayne Dyer
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."
B. F. Skinner
"You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways."
Iris Apfel
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." Elie Wiesel