Bornfamous

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
–Albert Einstein

When a country obtains great power,
it becomes like the sea:
all streams run downward into it.
The more powerful it grows,
the greater the need for humility.
Humility means trusting the Tao,
thus never needing to be defensive.
A great [...]

It’s never too late to do nothing.
–Zen saying [via Cloud 9]

Some people say lutefisk has a very fishy taste and an unpleasant smell. To me, it tastes like Christmas.
–Allen Vevang, quoted in NY Times

We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover the secret of God that our difficulties disappear.
–Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
–Mark Twain

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
–Ambrose Redmoon

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
–Robert Fritz

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
–Franz Kafka

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.
– Benjamin Franklin

once in the wilds of afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew and had to live on food and water for a number of weeks.
- w. c. fields
[via kd]

Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind.
Did you think you were put here for something less?
–Chief Arvol Looking Horse

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
–Albert Einstein

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
- Admiral Hyman Rickover

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
– Plato