Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy. ~ Spider Robinson

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~ Robert F. Kennedy

Life will not perish! It will begin anew with love; it will start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the wilderness, and to it all that we did and built will mean nothing — our towns and factories, our art, our ideas will all mean nothing, and yet life will not perish! Only we have perished. Our houses and machines will be in ruins, our systems will collapse, and the names of our great will fall away like dry leaves. Only you, love, will blossom on this rubbish heap and commit the seed of life to the winds. ~ Karel Čapek (born 9 January 1890)

I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error. ~ Karel Čapek (date of birth)

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

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True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity. ~ George Bernard Shaw

For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. ~ Stephen Hawking (born 8 January 1942)

Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth. ~ Baltasar Gracián(born 8 January 1601)

If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend. ~ Baltasar Gracián

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. ~ Gerry Spence

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others. ~ Gerry Spence

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already. ~ Baltasar Gracián

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No child is ever born violent.
~ Alice Miller

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To find the universal elements enough;
To find the air and the water exhilarating;
To be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter;
To be thrilled by the stars at night:
To be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in
spring …these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
~ John Burroughs

“There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord”
- Thomas Paine

‎”Don’t mourn. Organize!”
- attributed to Joe Hill, at his funeral, according to Big Bill Haywood

Don’t listen to those who belittle your dreams / No matter how reasonable they seem / Just love them and send them along / And get back to working and proving them wrong.
- Cory Booker

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

I feel that the moment you adopt a sense of caring for others, it brings you inner strength.

To increase our altruism, we must motivate ourselves to take into consideration the effects of our actions both in the present and future.
- Dalai Lama

“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?”
- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“If it’s not paradoxical, it’s not true.”
— Shunryu Suzuki

“I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature”
— J. J. Rousseau

Knowing is not enough. Risk knowledge with action and then you will know it is genuine, pretension or just information
- Sri Chitrabhanu

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.
~ Lao Tzu ♥

Let’s dance together in our hearts and play the game of life in peace.
- Yoko Ono

”History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe!
~ Saint Augustine

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
~ Jules Renarda

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
- Tao Te Ching

Even when we fight with one another, we notice that our hearts are in love with each other.
- Yoko Ono

The lack of Belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
- Jonathan Swift

‎”It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
- Leonardo da Vinci

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
~ Confucius

‎”I’ve come again
like a new year
to crash the gate
of this old prison.”
- Rumi

“I tried to make sense of the Four Books,
until love arrived,
and it all became a single syllable.”
—Yunus Emre, Rumi’s contemporary sufi poet

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
- William E. Gladstone

We protect our world from destruction with our sense of joy.
- Yoko Ono

‎”There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
- Beverly Sills

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
—Rumi

‎”The Privilege of a Lifetime is Being Who You Are.”
~ Joseph Campbell

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
— Thich Nhat Hanh

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
- Bette Davis

Get to know your own personal rhythm, your vibration, your song. There are some things that cannot be understood with the rational mind. Your destiny is to learn the language of the heart, soul, and spirit.

This first step is learning how to relax the mind. A tense mind is rigid and closed off, lost in its own imaginings. A mind that is strong, yet soft and pliable, can be used to its highest capacity. It is ready at all times to respond to the present moment as it is, undistorted by gripping inner fear.

Sing your song joyfully and without reservation. Dance with abandon to your own rhythm. And your vibration will be a light unto all.
- Dorothy Mendoza Row

‎”I change not by trying to be what I am not,
but by being fully aware of how I am.”
~ Zen

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
~ J. G. Holland

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
- H. L. Mencken

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
- W. Somerset Maugham





Literature is a state of culture. Poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
- Juan Ramon Jimenez

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Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ~ Abraham Lincoln

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. ~ Gerald Durrell (born 7 January 1925)

It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent? ~ Richard Feynman (speaking of art, reality, and Jupiter, which Galileo Galilei discovered to have moons on this day in 1610)

You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is not only vital for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself — a point that seems to escape many people. ~ Gerald Durrell (born 7 January 1925)

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ~ Zora Neale Hurston (Born January 7, 1891)

When I take people round to see my animals, one of the first questions they ask (unless the animal is cute and appealing) is, “what use is it?” by which they mean, “what use is it to them?” To this one can reply “What use is the Acropolis?” Does a creature have to be of direct material use to mankind in order to exist? By and large, by asking the question “what use is it?” you are asking the animal to justify its existence without having justified your own. ~ Gerald Durrell

We have inherited an incredibly beautiful and complex garden, but the trouble is that we have been appallingly bad gardeners. We have not bothered to acquaint ourselves with the simplest principles of gardening. By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors. ~ Gerald Durrell

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Earth laughs in flowers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel that the moment you adopt a sense of caring for others, it brings you inner strength. Inner strength brings inner tranquility, greater self-confidence. Because of such attitudes, even when things going on around you seem hostile and negative, you can still sustain your peace of mind.
- Dalai Lama

Didn’t I tell you
you are a fish do not go to dry land
for I am the deep Sea.
- Rumi

‎”When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die… .”
~ Joseph Campbell

“Dr. King didn’t get famous giving a speech that said, ‘I have a complaint.’ It’s time for us to start dreaming again and invite the country to dream with us. We don’t have any ‘throw away’ species, nations, or children. We must birth a global green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.”
- Van Jones

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
- Evan Esar

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw

“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
- C.S. Lewis





All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly — right now. ~Buckminster Fuller

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands and say “This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can.” ~ Ani DiFranco

In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want… everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear… anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ~ E.L. Doctorow (born 6 January 1931)

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. ~ Khalil Gibran (born 6 January 1883)

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. ~ Khalil Gibran

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to. ~ Khalil Gibran

Your thought advocates fame and show. Mine counsels me and implores me to cast aside notoriety and treat it like a grain of sand cast upon the shore of eternity. Your thought instills in your heart arrogance and superiority. Mine plants within me love for peace and the desire for independence. Your thought begets dreams of palaces with furniture of sandalwood studded with jewels, and beds made of twisted silk threads. My thought speaks softly in my ears, “Be clean in body and spirit even if you have nowhere to lay your head.” Your thought makes you aspire to titles and offices. Mine exhorts me to humble service. ~ Khalil Gibran

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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. ~ Carl Sagan

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. ~ Helen Keller

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of speading even against it. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda (born 5 January 1893)

All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. ~ Principia Discordia
(for the anniversary of discovery of the “dwarf planet” Eris, named after the patron goddess of the Discordians)

A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science, with modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search. ~ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (born 5 January 1928)

We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories. ~ Konrad Adenauer (born 5 January 1876)

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.
~ Umberto Eco (Born 5 January 1932)

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity. ~ Konrad Adenauer

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.
- Scott Adams

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
- Robertson Davies

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
- Virginia Woolf

“The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.”
- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
~ Friedrich Schiller

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.
- Lao Tzu

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I was persuaded and am, that God’s way is first to turn a soul from its idols, both of heart, worship, and conversation, before it is capable of worship to the true and living God.
~ Roger Williams (Born December 21, 1603)

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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli in Coningsby

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (died 21 December 1940)

If there is a God, I don’t think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn’t finished. ~ Rebecca West (born 21 December 1892)

This is the stillness behind motion, when time itself stops; the center is also the circumference of all.
We are awake in the night.
We turn the Wheel to bring the light.
We call the sun from the womb of night.
Blessed Be!
~ Starhawk

i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday… ~ e. e. cummings

We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. ~ Thomas Jefferson

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Faith is the force of life.
- Leo Tolstoy

Joy is what happens to us when we ALLOW ourselves to recognize how GOOD things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

‎”When traveling on the ocean, one comes upon areas, here or there, where the sea is calm. Even so, on the great ocean of delusion one finds, occasionally, areas of exceptional calmness. This happens when an avatar, or divine incarnation, is sent to earth with a special dispensation. All who come to him and tune in to his spirit find it relatively easy to escape delusion’s power.”

‎”Obedience must be to the highest that is in your own self. Spiritual instruction, too, must proceed from that high level of consciousness. It must be attuned to the guidance for which your own soul is longing.”

‎”Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.”

‎”The real You is the prolific source of all power; the basic you is infinite in its potentiality.”

‎”God cannot be attained by so simple an act as merely dying! To die is easy, but it is very difficult to attain that high level of consciousness in which the soul can merge back into Infinity.”
- Paramahansa Yogananda

All that we are is a result of what we have thought.
- Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
~ Jonathan Swift

It is possible to live in peace.
- Mahatma Gandhi

WE MUST GET RID OF THE LIFE WE PLANNED AND HAVE THE LIFE THAT IS WAITING FOR US.
- JOSEPH CAMPBELL, THE HERO’S JOURNEY

The Universe is one big, cosmic celebration. How you choose to enjoy your stay in this reality is entirely up to you. Remember, life is not coming at you, it’s coming from you. Your thoughts, feelings, and actions are generating the vibration that attracts the circumstances of your life. If you are not enjoying your life, go within to find out why.
- Dorothy Mendoza Row

Peace, like charity, begins at home.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The universe operates through dynamic exchange… giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. and in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.
- Deepak Chopra



We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent “elementary parts” of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.



There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.

Of course, we must avoid postulating a new element for each new phenomenon. But an equally serious mistake is to admit into the theory only those elements which can now be observed. For the purpose of a theory is not only to correlate the results of observations that we already know how to make, but also to suggest the need for new kinds of observations and to predict their results. In fact, the better a theory is able to suggest the need for new kinds of observations and to predict their results correctly, the more confidence we have that this theory is likely to be good representation of the actual properties of matter and not simply an empirical system especially chosen in such a way as to correlate a group of already known facts.

The weekend began with the expectation that there would be a series of lectures and informative discussions with emphasis on content. It gradually emerged that something more important was actually involved — the awakening of the process of dialogue itself as a free flow of meaning among all the participants. In the beginning, people were expressing fixed positions, which they were tending to defend, but later it became clear that to maintain the feeling of friendship in the group was much more important than to hold any position. Such friendship has an impersonal quality in the sense that its establishment does not depend on a close personal relationship between participants. A new kind of mind thus begins to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue. People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change. In this development the group has no pre-established purpose, though at each moment a purpose that is free to change may reveal itself. The group thus begins to engage in a new dynamic relationship in which no speaker is excluded, and in which no particular content is excluded. Thus far we have only begun to explore the possibilities of dialogue in the sense indicated here, but going further along these lines would open up the possibility of transforming not only the relationship between people, but even more, the very nature of consciousness in which these relationships arise.
Unfolding Meaning: a weekend of dialogue with David Bohm (1985)

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale…

Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven’t really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Every thinking requires attention, really. If we ran machines withinout paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.

We probed into the nature of space and time, and of the universal, both with regard to external nature and with regard to mind. But then, we went on to consider the general disorder and confusion that pervades the consciousness of mankind. It is here that I encountered what I feel to be Krishnamurti’s major discovery. What he was seriously proposing is that all this disorder, which is the root cause of such widespread sorrow and misery, and which prevents human beings from properly working together, has its root in the fact that we are ignorant of the general nature of our own processes of thought. Or to put it differently it may be said that we do not see what is actually happening, when we are engaged in the activity of thinking.
“A Brief Introduction to the Work of Krishnamurti”
- David Bohm (Born December 20, 1917)

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Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man
Commands all light, all influence, all fate.
Nothing to him falls early, or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
~ John Fletcher (baptized 20 December 1579)

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ~ John Steinbeck

This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost. ~ John Steinbeck

Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy. ~ Edwin Abbott Abbott (Born 20 December 1838)

For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions, and by the depth of our answers. ~ Carl Sagan (died 20 December 1996)

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. ~ Joseph Campbell

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix

All works of love are works of peace.
~ Mother Theresa

The whole purport may be stated thus: Act so that ye have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves; and hold fast to this rule.
- Milarepa

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
~ Henry Miller

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
♥ William James

Be generous with kind words, especially about those who are absent.
♥ Goethe

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa

That’s Capitalism, but they prefer you to call it “freedom.”
~ Paul Nicholson

Never complain and never explain.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

To do is to be
- Nietzsche

To be is to do
- Kant

Do be do be do
- Sinatra

‎”Nobility of spirit is the grace—or ability—to play, whether in heaven or on earth.”
~ Joseph Campbell

Monitor your inner dialogue, and match your thoughts to what you want and what you intend to create.
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Genuine love and peace come from loving & being peaceful not from a sense of duty guilt or morality.
- Deepak Chopra

I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.
~ Kathleen Quinlan

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
~ Picasso

Man is not made for defeat.
~ Ernest Hemingway

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
~ Chinese Proverb

I can’t imagine where I would be today were it not for a handful of friends who gave me a heart-full of JOY.
~ C.R.Swindoll

‘Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!
- William Wordsworth

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
~ Loren Eiseley

“Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of…” Lydia M. Child http://bit.ly/fip2ge

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein

I believe a proper use of our time is to serve others if we can or at least refrain from harming them. That is the basis of my philosophy.
- Dalai Lama

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
~Jim Morrison

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker. Action Priority Matrix

People only see what they are prepared to see.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which the days never knew.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
~ David Gerrold
‎
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- Emma Lazarus

When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn’t confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn’t mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others.
- Dalai Lama

‎Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
- Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

Jean-Dominique Bauby : I decided to stop pitying myself. Other than my eye, two things aren’t paralyzed, my imagination and my memory.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
~ Henry Morton Stanley

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
- Michael Caine







And I won’t be laughing at the lies when I’m gone
And I can’t question how or when or why when I’m gone
Can’t live proud enough to die when I’m gone
So I guess I’ll have to do it while I’m here.
~ Phil Ochs ~

After the final no there comes a yes
And on that yes the future world depends.
No was the night. Yes is this present sun.
~ Wallace Stevens ~

In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty. ~ Phil Ochs

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life. ~ Phil Ochs (born 19 December 1940)

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ~ Emily Brontë (died 19 December 1848)

In the winter season, for seven days of calm, Alcyone broods over her nest on the surface of the waters while the sea-waves are quiet. Through this time Aeolus keeps his winds at home, and ocean is smooth for his descendants’ sake. ~ Ovid

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Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
Risen with healing in his wings.
Mild he lays his glory by,
Born that man no more may die,
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give us second birth.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the new born King!”
~ Charles Wesley ~ (born 18 December 1707, and song for the Christmas season)


I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough. ~ Paul Klee

Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many more other, latent realities. Things appear to assume a broader and more diversified meaning, often seemingly contradicting the rational experience of yesterday. There is a striving to emphasize the essential character of the accidental. ~ Paul Klee (born 18 December 1879)

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die. ~ Steve Biko (born 18 December 1946)

The Tree that was withered shall be renewed, and he shall plant it in the high places, and the City shall be blessed. Sing all ye people! ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
(From The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King (Book VI, Chapter 5, “The Steward and the King”); in the novel this is a song of a great Eagle heralding the victory of Aragorn’s forces against those of Sauron and the Dark Tower.)

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~ Bertrand Russell

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring,
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
~ “Arwen” in the film The Return of the King ~ (in relation to the opening of the movie based upon The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien; In the novel The Lord of the Rings this statement first occurs in The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 10, “Strider”, in a letter by Gandalf to Frodo.)

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ~ G. K. Chesterton

Fear… can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. ~ Philip K. Dick (born 16 December 1928)

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art. ~ George Santayana (born 16 December 1863)

Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. ~ Philip K. Dick

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C. Clarke (Date of birth)

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ George Santayana

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Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
~ Mary Webb

“In friendship’s fragrant garden,there are flowers of every hue.Each with its own fair…
-Friendship’s Garden

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. ~ Paul Klee

Oaks are the true conservatives; They hold old leaves till summer gives A green exchange.
~ Roy Helton, Come Back to Earth

‎Ben dostalarımı ne kalbimle ne de aklımla severim. ♥
I love my friends neither with my hearth nor with my mind. ♥
Olur Ya …. ♥
Just in case … ♥
Kalp durur… ♥
Hearth might stop… ♥
Akıl unutur … ♥
Mind can forget… ♥
Ben dostlarımı ruhumla severim. ♥
I love them with my soul. ♥
O ne durur ne unutur. ♥
Soul never stops or forget.
- Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
- Albert Schweitzer

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
~ Goethe

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
- Henry Louis Mencken

All is not butter that comes from the cow.
- Proverb

Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
~ Doris Mortman

Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
~ Roy Lichtenstein

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
~ John Muir

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
- Helen Keller

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
- Margaret Thatcher

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Imagination is more important than knowledge…
- Albert Einstein

An enormous amount of energy becomes available once we give up the need to be right.
- Deepak Chopra

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
~ Voltaire

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
~ Philip James Bailey

Your life is always perfect: you are always at the right place at the right time.
~ Salerno

The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose.
- William Wordsworth

LOVE is my gift to the world.
- Wayne Dyer

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates

The power of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary efforts.
- Blaise Pascal

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself
- Mark Twain

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle!
~ Osho

I light my candle from their torches.
~ Robert Burton

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban

Every second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe. A moment that will never be again.
- Pablo Picasso

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
~ Charles Dickens

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

People who do not experience self love have little or no capacity to love others.
- Nathaniel Branden

We need to stop saying we can’t rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.
- Sibel Edmonds

We must not bring one war to an end… but the idea of war itself.
- Deepak Chopra

An education that does not cultivate the will is an education that deprives the mind.
- Anatole France

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our Divine courage, freedom and light!
- Hafiz

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle it in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That “couldn’t be done,” and you’ll do it.
- Edgar A. Guest

The seas are the heart’s blood of the earth
~ Henry Beston

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
~ Eckhart Tolle

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein

For me, loving you and your life has never been a function of what you do or don’t do, have or don’t have, are or are not. That would be rather ridiculous, don’t you think? Not to mention superficial, judgmental, and thoroughly dim-witted.
I think you should adopt the same policy.
~ Tallyho, The Universe

A place for everything, everything in its place.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision WITH action can change the world.
~ J. Barker



Inside a lover’s heart, there is another world.. and yet another.
- Rumi

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
- Corita Kent

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.

You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression … If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is an eternal light. Infinite. The thread that binds every beautiful memory & every amazing moment.
~ Toni Carmine Salerno

Don’t give up. I believe in you all. A person’s a person no matter how small.
~ Dr. Seuss

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be! Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Queen and huntress chaste and fair
Now the sun is laid to sleep
Seated in a silver chair
State in wanted manner keep

Earth let not an envious shade
Dare itself to interpose
Cynthia’s shining orb was made
Heaven to cheer when day did close

Lay the bow of pearl apart
And the crystal-shining quiver
Give unto the flying heart
Space to breath how short so ever

Hesperus entreaty thy light
Goddess excellently bright
Bless us then with wished sight
Thou who makes a day of night
- Mike Oldfield, Incantations #4

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Martin Luther King, Jr

This nation will be difficult to govern when one political party insists on creating its own reality.
~ Paul Krugman

Challenge yourself to ask for even more, not just for yourself, but for ALL of humanity.
~ Sanaya Roman



The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation of a distant memory, as if we were falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
- Carl Sagan

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Dream always of a peaceful, warless, disarmed world.
- Robert Muller

Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
~ Rumi

There is no loneliness to the clear-eyed mystic in this luminous, brimming playful world.
~ Hafiz

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
- Maya Angelou

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.~ Arabian #Proverb

It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Contrary to appearances, the Earth is in an ascending cycle, and good will triumph.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda

‎Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all.
~ Emily Dickinson

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.
- Napolean Hill

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. ~ Mother Teresa

The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have.
- Brian Koslow

At the top of the mountain, we are all snow leopards.
- Hunter S. Thompson

Dance, when you’re broken open… Dance, when you’re perfectly free.
~ Rumi

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s JOY.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

‎Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear or let go.
- Cory Booker

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mohandas Gandhi

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
Phyllis McGinley

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
David Borenstein

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace is its own reward.
Mohandas Gandhi

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
John Keble

Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell

People always make war when they say they love peace.
David Herbert Lawrence

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
Silvia Cartwright

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.
Peace Pilgrim

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
Peace Pilgrim

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
Black Kettle

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf

You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro

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Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Thoreau

If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.
- Chinese Proverb

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

Now I know what love is.
- Virgil

That’s all nonviolence is - organized love.
- Joan Baez

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
- César Chávez

If you cannot find #peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
~ Marvin Gaye

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war;but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
- Aristotle

For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Ben Franklin

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
- Thomas Carlyle

Awaken your true nature. Reach for the stars! True wisdom lies in the empty space between each thought. ~ Salerno

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
- Swami Sivananda

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
- Benjamin Franklin

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
- Irving Babbitt

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one’s level of peace of mind.
- Sydney Madwed

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas Gandhi

A people free to choose will always choose peace.
- Ronald Reagan

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Not only do we inherently possess the potential for compassion but I believe that the basic, underlying nature of human beings is gentleness.

Even our physical structure seems more suited to feelings of love and compassion. We can see how a calm, affectionate, wholesome state of mind benefits our health and physical well-being. Conversely, feelings of frustration, fear, agitation, and anger can be destructive to our health. This is why we are impelled to seek happiness.
- Dalai Lama

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
~ Maya Angelou

One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable!
~ Richard Bach

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
~ Whoopi Goldberg

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
~ Norman Vincent Peale

Optimism is positive thinking lighted up!
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you cannot find #peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
~ Marvin Gaye

“To See a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
— William Blake

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‎I’m Starting With The Man In The Mirror…I’m Asking Him To Change His Ways…And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer… If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change…
- Michael Jackson

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
~ Albert Einstein

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
~ Voltaire

The more time spent running the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peaceful our planet will be.
~ Taylor

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
~ Naguib Mahfouz