How essential it is, then, in youth,
To acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes,
in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live
inside a mind with attractive and interesting
pictures on the walls.
    William Lyon Phelps

The emptiness that many people complain
dominates their lives comes in part from a failure
to let the world in, to perceive it and engage it fully.
Naturally, we'll feel empty if everything we do
slides past without sticking…
   Thomas Moore

You can tell everything about a person's life
from the way he walks through a forest.
   Sam Cagey, Lummi Leader

You don't get to choose how you're going to die.
Or when.
You can only decide how you're going to live.
Now.
   Joan Baez

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living;
the other helps you make a life.
   Sandra Carey

…there are those who seem certain
that if they plant tomato seeds,
at harvest time they can reap onions.
   Maya Angelou

We are reminded once again
that small, simple things make a difference
in the quality of life.
   Jim Goldsmith (writing about bread)

There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
   Albert Schweitzer

Though we travel the world over
to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us
or we will find it not.
   Emerson

If you're going to climb,
you've got to grab the branches,
not the blossoms.