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A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
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Adam Michnik
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
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Albert Einstein
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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Albert Einstein
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
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Ann Landers
One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.
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Anonymous
Hell is a giant banquet room with tables filled with every possible good thing to eat and drink. The people are all seated at the banquet tables, but they are all starving, emaciated, skin on skeleton figures. They are chained in such a way that they can reach out and pick up the food, but the chains prevent them from bringing the food to their mouth.In the ultimate cruelty, they are dying of starvation with food in their hands.Surprisingly, the Heaven is also a giant banquet room with tables filled with all the same, wonderful, choices as before. And just as before, the people are all chained so that they can pick up the food, but can't bring it to their mouth. However, in this banquet room, the people are all healthy. They are laughing, singing and enjoying themselves. The difference? In Heaven, they have realized that although they cannot feed themselves, the chains allow them to feed each other.
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Anonymous The Paradox
The paradox of our time in history is that:we have taller buildings, cut shorter tempers;wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints;we spend more, but have less;we buy more, but enjoy it less.We have bigger houses and smaller families;more conveniences, but less time;wee have more degrees, but less sense;more knowledge, but less judgement;more experts, but more problems;more medicine, but less wellness.We have multiplied our possessions,but reduces our values.We talk too much, love too seldom, hate too often.We learned how to make a living, but not a life.We've added years to life, but not life to years.We've been all the way to the moon and back,but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.We've conquered outer space, but not inner space;we've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul;we've split the atom, but not our prejudice;we have higher incomes, but lower morals;we've become long on quantity, but short on quality.These are the times of tall men, and short charactersteep profits, and shallow relationships.These are the times of world peacebut domestic warfare;more leisure, but less fun;more kinds of food, but less nutrition.These are the days of two incomes, but more divorce;of fancier houses, but broken homes.It is a time when there is much in the show windowand nothing in the stockroom;a time when technology can bring this letter to you,and a time when you can chooseeither to make a difference--or just hit delete.
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Anthony de Mello
These things will destroy the human race:politics without principle,progress without compassion,wealth without work,learning without silence,religion without fearlessnessand worship without awareness.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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Author Unknown
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
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Barry Switzer
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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Bern Williams
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
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Bernard Baily
When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
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