...malcontents

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
- Salvador Dali

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)

Home coming...

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

 -Paul Celan, poet and translator (1920-1970)

...and will

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
- 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

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)

Ideal life...

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

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)

to be now...

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
- William James

Good Questions

The Key to Networking Is Asking Good Questions
What...?
Why...?
Where...?
When...?
Which...?
Who/Whom...?
Whose...?
How...?

Spreading sunshine

"Kindness is spreading sunshine into people's lives regardless of the weather."

~ Raktivist

New action...

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
- Richard L. Evans

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

alter the past?

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
- Samuel Butler

...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)