1 LIFE CHANGING QUOTES

“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by everything evil or commonplace that prevailed round about them. They represent a struggle and a victory.” – Proust “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead "I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all." - James Baldwin "Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers." - Voltaire "The Doer alone learneth" - Nietzsche "No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself." - Henry Ward Beecher "That's the way we all begin," said Tom Platt. "The boys they make believe all the time till they've cheated 'emselves into bein' men, an' so till they die - pretendin' an' pretendin'." - Rudyard Kipling "To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

2 "Too much knowledge had hindered him; too many holy verses, too many sacrificial rites, too much mortification of the flesh, too much doing and striving. Now he understood it and realized that the inward voice had been right, that no teacher could have brought him salvation." - Hermann Hesse “Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?” - Rachel Carson “When you make a mistake, do you punish yourself or can you shake your head with a smile and learn something in the process?” – Robert Aitken “If you reject yourself, you are rejecting the agent of realization. So you must make friends with yourself. Enjoy yourself. Take comfort in yourself. Smile at yourself. You are developing confidence.” - Robert Aitken "The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something." - Yamada Roshi “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” - Albert Einstein “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Gandhi. “One must know that sorrow, being the means of convincing one of the need of the religious life, is a guru. - Dvagpo-Lharje (Great Guru Gampopa)

3 “By quitting one's own country and dwelling in foreign lands one should acquire practical knowledge of non-attachment.” - Dvagpo-Lharje (Great Guru Gampopa) “Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.” - Margaret Cho "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" - Winston Churchill "The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude." – Zig Ziglar Don’t confuse activity with accomplishment – Zig Ziglar (paraphrase) "Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed? - Zig Ziglar, “I'll go to the hills when my heart is lonely I know I will hear what I've heard before” - Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers "Time is the wisest counselor of all." - Pericles "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt “It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.” - Bertrand Russell “Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still....Thoreau wrote: "A man's life should be as fresh as a river. It should be the same channel but a new water every instant." '- Gretel Ehrlich

4 “Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies” – Jean Ziegler “Habits are either the best of servants or the worst of masters.” - Nathaniel Emmons “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine “Thus the sage knows without traveling, he sees without looking; he works without doing.” – Lao Tsu “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson "Never mistake activity for progress.” - Bob Topor "What you are speaks louder than what you say." - Hazrat Inayat Khan "In a small affair or in a big affair, first consult yourself and find out if there is any conflict in your own being about anything you want to do. And when you find no conflict there, then feel sure that a path is already made for you. You have but to open your eyes and take a step forward, and the other step will be led by God." - Hazrat Inayat Khan “Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.” - Lou Dorfsman “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” - Rollo May

5 “If today was the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do?” – Bill Gates “Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important?” – Motivational quote “i don’t pretend to have answers mostly I raise more questions I’d like to think Of myself as An instigator Certainly a voyeur Always seeking to Know” – Opal Palmer Adisa “I must continually thirst for knowledge, accept noting short of excellence, and know that the good of the global society is more important and larger than I am.” – Anonymous There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” - Howard Zinn “Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply.” - Miyamoto Musashi “To create, we need both technique and freedom of technique” – Stephen Nachmanovitch “Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that

6 few acquire.” - Walter Kaufmann, Introduction to Martin Buber’s I and Thou “The world winks at dishonesty. The world does not call it dishonesty.” -Walter Kaufmann, Introduction to Buber’s I and Thou “The sacred is here and now. The only Good worth keeping is a God that cannot be kept. The only God worth talking about is a God that cannot be talked about. God is no object of discourse, knowledge, or even experience. He cannot be spoken of, but he can be spoken to; he cannot be seen, but he can be listened to. The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now….” - Walter Kaufmann, Introduction to Buber’s I and Thou “In the case of a book, longevity is presumptive evidence of virtue, although survival usually also owes a good deal to a book’s vices. A lack of clarity is almost indispensable.” - Walter Kaufmann, “Innumerable are the ways in which I treat You as a means. I ask your help, I ask for information, I may buy from you or buy what you have made, and you sometimes dispel my loneliness.” - Walter Kaufmann, Introduction to Buber’s I and Thou “Men love jargon. It is so palpable, tangible, visible, audible; it makes so obvious what one has learned; it satisfies the craving for results. It is impressive for the uninitiated. It makes one feel that one belongs. Jargon divides men into Us and Them.” - Walter Kaufmann, Introduction to Buber’s I and Thou “The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.” - Tolstoy

7 “I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.” - Tolstoy “In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.” - Tolstoy “Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.” - Tolstoy “Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.” - Tolstoy “If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.” – Thomas Merton “We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are.” – Thomas Merton “We love the things we pretend to laugh at.” – Thomas Merton “Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.” – Thomas Merton

8 “People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered by themselves than by those found by others.” – Blaise Pascal “ For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.” – Alan W. Watts "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank "Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue." - Albert Einstein "The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." - Alan Ashley-Pitt The Ideal Abode: “A house in the country to find out what’s true/a few linen shirts, some good art/and you.” – Kate Light "Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche "I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult." - E.B. White “Jazz is the sound of God laughing. And I believe in it.” – Colleen Shaddox, This I believe “But in time, I came to accept, even embrace, what I called “my confusion,” and to recognize it as a friend and ally, no apologies needed. I preferred to listen rather than to speak; to inquire, not crusade. As a noncombatant, I was welcomed at the tables of even bitterly divided foes. I came to recognize that I had my own compass and my own convictions, and if, at times, they took me in circles, at least they

9 expanded outward. I had no wish for converts-where would I lead them? – Ted Gup, This I Believe “However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.” – Henry David Thoreau “Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.” – Henry David Thoreau “But to say it’s a nice day is difficult, and the nice day itself passes on. It’s up to us to conserve the nice day in a worldly, florid memory, sprinkling new flowers and new stars over the fields and skies of the empty, fleeting outer world.” - Pesoa “Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other’s presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define.” - Pesoa “For it is evident that in some ninety-nine per cent of cases the religion which an individual professes and to which he or she adheres depends upon the accidents of birth.” – John Hicks “The lamps are different, but the Light is the same.” –Rumi “Mistakes are stepping stones to success” – Charles E. Popplestone “Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.” - Henry Ford

10 “Reason guides but a small part of man, and…the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.” – Joseph Roux “Habit is stronger than reason.” – George Santayana “Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.” – Jacob Bronowski “Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave…” – George Gurdjiff “Do what you fear most and you control fear.” – Tom Hopkins “Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.” – Vernon Howard “If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience, and understanding. By developing greater tolerance and patience, it will be easier for you to develop your capacity for compassion, and through that, altruism. So even for the practice of your own spiritual path, the presence of an enemy is crucial.” – Dalai Lama “A man needs a little madness…or else he never dares cut the rope and be free.” – Zorba the Greek (film) “Ignorance may be bliss, but it is also practical. It is imperative that you learn to ignore or redirect all information and interrupts that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.” – Timothy Ferris “Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” – Albert Einstein

11 “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” – Herbert Simon “There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.” – William of Occam “It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.” – Henry Nouwen “The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one’s love for humanity, to be the friend of all.” - Inayat Khan "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman "Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness - and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are

12 selling -- their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability." - Arundhati Roy "The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." - Arundhati Roy “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” – Marshall McLuhan “In the long term, the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it’s unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature.” – Mollie Beattie “Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” - Albert Einstein “A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.” – Anais Nin "A wise person will make more opportunities than they find." - Francis Bacon “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new” - Albert Einstein

13 "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” - Alan Keightley “What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.” – Daisaku Ikeda “Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.” – Martin Luther King Jr. “You write in order to change the world…. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.” - James Baldwin "To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Sir Isaac Newton “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” – Anatole France "Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence." - Osho “The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

14 You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift…It is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I ever earned.” - J.K. Rowling "Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul." - Edward Abbey "Think globally, act locally" - R. Buckminster Fuller "If not me, then who? If not now, then when?" - Ancient Jewish Teaching "We are the ones we've been waiting for" - Hopi Elder "The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist waits for it to change and the realist adjusts the sails." - William George Ward “Whatever you dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.” - Goethe “The roots of violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles.” - Gandhi “God has no religion.” - Gandhi “If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.” -- Mahatma Gandhi “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” - Gandhi “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” - Gandhi

15 “If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.” – Gandhi “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald "Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance." - Chanel “A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.” – Francis Crick “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live” -Goethe “We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.” – Alain de Botton “Afraid of losing her, we forget all the others. Sure of keeping her, we compare her with those others whom at once we prefer to her.” – Proust (on men’s fickle love) “Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.” – Proust (reflecting on how most men view women) “There is no doubt that a person’s charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: ‘No, this evening I shan’t be free’.” – Proust (we don’t appreciate things until they are restricted from us)

16 “We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.” - Proust “The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.” - Proust “Happiness, wisdom and peace are always inside us - we just have to sit still long enough to notice.” – Anonymous “Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.” - Proust “The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones…If…we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.” – Alain de Botton “We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so….We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition.” – Alain de Botton explaining the thoughts of Proust

17 “Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.” - Proust “Excitement always leads to tears.” – Arundhati Roy "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao-Tzu "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." - Lee Iacocca “In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.” - Proust “A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.” – Michael Pollan “We’re smothered by images, words and sounds that have no right to exist, coming from, and bound for, nothingness. Of any artist truly worth the name we should ask nothing except this act of faith: to learn silence….If we can’t have everything, true perfection is nothingness. ” - 8 ½ - Fellini “Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.” - Foucault “Just what can one of us do against all this money and power trying to crush us into roaches. We can’t destroy society in a day unless we change ourselves first from the inside out.

18 We can start by not lying so much and treating other people like dirt. Its so easy not to base our lives on how much we can scam. And you know it feels good to lift that monkey from our backs.” - Jello Biafara, Dead Kennedy’s “Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” - William Pollard “Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” - Lao Tzu "Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours." - Swedish proverb “We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without." - Henry David Thoreau “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” - Socrates "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu "Great acts are made up of small deeds." - Lao Tzu "He who is contented is rich." - Lao Tzu "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." - William Morris "We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

19 "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." - Lao Tzu "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci "Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." - Will Rogers "If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life." - Wu-Men "Simplicity is the essence of happiness." - Cedric Bledsoe "Be wary of any enterprise that requires new clothes." - Henry David Thoreau “Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” - Frederic Chopin "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - Hans Hofmann "Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter." - D.H. Mondfleur "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - E.F. Schumacker "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius

20 "Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy." - Richard Halloway "Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify, simplify!" - Henry David Thoreau "We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it." - Donald Horban “There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.” - Mahatma Gandhi “When the world says, ‘Give up,’ hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time’.” - Anonymous “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” - Mahatma Gandhi “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” - Samuel Johnson "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -Tolstoy “I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.” - Richard Wagner “We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.” – Blaise Pascal

21 “If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.” – Marcus Aurelius “The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.” - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for - rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires….A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable…..The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one’s own powers.” - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.” - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile….Such experiences are not necessarily pleasant at the time they occur.” - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “Only direct control of experience, the ability to derive moment-by-moment enjoyment from everything we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi "But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life, after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn,

22 burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awwww!" - Jack Kerouac “Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” -Buddha "When the power of love overcomes the love of power - The world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix “The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.” – Henry Nouwen “The universe is too great a mystery for there to be only one single approach to it.” - Symmachus “The true paradises are the paradises that we’ve lost.” —Marcel Proust “Know Thyself.” – Oracle of Delphi “The compassionate nature is awakened precisely when the heart and mind become as one, when the human will surrenders in absolute trust” - Henry Miller “Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” - Benjamin Franklin “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” - Mark Twain

23 "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy “Our most valuable teachers are our enemies….While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassion…three virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.” - Dalai Lama “One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It…makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded….Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.” – Walter Bagehot “A failure ought not to be a disappointment for those who take on the most extreme challenges and do not settle comfortably in what is modestly proportioned; it is the calibrated measure of our endeavors that is not even meant to be referred to our feeling or to be used as evidence against our achievement, which after all incessantly reconstitutes itself from a thousand new beginnings.” - Rilke “Man is small and, therefore, small is beautiful.” – E.F. Schumacher “Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” – Kenneth Boulding “Growth for growth’s sake is a cancerous madness.” – Edward Abbey “A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

24 “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Richard Buckminster Fuller "It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “[GDP] measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” – John F. Kennedy “All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.” – Billy Collins “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” – Albert Einstein “Art is childhood.” – Rilke “The strings of sorrow may only be used extensively if one vows to play on them also at a latter point and in their particular key all of the joyousness that accumulates behind everything that is difficult, painful, and that we had to suffer, and without which the voices are not complete.” - Rilke “I realize with a sense of dread that one grows numb with regard to even the most wonderful things when they become part of one’s daily interactions and surroundings.” - Rilke “That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.” – Giacomo Leopardi

25 “The artist’s conception of his art or the scientist’s of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.”– Giacomo Leopardi “The ancient philosopher Bion said that it’s impossible to please the masses unless you turn yourself into sweet wine and cake.” “People are ridiculous only when they try to seem or to be that which they are not.” – Giacomo Leopardi “Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.” – Giacomo Leopardi “The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop’s fox it criticizes things it covets.” – Giacomo Leopardi “We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.” – Giacomo Leopardi “Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.” – Giacomo Leopardi “There’s no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.” – Giacomo Leopardi “I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.” – Giacomo Leopardi “The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.” – Giacomo Leopardi

26 “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Anonymous “Read everything, listen to everybody, don’t trust anything unless you can prove it with your own research.” – William Cooper “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” - Plato “You can’t be right, until you’re willing to be wrong.” – Opal Palmer Adisa “Chew on the cud longer. Talk about it less.” – Avery E.D. Burns “Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy “We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.” -Henry Nouwen “The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.” - Eric Hoffer "The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself." – George MacDonald "Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live." - Senator Paul Wellstone

27 “The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.” – Thomas Jefferson "We are not humans having a spiritual experience but spirits having a human experience" - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin "It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist." -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin “To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.” – Robert Henri “This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.” – Saint Augustine “Thanks to the Interstate Highway System (USA), it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.” – Charles Kuralt, CBS news reporter “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” – George Bernard Shaw “The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.” – C. P. Snow “As long as a concept is vague and beset by many meanings, it remains indestructible.” - Proshansky “The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.” – D. R. Hofstadter “Historically speaking all – or very nearly all – scientific theories originate from myths.” – Karl Popper

28 “The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.” - Mohammed “Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.” – W. Durant. “Pessimism is a luxury of good times…In difficult times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.” – Evelin Linder “To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.” – Benjamin Disraeli, Svbil. "There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it." - Mister Rogers “Talking with quiet confidence will always beat screaming with obvious insecurity” – Anonymous "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." – Buddhist Proverb "In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy?”… To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.” – Howard Zinn "The most important work of all valiant, ascetic spiritual struggle consists of entering into one's own heart." - St. Macarius "We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper." -Suzuki Roshi

29 "I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage." - Nietzche “One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy... This anxiety keeps me humble.” – Anthony Fauci, This I Believe, NPR. “The real enemies of our life is the “oughts” and the “[what] ifs.” – Henry Nouwen "Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?" – Calvin Coolidge “Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure...” – Lucius Seneca “They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.” – Lucius Seneca “The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world—loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.” - Seneca “It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” -Lucius Seneca “We don’t beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.” -Randy Pausch

30 “Design is the application of intent – the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.” – Robert L. Peters. “The person who doesn’t make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.” - Anonymous “I’ll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ” - Elizabeth Gaskell “Although I will cling to the truth as I know it, experience has taught me a fuller and more complete understanding of that truth may lie ahead.” – Anonymous “The space between certain and almost certain is the valley in which humility can rest.” - Anonymous “Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.” - R. Buckminster Fuller “Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” - R. Buckminster Fuller “God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.” - R. Buckminster Fuller “How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” - R. Buckminster Fuller “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.” - R. Buckminster Fuller “Don't fight forces, use them.” - R. Buckminster Fuller “Anger is almost always a byproduct of pain.” – Anonymous

31 “Learn a new language, gain a new soul.” – Czech Proverb “Truth is sincerity to experience” - Anonymous “Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” - Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha “Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.” – Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha “I believe that happiness wears out in the effort made to recapture it; that nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.” – Andre Gide “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” – T. S. Elliot “Home is where one starts from.” – T. S. Elliot "The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Loyd Wright "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valery "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

32 “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain “Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.” – Mark Twain “Think of the poorest person you have ever seen and ask if your next act will be of any use to him [or her]” – Gandhi “Ads are what we know about the world around us” - James Twitchell “Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?” – Albert Camus (everything in life is a choice) “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” - John Maynard Keynes "Reality is a cliche from which we escape by metaphor." - Wallace Stevens "The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies." – Hitler (on the tragedy of how people are so easily manipulated)

33 “The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.” - Socrates “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.” – Thomas Jefferson “Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield…it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world’s will, while the strong obey only their own.” – Leopardi “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” - Pessoa “Today we have a temporary aberration called ‘industrial capitalism’ which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital…the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that.” - Amory Lovins “Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.” - Don Rittner “Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.”- William McDonough “To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.” - Buddha “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” - John Muir “We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.” - Francis Bacon “We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.” - Kurt Vonnegut

34 "What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" - Henry David Thoreau “The money-powers prey on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.” - Abraham Lincoln “What improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconvenience to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” – Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations “Maximum individuality within maximum community” - Kant "The secret to being a bore is to tell everything” - Oscar Wilde “If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.” – Ancient Chinese Proverb "As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Written by Marianne Williamson, spoken by Nelson Mandela "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." - Mary Oliver

35 “No thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be a time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.” – Epictetus "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." - Anais Nin "It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark." -Jiddu Krishnamurti “Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.” – Clifford Geertz, credited to Max Weber “The fact of the matter is that the ‘real world’ is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.” – Edward Sapir “A world ends when its metaphor dies.” – Archibald Macleish “No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.” – J. S. Mill “The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.” – J. H. Holmes “If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection.” – Jons in Bergman’s Seventh Seal “I shall remember this moment. The silence, the twilight, the bowls of strawberries and milk, your faces in the evening light. Mikael sleeping, Jof with his lyre. I'll try to

36 remember what we have talked about. I'll carry this memory between my hands as carefully as if it were a bowl filled to the brim with fresh milk. And it will be an adequate sign -- it will be enough for me.” - Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman’s Seventh Seal “For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensure…as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.” – Viktor Frankly “Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.” – John Stuart Mill “Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “It would not be better if men got what they wanted.” - Euripides “If all the insects on earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on earth would disappear. If all humans disappeared, within 50 years all species would flourish as never before.” – Jonas Salk “If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.” – Sir Ken Robinson “We must ask, not just is it profitable, but is it right.” – Barack Obama “A wise person is like a jazz musician, using the notes on a page but dancing around them, inventing combinations that are appropriate for the situation and people at hand.” – Barry Schwartz “The secret to happiness is low expectations.” – Barry Schwartz “The playful search for beauty.” – Eva Zeisel

37 “If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.” – Bill Gates “And strangely enough…the only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young” – Billy Collins “Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ‘Is this the condition that I feared?’” - Seneca “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” – Niels Bohr “People in the state of nature are virtuous because they do not know what virtue is. Moral virtues are called forth due to the loss of nature....The important thing is to preserve the original wholeness. Then all will be well.” – Ellen Chen – Commentary on the Tao Te Ching "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country" - Thomas Jefferson, 1816 “Not doing and yet nothing is not done” – Tao Te Ching "True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are."- Isaiah Berlin "It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living, but neither is the unlived life worth examining." - Dan Millman

38 "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Anonymous "Ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. So set sail on the stormy sea of love. You're going to get soaked at times, but at least you'll know you're alive." - Dan Millman "A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success." - Anonymous "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant must be rejected and revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust." - John Rawls "Reasoning at every step one takes, one yet mistakes one's way, yet meager things, which instinct leads, are rarely known to stray." - William Cowper "When we long for a life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." - Peter Marshall "For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe." - Larry Eisenberg "The smallest good deed is greater than the grandest good intention." - Anonymous "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes "Say what you want and be who you are because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

39 "Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." - Martin Luther King Jr. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain “The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.” - George Bernard Shaw "I know that history will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill “Aut viam inveniam aut faciam" (Either I will find a way or I will make one) - Latin proverb “You cannot shake hands with a closed fist.” - Mahatma Gandhi “The first and best victory is to conquer self.” - Plato “It is not enough to have great qualities. We should also have the management of them.” - Francois La Rochefoucauld. “The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.” - Eric Hoffer “It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived- forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.” - Soren Kierkegaard

40 "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde “Music speaks what cannot be expressed, Soothes the mind and gives it rest. Seals the heart and makes it whole, Flows from heaven and into the soul.” - Anonymous “He is no fool that gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” Jim Elliot “Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.” - Francois Duc de la Roche Foucauld “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.” – Dante "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein "We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, in 1962 "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

41 "Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings."- Anonymous “Well done is better than well said” – Benjamin Franklin “My way of telling a joke is to tell the truth. Its the funniest joke in the world." - George Bernard Shaw "We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.” – Virginia Wolfe “I press to my centre, and find there is something there." – Virginia Wolfe “The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” – G. K. Chesterton "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.” - Sir Joshua Reynolds “One should live outside of passions, beyond emotions in that harmony you find in completed artworks, in that enchanted order. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time, detached. Detached.” – Steiner, La Dolce Vita “A more miserable life is better, believe me, than an existence protected by an organized society where everything is calculated and everything is perfect.” – Steiner, La Dolce Vita “The Tao that can be named is not the real (eternal) Tao.” – Lao-Tzu

42 “Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I’d realize what there is, is ecstasy.” – Jack Kerouac “It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.” – WB Yeats “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.” – Alfred North Whitehead "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." - Winston Churchill “The fruit of love’s great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.” – Farid ud-Din Attar “When first you enter Wisdom’s sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.” – Farid ud-Din Attar “One draws a magic circle around oneself to keep everything out that doesn’t fit one’s secret games. Each time life breaks through the circle, the game becomes puny and ridiculous. So one draws a new circle and builds new defenses. “ –David in the film Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman) “The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.” – Alberto Giacometti "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." -Omar Khayyam “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst

43 of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude” – Emerson. “But when I say ‘God,’ it is poetry and not theology.” – John Haynes Holmes, A Modern Faith “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” - Confucius “To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” - Confucius “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it.” - Albert Einstein “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” - Albert Einstein “Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” - George Jean Nathan “We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.” - Emerson “Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.” - B. F. Skinner “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” - Mark Twain

44 “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” - Chinese proverb “There are two types of education....One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.” - John Adams “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” – Joseph Campbell “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” – Jesus, Bible, Matthew 7:7-8 “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” – Buddha "Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the perception of a new truth, we are divorced and the force of all nature cannot hold us to each other." -Emerson “To live for self, a thing has to contend against others, in not living for self, a thing will be that which all things return.” – Wang Pi “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.” - Gandhi “I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.” – Alan Watts “Man is rotten with perfection.” – Kenneth Burke “We are always getting ready to live but never living.” - Emerson

45 "When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone." - Tennessee Williams “The most incomprehensive thing about the world is that it is comprehensible” – Albert Einstein “Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald “War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” - Thomas Mann "Not all those that wonder are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien “At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.” – Umberto Eco “After all, the cultivated person’s first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.” – Umberto Eco “Naturally, everything depends on one’s background books and on what one is looking for.” – Umberto Eco "Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others" - Oscar Wilde “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” - William James

46 “As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.” -Margaret Mead "You, you only, exist. We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that you arise: beautiful moment, in all your suddenness, arising in love, or enchanted in the contraction of work. To you I belong, however time may wear me away. From you to you I go commanded. In between the garland is hanging in chance; but if you take it up and up and up: look: all becomes festival!" - Rilke "The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate extent of human stupidity." - Voltaire "The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is." - Robert Pirsig "The real University, he said, has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind. It is a that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location. ...The real University is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself." – Robert Pirsig

47 "If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company" - John Paul Sartre "If billions of dollars spent on security, military campaigns and troop movement were instead spent on investment and assistance for poor countries, promotion of health, combating different diseases, education and improvement of mental and physical fitness, assistance to the victims of natural disasters, creation of employment opportunities and production, development projects and poverty alleviation, establishment of peace, mediation between disputing states and distinguishing the flames of racial, ethnic and other conflicts, where would the world be today? Would not your [United States] government and people be justifiably proud? Would not your administration’s political and economic standing have been stronger? And I am sorry to say, would there have been an ever increasing global hatred of the American governments?" - Mahmood Ahmadi-Najad - President of the Islamic Republic of Iran "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Sir Winston Churchill “Means are ends in the making” - Gandhi “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” - Henry David Thoreau "The way things appear to me, in that way they exist for me; and the way things appears to you, in that way they exist for you" - the Sophist Protagoras, as quoted by Plato

48 "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President (1933) “Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh and consider.” – Francis Bacon The Essays “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” – Anonymous “The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein “If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein “A confession has to be part of your new life.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein “For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein “Reflection on the infinite seems to call, almost by definition, for infinite reflection.” – Daniel Taylor “The unhealthiness of our world today is in direct proportion to our inability to see it as a whole.” – anonymous “Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.” – Peter Senge “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

49 "Happiness is not a possession to be prized; it is a quality of thought, a state of mind." - Daphne Du Maurier "Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted." - William Shakespeare “Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms of…the same thing, the essence of which is that a man’s energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.” - Arthur Schopenhauer "All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as being self-evident."- Arthur Schopenhauer “You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.” - Shylock “Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, nothing to regret, and nothing to prove.” – Troy Harris “sometimes you need a little guilt to make you realize what you truly have” – a friend named Andrea “you can't give to the world what you don't feel within yourself”- a friend named Andrea “don't cloud the present trying to impress the future” – a friend named Andrea “…the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is ‘communion.’ …wherever we look it is communion that we seek.” – Henri Nouwen “Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.” – Deborah Tannen

50 “But if you parry individuals points – a negative and defensive enterprise – you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true – a positive act.” – Deborah Tannen “False dichotomies are often at the heart of discord.” – Deborah Tannen "I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky “Efficiency obliterates identity” – William Greider “…one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.” - Socrates “An artist is never poor.” – Babette in the film Babette’s Feast “Let us be silent that we may hear the whisper of God.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress." - Thomas Edison "Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels." - Charlie Chaplin

51 “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.” – John Lennon “Once you label me, you negate me” – Soren Kierkegaard “Wisdom is asking the questions for which there are no answers” - Harrell Beck “We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.” – Daniel Taylor “Nothing worthwhile is easy…” – Daniel Taylor “No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.” – Soren Kirkegaard “Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.” – Blaise Pascal “We are worthy of being believed only as we [are] aware of our unworthiness.” – Karl Barth “I cannot imagine a stronger affirmation from a more credible source of the significance of the inner life in the external affairs of our time: ‘consciousness precedes being” and ‘the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart.” - Vaclav Havel “You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done…you are fierce with reality.” - Florida Scott Maxwell “Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places. I have been dissolved and shaken, worn other people’s faces…” - May Sarton

52 “We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed” – Parker Palmer “One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person’s pain without trying to “fix” it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.” - Parker Palmer “Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations – projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves- and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.” – Parker Palmer “In the coming world, they will not ask me: ‘Why were you not Moses?’ they will ask me: ‘Why were you not Zusya?’” – A Hasidic tale about Rabbi Zusya “For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” - Rainer Maria Rilke “Live with the questions so one day we may grow into the answers.” – Rilke “Bishey bish khai” – Only poison delivers us from poison (metaphor of antidotes) "Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal." -Josef Pieper

53 "I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains." - Anne Frank “Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” - Aldous Huxley “The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.” - Victor Hugo “He who angers you conquers you.” - Elizabeth Kenny “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Eliot “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” - Ed Cunningham “Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.” - Voltaire "He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss." - John Locke "Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance." - Jean de La Fontaine "The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed." - Richard Brinsley Sheridan “He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.” – Giacomo Leopardi

54 “Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.” – Jack Johnson, “It’s All Understood” “A question is wiser than an accusation.” – Doug Schaupp “If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.” – Giacomo Leopardi “No human trait is more intolerable in everyday life, or in fact less tolerated, than intolerance.” – Giacomo Leopardi "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." – Martin Luther King Jr. “He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.” – Thomas Fuller “Remembering the past gives power to the present.” – Fae Myenne Ng "When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing." -Joseph Roux “I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.” – Giacomo Leopardi “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” - John Muir

55 “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” - Edgar Allen Poe The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” - Hellen Keller “Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.” - Roy R. Gilson “A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” - Johann von Goethe “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” - Kahlil Gibran "The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum." - Alexis Carre “Let the beauty we love be what we do.” - Rumi “If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” - Vincent Van Gogh “If we are to find our way back to that point of wholeness and belonging, we must do so in the place where we had begun to lose it.” – John Okada (adapted quote)

56 “Those…who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.” – David Simon and Edward Burns "Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us." - Charles H. Spurgeon "The past isn't dead; it isn't even past." - William Faulkner "There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory." - Neil Postman "To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's." - Fyodor Dostoevsky “The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.” - Michael Ventura “The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.” - Mignon McLaughlin "Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life." - George Arliss “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” - E.E. Cummings “It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies.” – Thomas Huxley “Every race and every nation [and every person] should be judged by he best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.” – James Weldon Johnson

57 “Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.” – Giacomo Leopardi. “Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.” – Giacomo Leopardi “The surest way to conceal from others the limits of one’s own knowledge is by not overstepping them.” – Giacomo Leopardi “It’s interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth” –Giacomo Leopardi “As long as we have our stories there is hope.” – Henri Nouwen “Life is not a problem to be solved; it is a mystery to be lived.” – Thomas Merton “We must be willing to cultivate humility along with certainty, to practice tolerance along with devotion, to seek patience along with piety.” – Robert Benson “The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.” – Frederick Beuchner “When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.” – James Weldon Johnson “We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish

58 together as fools…For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.” – Dr. martin Luther King, Jr. “Imagination is more important than knowledge” – Albert Einstein "Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war." - Henry Ford “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. “Give a man a fish and he east for a day; teach him to fish, and he east for a lifetime.” - Chinese proverb “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust “Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.” - Socrates “Beauty is truth and truth beauty – that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.” – John Keats “Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.” – Sophia from the film Vanilla Sky “To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” - Chuang Tzu “There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs” – Stephen Nachmanovitch

59 "The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." - Stephen Nachmanovitch “Whispered words can be devastatingly effective.” – Stephen Nachmanovitch “Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.” – Tom Watson (head of IBM for many years) “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that is troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov “Life is a long lesson in humility.” – James Matthew Barrie “Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.” – Alvin Toffler “There is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.” – Jesus (Mark 7:15) “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” - Anais Nin "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection" – Anais Nin “What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.” - Henri Nouwen “You may be through with the past but the past ain’t through with you” – the film Magnolia "I believe in free will. I have no choice." - Bashevis Singer. “The heart has its reasons, which reason can not know.” – Blaise Pascal

60 “A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” - Nelson Mandela As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - Nelson Mandela “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” - Nelson Mandela “Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.” - Nelson Mandela “We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” - Nelson Mandela “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Nelson Mandela “It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”- Rene Descartes “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper” - Robert Frost "Beware you be not swallowed up in books...an ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge." - John Wesley “Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.” - Epictetus

61 "He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge -- where it is written and where it is to be found." - A.A. Hodge “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” - Abigail Adams “The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” - George Santayana “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller “Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.” - Lord Chesterfield “It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” - Epictetus “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” - Albert Einstein "The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein "The only dumb question is the question you don't ask." - Paul MacCready "The highest result of education is tolerance." - Helen Keller “Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.” - Giacomo Leopardi

62 "The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them." - Thomas Merton “The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has to confront, in the depths of his own soul, when he seeks to love merely for his own pleasure….And yet the men of our time do not love with enough courage to risk even discomfort or inconvenience.” – Thomas Merton “But if we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts. If we have no peace within ourselves, we have no peace with what is all around us.” – Thomas Merton "The art of love...is largely the art of persistence." - Albert Ellis “It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed” – Rosenstock Heussy "Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." - Andre Gide "If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it." - Frederic Buechner "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." -Soren Kierkegaard. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."- Aristotle "That which is impossible to prove and probable is better than that which is possible to prove and improbable" – Aristotle

63 "God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined." -Saint Augustine "Those who see only themselves in others find only themselves and talk only to themselves." - Harold Barrett "Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave." -Constantin Brancusi "College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation" - Vera Brittain "Be not a slave of words." - Thomas Carlyle "No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be..." - G.K. Chesterton "Man must suffer to be wise." – Cicero "Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for." – Dag Hammarskjold "The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." - Dante Aleghieri “If you are neutral in a situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” – Desmond Tutu "But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for." - Paulo Coelho "The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation." - Don DeLillo

64 "Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." - Emily Dickinson "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." - Anais Nin "For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief." - Ecclesiastes 1:18, Bible "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein "The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success." - David Feherty "Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one." - Benjamin Franklin "Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism." – Sigmund Freud “The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.” - Sigmund Freud "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" - Galatians 5:14, Bible "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."-- Mahatma Gandhi

65 "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Mahatma Gandhi "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi "The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity." - Howard Mumford Jones "The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it." - Soren Kierkegaard "...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state." - C.S. Lewis "Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage." —Publilius Syrus "We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should listen carefully to the views of the cadres at the lowest levels. Be a pupil before you become a teacher; learn from the cadres at the lower levels before you issue orders." - Mao Tse-tung "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Djalal ad-Din Rumi "Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two." - Thomas Merton

66 “Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and expose the country to danger. It works the same in every country. - Herman Goring, Nazi leader (though I disagree with him, he reveals the reality of political power over the masses) "A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world." - Mohammed "Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on." - Stephen Nachmanovitch "We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity." - Friedrich Nietzsche "People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for." - Os Guiness "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." - Blaise Pascal "We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason." - Blaise Pascal "The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he is unable to sit quietly in his own room." - Blaise Pascal

67 "Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away." - Persian Proverb "The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most but little compared with that of which we are ignorant." - Plato "In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend" - Edgar Alan Poe "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dreamed before." - Edgar Allan Poe "Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self- gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." - Helen Keller "Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -Susan Ertz "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." - Gail Sheehy "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.” - Socrates "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth" - Henry David Thoreau

68 "All this worldly wisdom was once the amiable heresy of some wise man." - Henry David Thoreau "Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost." – Henry David Thoreau “Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.” – Henry David Thoreau “All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.” – Henry David Thoreau "Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to truth." - Thomas Jefferson "A person who lives only in the present and has not a full consciousness of what lies behind his back is not fully human." - Tulia Zevi "Never let school interfere with your education." - Mark Twain “If each of the many things in the world were taken as distinct, unique, a thing in itself unrelated to any other thing, perception of the world would disintegrate into complete meaninglessness.” – Eviatar Zerubavel “Tell me, what is it you plan to do, with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver “The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures – these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his[/her] sole reward is his[/her] satisfaction of integrity.” - Howard Mumford Jones

69 “Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.” Marian Wright Edelman "Man really attains the state of complete humanity when he produces, without being forced by physical need to sell himself as a commodity." – Che Guevara "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them" - David Hume "Truth springs from argument amongst friends." - David Hume “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” - Mother Teresa "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." - Plato "Courage is knowing what not to fear." - Plato "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." - Aristotle "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." - Aristotle "No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness." – Aristotle For more information about me, please visit my blog: A Chance to See Beyond Oneself