Belief, WB Yeats

"We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body." William Butler Yeats, cited in a Wendell Berry book.

Simplicity

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and
took advantage of every accident that befell us.  
--Thoreau, from the poem simplicity

Opportunity (Edison)

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." attributed to Thomas Edison, some question as to whether he said it.

Collards & Kale Cookbook

Lincoln on resolution

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing."

Suspended above the sea

I dashed passed him, feet glancing across the sun-scorched sand, sloping toward the sea. Knowing this would be the last summer day before classes started, I took the leap. Suspended for a moment in time above the briny water, hanging between my carefree college days and the mysterious adult life that awaited.

rice

2 cups dry leaves a lot of leftover. 1 or 1.5 probably better unless plans to use a good bunch.