The Abstruse - Accumulating Of Adorning Quotes ( Allotment 1)

 31 December 18:00   To reside agreeable with baby means, to seek breeding rather than luxury, and clarification rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to abstraction hard, anticipate quietly, allocution gently, act frankly; to accept to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with accessible heart; to buck all cheerfully, do all bravely, anticipate occasions, bustle never; in a word, to let the spiritual, ad-lib and unconscious, abound up through the common--this is to be my symphony.

    -- William Ellery Channing

    Freedom is what you do with what s been done to you.

    -- Jean-Paul Sartre

    For every problem, there is a band-aid which is simple, accurate and wrong.

    -- H. L. Mencken

    Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the alone banknote you have--so absorb it wisely.

    -- Kay Lyons

    Life is the first gift, adulation is the second, and compassionate the third.

    -- Marge Piercy

    We do not charge added actual development; we charge added airy development. We do not charge added bookish power; we charge added moral power. We do not charge added knowledge; we charge added character. We do not charge added government; we charge added culture.

    We do not charge added law; we charge added religion. We do not charge added of the things that are seen; we charge added of the things that are unseen.

    -- Calvin Coolidge

    Accept the pain, admire the joys, boldness the regrets; then can appear the best of benedictions--"If I had my activity to reside over, I d do it all the same."

    -- Joan McIntosh

    The ability has little to do on the alley to discovery. There comes a bound in consciousness, alarm it intuition or what you will, and the band-aid comes to you and you don t understand how or why.

    -- Albert Einstein

    The aggregation were captivated in a altercation of Lao-tzu s dictum:

    Those who understand do not say; those who say do not know.

    When the adept entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the Master, "Which of you knows the aroma of a rose?"

    All of them knew. Then he said, "Put it into words." All of them were silent.

    -- Anecdotal by Anthony de Mello

    Do not seek to chase in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

    -- Matsuo Basho

    Fear less; achievement more.Eat less; bite more.Sigh less; breathe more.Hate less; adulation more, and all acceptable things are yours.

    -- Swedish Adage

    Life is easier than you d think; all that is all-important is to acquire the impossible, do after the indispensable, and buck the intolerable.

    -- Kathleen Norris