At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006
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Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
—Mark Twain, 1876My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy Parker