Move Slow, Grow Life

To draw a moral, to preach a doctrine, is like shouting at the north star. Life is a vast and awful business.The great artist sets down his vision of it and is silent.
— Ludwig Lewisohn, Modern Drama, p. 109.

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a Spirit is manifest in the Laws of the Universe....
— Albert Einstein

If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.
— Laurence Peter

We start when we're ready and we're done when we finish.
— Ojibwe, Bear Dancer

Wherever you find injustice, the proper form of politeness is attack.
— T-Bone Slim

If a seed is there
the pine will sprout
even among boulders;
if I love and keep on loving,
can we fail to meet?
— Anonymous Japanese poem from the Kaknishu

Think about living as taking a trip to the top of a mountain. How are you going to take that trip? Are you going to drive 90 miles an hour in as straight as possible a path? Or are you going to take a country road, stop for a liesurely lunch, pick a few flowers and then get there and feel you're on top of the world? The second way — that's music.
— Yo-Yo Ma, cellist

When a pickpocket looks at a saint, he sees only his pockets.
— East Indian Proverb