Alphabetized by author’s last name

Alphabetized by author’s last name.

Live it.Learn it.Love it.

Okay, this isn’t a quote, but isn’t Ellie cute?

A

“Thinking is important, but only if it changes the way you feel.”

--Jenny Adkins

“Happy is he who doth pass length of life in sureness of hope and doth feed his heart on gladness sprung from a conscience clear.”

~Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

"Knowledge is power. "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in progress, in every society, in every family."every family." --Kofi Annan, former U.N. Secretary---Kofi Annan, former U.N. Secretary-

GeneralGeneral

“Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry at the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—this is not easy.”

--Aristotle

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

-Aristotle

"Nature does nothing uselessly." --Aristotle

"In a free society, i.e. a society that promotes human freedom, students would be able to think for themselves and develop minds of their own to make judgments based on evidence and argument, and to build capacities for exploration and invention. They would be encouraged to ask the most fundamental and essential questions that are, like the young themselves, always in motion, dynamic, and never twice the same: Who in the world am I? How did I get here and where am I going? What in the world are my choices and my chances? What did I learn that the teacher did not know? What is my story, and how is it like or unlike the stories of others? What is my responsibility to those others?"

--William and Rick Ayers

B

“Over the course of several hundred years, new people come along and each lays down a block on top of the old foundations… Then comes along an historian who asks, ‘Well, who built the cathedral?’ Peter added some stones here, and Paul added a few more. If you are not careful, you can con yourself into believing that you did the most important part. But the reality is that each contribution has to follow on to previous work. Everything is tied to everything else.”

--Paul Baran, Founding Father of the Internet

“ “I would prefer not I would prefer not to.”to.”

~~BBartleby the Scrivener”artleby the Scrivener”

““Me against my brother, Me against my brother, my brothers and me against my my brothers and me against my cousins, then my cousins and cousins, then my cousins and

me against strangers.”me against strangers.”

-- -- Bedouin proverbBedouin proverb

““The small part of ignorance that we arrange The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."and classify we give the name of knowledge."

--Ambrose Bierce --Ambrose Bierce

““Death is a dignitary who when he comes Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect.”manifestations of respect.”

~Ambrose Bierce ~Ambrose Bierce

I was angry with my friend:I was angry with my friend:I told my wrath, my wrath did end.I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe:I was angry with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did grow.I told it not, my wrath did grow.

--William BlakeWilliam Blake

“ “I know men and I tell you that Jesus I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him.” would die for Him.”

--Napoleon Bonaparte --Napoleon Bonaparte

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

--Buddha

““Life is trying things out to Life is trying things out to see if they will work.”see if they will work.”

--Ray --Ray BradburyBradbury

““A conversation should not be A conversation should not be a a market in which one sells and another market in which one sells and another buys. Rather, it should be a bargaining buys. Rather, it should be a bargaining back and forth, and each person should back and forth, and each person should be merchant and buyer. My rubber be merchant and buyer. My rubber plant for your victrola, each offering plant for your victrola, each offering what he has and seeking his deficiency.”what he has and seeking his deficiency.” --Charles --Charles

BrooksBrooks

"Imagine we are all the same. "Imagine we are all the same. Imagine we agree about politics, Imagine we agree about politics, religion, and morality. Imagine we religion, and morality. Imagine we like the same types of music, art, like the same types of music, art, food, and coffee. Imagine we all look food, and coffee. Imagine we all look alike. Sound boring? Differences alike. Sound boring? Differences need not divide us. Embrace need not divide us. Embrace diversity. Dignity is everyone's human diversity. Dignity is everyone's human right."right."

--Bill Brummel (documentary --Bill Brummel (documentary

filmmaker)filmmaker)

““Go forth, under the open sky and list Go forth, under the open sky and list to Nature’s teachings,to Nature’s teachings, While from all around, Earth and her While from all around, Earth and her waters, and the depths of air...waters, and the depths of air... Comes a still voice.”Comes a still voice.”

----William Cullen William Cullen

BryantBryant from “Thanatopsis” from “Thanatopsis”

““The humblest citizen in all the The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.”all the hosts of error.”

-- --William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan

““With our thoughts we With our thoughts we

make the world.” make the world.”

--Buddha--Buddha

C

"A teacher is one who makes herself progressively unnecessary."

--Thomas Carruthers

"To believe that we evolved with the complexity of this brain from a pool of promiscuous biochemicals during a lightning storm--that requires a lot of faith—way more faith than I have." ~Ben Carson

““Let your soul be a shining Let your soul be a shining beacon that guides others beacon that guides others from darkness.”from darkness.” --John Calef --John Calef

““We think too much, We think too much, and feel too little.” and feel too little.”

--Charlie Chaplin--Charlie Chaplin

“ “Only the unloved Only the unloved hate.”hate.” --Charlie Chaplin--Charlie Chaplin

"You cannot criticize or blame "You cannot criticize or blame someone without revealing someone without revealing something about yourself."something about yourself."

--Deepak Chopra --Deepak Chopra

“The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.”

--Cicero

“I do not believe that differences need to lead to conflict.”

--Jane Claypool

“I choose to experience joy in the abundance of life, including the wealth of ways that others live and express themselves.”

--Jane Claypool

“This great nation was founded on principles of equality and religious freedom. Its strength comes from diversity.”

--Jane Claypool

"Self-interest ultimately leads to a loss of self and a decreased awareness of others."

--Jennifer Cline, L.P.C.

[Conversely, denial of self leads to the gaining of self and an increased awareness of others.]

“True knowledge is knowing the extent of one’s ignorance.”

--Confucius

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.

Persian Proverb

http://www.searchquotes.com/quotes/author/Persian_Proverb/



“Heaven has no rage like love turned to hatred. Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

--William Congreve

““To hold science up as the To hold science up as the One and Only Truth is a kind One and Only Truth is a kind of fundamentalism in itself.”of fundamentalism in itself.”

--Johannah Cornblatt --Johannah Cornblatt

““Emotional maturity is the ability to Emotional maturity is the ability to express one’s own feelings and express one’s own feelings and convictions, balanced with convictions, balanced with consideration for the thoughts and consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others.”feelings of others.”

--Stephen Covey --Stephen Covey

““One of the most One of the most important ways to important ways to manifest integrity is to be manifest integrity is to be loyal to loyal to those who are not those who are not presentpresent. In doing so, we . In doing so, we build the trust of those build the trust of those who are present. When who are present. When you defend those who are you defend those who are absent, you retain the absent, you retain the trust of those present.” trust of those present.” --Stephen --Stephen CoveyCovey

““The Abundance Mentality The Abundance Mentality flows out of a deep inner flows out of a deep inner sense of personal worth and sense of personal worth and security. It is the paradigm security. It is the paradigm that there is plenty out there that there is plenty out there and enough to spare for and enough to spare for everybody. It results in everybody. It results in sharing of prestige, of sharing of prestige, of recognition, of profits, of recognition, of profits, of decision-making. It opens decision-making. It opens possibilities, options, possibilities, options, alternatives, and creativity.” alternatives, and creativity.” ----Stephen CoveyStephen Covey

““As you live your values, you will find As you live your values, you will find exhilaration and peace. You will exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather define yourself from within, rather than by people’s opinions or by than by people’s opinions or by comparisons to others. Ironically, you comparisons to others. Ironically, you will find that as you care less about will find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, themselves and their worlds, including their relationship with you. including their relationship with you. In addition, you will find it easier and In addition, you will find it easier and more desirable to change because more desirable to change because there is something—some core deep there is something—some core deep within—that is essentially within—that is essentially changeless.” changeless.” --Stephen Covey--Stephen Covey

““In the last analysis, In the last analysis, what we what we areare communicates far communicates far more eloquently more eloquently than anything we than anything we saysay or or dodo.” .” --Stephen --Stephen CoveyCovey

“Happiness is a pro-active choice.” --Stephen Covey

““Each of us has many, Each of us has many, many maps in our head many maps in our head which can be divided into which can be divided into two main categories: maps two main categories: maps of of the way things are—the way things are—oror realitiesrealities, and maps of , and maps of the the way things should be--way things should be--or or valuesvalues. We interpret . We interpret everything we experience everything we experience through these mental through these mental maps.”maps.” --Stephen --Stephen CoveyCovey

““People can’t change if there’s People can’t change if there’s not a changeless core inside not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are who you are, what you are about, and what you value.” about, and what you value.”

--Stephen Covey--Stephen Covey

“’“’Seek first to understand’ involves a Seek first to understand’ involves a very deep shift in paradigm. We very deep shift in paradigm. We typically seek first to be understood. typically seek first to be understood. Most people do not listen with the Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They are either the intent to reply. They are either speaking or preparing to speak. They speaking or preparing to speak. They are filtering everything through their are filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s autobiography into other people’s lives. If they have a problem with lives. If they have a problem with someone, their attitude is ‘That someone, their attitude is ‘That person just doesn’t understand.’” person just doesn’t understand.’” --Stephen --Stephen CoveyCovey

“The outer world is but a mirror for our inner selves.”

--Ashley Cox

“What we know is in constant conflict with what we do not know.”

--Alex Cunningham

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““We humans are the first and only We humans are the first and only species able to escape the brutal force species able to escape the brutal force that created us—natural selection. We that created us—natural selection. We civilized men do our utmost to check the civilized men do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick. We institute poor laws, and and the sick. We institute poor laws, and our medical men exert their utmost skill our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last to save the life of every one to the last moment.”moment.”

--Charles Darwin --Charles Darwin

““It is those who know It is those who know little, and not those who little, and not those who know much, who so know much, who so positively assert that this positively assert that this or that problem will never or that problem will never be solved by science.”be solved by science.”

--Charles --Charles DarwinDarwin

“When the voice and the vision on the inside become louder and clearer than the opinions on the outside, you’ve mastered your life.”

--John DeMartini

“Everyone is thoroughly good. The only difference in men is the choice they make to exhibit it or not.”

--Robyn Ditmore

““I prefer to be true to myself, I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be others, rather than to be false, and incur my own false, and incur my own abhorrence.” abhorrence.”

----Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass

““Nothing is more Nothing is more powerful than an idea powerful than an idea whose time has come.”whose time has come.”

--Wayne Dyer --Wayne Dyer

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“I wish to know God’s thoughts. All the rest are details.”

--Albert Einstein

"I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind."

--Albert Einstein

““The pursuit of knowledge The pursuit of knowledge is more precious than its is more precious than its possession.”possession.”

--Albert Einstein --Albert Einstein

““Nationalism is an Nationalism is an infantile disease, infantile disease, the measles of the measles of mankind.”mankind.”

--Albert Einstein--Albert Einstein

““The most important question a person The most important question a person can ask is…can ask is…Do I live in a friendly Do I live in a friendly universe, or do I live in a hostile universe, or do I live in a hostile universeuniverse?”?”

--Albert Einstein--Albert Einstein

““Religion without science is Religion without science is blind. Science without religion blind. Science without religion is lame.”is lame.”

~Albert Einstein~Albert Einstein

““Learning is experience. Everything Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”else is just information.”

--Albert Einstein --Albert Einstein

““There are only two ways There are only two ways to live your life: One is as to live your life: One is as though nothing is a though nothing is a miracle. The other is as miracle. The other is as thoughthougheverything is a miracleeverything is a miracle.”.”

--Albert --Albert EinsteinEinstein

““The significant problems The significant problems we face cannot be solved we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking at the same level of thinking we were at when we created we were at when we created them." them."

--Albert --Albert EinsteinEinstein

““Preventive war was an Preventive war was an invention of Hitler.” invention of Hitler.” --Dwight D. Eisenhower --Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I heard the learn’d astronomer,

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”

~Walt Whitman

“Trust thyself: Every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.” --Emerson

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”


“Great men are they who see the spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.”


““Prayer as a means to Prayer as a means to effect a private end is effect a private end is meanness and theft. It meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not supposes dualism and not a unity in nature and a unity in nature and consciousness. As soon consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He God, he will not beg. He will see prayer in all will see prayer in all action.”action.” ----Ralph Waldo Ralph Waldo EmersonEmerson

“Speak what you think now in hard words.”

--Emerson

“This moment is a good one, if we but know what to do with it.”


”I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”


“Nothing can bring you peace but triumph of principles.”


"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded."


“I confess I am a little cynical on some topics, and when a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart. I have generally found the gravest and most useful citizens are not the easiest provoked to swell the noise…”


““The sum total of The sum total of things was always things was always such as it is now, such as it is now, and such it will ever and such it will ever remain.”remain.” --Epicurus--Epicurus

(341- (341-270 B.C.)270 B.C.)

"It's a self-evident "It's a self-evident truth that things that truth that things that are equal to the same are equal to the same thing are equal to thing are equal to each other."each other."

--Euclid--Euclid

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"The body is only a combination of "The body is only a combination of simple elements. Nothing more. simple elements. Nothing more. We're destined to be decomposed by We're destined to be decomposed by bacteria, and become nutrients for bacteria, and become nutrients for plants. Then those plants nourish plants. Then those plants nourish herbivores. And those herbivores herbivores. And those herbivores nourish carnivores. To recognize nourish carnivores. To recognize that flow, to work in it, to that flow, to work in it, to decompose, and recreate--that is decompose, and recreate--that is alchemy."alchemy." --from --from Full Metal Full Metal AlchemistAlchemist

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” --Anne Frank

"The best remedy for those who "The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of amidst the simple beauty of nature.” nature.” – Anne Frank– Anne Frank

““Any society that Any society that would give up a little would give up a little liberty to gain a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve security will deserve neither and lose neither and lose both.”both.”

--Benjamin --Benjamin FranklinFranklin

"Between stimulus and "Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth In our response lies our growth and freedom." and freedom."

--Viktor E. Frankl --Viktor E. Frankl (psychiatrist and Holocaust (psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor)survivor)

“ “Love is the ultimate and Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which highest goal to which man man can aspire.” can aspire.”

--Viktor E. Frankl --Viktor E. Frankl

"We who lived in the concentration camps remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

--Viktor Frankl

““The poets and philosophers before me The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.”which the unconscious can be studied.”

~ ~ Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud

““Education is the ability to Education is the ability to listen to almost anything listen to almost anything without losing your temper without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”or your self-confidence.”

--Robert Frost --Robert Frost

““In three words I can sum In three words I can sum up everything I've up everything I've learned about life: it goes learned about life: it goes on.” on.”

--Robert Frost--Robert Frost

““The strongest and most effective The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long term force in guaranteeing the long term maintenance of power is not maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the the dominant to control the dominated, but dominated, but consentconsent in all the in all the forms in which the dominated forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own dominationacquiesce in their own domination.”.” - --Robert Frost-Robert Frost

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““No richness is No richness is innocent. All richness innocent. All richness is the result of some is the result of some else’s poverty.”else’s poverty.”

~Eduardo ~Eduardo GaleanoGaleano

““Conformity is a Conformity is a conscious effort to conscious effort to change one’s Self in change one’s Self in order to assimilate order to assimilate more fluidly into an more fluidly into an environment or environment or society.”society.”

--Zach --Zach GannonGannon

““The ultimate goal of the The ultimate goal of the educational system is to educational system is to shift to the individual the shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his burden of pursuing his education.”education.” -John W. -John W. GardnerGardner

““"Political extremism "Political extremism involves two prime involves two prime ingredients: an excessively ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a world's ills, and a conviction that there are conviction that there are identifiable villains back of identifiable villains back of it all.“it all.“ -John W. Gardner -John W. Gardner

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

--Ghandi

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

--Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

--Mahatma Gandhi

"Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something is to become one with God." -Ghandi

“I object to violence because

when it appears to do good,

the good is only temporary.

The evil it does is permanent.

-Mahatma Ghandi

“There are many causes that I am prepared to die for, but no cause that I am prepared to kill for.”

-Mahatma Ghandi

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”

--Indira Gandhi

“Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.” --Kahlil Gibran

“To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns or the sharp stones on Life’s path.” --Kahlil Gibran

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

--Khalil Gibran

““No one really knows, since we don't understand the nature of consciousness or how the brain generates what we call mind, the sum-total of the experiences we define as the self.”

~Marcelo Gleiser [theoretical physicist]

“The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.”

--Parke Godwin

[see next slide]

Check out this article on how kindness changes the brain:

http://naturalsociety.com/random-acts-kindness-can-change-brains-chemistry/

Here are the findings:

“There was increased activity observed in the inferior parietal cortex, a region involved in empathy and understanding others. Compassion training also increased activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. This activity was connected to better communication with the nucleus accumbens, brain regions involved in emotion regulation and positive emotions – so when people actively sought to lessen the suffering of others, they were rewarded neurologically.”



“What I don’t know is how some people can become so isolated in their own world that they don’t feel compassion for people who are different from them.” ~Anne Stevens

“Naturally, the common people don’t want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. Tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and endangering the country. It works the same in every country.” --Herman Goering Hitler’s Reichmarschall at the Nuremberg Trials

““We are raised by society We are raised by society not to reach our potential, not to reach our potential, but to join in ranks of our but to join in ranks of our fellow citizens.”fellow citizens.”

--Matthew --Matthew GourneauGourneau

“All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.”

--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Treat people as they are, "Treat people as they are, and they will remain that and they will remain that way. Treat them as what way. Treat them as what they can be, and you help they can be, and you help them achieve their them achieve their greatness.”greatness.”

-- -- Johann Wolfgang von Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGoethe

I believe that the measure of my I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love soul is my capacity to love imperfect people. I also have imperfect people. I also have found that my inability to accept found that my inability to accept others' weaknesses is usually others' weaknesses is usually caused by my caused by my unwillingnessunwillingness to to acknowledge my own. acknowledge my own.

----Joseph GrennyJoseph Grenny

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"The ink of a scholar is "The ink of a scholar is holier than the blood of a holier than the blood of a martyr."martyr." --The --The

HadithHadith

“I live the answer! In my village at home, it is the exceptional man who can even read a newspaper. But I will teach and work and things will happen slowly and

swiftly. At times, it will seem nothing changes at all. But I will look about my village at the illiteracy and disease and ignorance and I will not wonder long. I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course.” --Lorraine Hansberry

“ “It’s simple. You read books—to It’s simple. You read books—to learn facts—to get grades—to pass learn facts—to get grades—to pass the course—to get a degree. It has the course—to get a degree. It has nothing to do with thoughts.”nothing to do with thoughts.”

(from (from A Raisin in the SunA Raisin in the Sun))

“ “Most of the world’s problems Most of the world’s problems occur because people don’t sit occur because people don’t sit down and talk.”down and talk.”

~Lorraine ~Lorraine Hansberry Hansberry

(from (from A Raisin in the SunA Raisin in the Sun))

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his subject.”

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.”

--Ernest Hemingway

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”

--Ernest Hemingway

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” --Ernest Hemingway

"There's nothing to writng. All you have to do is sit at a typewriter and bleed."

--Ernest Hemingway

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to the frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

--Aldous Huxley

"For myself as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know. It is our will that decides how and upon what subjects we shall use our intelligence. Those who detect no meaning in the world generally do so because, for one reason or another, it suits their books that the world should be meaningless."

--Aldous Huxley

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“Real love does not expect anything in return. Yet when it is given, it receives itself and multiplies.”

--G. Jamplowski

“Our state of mind is our responsibility.”

--Gerald Jamplowski

“A nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never shall be.”

--Thomas Jefferson

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”

--Thomas Jefferson

“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”

--Lyndon Baines Johnson

"The true measure of a man is "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."do him absolutely no good."

- Samuel Johnson- Samuel Johnson

“As you think, so shall you become.”

--Phil Jones

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

--Carl Jung

“The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.” --Carl Jung

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” --Carl Jung

“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.” --Carl Jung

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““The reason that people react The reason that people react in a close-minded way to in a close-minded way to information is the implications information is the implications threaten their values.”threaten their values.”

--Dan Kahon, --Dan Kahon, Yale University law professor Yale University law professor

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the onewhich has been opened for us.“

– Helen Keller

“Most people pursue success and happiness with such breathless haste that they hurry right past them.”

--Soren Kierkegaard

"The tyrant dies, and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."

--Soren Kierkegaard

“ “If there were no eternal If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential: if an great or inconsequential: if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”would life be but despair?”

--Soren Kierkegaard--Soren Kierkegaard

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.“

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope”


“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”


“Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them …is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.”

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” --Martin Luther King, Jr.

““However difficult the However difficult the moment, however moment, however frustrating the hour…it frustrating the hour…it will not be long—will not be long—because truth crushed because truth crushed to the earth will rise to the earth will rise again.”again.” --Martin Luther King, Jr. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

““Sincere ignorance and conscientious Sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” are the greatest dangers in the stupidity” are the greatest dangers in the world.world. --Martin Luther King, Jr.--Martin Luther King, Jr.

““A blessed thing is for any A blessed thing is for any man or woman to have a man or woman to have a friend, one human soul friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves worst of us, and who loves us in spite of our faults.”us in spite of our faults.”

--Charles Kingsley --Charles Kingsley

““Once a person disregards Once a person disregards the limitations set by the the limitations set by the world, the boundaries to world, the boundaries to creating the definitions of creating the definitions of their reality disappear—their reality disappear—therefore setting no therefore setting no standard for the amount of standard for the amount of elation one can experience elation one can experience in their life.” in their life.” --Kevin Krapf--Kevin Krapf

““People believe they can correct the People believe they can correct the world all according to what they think world all according to what they think is best. Such is not the will of God. The is best. Such is not the will of God. The Lord allowed life to be “crooked” for a Lord allowed life to be “crooked” for a reason. Your responsibility is to reason. Your responsibility is to appreciate your life, your God-given appreciate your life, your God-given province, and cultivate it in order to province, and cultivate it in order to yield prosperity. Alongside your joy yield prosperity. Alongside your joy will come the seeds of joy itself, and in will come the seeds of joy itself, and in this way will you serve the world--as a this way will you serve the world--as a beacon of hope.” beacon of hope.” --Kevin Krapf--Kevin Krapf

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““Never trust the artist. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.”Trust the tale.” --D.H. --D.H. LawrenceLawrence

““The unread story is not a The unread story is not a story—it is little black story—it is little black marks on wood pulp. The marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a it live: a live thing, a story.”story.”

--Ursula K. --Ursula K. LeGuinLeGuin

““Wars are the Wars are the reenactments of the reenactments of the battles that rage in the battles that rage in the minds of humans.”minds of humans.”

--Pepper --Pepper LewisLewis

““It may seem strange It may seem strange that any men should dare that any men should dare to ask a just God’s to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing assistance in wringing their bread from the their bread from the sweat of other men’s sweat of other men’s faces.”faces.”

--Abraham --Abraham LincolnLincoln

““You can tell a great deal about You can tell a great deal about a society by the way they treat a society by the way they treat their elderly, their prisoners, their elderly, their prisoners, and their and their pets.” pets.”

--Abraham Lincoln --Abraham Lincoln

“It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold…”

Jack London “To Build a Fire”

“Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal.‘Dust Thou Art, To Dust Returnest,’Was not spoken of the soul.”

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Ignorance leads to fear.Fear leads to anger.Anger leads to hate.Hate leads to suffering.Suffering leads to death.” --George Lucas

““The essence of America lies The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes…but not in the headlined heroes…but in the everyday folks who live in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies.” dreams as legacies.”

--Alan Lomax, 1940 --Alan Lomax, 1940

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“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.” --Dan Millman

"Our world is a shared experience, fractured by individual experiences. Life is about connecting...and connecting is about taking on other points of view."

~Brian Miller (TED Talk)

“Everybody dies, but not everybody lives.”

--Nicki Minaj

““Education is the most Education is the most powerful weapon which you powerful weapon which you can use to change the can use to change the world."world." --Nelson Mandela--Nelson Mandela

“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.”

–Groucho Marx

"Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

“We call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits. We have no other criterion of truth and reason than the opinions and customs current in the land where we live. There we always see the perfect religion, the perfect political system, the perfect and most accomplished way of doing things.” --Michael Montaigne (1533-1592)

“The world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes. The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon—such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas.” ~Arthur Miller

"We can drop bombs, we can "We can drop bombs, we can build roads, or we can put in build roads, or we can put in electricity, but unless girls are electricity, but unless girls are educated, the world won't educated, the world won't change."change." --Greg --Greg

MortensonMortenson

“Kind words can be short easy to speak, but their echoes are endless.”

--Mother Theresa

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together go to the making of a genius. Love! Love! Love! That is the soul of a genius.” --Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than itself is real. Love...is the discovery of reality.” --Iris Murdoch

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“We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge.”

--John Naisbitt

““Life is wonderfully amusing. Life is wonderfully amusing. All you have to do is just take All you have to do is just take the time to look around. the time to look around. Forget the quarrels. Forget Forget the quarrels. Forget the negativity. Hug ALL you the negativity. Hug ALL you love. Pick little flowers and love. Pick little flowers and hand them to your closest hand them to your closest friends. Smile. Laugh. Play. friends. Smile. Laugh. Play. Eat. Have fun.”Eat. Have fun.” --Janey --Janey NachampasakNachampasak

““Life is like a waffle. Lots of Life is like a waffle. Lots of low points, but it does have low points, but it does have lovely toppings and is lovely toppings and is surrounded by high points. surrounded by high points. Then, you attack it to make Then, you attack it to make yourself jolly and satisfied.”yourself jolly and satisfied.”

--Janey --Janey NachampasakNachampasak

““It is only in the mysterious It is only in the mysterious equations of love that logic equations of love that logic can be found.”can be found.”

--John Nash --John Nash

“The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience. “

-- Jerome Nathanson

• Educating a girl beyond the national average boosts her earning power between 10 and 20 percent.

• Countries with higher levels of female secondary-school enrollment have lower infant mortality rates, lower rates of HIV and AIDS infection, and better child nutrition.

• The World Economic Forum’s 2011 Gender Gap Index shows that a nation’s prosperity correlates with the level of parity between women and men (in education, health, economic opportunity and political empowerment).

• According to the WEF, the U.S. could boost its GDP by as much as 9 percent by putting more women in leadership positions in business and government and working harder to correct pay inequities.

• Women still earn 33 cents less per dollar than men.

• In the Asia-Pacific region, countries are losing between $42 billion and $46 billion a year, according to the WEF, by restricting women’s access to the workforce.

• When women earn their own money, they spend on their families at more than twice the rate of men.

• Worldwide, companies perform better and produce better ideas when their highest ranks have gender diversity.

--Newsweek, March 14, 2011

"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them."

- Ralph Nichols

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“It never ceases to amaze me the things that you can learn from words, how a writer who lived hundreds of years ago knew and felt and expressed the same ideas and emotions that we experience today, how he or she can aid the lost and confused so far into the future and answer the unspoken questions that plague our souls.”

--Heather O’Neal

“It is not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carry on the human heritage.”

--George Orwell

““The size of your battle is The size of your battle is an indication of the size of an indication of the size of your future.”your future.”

--Joel Osteen --Joel Osteen

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“Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder.”

--Thomas Paine

The Readers Bill of Rights by Daniel Pennac

1. The right to not read. 6. The right to escapism.

2. The right to skip pages. 7. The right to read anywhere.

3. The right to not finish. 8. The right to browse.

4. The right to reread. 9. The right to read out loud.

5. The right to read anything. 10. The right to not defend your tastes.

“Pain makes man think.Thinking makes man wise.

Wisdom makes life endurable.”

~John Patrick

“Almost every generation has more liberal views than their parents as they enter adulthood, but that is not always permanent. Once young adults marry, have children, and buy a house, they adopt more conservative social and economic views.” --Tony Perkins

“To touch a person’s heart, you must see a person’s face. You cannot reach a soul through a telephone.”

--Chaim Potok

"The existentialist argues that the scientific method itself is a human construction inadequate for understanding the very reason that created it." --James Prochaska

"A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells hundreds of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality’ is the key to success.” - Robert Purvis

““First they came for the JewsFirst they came for the Jewsand I did not speak outand I did not speak outbecause I was not a Jew.because I was not a Jew.Then they came for the CommunistsThen they came for the Communistsand I did not speak outand I did not speak outbecause I was not a Communist.because I was not a Communist.Then they came for the trade Then they came for the trade unionistsunionistsand I did not speak outand I did not speak outbecause I was not a trade unionist.because I was not a trade unionist.Then they came for meThen they came for meand there was no one leftand there was no one leftto speak out for me.to speak out for me. --Pastor Niemoller--Pastor Niemoller

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“Whatever we vividly imagine, ardently desire, firmly believe, and enthusiastically act upon can become a reality in our life.” --Phil Quinn

“The body will follow where the mind leads it.”

--Phil Quinn

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““People tend to conform their People tend to conform their factual beliefs to those that factual beliefs to those that are consistent with their are consistent with their cultural outlook—their world-cultural outlook—their world-view.”view.”

--Donald Raymond, social scientist--Donald Raymond, social scientist

"I can see a light that is "I can see a light that is coming for the heart that coming for the heart that holds on—a glorious light holds on—a glorious light beyond all compare." beyond all compare."

-- --Matt RedmanMatt Redman

“You won’t find your destiny by looking at the stars. It’s a journey you’ll have to take by looking inside yourself.”

--Christopher Reeve

“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”

(Eleanor Roosevelt)

"Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights -- then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend."

~Endicott Peabody (quoted by FDR)

““The welfare of each of us is The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.”welfare of all of us.”

-- --Theodore Theodore RooseveltRoosevelt

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

--Theodore Roosevelt,

1918

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiently; who errs, who comes short again and again…so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat.” --Theodore Roosevelt

“Kindness is the only thing that makes sense.”

--Geneen Roth

"God turns you from one feeling to anotherAnd teaches you by means of oppositesSo that you will have two wings to fly, Not one."

--Rumi (1207-1273)

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"Love and fear are the only emotions we as human entities are able to express."

--Frank Sant' Agata

“Questions are the important thing; answers are less important.

Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence…Questions are for thinkers.”

~Jim Schlactey

"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident."

--Arthur Schopenhauer

Cosmic Calendar

Jan. 1st – Beginning of UniverseSept. 9th – Solar System beginsSept. 30th – Life on EarthDec. 25th – Dinosaurs appearDec. 28th – Flowers appearDec. 30th – Primates appearDec. 31t, 10:30 p.m. – Humans appearDec. 31st, 11:55, 50 sec. –Human history first recorded

Midnight – Right nowMiddle Ages – 1 sec.Average Human Life – 0.15 sec.

““If all insects on earth If all insects on earth disappeared, within fifty years all disappeared, within fifty years all life on earth would end. life on earth would end.

“If all human beings disappeared “If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within fifty years from the earth, within fifty years all forms of life would flourish.” all forms of life would flourish.”

― Jonas Salk ― Jonas Salk

““You dwell in the field You dwell in the field of infinite of infinite possibilities, and possibilities, and nothing nothing can move you can move you from it.”from it.”

--F. --F. SearcySearcy

““I can tap into the I can tap into the power that holds the power that holds the keys to the universal keys to the universal storehouse of storehouse of unmanifested potentialunmanifested potential—which is just waiting —which is just waiting for me to mold and for me to mold and create anything that I create anything that I can envision.”can envision.” --F. --F. SearcySearcy

““PeacePeace is when we see is when we see that our well-being is that our well-being is integrally tied to the integrally tied to the well- being of every well- being of every person on our planet.” person on our planet.” --F. Searcy--F. Searcy

““When we stand in the When we stand in the chaos, we know we are chaos, we know we are fully equipped to unleash fully equipped to unleash our potentiality in our potentiality in orchestration of the orchestration of the universe.”universe.”


““If your world is If your world is falling apart…it isfalling apart…it is— that a better — that a better world can be world can be created.”created.”


““Nobody has answers Nobody has answers for anybody else. for anybody else. Everyone has their own Everyone has their own answers. Everyone is answers. Everyone is connected to the field connected to the field of infinite possibilities. of infinite possibilities. Your inner wisdom Your inner wisdom knowsknows.”.” -- F. -- F. SearcySearcy

““There is no detail There is no detail that is not part of that is not part of God’s great plan.”God’s great plan.”


““The form of my good may The form of my good may change, but the source of my change, but the source of my good is ever-present and good is ever-present and infinite in nature.”infinite in nature.”


“The unexamined lifeis not worth living.”

--Socrates

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you knownothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartestof all.” --Socrates

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.” --Socrates

To be or not to be– that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troublesAnd, by opposing, end them.

To die, to sleep No more – and by a sleep to say we endThe heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to – ‘tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

To die, to sleepTo sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may come… William Shakespeare Hamlet, Act III, Scene i

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.”

--Macbeth Act V, scene v, 24–28

“For women are as roses, whose fair flowerBeing once displayed, doth fall that very hour.”

Shakespeare, Twefth Night, Act II, Scene iv

“I am cheered by a vital awareness of world literature, as of a single huge heart, beating out of the cares and troubles of our world, albeit presented and perceived differently in each of its corners.” --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.”

~Sophocles Oedipus Rex

“It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance.”

--Spanish proverb

“Let’s close our eyes… and believe.”

--Lauren Stevenson

“Know thyself.”

“Without suffering, there is no compassion.”

(N. Sparks)

The next one is one of my all-time favorites. It’s from The Grapes of Wrath.

It’s about hope…

“This you may say of Man—when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought—national, religious, economic—grow and disintegrate, Man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.” --John Steinbeck

• "If you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive. ...Results, not causes; results, not causes."

~John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Try to understand men, if you understand each other,you will be kind to each other. knowing a man well never leads to hateand nearly always leads to love.” (John Steinbeck)

"This I believe: that the free exploring mind of the individual human mind is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of themind to take any direction it wishes,undirected. And this I must fight against:any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This iswhat I am and what I am about."

--John Steinbeck

“For the quality of owning freezes you forever into ‘I,’ and cuts you off forever from the ‘we.’”

--John Steinbeck

“There ain’t no sin and thereain’t no virtue. There’s juststuff people do. It’s all part of the same thing. And some of thethings people do is nice, and some ain’tnice, but that’s as far as any man gota right to say.”

--John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath

“What I don’t know is how some people can become so isolated in their own world that they don’t feel compassion for people who are different from them.” ~Anne Stevens

“The beauty of America is that film, literature, journalism and Internet blogging are all part of the marketplace of ideas, where things can be thrown out for consumption, viewed and then either gobbled up, swallowed and digested or regurgitated if unsavory.”

--Sam Stockard

"The love and sacrifice of marriage can heal, integrate, and rebuild a soul. The point of the gay-rights movement, after all, is not about helping people be gay. It's about creating the space for people to be themselves."

--Andrew Sullivan

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

--Charles Swindoll

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"The righteous of all the nations have a share in the world to come.“

~Talmud

“Therefore the Master concerns himselfwith the depths and not the surface,with the fruit and not the flower.” --Tao Te Ching

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

~Mother Teresa

"Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others, even as we respect ourselves."

-- U. Thant

Three Blind MiceThree blind mice,Three blind mice,See how they run!See how they run!They all ran after the farmer’s wife,Who cut off their tails with a carving knife!Have you ever seen such a sight in your life?As three blind mice?Three blind mice!

Three Blind Mice (revised)Three rodents with defective vision,Three rodents with defective vision!See how they perambulate!See how they perambulate!See how they perambulate around the yard of the agricultural specialist!The wife of the agricultural specialist removed their posterior extensions with a sharp kitchen utensil!Have you ever witnessed such a spectacle in all your existence upon God’s green earth,As three rodents with defective vision?Three rodents with defective vision!

“The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.”

--Henry David Thoreau

“Live deep and suck out the marrow of life.” --Henry David Thoreau

“The morning wind forever blows.The poem of creation forever flows.But few are the ears that hear it.” --Henry David Thoreau

“Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.”

(Henry David Thoreau)

Men consider “not what Men consider “not what is truly respectable, but is truly respectable, but what is respected.”what is respected.”

--Henry David Thoreau--Henry David Thoreau

““The frontiers are not The frontiers are not east or west, north or east or west, north or south—but wherever a south—but wherever a man fronts a fact.”man fronts a fact.”

--Henry David Thoreau--Henry David Thoreau

““There are nowadays There are nowadays professors of philosophy, professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to is admirable to professprofess because it was once because it was once admirable to admirable to livelive.”.”

--Henry David Thoreau --Henry David Thoreau

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.” (Thoreau)

“The world is but canvas for the imagination.”

--Henry David Thoreau

"The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

~Alvin Toffler

”I know that my unity with all people cannotbe destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.” -Leo Tolstoy

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." --Leo Tolstoy

““I believe I have no prejudice I believe I have no prejudice whatsoever. All I need to whatsoever. All I need to know is…man is a member know is…man is a member of the human race. That is of the human race. That is enough for me.”enough for me.”

--Mark Twain --Mark Twain

““The radical of one century The radical of one century is the conservative of the is the conservative of the next. The radical invents next. The radical invents the views. When he has the views. When he has worn them out, the worn them out, the conservative adopts them.”conservative adopts them.” --Mark --Mark TwainTwain

““The difference between The difference between the right word and the the right word and the almost right word is the almost right word is the difference between difference between lightning and the lightning lightning and the lightning bug.”bug.”

--Mark --Mark TwainTwain

"For your race, in its poverty, has "For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, Money, weapon--laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,--these can lift at a colossal humbug,--push it a little--crowd it a little--weaken push it a little--crowd it a little--weaken it a little, century by century: but only it a little, century by century: but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast." at a blast."


"When I was a boy of 14, my father "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.“man had learned in seven years.“


"It ain't what you don't know that "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." know for sure that just ain't so."


"I have never let my schooling "I have never let my schooling

interfere with my education."interfere with my education."


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"It is not more surprising to "It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; be born twice than once; everything in nature is everything in nature is resurrection.“resurrection.“

--Voltaire --Voltaire

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““I am still determined to be I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be, whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from for I have also learned from experience that the greater experience that the greater part of our happiness or part of our happiness or misery depends upon our misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.”circumstances.”

--Martha Washington--Martha Washington

“”It is easy to be brief and sharply outlined, but the real achievement is to suggest illimitable air within a narrow space.”

--Edith Wharton

“It is not unreasonableto expect that a few seedsof improvement plantedby my hand may germinateand grow, and ripen into

valuable fruit when my remains

shall be mingled with the dust.” (Noah Webster)

"You may not understand the hands of God, but you can understand the heart of God."

--James Williams

“I permit to speak at every hazard.”

--Walt Whitman

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.”

--Walt Whitman

“What good amidst these, O Me? O Life? The answer: That life exists. And identity. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”

--Walt Whitman

“The opposite of love isn’t hate—it’s indifference.”

--Elie Wiesel

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." --Oscar Wilde

"Education is an admirable thing,but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." --Oscar Wilde

The character Simon Stimson has died and offers this advice to Emily Webb, who wishes to return to life:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Yes, now you know….That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those about you. To spendand waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercyof one self-centered passion or another. Nowyou know—that’s the happy existence youwanted to go back to. Ignorance andblindness.” Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”

--Tennessee Williams

"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

How did they command such deference—English teachers? Compared to the men who taught physics or biology, what did they really know of the world? It seemed to me, and not only to me, that they knew exactly what was most worth knowing.Unlike our math and science teachers, who modestlystuck to their subjects, they tended to be polymaths. Adept as they were at dissection, they would neverleave a poem or a novel strewn about in pieceslike a butchered frog reeking of formaldehyde. They’d stitch it back together with history andpsychology, philosophy, religion, and even on occasion, science.” --from Old School, by Tobias Wolff

Anonymous

Actually, I made up some of these myself, but I’m not going tell you which ones. The author doesn’t matter…Truth is truth.

“He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.”

“She could never find a man who would accept that her divine beauty was only a part of the whole woman.”

“The mind of a creative artist is a mirror, and the work of art is the reflection of life in it.”

--Anonymous

“Trust the quiet voice within. Let it guide you.”

“Envision it. And it shall be yours. It shall be real. This is the power God has given to his sons that they shall create with him.”

“Every life we touch is a field; everything we do and all the words we speak are seeds. What will become of the harvest?” --Anonymous

“Your body is a temple and your mind is the sanctuary.

Allow only good things inside.”

“Only minds and the objects of mind exist. Everything is composed of mental realities.” --Anonymous

““Most of humanity is like a Most of humanity is like a beautiful songbird flying in a beautiful songbird flying in a cage with the door open. Few cage with the door open. Few are willing to fly through the are willing to fly through the door because of the comfort door because of the comfort of the cage. But those who of the cage. But those who go through the door find a go through the door find a new universe to explore.” new universe to explore.”

““People have within People have within themselves the key themselves the key to the prisons in to the prisons in which they are which they are locked.”locked.”

“Many conflicts in life are the result of trying to manipulate external forces.”

““Creation is not a single event Creation is not a single event that happened billions of years that happened billions of years ago. It is happening ago. It is happening right nowright now. . Right now, the world is Right now, the world is breaking itself down and re-breaking itself down and re-creating. We are a part of this creating. We are a part of this and have been given the and have been given the unique gift of the human mind unique gift of the human mind to make choices and co-create to make choices and co-create with God.”with God.”

““Man is distinct in being Man is distinct in being the created and working the created and working alongside the Creator. This alongside the Creator. This is our gift. The world as we is our gift. The world as we know it is the result of this know it is the result of this process.”process.”

“The treasure lies not at the end of the rainbow, but along the journey.”

“If there is no God, nothing matters.If there is a God, nothing else matters.”

--Anonymous

“I believe in the sun, even when I don’t see it shining.”

“What you think becomes your vision. What you envision becomes your reality. Choose your thoughts carefully. Imagine Good.”

““The physical world is The physical world is but a temporal vision.”but a temporal vision.”

--Anonymous --Anonymous

““People make choices. People make choices. And choices make And choices make people.”people.” --Anonymous --Anonymous

“Each moment is an opportunity for a new thought.”

“To embrace faith is to embrace the potential of the human spirit.”

“Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Therefore, our every action has a specific consequence.”

“When a nation is threatened, conformity abounds. Fear breeds conservatism.”

““If you do not form If you do not form your identity, your identity, someone else will someone else will form it for you.”form it for you.”

““Right where you Right where you are is a sacred are is a sacred place.”place.”

-- --AnonymousAnonymous

“Salvation consists in passing from this dark, restless, and tormented existence in which the worldly manlives to live in Truth—to that which is really worth living.”

“Positive things, Life sustains. Negative words. Food for worms.”

“Who dares correct his English teacher,Clever though he may think,Shall meet his grammatical deathIn a sea of red ink.”

“Tact it the ability to make an argument without making an enemy.”

--Unknown

"To conquer the self is to conquer the world."

~Anonymous

Spiritual Leprosy

British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge had been faithful to his wife for the length of their marriage, but he carried in his mind the thought that if the right opportunity ever presented itself, he would be intimate with another woman, just for the experience. That opportunity seemed to present itself when Muggeridge was in India, away from his wife and family.

Each morning when he rose, Muggeridge swam in the Ganges river. On one such morning, he saw a woman bathing herself, quite a distance away. "This is my moment," he told himself. "No one will know."

He began to swim upstream to her, struggling not just against the water,but against the current of his own conscience. He went underwater, then surfaced when he was just a few yards away from the unsuspecting woman.

When he saw her, it was Muggeridge, not she, who experienced the shock of a lifetime. The woman was a leper. Her nose was eaten away. There were sores and white blotches all over her skin, and the ends of her fingers were gone. She looked more like an animal than a human.

"What a wretched woman this is," he thought to himself--but at the same moment, he was overwhelmed with a devastating truth: "What a wretched man I am!" Though Muggeridge never expressed it in his autobiography, he must have come to understand a basic principle: Physical leprosy is crippling and terminal, but spiritual leprosy is deadly and eternal.

Muggeridge's real-life, graphic experience illustrates an unalterable truth: When we walk away from the commands of God, we walk right into disease –

the disease of sin.

If we could shrink the Earth’s If we could shrink the Earth’s population to a village of 100 people, population to a village of 100 people, with all ratios remaining the same…with all ratios remaining the same…- There would be 57 Asians, 21 - There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere, 8 14 from the Western Hemisphere, 8 AfricansAfricans- 51 Females, 49 Males- 51 Females, 49 Males- 70 non-white, 30 white- 70 non-white, 30 white- 70 non-Christians, 30 Christians- 70 non-Christians, 30 Christians- 50% of the world’s wealth would be - 50% of the world’s wealth would be owned by 6 people—all from the owned by 6 people—all from the U.S.U.S.- 80 in sub-standard housing- 80 in sub-standard housing- 70 illiterate- 70 illiterate- 50 malnourished- 50 malnourished- 1 near death- 1 near death- 1 near birth- 1 near birth- 1 college graduate- 1 college graduate- 1 with a computer- 1 with a computer

• Educating a girl beyond the national average boosts her earning power between 10 and 20 percent.

• Countries with higher levels of female secondary-school enrollment have lower infant mortality rates, lower rates of HIV and AIDS infection, and better child nutrition.

• The World Economic Forum’s 2011 Gender Gap Index shows that a nation’s prosperity correlates with the level of parity between women and men (in education, health, economic opportunity and political empowerment).

• According to the WEF, the U.S. could boost its GDP by as much as 9 percent by putting more women in leadership positions in business and government and working harder to correct pay inequities.

• Women still earn 33 cents less per dollar than men.

• In the Asia-Pacific region, countries are losing between $42 billion and $46 billion a year, according to the WEF, by restricting women’s access to the workforce.

• When women earn their own money, they spend on their families at more than twice the rate of men.

• Worldwide, companies perform better and produce better ideas when their highest ranks have gender diversity.

--Newsweek, March 14, 2011

Once I saw a guy on a bridge about to jump.

I yelled, “DON’T DO IT!”

He said, “Nobody loves me.”

I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”

“Yes,” the man replied.

I asked, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?”

He said, “I’m a Christian.”

“Me, too!” I said. “Protestant or Catholic?”

“Protestant,” he answered.

“Me, too! What denomination?”

“Baptist.”•

“Cool! Me too! Northern or Southern Baptist?”

“Northern.”

“Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist, or Northern Liberal Baptist?”

“Northern Conservative Baptist.”

“Wow!! Me, too!! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region...or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?”

“Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.”

“Unbelievable!! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, Council of 1879...or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, Council of 1912?”

“Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.”

“DIE HERETIC!!” I yelled, and pushed him off the bridge.

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