Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. Of Hurston’s four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, emotionally charged and raw imagery.
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A four-time Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, American Robert Frost depicted realistic New England life through language and situations familiar to the common man
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Chuang Tzu (369-286 B.C.) was a leading philosopher representing the Taoist strain in Chinese thought. Central to these is the belief that only by understanding Tao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can man achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death.
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Quotes from Abraham Lincoln – the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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Quotes from Mae West – an American actress whose entertainment career spanned seven decades. Her risqué remarks got her banned from radio for a dozen years, but behind the clever quips was Mae West’s deep desire, decades before the word “feminism” was in the news, to see women treated equally with men.
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Quotes from W. C. Fields – one of the greatest American pantomimists and comedians, whose comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist.
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Quotes from Zen teachers. Zen Buddhism was transmitted from China to Japan in the twelfth century, and is distinguished by the direct transmission of profound insight into the nature of Reality
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Quotes from Winnie-the-Pooh, a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. Pooh and his friends — Owl, Tigger, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, and piglet–have been a staple of children’s literature for over 70 years
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Byron Katie teaches a method of self-inquiry known as “The Work” – a way of identifying and questioning the thoughts that cause all the anger, fear, depression, addiction, and violence in the world.
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Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.
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Heather Jansch’s driftwood horses, warrior women, dancers and other sculptures from found and recycled materials, are incredibly dynamic and vital.
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“There’s nothing wrong with what you’re going through. It’s very real, and it brings you closer to the truth”
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Quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh – a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, and peace activist. He lives in Plum Village Monastery in the South of France
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Quotes by Aristotle – a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
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Quotes by Adyashanti – an American spiritual teacher from the San Francisco Bay Area who gives regular satsangs in the United States and also teaches abroad.
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Quotes from Victor Borge – a Danish and American comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark
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Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero – a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist.
read moreQuotes from Albert Einstein (1879-1955) – famous theoretical physicist,awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics and is renowned for his Theory of Relativity
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Quotes from Aldous Huxley – the author of critically acclaimed non-fiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy.
read moreAlfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain in Queen Victoria’s reign and remains one of the most popular British poets
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