Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.
-Gustave Flaubert, novelist (1821-1880)
God is..
If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to him.
-Rebecca West, author and journalist (1892-1983)
2 kinds of light
There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
-James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)
That is...
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
-Willa Cather, novelist (1873-1947)
to put happiness
The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
- Robert Bsden-Powell
- Robert Bsden-Powell
lovely as a tree
I think that I shall never see /
A poem lovely as a tree.
-(Alfred) Joyce Kilmer, journalist and poet (1886-1918)
Starts with One
"You see, it always starts with one. And like a domino effect, it impacts one after the other."
- Tony Robins
to disturb or not
The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.
-Ann Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963)
not any more...
I like talking about things that are taboo because it makes them not taboo anymore.
-Sarah Silverman, comedian (b. 1 Dec 1970)
Clay and Play
A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life -- that's me.
-Harivansh Rai Bachchan, poet (1907-2003)
...as it is!
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
-William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)
Reason...
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
-Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)
Wash it...
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
-Norman Thomas, socialist and social reformer (1884-1968)
...and will
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
- Pope Paul VI
- Pope Paul VI
Leisure work
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
-Ezra Pound, poet (1885-1972)
Thanks Giving...
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
- O. Henry
- O. Henry
Silence is...
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
-George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
Look for helpers
"When I was a boy, and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, look for the helpers. You will always find people helping."
~ Fred Rogers
outstanding people...
If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.
-Soichiro Honda, industrialist (1906-1991)
Just Vs. Wise
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
- Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)
Good Questions
The Key to Networking Is Asking Good Questions
What...?
Why...?
Where...?
When...?
Which...?
Who/Whom...?
Whose...?
How...?
What...?
Why...?
Where...?
When...?
Which...?
Who/Whom...?
Whose...?
How...?
Spreading sunshine
"Kindness is spreading sunshine into people's lives regardless of the weather."
~ Raktivist
Nature of Gift
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
-Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)
Small wins...
"What I like about small wins is they can cascade. One can lead right into another."
- Dan Pink
...silent place
Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.
-Henry van Dyke, poet (10 Nov 1852-1933)
Elimination of ...
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
-Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor (1881-1973)
Philosophy and...
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
- Charles M. Schulz
Pay the price...
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
- Juvenal
- Juvenal
Effective weapon...
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
change the world
Subject: Simply...change the world
"You don't have to move mountains. Simply fall in love with life. Be a tornado of happiness, gratitude, and acceptance. You will change the world just by being a warm, kind-hearted human being."
~ Anita Krizzan
Simply...change the world
"You don't have to move mountains. Simply fall in love with life. Be a tornado of happiness, gratitude, and acceptance. You will change the world just by being a warm, kind-hearted human being."
~ Anita Krizzan
Empowering others...
"Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and
empowering others to achieve this vision."
empowering others to achieve this vision."
-Marshall Goldsmith
Do it anyway
They'll tell you you're too loud, that you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway.
-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, US Congress member (b. Oct 13, 1989)
Life is easier...
"When we allow ourselves to adapt to different situations, life is easier."
~ Catherine Pulsifer
Nothing said ever...
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
- Calvin Coolidge
Serves best...
He serves his party best, who serves the country best.
-Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US president (1822-1893)
Ready to learn...
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
- Winston Churchill
Half of the harm
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.
-T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)
Permanent good
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
it takes generations...
Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.
-Gore Vidal, writer (1925-2012)
make use of...
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
-Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881)
...as it is
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!
-Miguel de Cervantes, writer (1547-1616)
by character...
It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.
-Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer (1868-1956)
Poetry of words...
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe
Genius & Talent
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
-Marguerite Gardiner, writer (1789-1849)
Forgiven and...contempt
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
-Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (1694-1773)
None to be...
All envy would be extinguished if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
Waving for...
The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.
-Laurence J. Peter, educator and author (1919-1990)
Set out too much...
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
-Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)
Conditions of blindness
There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.
-Paul Bourget, novelist (1852-1935)A
Be a living example
"If you want to influence others, the most important thing you can do is be a living example of the principles, ideals, and faith that you advocate."
~ Nick Vujicic
...remaining silent
The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.
- Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)
Ownership...
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
- O. Henry, short-story writer (1862-1910)
...to impose moral standards
Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel.
-H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
think of.....YOU
"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Determined by?
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
-Mary Renault, novelist (1905-1983)
...you bring up
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-Robert M. Pirsig, author and philosopher (1928-2017)
Known any trouble?
I've never known any trouble other than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Original & Obvious
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
-Arthur Koestler, novelist and journalist (1905-1983)
Patient with...
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
- Edith Sitwell, poet (1887-1964)
Aim of life...
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller
Add something...
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
~ Donald A. Adams
Success for a teacher
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
-Maria Montessori, educator (31 Aug 1870-1952)
practice to deceive
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
-Walter Scott, novelist and poet (1771-1832)
Vision and...
"Leading with integrity and empathy requires vision and a connection to your deepest self."
~ Karla McLaren
suppresses idle details...
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
- Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)
More physics stuff
The more physics you have the less engineering you need.
-Ernest Rutherford, physicist, Nobel laureate in chemistry (1871-1937)
Help that help
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
- Epicurus
Time Value...
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)
Supply Vs Demand
In the new version of the law of supply and demand, jobs are so cheap -- as measured by the pay -- that a worker is encouraged to take on as many of them as she possibly can.
-Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist and author (b. 26 Aug 1941)
99% and 1%
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert EinsteinNormalizing Self
I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that's who you honestly are, you shouldn't try to "normalize" yourself.
-Alicia Witt, actress, singer-songwriter, and pianist (b. 21 Aug 1975)
Surface flow...
Errors like straws upon the surface flow;
Who would search for pearls must dive below.
-John Dryden, poet and dramatist (1631-1700)
Activist vs Terrorist
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist.
-Winona LaDuke, activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer (b. 18 Aug 1959)
Two languages..
I speak two languages, Body and English.
-Mae West, actress, playwright, singer, screenwriter, and comedian (1893-1980)
Overturn the false narrative
A poem cannot stop a bullet.
A novel can't defuse a bomb...
But we are not helpless...
We can sing the truth and name the liars...
we must work to overturn the false narrative of tyrants.
-Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 1947)
...to obey
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.
-Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11 Aug 1833-1899)
Pessimist, Optimist & Realist
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
~ William Arthur Ward
belief vs fact
No amount of belief makes something a fact.
-James Randi, magician and skeptic (1928-2020)
Modern war VS Modern industry
How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry -- between, say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off".
-Wendell Berry, farmer and author (b. 5 Aug 1934)
...Strong enough
I am strong enough to become the person I wish to be. No person's perception of me can interfere with my understanding of myself.
Fear of dealing...
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
-James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)
Protracted war...
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
-Alexis de Tocqueville, statesman and historian (1805-1859)
Social creatures...
We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
-Karl Popper, philosopher and professor (Jul 1902-1994)
for long haul
"Invest for the long haul. Don't get too greedy and don't get too scared."
- Shelby M.C. Davis
needs more...
Today I will think OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. The world needs more creativity and today I will bring it! |
I did it again
It was my shame, and now it is my boast, That I have loved you rather more than most.
-Hilaire Belloc, writer and poet (1870-1953)
Courage is the...
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
~ Aristotle
both are transformed
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-Carl Jung, psychiatrist (1875-1961)
Old vs Young
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
-George McGovern, senator and author (1922-2012)
Silence of solitude
It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.
-Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (1918-2013)
most in the least...
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
- Orson Scott Card
- Orson Scott Card
Light the way for humankind
There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.
-Hannah Senesh, poet, playwright, and paratrooper (1921-1944)
can be made...
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
-Iris Murdoch, writer (15 Jul 1919-1999)
Life as an...
Live your life as an experiment.
-Pema Chodron, Buddhist nun and author (b. 14 Jul 1936)
Small wins can..
"What I like about small wins is that they can cascade. One can lead right into another."
- Dan Pink
Strong positive effect
"People's inner work lives seemed to lift or drag depending on whether or not their project moved forward, even by small increments. Small wins often had a surprisingly strong positive effect, and small losses a surprisingly negative one."
- Teresa Amiable
Threat to freedom
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
-Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet, Nobel laureate (b. 13 Jul 1934)
Happy Guru Purnima
I bow to the one who has inspired me and taught the right way of life!
You are the inspiration who made me overcome every hurdle in life.
It wouldn't have been possible without you. Thanks for making me who I am.
You introduced me to myself and showed me the right way. Thanks for making me who I am.
Wishing you a happy Guru Purnima Day!
You are the inspiration who made me overcome every hurdle in life.
It wouldn't have been possible without you. Thanks for making me who I am.
You introduced me to myself and showed me the right way. Thanks for making me who I am.
Wishing you a happy Guru Purnima Day!
feed for lifetime
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
Party of principle?
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Short and Long
Love is so short and forgetting is so long.
-Pablo Neruda, poet, diplomat, Nobel laureate (1904-1973)
uneasy about...
I hold one share in the corporate earth and am uneasy about the management.
-E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)
Value of money
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.
-Nikola Tesla, inventor (1856-1943)
not always evident
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
- Francesco Guicciardini
...animals are our equals
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
-Peter Singer, philosopher and professor (b. 6 Jul 1946)
Intelligent life...
The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us.
-Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (b. 5 Jul 1958)
Torch of truth...
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)
sound of truth
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
-Czeslaw Milosz, poet and novelist (1911-2004)
Real hatred of mankind
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
-Giacomo Leopardi, poet, essayist, and philosopher (1798-1837)
Conceive & Give
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
-Virginia Satir, psychotherapist and author (1916-1988)
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Highest result..
The highest result of education is tolerance.
-Helen Keller, author and lecturer (1880-1968)
when they gave up
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas A. Edison
- Thomas A. Edison
..worth what i paid?
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
-Richard Bach, writer (b. 23 Jun 1936)
Change and tell...
People change and forget to tell each other.
-Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984)
...into an institution
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
-Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (21 Jun 1905-1980)
ideas deserve criticism
"Respect for religion" has become a code phrase meaning "fear of religion". Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
-Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 19 Jun 1947)
...invest in ignorance
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
-Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel laureate (1915-2005)
Your frequency...
"The Universe responds to your frequency. It doesn't recognize your personal desires, wants or needs. It only understands the frequency in which you are vibrating at."
Flattery and Slander
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
-Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, and playwright (1799-1837)
Life is too short..
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
- Charlotte Bronte
- Charlotte Bronte
Test and start a...
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
-Hal Clement, science fiction author (30 May 1922-2003)
Comfort of opinion
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
-John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (29 May 1917-1963)
...your style
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
-Fred Astaire, dancer, actor, singer, musician, and choreographer (1899-1987)
...false and true
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-Salvador Dali, painter (1904-1989
not really interested
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
-Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)
-Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)
..ten years ago
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
- Horace Mann, educational reformer (1796-1859)
- Horace Mann, educational reformer (1796-1859)
Small matters to
In the small matters trust the mind,
in the large ones the heart.
-Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May 1856-1939)
Education is to...
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
-Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)
Warms & Cools...
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
- William Arthur Ward
- William Arthur Ward
Intelligence and Ignorance
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
-Ulysses S. Grant, military commander, 18th US President (1822-1885)
Everyday language
Everyday language is a part of the human organism and is no less complicated than it.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (1889-1951)
Tax on education
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
-Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect, and author
Warmth of Kindness
This morning on the bus, a young boy is with his dad. The child complains that he's cold.
Bus driver hears. Opens up a case and takes out a coat which has the Egged logo on the back.
"Here," the driver says to the boy. "This is for you. It'll keep you warm."
The father jokes with the driver: "That's very small for you," he says.
"It's not for me, of course; I got it for my son," the driver replies, "but I can get another one; don't worry."
The father is grateful. The kid is thrilled.
"Sorry," says the father. "My wife normally takes care of the children in the morning, but she was tired today, so I took charge. I should have realized how cold it was this morning."
The driver smiles: "No one is perfect. What I'll remember about today is not that you underdressed your kids, but that you took care of your wife."
~ David Jablinowitz
Present advantage
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
- Charles Caleb Cotton
- Charles Caleb Cotton
Acts of...
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
-William Wordsworth, poet (7 Apr 1770-1850)
-William Wordsworth, poet (7 Apr 1770-1850)
...to learn
The capacity to learn is a gift;
the ability to learn is a skill;
the willingness to learn is a choice.
- Brian Herbert
the ability to learn is a skill;
the willingness to learn is a choice.
- Brian Herbert
Responsive to...
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
-Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (1900-1980)
...Knows the strength
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
- Woodrow Wilson
- Woodrow Wilson
uninterrupted...?
For sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
-Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)
to be earned...
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
- Margret Thatcher
- Margret Thatcher
Heroes: See the need & respond
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
-Fred Rogers, television host, songwriter, and author (1928-2003)
...from others
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
-John Updike, writer (1932-2009)
...secure comfort
"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort."
~ Humphry Davy
Others to join...
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
-Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court justice (1933-2020)
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