"Ones mission on Earth should be to recognize the void,
inside and out side of oneself, and fill it."
Anonymous 

"A wicked man who reproaches a virtuous one
is like one who looks up spits at heaven;
the spittle soils not the heaven, but
comes back and defiles his own person."
S. Gautama

"Love is leadership."
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"The word 'judicious' means requiring judgment,
and judgment requires more than instinct,
it requires thoughtful and often painful decision making."

"Love is not simply giving;
it is 'judicious' giving and
judicious withholding as well.
It is judicious praising
and judicious criticizing.
It is judicious arguing, struggling,
confronting, urging, pushing, and
pulling in addition to comforting."
M. S. Peck

"...a good marriage can exist only between
two strong and independent people."
M. S. Peck

"The way I see it, every life is a
pile of good things and bad things.
The good things
don't always soften the bad things.
But, vice versa - the bad things
don't necessarily
spoil the good things
or make them unimportant."
Vincent and the Doctor - The Doctor
Doctor Who

"...our use of the word 'Love' is
so generalized and unspecific
as to severely interfere with
our understanding of love."
M. S. Peck

"No matter how dedicated we are to spiritual development,
we also need rest and relaxation, exercise and distraction.
Saints must sleep and even profits must play."
M.S. Peck

"Two people love each other
only when they are quite capable
of living without each other."
M. S. Peck

"...without love
there could be no
true Personhood."
L. Buscaglia

"...strive to become
the friendly coworker
of both man and nature."
L. Buscaglia

"Having the courage to say
you do not know the answer
to a question is perhaps the
beginning of Wisdom."
Jon Meacham

"I do know this:
Do not enter with defeat in your heart,
for that will be the first victory of evil."
M. Weis and T. Hickman

"The ancients who wished to show
their fine characters to the world
would first bring order to the states.
Those who wished to bring order to their
states would first regulate their households.
Those who wished to regulate their households
would first cultivate their personhood."
Confucius

"...without love there (can) could be no true personhood."
L. Buscaglia

"There's a lot of talk about marching to the beat of your own drummer and singing your own tune but if we all truly did this there would only be a collision of sound - a cacophony of noise.

So, yes, by all means, find and sing your own tune, but also find a way to have that tune harmonize with the music the rest of the world is playing."
M. Alibrando

"Every orchestra must have a conductor.
Every choir must have a director."
M. Alibrando

"Love always brings difficulties, that is true,
but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
V. Van Gogh

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystery."
A. Einstein

"...fragmentation...   ...causes weakness and impotence."

"...the opposite of fragmentation is universal oneness, acceptance and love."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Have the courage to be yourself."

"Be an active part of the world in which you live."

"Discover your part in the world and be that part."

"Harmonize with the world."

Me misquoting/summarizing Confucius

"Reject violence, oppression and power."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Egotism is...   ...the root of all disharmony -
and thus the main causal factor of human suffering."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Man has come to control all other forms of life
because he has taken more time in which to grow up;
when he takes still more time,
and spends this time more wisely,
he may learn to control and remake himself."
W. Durant

"...Serve the world..."
M. S. Peck
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"...the spiritually evolved individual is..."
"...an extraordinarily loving individual,
and with his of her extraordinary love
comes extraordinary joy."
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"...once suffering is completely accepted,
it ceases in a sense, to be suffering."
M. S. Peck

"...we must give up cherished notions..."
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"...as we negotiate the curves and corners of our lives,
we must continually give up parts of ourselves."
M. S. Peck

"...the loss of balance is ultimately more painful
than the giving up required to maintain balance."
M. S. Peck

"Balancing is a discipline
precisely because the act of
giving something up is painful."
M. S. Peck

"The essence of this
discipline of balancing is
'giving up.' "
M. S. Peck