"Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you." — David Steindl-Rast, Catholic Benedictine monk, born 1926
"If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force." — Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher, born 1861
"Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings." — Frank Stella, American painter, born 1936
"After the final NO there comes a YES and on that YES the future of the world hangs." — Wallace Stevens, American poet, born 1879
"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman." — Wallace Stevens, American poet, born 1879
"Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark." — Wallace Stevens, American poet, born 1879
"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." — Wallace Stevens, American poet, born 1879
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850
"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850