tattoo quotes and phrases

The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there. ~Ellie Rodriguez, @sapphiremoon13



Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. ~Edward R. Murrow



If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa



Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now. ~Charles Barkley



We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. ~Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams



The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. ~Leo Rosten



Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. ~Woodrow Wilson



Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu



Love is blind; hate is deaf. ~Author Unknown



I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. "Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it." She looks up and gives me her full gaze. "Don't be ridiculous," she purrs, "I wrote it." ~Dilys Laing, "Miao"



Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. ~Kazuo Inamori



Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. ~Martin F. Tupper



The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. ~Benjamin Disraeli



The Occidental snobbery which is invading us, the gunboats, rapid-fire guns, long-range rifles, explosives... what else? Everything which makes death collective, administrative and bureaucratic - all the filth of your progress, in fact - is destroying, little by little, our beautiful traditions of the past. ~"The Garden," Chapter 6



Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. ~Stephen Baker



Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. ~Rene Dubos, Medical Utopias, 1961



A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open. ~Gerald Raferty



History... is an aggregation of truths, half-truths, semi-truths, fables, myths, rumors, prejudices, personal narratives, gossip, and official prevarications. It is a canvas upon which thousands of artists throughout the ages have splashed their conceptions and interpretations of a day and an era. Some motifs are grotesque and some are magnificent. ~Philip D. Jordan



If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ~Sam Snead



One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate