Tuesday, 7 December 2010

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Charles M. Schulz

Monday, 6 December 2010

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

Anthony de Mello

Sunday, 5 December 2010

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Arthur Schopenhauer
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Saturday, 4 December 2010

To have self-knowledge is to know the ways of your mind, to be aware of its subtleties, with all their implications; and for that you don't have to read a single book.
J. Krishnamurti

Friday, 3 December 2010

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli