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Quotations for Today/This Week/Whatever… [Jan. 17/11.]
“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO what a ride!” ~ Source unknown
“I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed along from hundreds of years ago we call culture. The information passed along from decades ago we call family, and the information offered months ago we call education. But it is all information that flows through us. The brain is adapted to the river of knowledge and exists only as a creature in that river. Our thoughts are profoundly molded by this long historic flow, and none of us exists, self-made, in isolation from it.” ~ David Brooks
“The single most important contribution any of us can make to the planet is a return to frugality.” – Robert Muller, former Assis. Secr.-General of the UN
“The saving of the world from impending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of the non-conforming minority.” – Martin Luther King
“The return from your work must be the satisfaction that work brings you and the world’s need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get.” – W.E.B. DuBois
“If we want ‘sustainability,’ we too need to start with an inner change like Gandhi did, like Nelson Mandela did, like Martin Luther King did, and we should be able to say and demonstrate that ‘My Life is a Message.’ – Kamla Chowdry, Vikram Sarabhai Foundation, Earth Charter Commissioner
“The future belongs to the people who believe in their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The plundering of the earth without regard for what will be left in a few decades cannot be effectively confronted except through a moral effort; that is, through a transformation of the spirit and the human relationship with life and the world.” – Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” – Thomas Jefferson
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity.” – Marshall McLuhan
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.” – W.C. Fields
“Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.” – Sharon Salzberg
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: to reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Hoard each joyous moment that comes to you.
No one knows how it will all end.”
– Háfiz