What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges