amore e psiche

Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. ~Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896


You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey


Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more - and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. ~Barack Obama, Announcement for President, 2007 Feb 10, Springfield, Illinois


Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. ~Mark Twain


It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. ~Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)


Thou art to me a delicious torment. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship"


Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb


Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history. ~P.J. O'Rourke


Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. ~Terri Guillemets


My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex. ~Alicia Silverstone


On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love


Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~Christopher Morley


Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ~John Perry Barlow


He who can be a good son will be a good father. ~Author Unknown


A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving


You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond


Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. ~Alfred North Whitehead