Week 2017-04

"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations." (Leo Buscaglia)

"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely that you will step up and take responsibility for making it so." (Noam Chomsky)

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty." (Frank Herbert, "Dune Chronicles: Chapterhouse")

"It is not wisdom but ignorance that teaches men presumption. Genius may sometimes be arrogant, but nothing is so diffident as knowledge." (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." (Samuel Johnson)

"All the knowledge that we mortals can acquire is not knowledge positive, but knowledge comparative, and subject to the errors and passions of humanity." (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values." (Dalai Lama)

"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them." (Henry Bolingbroke)

"Keeping an open mind is a virtue, but not so open that your brains fall out." (James Oberg)

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings." (Anaïs Nin)