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Work to Become, Not to Acquire.
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order;
to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to
put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we
must first set our hearts right.
-- Confucius
Govern a country Like you cook a fish. Do not overdo it.
-- Lao Tsu
All men dream; but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds
Awake to find that it was in vanity;
But the dreamers of day are dangerous men.
That they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.
-- T.E. Lawrence
Without skill, one cannot even get a louse.
-- Russian Proverb
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,
foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation
that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an
open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
-- JFK
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's
goodness and righteousness.
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the
equivalent of what he takes out of it.
-- Einstein
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we
are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is
only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to
step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer
answers.
-- M. Scott Peck
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as
soon as his first excitement dwindles.
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both
hands at sections of time.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for
pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
-- Annie Dillard
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.
-- Bertrand Russell
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