"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege." ~John D. Rockefeller Jr.
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
~Arthur Rubinstein
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." ~John F. Kennedy
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
~Robert Collier
"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." ~Mother Teresa
"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
~Martha Washington
"Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love."
~Jareb Teague
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
~Lena Horne
"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."
~Robert Schuller
"Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live." ~Anonymous
"Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy." ~Richard Farson
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
~Mother Teresa
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."
~Albert Einstein
"But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing."
~Thomas Paine
"We are blessed -- or cursed -- to live with each other. And I prefer the first."
~Daniel Barenboim
"Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves." ~Muhammad
"The lifetime crusade of your days must be to develop a new energy ethic to sustain life on earth. Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth." ~Stewart Udall
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
- George Eliot
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” – Star Wars Episode I
“Failure is not an option.” Ed Harris plays real-life NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz in Apollo 13.
"Healing is not a matter of technique or mechanism; it is a work of spirit." ~Rachel Naomi Remen
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand"
~ Plato
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. "
~ Winston Churchill
"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."
~ Emily Dickinson
"A great man is always willing to be little."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science."
~ Sigmund Freud
"The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves. ~Rachel Carson
"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? A world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine." ~Pierce Brosnan
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye..it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. -- Edvard Munch
Art is our one true global language. It knows no nation. It favors no race. It acknowledges no class. It speaks to our need to heal, reveal and transform. It transcends our ordinary lives and lets us imagine what is possible. It creates a dialogue between individuals, and communication between communities. It allows us to see and to listen to each other. --Richard Kamler
"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger." ~William James
"Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life." ~Norman Cousins
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful." ~Alice Walker
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." ~Abraham Lincoln
"Nature provides exceptions to every rule." ~Margaret Fuller
"What is now proved was once only imagined." ~William Blake
Live in rooms full of light. -- Cornelius Celsus
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. --Francis Keppel
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. --Mark Twain
"A young child is, indeed, a true scientist, just one big question mark. What? Why? How? I never cease to marvel at the recurring miracle of growth, to be fascinated by the mystery and wonder of this brave enthusiasm." ~Victoria Wagner
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." ~Dalai Lama
"There is great hunger and thirst in all of us for the truth whether we are aware of it or not. There is no-one unfeeling or unseeing. To think ourselves unique is the height of ignorance." ~Agnes Martin
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." ~Hans Hofmann
"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life." ~Jean Arp
We are blessed -- or cursed -- to live with each other. And I prefer the first. --Daniel Barenboim
Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles, staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements. --Quote from 'Office Space'
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us. Then the world will live as one. -- John Lennon
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. --Lao Tzu
"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere." ~ Blaise Pascal
"Let him who would move the world first move himself." ~Socrates
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." ~George Bernard Shaw
"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred." ~Barbara De Angelis
"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage." ~Gandhi
"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life." ~Greg Anderson
"If a design doesn't feel good in your heart, what the mind thinks doesn't matter." ~April Greiman
"Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking." ~Mariannne Williamson
"See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls." ~Mother Teresa
"Good is the transcendence of self in service to others." ~Michelle Nunn
"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything." ~George C. Lichtenberg
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." ~Pablo Picasso
