One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi -

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

- Mahatma Gandhi -

That's the great secret of creativity.
You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

- Ray Bradbury -

Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.

- Wisdom -

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

- La Fontaine -