"One of the great blessings
of getting older is realizing,
without shame and remorse,
what an idiot you've been
at earlier stages of your life.
I can think of nothing that
breeds humility better than
this on-going epiphany.
C. M. Levine

"Nothing breeds humility better
than an on-going epiphany."
Me re-writing C. M. Levine

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms
you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."
E. Kubler-Ross

"People are like stained - glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in, their true
beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
E. Kubler-Ross

"Mankind's greatest gift,
also its greatest curse,
is that we have free choice.
We can make our choices
built from love or from fear."
E. Kubler-Ross

"Our deeds determine us,
as much as
we determine our deeds."
G. Eliot

"Cruelty, like every other vice,
requires no motive outside of itself;
it only requires opportunity.
G. Eliot

"When death, the great reconciler, has come,
it is never our tenderness that we repent of,
but our severity.
G. Eliot

"Heroes are those who can
somehow resist the power
of the situation and
act out of noble motives,
or behave in ways that
 do not demean others
when they easily can.
P. Zimbardo

"Evil is knowing better,
but willingly doing worse."
P. Zimbardo

"Freeing yourself was one thing;
claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
T. Morrison

"All water has a perfect memory and is
forever trying to get back to where it was.
T. Morrison

"If you surrendered to the air,
you could ride it."
T. Morrison

"Wear a smile and have friends:
Wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
G. Eliot

"The most important thing for poets to do
is to write as little as possible."
T. S. Eliot

"You are the music while the music lasts."
T. S. Eliot

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination,
and in the courage of those who
dare to make dreams into reality."
J. Salk

"Now, it's your turn. Jump!"
R. Bradbury

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
G. Eliot

"The best proof of love is trust."
Dr. J. Brothers

"What do we live for, if not to
make life less difficult for each other?"
G. Eliot

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us
which would have to be taken into account in
an explanation of our gusts and storms."
G. Eliot

"The world is full of hopeful analogies and
handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities." 
G. Eliot

"The important work of moving the world forward
does not wait to be done by perfect men."
G. Eliot

"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult."
G. Eliot

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."
G. Eliot

"If I am what I have
and if I lose what I have
who then am I?"
E. Fromm

"Creativity requires the courage to
let go of certainties."
E. Fromm

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us
which would have to be taken into account
in an explanation of our gusts and storms."
G. Eliot

"A writer writes.
If you want to
be a writer,
write."
R. Brett

"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
G. Eliot

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it."
M. L. King

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead,
either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."
B. Franklin