The less routine the more life. - Amos Bronson Alcott. View more images...
Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts. When teachers depend on the coercive powers of law or technique, they have no authority at all. - Parker J. Palmer. View more images...
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind. - Lewis Mumford. View more images...
And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? - Archilochus. View more images...
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. - John Berger. View more images...
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. - William Butler Yeats. View more images...
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look. - Robert Fulghum. View more images...
You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction. - Norman Vincent Peale. View more images...
For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed - Clifton Fadiman. View more images...
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. - William Shakespeare. View more images...
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. - Woody Allen. View more images...
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama. View more images...
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. - Helen Keller. View more images...
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. - Charlotte Bronte. View more images...
What is this talked-of mystery of birth
But being mounted bareback on the earth? - Robert Frost. View more images...