Week 2017-16

"Love is not always fireworks and magic. Often we’ll experience it in the form of patience, acceptance, loyalty, and mutual respect." (Charles F Glassman)

"To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence." (Cesar Chavez)

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death." (James F. Byrnes)

"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give." (Philip K. Dick)

"Men are not moved by things, but the views they take of them." (Epitectus)

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." (Henri Bergson)

"Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding." (Marcus Aurelius)

"Knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity." (Imam al-Ghazali)

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will." (W. Clement Stone)

"Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it." (Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib)

Week 2017-12

[#opportunity]
"[...] if we are to have any future, we must create that future ourselves." (Beatrice Bruteau)

[#love, #altruism]
"People who exude love are in every way like rivers - they stream. And when they collect possessions and things that they like, they are apt to give them to other people. Did you ever notice that when you give things away, you keep getting more? That, as you create a vacuum, more flows in?" (Alan Watts)

[#control, #change]
"Nature is not a force over which we must triumph, but the medium of our transformation." (Marilyn Ferguson)

[#suffering, #fear]
"To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none." (Francis Bacon)

[#perspective]
"Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand." (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

[#reality, #change]
"To change our realities we have to change our myths." (Riane Eisler)

[#human nature, #control]
"The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature." (Edward Abbey, "Beyond the Wall”, 1984)

[#quest]
"The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it." (Seneca the Younger)

[#acceptance, #certainty]
"Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow." (Tony Schwartz)

[#limits, #knowledge]
"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning." (Claude Bernard)