The menu is not the meal.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Join the dance.
No dog ever peed on a moving car.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
Now I’m a warrior.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
I cant do it never accomplished anything; I will try has performed miracles.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
When I went to our American history books to learn how our forefathers harrowed the land, I discovered that the historians knew nothing about harrows. Yet our country has depended more on harrows than on guns or speeches. I thought that a history which excluded harrows, and all the rest of daily life, was bunk. And I think so yet.
Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.
