quotes

"Praise works with only three types of people; men, women, and children." Anonymous

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” Susan B Anthony, reformer and suffragist (1820-1906)

“Education is the best provision for old age.” Aristotle, quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosphers, book V, sec. 21 by Diogenes Laertius

“Imagination, ingenuity, and innovation all occur when the brain takes the same old data and makes new and different patterns with it.” Dawna Markova, Smart Parenting Revolution

“A different language is a different vision of life.” Federico Fellini, film director and writer (1920-1993)

“It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dusk so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.” James Douglas

“People rarely win wars; governments rarely lose them.” Arundhati Roy, writer and activist (1961- )

"There was never a Sunset that wasn't followed by a Dawn" John Keaton

“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” Tom Blandi

"The morning breeze has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep." Rumi

"The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes." William Feather

"You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it." David Allen

"Someone with a belief is never at the mercy of someone without one." Pat Mesiti

“I have a naive trust in the universe – that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.” Gary Zukav, author (1942- )

“So this is what’s left behind, these things that end up as our real inheritance -- the flotsam and jetsam of life, the stuff that drifts into our hands and into history, the chance impression, the little shadow each of us casts, the fragile thing someone carefully catalogues and cares for and then forgets or maybe doesn’t, the image of an image that conjures a memory that is either real or imagined – these are here, plucked and pressed between the pages, so they will stay fresh forever, or forever slip away.” Susan Orlean, Shadow Memory

“Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain. You hear them and they're affixed to you.” Carlos Santana

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” R. D. Laing

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana

“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.” Marcia Weider