"Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood."
M. Curie

School of Thought may not be a "How to,"
though it may be a "How about."
M. Alibrando

"Love can benefit from serious
study, analisis and learing."
L. Buscaglia

"...having the capacity to love
is not the same as
having the ability to love."
Me short quoting L. Buscaglia

"...accept that love is a choice."
Me short quoting L. Buscaglia

"It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice."
L. Buscaglia 

"..secure in my armor of optimism
I face the world as a lover."
Me short-quoting L. Buscaglia

"If I don't have time to live
my life well the first time,
when am I going to find
the time to go back and
live it over."
R. Fulghum

"Hope and faith must
be active words."
R. Fulghum

"To love something
and to posses it
are not the same thing."
R. Fulghum

"There will always be a moving space between us -
an untraversable distance to be treated with respect."
R. Fulghum

"Nothing special."
R. Fulghum completely out of context

"The quality of the trip
depends a great deal upon
what I can live without."
R. Fulghum

"...it seemed wise to make tomorrow a better day.
Experience tells me that I can do that."
Me short quoting R. Fulghum

"The world stood out before me -
infinite in every direction."
R. Fulghum

"The wisest may err."
A. C. Grayling

"Love truth, but pardon error."
A. C. Grayling

"Honest errort is to be pitied, not ridiculed."
A. C. Grayling

"Error can only be defended by error."
A. C. Grayling

"No one is made richer by envy."
A. C. Grayling

"Envy does not enter an empty house."
A. C. Grayling

"Only the ignorant despise education."
A. C. Grayling

"Even from a foe one may learn wisdom."
A. C. Grayling

"Only the educated are free."
A. C. Grayling

"The secret to education lies in respecting the student."
A. C. Grayling

"Better build schoolrooms for the child
than prisons for the adult."
A. C. Grayling 

"Well, you not the only one!"
R. Fulghum recalling a sign

"As always, it is how one perceives the door
that determines the coming and going.
There are two journeys one must make to
have balance - OUT there and IN here.
One depends upon the other.
Every exit is an entrance.
The door swings both ways.
The only way out is always in.
To move on in the world as it is,
one must turn to resources within."
R. Fulghum

"Please note - The only way OUT is IN."
R. Fulghum

"Please accept your change -
take it with you."
R. Fulghum

"You are not alone."
M. Alibrando

"Who eats too much
does not know
how to eat."
A. C. Grayling

"Eat enough, and it will make you wise."
A. C. Grayling

"Let drunkards alone and
they will fall by themselves."
A. C. Grayling

"All men of action are dreamers."
A. C. Grayling

"The wise are prone to doubt."
A. C. Grayling

"Who doubts nothing knows nothing."
A. C. Grayling

"An honest person can never surrender an honest doubt."
A. C. Grayling

"The beginning of health is to know the disease."
A. C. Grayling

"There is no curing the sick who believe themselves well."
A. C. Grayling

"Sickness is felt,
health not at all."
A. C. Grayling

"It is difficulties that show what men are."
A. C. Grayling

"Give and it shall be given unto you,
since the gifts go around and back again."
R. Fulghum

"Once you know where
the roller coaster is going,
are you still in for the ride?"
R. Fulghum

"Once you get a handle on the infinite cycle of
the restless existence of all things,
do you despair or do you willingly
take your place in the circle?"
R. Fulghum

"Does enlightenment lead to
sorrowful disengagement or
willing participation?"
R. Fulghum

"Only after nonsense is cleared away,
may we build the rest of our knowledge."
M. Alibrando

"We are all creatures
that give off light
even though our eyes
are not equipped
to see that light."
M. Alibrando

"We hate delay, yet it makes us wise."
A. C. Grayling

"Delay is better than disaster."
A. C. Grayling

"Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise."
A. C. Grayling

"Chance is always on the side of the prudent."
A. C. Grayling

"All are the children of their works."
A. C. Grayling

"Living requires less life than doing."
A. C. Grayling

"We live in deeds, not years."
A. C. Grayling

"We know better than we do."
A. C. Grayling

"Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts."
A. C. Grayling

"The easiest person to deceive is oneself."
A. C. Grayling

"Never spend money before you have it."
A. C. Grayling

"Death reveals truth."
A. C. Grayling

"We weep when we are born,
not when we die."
A. C. Grayling

"Those who forget good and evil and
seek only to know the facts
are more likely to achieve good than
those who view the world through the
distorting medium of their own desires."
B. Russell

"To live in the hearts
we leave behind
is not to die."
A. C. Grayling

"Who fears deaths lives not."
A. C. Grayling

"They that would
sail without danger
will never go to sea."
A. C. Grayling

"The wise see necessity of things,and by
this they free themselves from distress."
A. C. Grayling

"Fire may be a no-no to seven-year-olds,
but is it Yes-Yes to life."
R. Fulghum

"Life is - and we are - by products of combustion.
Imagination turned to form and finally, memory."
R. Fulghum

"In love the paradox occurs
that two beings become one
and yet remain two."
Erich Fromm

"Man is the only animal for whom his own
existence is a problem which he has to solve."
Erich Fromm

"One may be humble out of pride."
M. de Montaigne

"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
M. de Montaigne

"The meditation of the wise man is
meditation of life, not on death."
A. C. Grayling

"The weather of love comes and goes,
and we must let it.
It is a required condition of loving someone
and being loved back."
R. Fulghum

'So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe:
knowing where you came from is no less important than
knowing where you are going."
N. deGrasse Tyson

"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies:
know more today about the world than I knew yesterday
and lessen the suffering of others.
You'd be surprised how far that gets you."
N. deGrasse Tyson

"The world is full of magical things
patiently waiting
for our wits to grow sharper."
B. Russell

"The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain
of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
Bertrand Russell

"Having doubts often lead us to higher truths."
M. Alibrando

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

"Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance."
G. B. Shaw

"We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing."
G. B. Shaw

"A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself."
M. de Montaigne

"Freedom comes with the responsibilities of self-governance."
M. Alibrando

"It is easy to keep a castle that was never assaulted."
A. C. Grayling

"I have never seen a greater
monster or miracle in the world
than myself."
M. de Montaigne

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
M. de Montaigne

"I quote others only in order
the better to express myself."
M. de Montaigne

"As soon as there is life  there is danger."
A. C. Grayling

"I admire the capacity for self healing
beyond all accidents and assaults."
Me misquoting R. Fulghum

"Courtesy cost nothing."
A. C. Grayling

"It is easier to use a weapon than show courage."
A. C. Grayling

"Those who are content
can never be ruined."
A. C. Grayling

"A clear consience bears any trouble."
A. C. Grayling

"An evil deed has a witness in the bosom."
A. C. Grayling

"Confidence is a plant of slow growth."
A. C. Grayling

"To be full of oneself is to be empty."
A. C. Grayling

"No road is long in good company."
A. C. Grayling

"Children have more need of examples than criticism."
A. C. Grayling

"Do good, and ask not for whom."
A. C. Grayling

"Better to give one than promise two."
A. C. Grayling

"To badcharacter good doctrine avails nothing."
A. C. Grayling

"Trust more in charater than promises."
A. C. Grayling

"Charater is the result of conduct."
A. C. Grayling

"Character is what you are in the dark."
A. C. Grayling

"There is much unmapped territory within us."
A. C. Grayling

"Character is esier kept than recovered."
A. C. Grayling

"There is no ultimate destination -
no finish line to cross,
no final conclusion to be reached.
It's the way I feel about dancing -
you move around a lot,
not to get somewhere,
but to be somewhere in time."
R. Fulghum

"Ill ware is never cheap."
A. C. Grayling

"My trade and my art is living."
M. E. de Montaigne

"It might well be said of me that
here I have merely made up a bunch
of other men's flower,  and have
brought nothing but the string
that ties them together in a bunch,
which I gladly offer you."
M. E. de Montaigne

"Sort through your life as truthfully as possible."
M. Alibrando

"If you notice phrases, ideas, and
anecdotes that closely resemble those
that appear elsewhere in any writing,
It's not a matter of sloppy editing, 
I'm repeating myself.
I'm reshuffling words in the hope that
just once I may say something exactly right."
R. Fulghum

"Work-in-progress on a life-in-progress
is what my writing is about.
And some progress in the work
is enough to keep it going."
R. Fulghum

"They are not well bred
that cannot abid
ill breeding in others"
A. C. Grayling 

"Nothing happens until
the pain of staying the same
outweighs the pain of change."
A. Burt

"Change happens when the pain of
holding on becomes greater
than the fear of letting go."
S. Johnson

"Word by word the great books are written."
A. C. Grayling

"The books that help most are those
that prompt the most thought."
A. C. Grayling

"Books give no wisdom where
there was not wisdom before."
A. C. Grayling

"Books are ships that traverse the seas of time."
A. C. Grayling

"Something is learned every time a book is opened."
A. C. Grayling

"Boldness leads to the highest or to the lowest."
A. C. Grayling

"Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity."
A. C. Grayling

"A pebble and a diamond are alike to the blind."
A. C. Grayling

"There is no ultimate destination -
no finish line to cross,
no final conclusion to be reached.
It's the way I feel about dancing -
you move around a lot,
not to get somewhere,
but to be somewhere in time."
R. Fulghum

"One thing leads to another,
there's a pausing now and then,
and the end of a conversation
isn't always directly
connected to the beginning."
R. Fulghum

"The sky is no less blue because the blind cannot see it."
A. C. Grayling

"Intuition whispers true:
we're not dust,
we're magic."
R. Bach

"I believe in both show and tell."
R. Fulghum

"No one is born with an axe in hand."
A. C. Grayling

"Write injuries in dust,
benefits in marble."
A. C. Grayling

"Things are always at there best at the beginning."
A. C. Grayling

"All glory comes from daring to begin."
A. C. Grayling

"The shortest answer is doing."
A. C. Grayling

"Change happens."
M. Alibrando

"At first everything is difficult."
A. C. Grayling

"Avarice and happiness
do not share a home."
A. C. Grayling

"Seek appetite by toil."
A. C. Grayling

"I'm not often aware
that I am happy.
But I often remember that
I have been happy."
R. Fulghum

""Manuals have their uses...
but they are not to
be confused with the living."
R. Fulghum 

"The recipes in the cookbooks
and the meals we really eat
are not the same thing."
R. Fulghum

"What defines you is not what you do,
but what would you do."
A. C. Grayling

"One is complete only if
one desires to be more."
A. C. Grayling

"An artist is a dreamer who dreams reality."
A. C. Grayling

"Every artist was first an amateur."
A. C. Grayling

"Nothing can come from the artist
that is not in the human being."
A. C. Grayling

"Great artist are simplifiers."
A. C. Grayling

"Art strives for form,
and hope for beauty
or truth; or both."
A. C. Grayling

"A quarrel is fought with noise or fist,
an argument with logic."
A. C. Grayling 

"Seek appetite by toil."
A. C. Grayling 

"Anger blinds the eye to truth."
A. C. Grayling

"Anger is never without a reason,
but selmon has a good one."
A. C. Grayling

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer
to the problem of human existence."
E. Fromm

"The remedy for anger is delay."
A. C. Grayling

"Adversity flatters no one,
it tries virtue and tests courage."
A. C. Grayling

"There is no education like adversity."
A. C. Grayling

"Adversity is the first path to truth."
A. C. Grayling

"Actions need no trumpet."
A. C. Grayling

"Action is the proper fruit of knowledge."
A. C. Grayling

"Experience is our first guide;
how much better we fare when
we recall examples of our
ancestors and their deeds."
A. C. Grayling

"Today is the tomorrow I was so worried about yesterday."
A. Hopkins

"The fear that hampers life is the fear of loss,
especially the ultimate loss that is death."
A. C. Grayling

"Every moment is pregnant with
the next moment in your life."
J. Carrey

"Wisdom teaches
what is worthwhile
and what is illusory."
A. C. Grayling

"The first step of a good life is to
seek wisdom and give up fear."
A. C. Grayling

"Alas, there is inded suffering,
frailty and malice,
and there are ill chances that
bring or worsen all three.
And yet still,
the good is possible."
A. C. Grayling

"A fool's brain digests
philosophy into folly,
science into superstition,
and art into pedantry.
Hence a University education."
G. B. Shaw

"Only the person
who has faith in himself
is able to be faithful to others."
E. Fromm

"Silence is a safeguard around wisdom,
and attentiveness is its gateway."
A. C. Grayling

"The older we get,
the more experience
and knowledge we have,
the more able we are to
distinguish momentary
difficulty from serious trouble."
R. Fulghum

"...the simplest thing are most often the truest..."
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"Sharing wisdom and knowledge
only increases its potency."
M. Alibrando

"What do you know that I do not?
What do I know that you do not?
Let us each be both a student and
a teacher for the other."
M. Alibrando

"If I sleep well,
the tasks of another day
will go well."
R. Fulghum

"This day was full -
tomorrow's work is
for tomorrow."
R. Fulghum

"Letting go is not easy - ..."
Me short-quoting R. Fulghum

"...somehow, sometimes,
things are just as they should be."
Me short-quoting R. Fulghum

"Compromise is an honorable word."
J. Dingell

""I will die,
and that's okay."
M. Alibrando

"...see all there is to see."
Me short-quoting R. Fulghum

"May you find all your tickets
and arrive wherever it is
you may want to go,
now and always."
R. Fulghum

"Life doesn't limit our freedom to believe in limits."
R. Bach

"What do they know that I don't?"
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"It's not fun to know what happens next.
I like chess even when I know it's a game.
I like spacetime even though it isn't real."
R. Bach

"Remember: There is not one correct way
to teach all children, but there is a correct way
to teach each child: one at a time."
G. H. Reavis

"Why this way and not that way?
R. Bach

"I wish you patience and skill."
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"Love is that important."
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"When we put up with any situation
that we don't have to put up with,
it's not because we're dumb.
We put up with it because
we want the lesson that
only that situation can teach,
and we want it more
than freedom itself."
R. Bach

"And where in its course
everything goes when it ends,
either to change or cease."
A. C. Grayling

"Liberty is not licence."
A. C. Grayling 

"Laws should be servants, not masters."
A. C. Grayling

"Agree, for the law is costly."
A. C. Grayling

"Fear not the law.
but the judge."
A. C. Grayling

"Hope is a bad guide,
but good company
on the way."
A. C. Grayling

"Praise the bridge that carried you over."
A. C. Grayling

"The cure for grief is action."
A. C. Grayling

"Hate and mistrust are born of blindness."
A. C. Grayling

"Good people are a public good."
A. C. Grayling

"Genius can only breath in the air of liberty."
A. C. Grayling

"Honest people fear neither light nor dark."
A. C. Grayling

"Green wood makes a hot fire."

"Youth is the fever of reason."
A. C. Grayling

"Alternate lives are landscapes
reflected in window-glass...
they're as real as our daily lives,
but not so clearly seen."
R. Bach

"I say the pulpit should stand for wings.
Not angle wings or eagle wings
or anyother you've ever seen.
Wings of the holy human spirit -
wing that lift heart and mind to high places.
Wings for all the Babblingers in our midst
who will see them and leave inspired to
try again and again to stretch human possibility."
R. Fulghum

"Look! Look and be not ashamed,
man was meant to fly."
R. Fulghum to Hans Babblinger

"With nonsense cleared away
true knowledge may be revealed."
M. Alibrando

"The universe may have a purpose,
but nothing we know suggests that, if so,
this purpose has any similarity to ours."
B. Russell

"The demand for certainty
is one which is natural to man,
but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
B. Russell

"A wise man proportions his
belief to the evidence."
D. Hume

"We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it."
A. Lincoln

"...all human interactions
are opportunities
either to learn or to teach."
Me short-quoting M. S. Peck

"You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean."
Me short-quoting M. Schwartz

"The teaching goes on."
M. Albom

"In business, people negotiate to win.
Love is different.
Love is when you are as concerned
about someone else's situation as
you are your own."
M. Schwartz

"There is no formula to relationships.
They have to be negotiated in loving ways,
with room for both parties,
what they want and what they need,
what they can do and what their life is like."
M. Schwartz

"Why this way and not that way?"
R. Bach

"Once you get your fingers on
the important questions,
you can't turn you back on them."
M. Schwartz

"Even the tiniest mirror may
shine light into the darkest corner."
M. Alibrando

"Make peace with the living."
M. Schwartz

"Not quite yet, but I am getting there."
M. Alibrando, the best answer to the best questions.

"Perfection in an average day is the whole point."
M. Alibrando

"Rules define life in games,
and unconditional
love doesn't recognize rules."
R. Bach

"All we see of someone
at any moment is
a snapshot of their life,
there in riches or poverty,
in joy or dispair.
Snapshots don't show
the millions of decisions
that led to that moment."
R. Bach

"I am a fragment of a mirror
whose whole design and shape
I do not know.
Never the less, with what I have
I can reflect light into the dark places
of this world -
into the black places in the heart of men -
and change some things in some people.
Perhaps others may see this and do likewise.
This is what I am about.
This is the meaning of life."
Alexander Papaderos via R. Fulghum

""Why am I here?
Where am I going?
What must I do?
What will become of me?"
R. Fulghum re-asking four ancient Greek questions

"It's a slow process,
changing principles,
and we don't know
they've changed until
something that used to be right
just doesn't feel that way anymore."
R. Bach

"What you do and how it works out -
that's what counts."
R. Fulghum

"Acts, not words, are the ties that bind."
R. Fulghum

"He who is not courageous enough to
take risks
will accomplish nothing in life."
M. Ali

"..comfort doesn't come from change."
Me short-quoting A. Goertz

"Make peace.
You need to make peace with yourself
and everyone around you."
M. Schwartz

"Forgive yourself before you die.
Then forgive others."
M. Schwartz

"The Good - I know it when I see it."
M. Alibrando

"...remember we're different, and let it go."
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"Sometimes forgetting that we're different drives us crazy."
R. Bach

"...inner guidence doesn't come to adults only.
We experience what we bring to ourselves
no matter what age."
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"How I've always pleasured when
a few words carry so much freight!"
R. Bach

"I'm sorting my life this minute
to give you free the best I know,
earned at the price of all my days.
You're infinitely intelligent.
If you don't understand them now,
I expect you to figure them out later,
on your own time."
R. Bach

"Be compassionate.
And take responsibility for each other.
If we only learned those lessons,
this world would be so much better a place."

"Love each other or die."
M. Schwartz

"Don't let go too soon,
but don't hang on too long."
M. Schwartz

"What's wrong with being number two?"
M. Schwartz

"Sitting still is essential to the journey."
The River Runner's Maxim

"The River-Runner's Maxim, taught to me
when I was learning white-water canoeing
from friend Baz, a maximum pro:
"Sitting still is essential to the journey." 
When heading off downriver,
pull over to the bank from time to time
and sit quietly and look at the river and think
about where you've been and
where you're going and why and how."
R. Fulghum

"...carry water with you
and tend to grass
where ever you may be."
Me short-quoting R. Fulghum 

"The grass is always greener where it's watered."
R. Fulghum

"If one remains on a journey of spiritual growth,
ones capacity for love grows and grows."
M. S. Peck

"...the journey is a long one and requires
time for your capacity to grow."
Me short-quoting M. S. Peck

"Count up the number of places
you have lived so far in your life."
R. Fulghum

"...all human interactions are opportunities
either to learn or to teach."
Me short-quoting M. S. Peck

"Efforts and courage are not enough
without purpose and direction."
J. F. Kennedy

"...change my perception,
or, failing that,
ignore my perception.
Me short-quoting Chuck Lorre

"...relinquish all childish expectations and live joyfully in the world as it is --
not as I wish or imagine it to be..."
Me short-quoting Chuck Lorre

"Next time you are crying,
try to remember
the last time you were laughing."
M. Alibrando

"Invest in the human family.
Invest in people."
M. Schwartz

"We all have the same beginning - birth -
and we all have the same end - death.
so how different can we be."
M. Schwartz

"If we saw each other as more alike,
we might be very eager to
join in one big human family
in this world and care about that family
the way we care about our own."
M. Schwartz

"Look, no matter where you live,
the biggest defect we humans have
is our shortsightedness.
We don't see what we could be."
M. Schwartz

"Love each other or perish."
M. Schwartz

"The best things are worth repeating."
M. Alibrando

"What I know about real life suggest
those are not unreasonable answers to
the and-then-what-happened questions."
R. Fulghum

"I am in tune with the universe.
It feels like home."
R. Fulghum

"...my beliefs are my responsibility,  not yours."
R. Bach

"If it is never our fault,
we can't take responsibility for it.
If we can't take responsibility for it,
we'll always be it's victim."
R. Bach

"The right word may be effective,
but no word was ever as effective
as a rightly timed pause."
M. Twain

"If you want to grow as a person,
prove that you understand
the power of silence."
M. Alibrando

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
M. Twain

"We paint a perfect unique digital portrait of who we shall be,
each yes every no is one more tiny dot of our picture.
The more decisive we are, the clearer our painting."
R. Bach

"Happiness is the reward we get
for living the highest right we know."
R. Bach

"We know nothing until intuition agrees."
R. Bach

"When in doubt,
trust those you love -
all of them."
R. Fulghum

"When you pull a propeller through compression,
don't be surprised if the engine starts."
R. Bach

"Love is more powerful than prejudice."
Me Short-quoting R. Fulghum

"More than anything in this life,
we hope for happy endings."
R. Fulghum

"Try to laugh as often as you cry."
M. Alibrando

"Sometimes people have to find out things for themselves."
R. Fulghum

"Avoid problems, and you'll never
be the one who overcame them."
Leslie Parish via R. Bach

"Sometimes people have to
find out things for themselves."
R. Funghum

"These are my principles.
If you don’t like them I have others."
G. Marx

"I would never die for my beliefs
because I might be wrong."
B. Russell

"What we take, we must replenish."
M Schwartz via M. Album

"Anger is an acid that
can do more harm
to the vessel in which
it is stored than to
anything on which
it is poured."
M. Twain

"Remember that this world is not reality. It’s a playground
of appearances on which we practice overcoming
seems-to-be with our knowing of Is. The Principle of Coincidence
is a power tool that promises, in this playground, to
 take us to the other side of our wall."
R. Bach

"The Truth of Being and Nothing is
accordingly the unity of the two;
and this unity is becoming."
G. W. F. Hegel

"Being and nothing are the abstract poles
between which the concrete world
makes its appearance."
J. Marmysz

"For whether I am awake or a sleep,
two plus three makes five, and
a square does not have more than four sides."
R. Decartes

"Look at the world.
Describe it the way
you honestly see it."
M. Alibrando

"A man is never more truthful
than when he acknowledges
himself a liar."
M. Twain

"Every real teacher is myself in disguise."
R. Bach

"You have to show up..."
R. Bach

"It's a game."

"Sometimes, on rare occasions,
what everybody says
happens to be true."
R. Bach

"Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish
by its ability to climb a tree,
it will spend its whole life
thinking it is stupid."
A. Einstein

"We reap what we sow, of course.
Take care which seeds we plant,
for the fruit of those seeds will
one day become our dinner..."
R. Bach

"A seven-ten split is not a disaster,
it's a pleasure,
it's a chance to show our discipline and
skill and grace under pressure,
and those who watch are as
delighted as we are when we bring it off."
R. Bach

"Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion."
R. Bach

"We build our personal world
calm or wild
according to what we want to live.
We can weave utter
peace in the midst of chaos.
We can destroy in the midst of paradise.
Depends on how we shap our spirit."
R. Bach

"We are all connected;
To each other, biologically.
To the earth, chemically.
To the rest of the universe atomically."
N. deGrasse Tyson

"All things in moderation,
even in moderation."
M. Alibrando

"All generalizations are false,
including this one."
M. Twain

"At some point in our lives we may feel the need for a security blanket.
And later we may find that we lost that blanket and begin to search for it.
Someone might even join us in our search.
And when we finally find the blanket again,
we may discover it was not the blanket that we were truly searching for.
What we really want is someone to be with us in our search for security."
M. Alibrando

"When it comes to joy and celebration,
let it be expansive, always."
R. Fulghum

"Few things are harder to put up with than
the annoyance of a good example."
M. Twain

"There's no hope that
the way things were
yesterday is the way
they're going to
stay tomorrow."
R. Bach

"...Love is how you stay alive."
M. Schwartz via M. Album

"The mildest suggestion of change is
a death-threat to some status quo."
R Bach

"Don't tell me that my security
comes from somebody else!
Tell me I'm responsible."
R, Bach

"Every step in every proud life is a run from safety into dark,
and the only thing to trust is what we think is true."
R. Bach

",,,somewhere within
we must dimly know that
saying good-bye to safety brings
the only security we'll ever know."
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"The fun is not getting into trouble,
it's getting out."
R. Bach

"Our hearts are full of cosmic laws.
Learn just a few, get good at those,
there's nothing can stand between you
and the person you want to become."
R. Bach

"The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons."
E. P. Hubble

"All history is a history of traveling toward and expanding our horizons."
M. Alibrando

"Shop for security over happiness
and we buy it at that price."
R. Bach

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
M. Twain

"We like remembering what we already know."
R. Bach

"We like learning new things."
R. Bach

"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."
Danny Kaye

"How can we learn unless we practice."
R. Bach

"Why quit when we can change the world?"
R. Bach

"No body's destroyed more completely
than a child's grown up..."
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"Silence is a source of Great Strength."
Lao Tzu

"Never miss a good chance to shut up."
W. Rogers

"It is tact that is golden,
not silence.
S. Butler

"Laws control the lesser man...
Right conduct controls the greater one."
M. Twain

"Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone,
you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live."
M. Twain

"Like attracts like.
It'll surprise you
as long as you live."
R. Bach

"To feel love, give love."
C. Lorre

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it."
D. Kaye

"...love of wisdom will
motivate deep thinkers
to pose new questions, 
propose new solutions,
offer new speculations
about the mysteries
that continue to distress
and make us wonder."
Me short-quoting J. Marmysz

"When people are smiling
they are most receptive to
almost anything you want to
teach them."
A. Funt

"...the world still retains endless mysteries to
challenge and frustrate our understanding."
Me short-quoting J. Marmesz

"The final forming of
a person's character
lies in their own hands."
A. Frank

"...if you care what your last words will be,
you trust what you know and you
dare towards your hope."
Me short-quoting R. Bach

""Do I have to risk my life?"
R. Bach

"With every choice you risk
the life you would have had;
with every decision you lode it."
R. Bach

"Simply mimicking and repeating the ideas of one's teacher is not true philosophy;
developing new thoughts and challenges to old orthodoxies is."
J . Marmysz

"Those who take part in philosophical investigation are not shy about
moving in new directions and exploring new ways of thinking."
J. Marmysz

"We don't have rights until we claim them."
R. Bach

"A man who lives right, and is right,
has more power in his silence
than another has by his words."
P. Brooks

"If you want to grow as a person,
prove that you understand
the power of silence."
M. Alibrando

"Naming what's beyond seems to help
accommodate that which cannot be understood."
R. Fulghum

"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct
species of men, the good and the bad.
But the greatest part of mankind
float betwixt vice and virtue."
D. Hume

"The line between good and evil,
hope and despair,
does not divide the world
between 'us and them.'
It runs down the middle of every one of us."
R. Fulghum

"If you live your life as
others expect you to,
don't be surprised
if you die of boredom."
M. Alibrando

"...when did safety become your ambition?
Running from safety is the only way to
make your last word - Yes!"
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"...entertain 'new ways' of conceiving the world."
J. Marmysz

"We cannot understand
those things with which
we have no experience."
J. Marmysz

"Little choices,
little adventures
before big ones."
R. Bach

"The good life is one
inspired by love and
guided by knowledge."
B. Russell

"We call this place Earth,
but it's real name is Change."
R. Bach

"Philosophy begins in wonder, no doubt,
but it is nourished and preserved by the
distressing though that our answers
fall short of the complete truth."
J. Marmysz

"Beauty in things exists in the
mind which contemplates them."
D. Hume

"How should we, as incomplete and
ignorant beings, live in this world?"
J. Marmysz restating Socrates

"Hegel was right when he said that
we learn from history that
man can never learn anything from history.
G. B. Shaw

"Genuine tragedies in the world are not
conflicts between right and wrong.
They are conflicts between two rights."
G.Hegel

"...lovingly accept a world that infrequently lives up to my expectations.
Me short-quoting C. Lorre

"All philosophers possess the desire to know."

"What else is required by philosophy?"
J. Marmysz

"...nothing that partcipates in the world is yet fully actualized..."

"...all things in this world remain in perpetual transition."
Me short-quoting J. Marmysz

"Truth in philosophy means that
concept and external reality correspond."
G.Hegel

"Most people would
prefer to remain ignorant
of the truth and continue to
find comfort in their
familiar illusions."
J. Marmysz

"The idea of any number is unique,
there is no other idea like it in existence."
R. Bach

"What's scary about choice?"
R. Bach

"I would never die for my beliefs
because I might be wrong."
B. Russell

"Take care of the little things,
the big thing tend to
take care of themselves."
My Mother

"Do not distress over
what you do not control."
M. Alibrando

"The true spirit of philosophy
lies in questioning assumptions,
not in offering dogmatic answers."
J. Marmysz

"Life Is. We Are."
R. Bach

"Philosophy is more like
a quest and a process
than it is a static and final
 body of knowledge
about the world."
J. Marmysz

"How do we change?
Where does belief come from?"
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"How hard is it for people to
 understand each other
unless they all agree."
R. Bach

"I owe you information,
and an answer to your curiosity.
I do not owe you a conversion
to my way of thinking
which may all be lies."
R. Bach

"Do the meaning of the heart swim
in the streams of our conversations,
and do they matter when they're
glimpsed through deep water
and never caught?"
R. Bach

"The journey towards wisdom never ends."
M. Alibrando

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
C. Lamb

"To bring anything into your life,
imagine it's already there."
R. Bach