“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.” ― John Ruskin       “It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.” ― John Ruskin     “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ” ― John Ruskin     “All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.” ― John Ruskin     “The purest and most thoughtful minds…

“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.” – John Muir     “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” – John Muir       “The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.” – John Muir       “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” – – John Muir     “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir…

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” ― John Locke       “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” ― John Locke       “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.” ― John Locke       “The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.” ― John Locke     “We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.” ― John Locke  …