design philosophy quotes

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. ~Samual McChord Crothers



When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours. ~Author Unknown



That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience," Essays, 1844



Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. ~Seneca



One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa. ~Mac O'Grady, describing a typical round of golf



It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. ~A. Bartlett Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, November 1977



Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life. ~Carrie Latet



We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking. ~Steve Elbert



We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Mary Dunbar



Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus



As though pure white snow flashed and sparkled with the color of bright ruddy wine, and was overcome by this radiance. ~Author unknown, about the opal



He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician. ~Chinese Proverb



Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps. ~Author Unknown



Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Author Unknown



For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ~Romans 7:19



Oxygen is overrated. ~Author Unknown



It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men. ~Mae West



True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ~Kurt Vonnegut



You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If movement was a language, skipping would be the natural word for "bliss." ~Theresa "Heartdancer" Carey, as posted on iskip.com