Tuesday, February 9, 2010

April 1st: The Update

While I've been slow on the blog, it's hard to believe that I haven't yet included any of the April 1st Project for the year. So here's a catch up.

Quotes discovered:

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.
  - Fernand Braudel

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
  - George Bernard Shaw

Self trust is the first secret of success.
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is the only being who knows he's alone.
  - Octavio Paz

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.
  - Andrew Jackson

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
  - Lillian Hellman

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
  - Albert Einstein

The basic formula for all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.
  - Franz Werfel, Between Heaven and Earth

We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny...An inescapable network of mutuality...I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.
  - Martin Luther King Jr.

So if you think your life is complete confusion because your neighbor's got it made, just remember that it's a grand illusion and deep inside we're all the same.
  - Styx, The Grand Illusion

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
  - Chinese Proverb

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
  - Aristotle

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
  - Frank Lloyd Wright

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
  - Arthur Brisbane

And now for some photos: