I expect to pass through life but once.
If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show,
or any good thing I can do to any fellow being,
let me do it now,
for I shall not pass this way again.
-William Penn
Returning Home With Different Eyes
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
On to the Next Branch...
The heart’s affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch, it will suffer but it does not die. It will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty space.
-Kahlil Gibran
Millions of Outwardly Expanding Ripples
Each time a man 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, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
-Robert F. Kennedy
Grind It Out
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Humility in Understanding
That man must be tremendously ignorant: he answers every question that is put to him.
-Voltaire
Idealism v. Realism
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
-John Galsworthy
Is That Not Another Ideal?
When a man forgets his ideals, he may hope for happiness, but not till then.
-John Oliver Hobbes
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