“When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.” Quote by Jon Mead
“If you want to develop courage, then simply act courageously when it's called for. If you do something over and over again, you develop a habit. Some people develop the habit of courage. Some people develop the habit of non-courage.” PeopleIfsWantHabit Author:Brian Tracy
“It's common to think things will never happen where you are-never in Cambridge, never in New York, never in Seattle-that sort of thing, whatever it is, never happens here, not in our community. Then it happens, right in front of you, and you realize you were blind to it, that you forgot that intolerance and zealotry and viciousness are human currency everywhere, and it takes your breath away.” ThinkingHumansHappensRealizingCommunityCommonFrontsNew YorkBreathsBlindWhere You AreIntoleranceCurrencyOur CommunitySeattleCambridgeZealotry Author:Mike Daisey
“When do you do things for the love of it? Always. If you're not feeling that, go do something else. Life is too short.” IfsFeelingsLife IsToo ShortLife Is Too Short Author:Raph Koster
“Coolness is temporary. You can't capture it or create it, it has to be discovered. It has to do with the people that are in a place, not with monuments or institutions. It's a momentary conjunction of personalities.” PeoplePersonalityInstitutionsTemporaryCaptureMonumentMomentaryConjunctionsCoolness Author:Lawrence Wright
“Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.” MankindTribesRobbers Author:Sean Connery
“We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.” HumansMaySpiritualHuman BeingsJourneySpiritual JourneySpiritual Beings Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.” WayShouldWarEndsStatesMemoriesUnitedUnited StatesHonorDiedSevenThis DayMemorialMemorial DayIdiocyThose Who Have Died Author:Andy Rooney
“Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.” BelieveLongOpinionAgree Author:Andy Rooney
“The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.” IfsMenYearsHumansWellsMayMatterAgeBornHuman BeingsMoralImagineProgressProduceDiseaseMassHundredLaborDistanceSorryCeaseOld AgeRemoveGravityAgricultureFloatsRapids Author:Benjamin Franklin
“I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.” ThinkingValuesHumanityMisery Author:Benjamin Franklin
