Clippings

collection of quotes and thoughts


MAYA ANGELOU
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

PAULINE BROWN - 'Aesthetic Intelligence'
Aesthetics is about lifting the senses, not just the look.

DAVID HUME, Philosopher
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.



LAO TZU
Silence is a great source of strength.

FRANCIS BACON, English Philosopher
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

LEONARD KOREN, 'Wabi-Sabi'
Things are either devolving toward, or evolving from, nothingness.

While the universe destructs it also constructs.



EUGEN HERRIGEL, 'Zen in the Art of Archery'
Between the stages of apprenticeship and mastership there lie long and eventful years of untiring practice.

'Zen in the Martial Arts'
The mind is like a fertile garden. It will grow anything you will plant--beautiful flowers or weeds.

And so it is with successful, healthy thoughts or with negative ones that will, like weeds, strangle and crowd the others.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.