Matoshi Quotes

#1. We became acutely aware of the profound healing that is needed in our species. We knew with conviction that what we were doing, as women and men together, was confronting the cultural dynamics that are killing us all- killing women and men, killing our children, killing the planet.

William Keepin

#2. I am not a brave man ... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

Andy Weir

#3. The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

Twyla Tharp

#4. The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
[Letter to the Millicent (Rogers) Library, February 22, 1894]

Mark Twain

#6. Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.

La India

#7. Gradually, however, I was forced to abandon the effort to persuade them to come my way, and then I achieved results only by appealing over the heads of the Senate and House leaders to the people, who were the masters of both of us.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

Julien Green

#9. In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

Baruch Spinoza

#10. Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

Dean Koontz

#11. One of the greatest source of danger in life is to find the right path and stand on it. If you find the right way, run on it, don't stand on it. Something may be coming from behind; it will surely crush you when you are static.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

Pythagoras