#our

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#encourage #life #world #change

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#going #head #medicine #out #place

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#administrators #boards #children #decisions #educating

Our swords shall play the orators for us. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#our #play #shall #swords #us

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#anyone #anything #anywhere #because #being

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#awareness #beauty #eye #i #i think

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments. ↗

— James A. Leach

#elections #encouraging #government #held #iraqis

These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage. ↗

— R.H. Blyth

#zen #courage

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated. ↗

— Robert Maxwell

#complicated #could #four #hours #people