25 February 2017

Week 2017-08

"Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves." (Bonaro Overstreet)

"Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs. (Eric Temple Bell, "The Search for Truth")

"If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much." (Lewis Carroll)

"So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible." (Norton Juster)


"You will, if you’re wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it." (Freya Stark)


"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." (Jane Smiley)


"A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play." (Friedrich Nietzsche)


"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." (Seneca the Younger)


"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." (Herman Melville)


"There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness." (Gregg Braden)

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