There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
Appearance, Albert Schweitzer
Money, Eric Hoffer
Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.
- Eric Hoffer, Before the Sabbath (1979), p. 139
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- Eric Hoffer, Before the Sabbath (1979), p. 139
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Life, Sri Chinmoy
Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.
- Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979), #4029, Part 41
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- Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979), #4029, Part 41
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Italy, Orson Welles
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
- Orson Welles as the character Harry Lime in the film The Third Man (1949)
Art, Aldo Leopold
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
Growth, Edward Abbey
Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, "Water", p. 114 (1968)
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- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, "Water", p. 114 (1968)
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Religion·Faith, Fyodor Dostoevsky
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils
Appearance, Agnes Repplier
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
- Agnes Repplier
- Agnes Repplier
Action, Beaumont and Fletcher
Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
- Beaumont and Fletcher, The Captain (c. 1609–12; published 1647), Act V, scene 5.
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Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
- Beaumont and Fletcher, The Captain (c. 1609–12; published 1647), Act V, scene 5.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Action
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