"How many of us count fictional characters,
or those we've never met among our closest friend?

My hand's up."
R. Bach

"We all change,
when you think about it,
we're all different people,
all through our lives.

And that's okay, that's good,
you've got to keep moving,
so long as you remember
all the people you used to be."
The Doctor - Doctor Who
The Time of The Doctor

"When we have driven away
all that troubles or frightens us,
there is tranquility and freedom."
A. C. Grayling

"The first step of the good life is to seek wisdom and give up fear."

"Wisdom teaches what is worthwhile and what is illusory."

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

"Nothing is real to me unless it also exist in my dream world."
G. Roddenberry

"What would our lives be like without test,
odds against us, adventure and risk?"
R. Bach

"The best we can do is live our highest right,
gracefully as we can, and let the
principle of coincidence take it from there."
R. Bach

"If we agree that the world is not what it seems,
then we have an important question:
What shall we do about it?"
R. Bach

"Love people and love your own life."
Bo Lozoff

"When you feel you've painted yourself into a corner
and are at odds with your whole environment,
then it's time to step back and
take a simpler look once again."
B. Lozoff

"If we don't keep it reasonable and simple,
we will miss the point again and again."
Bo Lozoff

"I bow low and beg forgiveness
for any ignorance or vanity
seeping through in these pages."
Bo Lozoff

"We do not need to become religious,
nor do we need to believe in an ideology.
All that is necessary is for each of us to
develop our good qualities."
14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Grastso

"Often when you think
you're at the end of something,
you're at the beginning of something else."
F. Rogers

"Sometimes slow is better:
in understanding,
in learning to be patient,
in going deeper spiritually."
F Rogers

"When we talk about our feelings,
they become less overwhelming,
less upsetting, and less scary."
F. Rogers

"Who we are in the present includes
who we were in the past."
F. Rogers

"I feel so strongly that
deep and simple is
far more essential than
shallow and complex."
F. Rogers

"There is something of yourself
that you leave at every meeting
with another person.
F Rogers

"In the case of good books,
the point is not to see
how many you can get through,
but how many can get through to you." 
M. Adler

"If man is to survive, he will have learned to
take a delight in the essential differences
between men and between cultures.
He will learn that differences in ideas
and attitudes are a delight,
part of life's exciting variety,
not something to fear."
G. Roddenberry

"We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands.
But we can stop it.
We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today.
That's all it takes. Knowing that we're not going to kill - today!"
Star Trek: A Taste of Armageddon

"There are days when new wisdom does not come.
This is to be expected.
Those days are usually good days to
read again the wisdom you've already gathered.
Study it well.
Old wisdom often leads to newly discovered wisdom."
M. Alibrando

In every disaster,
in every blessing,
ask, "Why me?"

There's a reason,
of course,
there's an answer.
R. Bach

"An idea,
an expression of love,
can't be destroyed."
R. Bach

"Pretending to know everything,
closes the door to finding out
what's really there."
N. deGrasss Tyson

"It's okay to not know all the answers.
It's better to admit our ignorance
than to believe answers that are wrong."
N. deGrasss Tyson

"Why you and why now?
Because you asked it to be this way.
This disaster is the prayer you prayed for,
your wish come true."
R. Bach

"Nobody comes to Earth
to dodge problems,
we come to take 'em on."
R. Bach

"Whenever we think we're hurt,
we're healed in mind first."
R. Bach

"If we want to end this lifetime
higher than we began,
we can expect an uphill road."
R. Bach

"Before believing,
we choose what we want to believe,
then we test it for true."
R. Bach

"We all have our favorite philosophers and authors.
And once we read or hear a group of
ideas that ring true for us,
they stay with us,
returning to us again and again.
Like an old, favorite song that plays on the radio
just exactly when you need to hear it."
M. Alibrando

"Life, like writing, is making choices.
You can never know what might have been.
It is a drama: you're in conflict with your environment
and your environment consists of other people,
and their needs.
You consist of your needs.
And there's the stuff of drama."
R. H. Justman

"Wrong turns are as important as right turns.
More important, sometimes."
R. Bach

"Short-term comfort for long-term trouble
is not the trade you're looking for.
The easy way is not the easy way!"
R. Bach

"The answer is yes. "
R. Bach

"Just when I discovered
the meaning of life,
they changed it."
G. Carlin

"It takes courage to look inside yourself,
and even more courage to
write it for other people to see."
Star Trek DS9 - Nor the Battle to the Strong

"Being able to adabt our behavior to challenges is
as good a definition of intelligence as any I know."
N. degrass Tyson

"I chose to stop asking the questions
and live into the answers.
Then the question answer themselves."
L. Buscaglia

"Nothing that I am saying is original.
It's been said before.
The best things are worth repeating."
M. Alibrando being repetitious

"I think our heroes help define us,
help us choose the attributes we wish to have,
the qualities that may very well be within us,
are within us or we wouldn't pick
those particular people for heroes."
G. Roddenberry

"It is better to deserve honors
and not have them
than to have them
and not deserve them."
M. Twain

"I think; therefore I am."
R. Descartes

"We have to deal in a currency that's meaningful to us,
or all the success in the world won't feel good,
it won't bring happiness."
R. Bach

"When everything depends on looks,
you get lost gazing into mirrors
and you never find yourself."
R. Bach

"We need to know people who have made choices
that we can make, too, to turn us into human beings." 
R. Bach

"But everybody's an example, aren't they?
Isn't everybody a picture of what they think,
of all the decisions they've made so far?"
R. Bach

"Ideas are life giving.
We need new life
in order to evolve."
G. Roddenberry

"There are no mistakes.
The events we bring upon ourselves,
are necessary in order to learn what we need learn;
what ever steps we take,
they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."
R. Bach

"Imagination is an old soul."
R. Bach

"If you are going to
do something wrong
at least enjoy it."
L. Rosten

"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."
L. Rosten

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Confucius

"We see things as we are, not as they are."
L. Rosten

"Proverbs often contradict one another,
as any reader soon discovers.
The sagacity that advises us to
look before we leap promptly warns us that
if we hesitate we are lost;
that absence makes the heart grow fonder,
but out of sight, out of mind."
L. Rosten

"Believe that life is worth living and
your belief will help create the fact."
W. James

"Life is a dream for the wise,
a game for the fool,
a comedy for the rich,
a tragedy for the poor."
S. Aleichem

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable,
but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
G. B. Shaw

"Some choices we live not once
but a thousand times over,
remembering for the rest of our lives."
R. Bach

"Courage is the capacity to
confront what can be imagined."
L. Rosten

"In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life: it goes on."
R. Frost

"Some things are so unexpected
that no one is prepared for them."
L. Rosten

"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."
T. Morrison

"One is responsible for creating one's own soul."
Y. Fern

"Beside, you can learn a lot about a person by the questions he asks of others.
It shows what is in his mind, what kind of quest he is on."
G. Roddenberry

"There is a wonderful thing created between two people
of like minds when they communicate.
What arises between us is some kind of truth.
And it only arises because you are you and I am me."
G. Roddenberry

"Credo quid absurdum." English Translation - "I believe because it is absurd."
Q. S. F. Tertulianus

"It is a breath of life, this God thing.
It's not a thing you pray to,
it's a thing you use to
answer your own prayers.
Humanity needs God in order to
be humanity -
It's part of them."
G. Roddenberry

"God is like a leap
outside oneself -
something that has
no discernible source,
but is a source."
G. Roddenberry

"I reject religion.
I accept the notion of God."
G Roddenberry

"And I don't pretend that in
every aspect of the world
that I do know the answer.
But I don't know anyone
who knows it better than I do."
G. Roddenberry

"Mankind will reach maturity on the day it
learns to value diversity of life and ideas."
G. Roddenberry

"My imagination never fails me."
G. Roddenberry

"...we have the future not only in our hands,
but quite literally in our minds."
G. Roddenberry

"I feel an obligation to try."
G. Roddenberry

"Maybe the books are wrong."
R. Bach

"Is there nothing goes through our mind that has no meaning?"
R. Bach

"Unclouded vision ahead
requires that you
deal with what is."
G. Roddenberry

"Dogma, one learns,
is a metaphor - made literal,
for the lazy or the inept."
Me misquoting Y. Fern

"Question hold us puzzled for years,
then a storm of answers come
sudden from the unknown,
arrows from bows we've never seen."
R. Bach

"Thoughts are the only province of pure being left to us."
Y. Fern

"It's a terrible mistake
to think that the future
is somewhere off
in a distant time.
It is here is in embryo."
G. Roddenberry

"The correct use of power feeds creativity.
And the incorrect use of power destroys it."
G. Roddenberry

"It is the questions that matter."
G. Roddenberry

"We need to look at ourselves,
examine who we are and
why we take this fork in the road
and not that one."
G. Roddenberry

"So far I have found nothing that says that
humans are not supremely fascinating,
supremely successful in the broad
definition of what successful is."
G. Roddenberry

"You are free to give life meaning,
whatever meaning you want to give it."
R. Fulghum

"Drink to your thirst. It's the best indicator."
Dr. J. Verbalis

"Make a difference
about something
other than yourselves."
T. Morrison

"It will be a great day when
our schools have
all the money they need,
and our air force has to have
a bake-sale to buy a bomber."
R. Fulghum

"Part of us is always the observer,
and no matter what,
it observes.
It watches us.
It does not care if we are happy or unhappy,
it does not care if we are sick or well,
if we live or die.
Its only job is to sit there on our shoulder
and pass judgement on whether
we are worthwhile human beings."
R. Bach

'It is only when you look at
what unites humans
rather than
what divides them,
that you have some idea of
what it means to be human."
G. Roddenberry

"The emphasis of a certainty that is
not impaired by any shade of doubt."
M. Twain

"...the usual way of
the physical world is to
progress toward unity."
G. Roddenberry

"I don't create if I don't feel my own power to do so."
G. Roddenberry

"Without freedom of choice,
there is no creativity.
Without creativity,
there is no life."
Return of the Archons - Star Trek TOS

"It gets easier, the more you practice."
R. Bach

"Times in my life,
I am struck by how
important it is not to
make things to difficult
for ourselves."
R. Bach

"It's hard to find us,
it's not impossible."
R. Bach

"All I need to know is
where am I, and
what does this place mean."
R. Bach

"Your job: be quite.
Your mission: be still."
R. Bach

"You do not have to solve anything.
What is, is."
R. Bach

"My only responsibility;
is to be."
R. Bach

"To recognize ones mistakes is the
greatest progress anyone could make."
G. Roddenberry

"We are on a journey
to keep an appointment
with whatever we are."
G. Roddenberry

"To survive, you must be good.
There is such a thing as goodness.
It is the hallmark of the human race.
Believe in it."
Y. Fern speaking of G. Roddenberry,s beliefs.

"Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance."
Francis of Assisi

"The point of philosophy is to
start with something so simple
as not to seem worth stating,
and to end with something so
paradoxical that no one will
believe it."
B. Russell

"There is no shortage of
truth and wisdom
in the world today,
but there seems to be
a shortage of
people looking for
truth and wisdom."
M. Alibrando

"Everything has a reason,
and the tiniest detail is a clue."
R. Bach

"Answers, of course, solve nothing."
R. Bach

"When we wait long enough at our mailbox,
should we be surprised when the carrier appears?"
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"Just because something happens in a split second
doesn't mean it hasn't happened,
as any clay pigeon will tell you."
R. Bach

"Do our choices really change our world?"
R. Bach

"Could it be that we are all change,
reflecting each other?"
R. Bach

"Christmas is not
a date on a calendar,
but a state of mind."
R. Fulghum

"Some of the most wonderful
things have to be believed to be seen.
Like flying reindeer and angels.
Like peace on Earth,
good will, hope and joy.
Real because they can be
imagined into being."
R. Fulghum

"There is no limit to the amount of good
a man may do if he does not worry
about who gets the credit."
R. Fulghum 

"But to lose and to be a loser
are very different matters."
R. Fulghum

"Minds are like parachutes:
they function only when
they are open."
Anonymous

"Life is what is happening while
we waste precious time
pondering what life is about."
L. Buscaglia

"Since we cannot live without love,
we must rise up and try again."
L. Buscaglia

"Bear with the faults of others
as you would have them
bear with yours."
P. Brooks

"Let there be work, bread,
water and salt for all."
N. Mandela

"I learned that courage was
not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he
who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear."
N. Mandela

"A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination."
N. Mandela

"Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world."
N. Mandela

"If we are wise,
we discover that our answers come
only when we work them out for ourselves.
Others may contribute to our understanding,
but the acquiring of personal wisdom is
always an inside job."
L. Buscaglia

"The teacher who is indeed wise
does not bid you to enter
the house of his wisdom
but rather leads you
to the threshold of your mind."
Khalil Gibran

"Whether you think you can
or you think you can't,
you are right."
H. Ford

"A ship in port is safe;
but that is not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things."
G. Hopper

"Humans are allergic to change."
G. Hopper

"Not until we are lost
do we begin to
understand ourselves."
H. D. Thoreau

"Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that
it is not fish they are after."
H. D. Thoreau

"What lies behind us and
what lies ahead of us
are tiny matters compared to
what lives within us."
H. D. Thoreau

"What you get by achieving your goals
is not as important as
what you become by achieving your goals."
H. D. Thoreau

"We all have two things in common,
no matter who we are:
We were born and we are going to die."
M. Albom

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
B. Russell

"We are the change that we seek."
B. Obama

"Change will not come if we wait
for some other person
or some other time."
B. Obama

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics
or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were."
J. F. Kennedy

"We are like chameleons,
we take our hue and the
color of our moral character,
from those who are around us."
J. Locke

"A fanatic is one who
can't change his mind and
won't change the subject."
W. Churchill

"There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
L. Cohen

"If you would be loved,
be lovable."
B. Franklin

"A loving relationship gives us an inner wealth
that outlives the greatest of external pleasures."
L. Buscaglia

"People want riches;
they need fulfillment."
R. Conklin

"Things do not change; we change."
H. D. Thoreau

"The teacher who is indeed wise
does not bid you to enter
the house of his wisdom
but rather leads you
to the threshold of your mind."
K. Gibran

"A thousand words will not leave
so deep an impression as one deed."
H. Ibsen

"How many things
we held yesterday
as articles of faith
which today
we tell as fables."
M. de Montaigne

"An optimist may see a light
where there is none,
but why must a pessimist always
run to blow them out."
M. De Saint-Pierre

"One must learn not to just hope for a better world,
but to strive to make a better world happen."
M. Alibrando

"When idealism goes
into the trash
as junk mail,
we're finished."
R. Fulghum

"The world as it is needs
those who will love it
enough to change it,
with what they have,
where they are."
R. Fulghum

"If you are patient long enough,
some dreams come true
and fate will draft you."
R. Fulghum

"The writing should have a rhtyhm to it
so the reader feels he is actually
listening to the words."
G. Burns

"As you go through life,
the good things and
the bad things
have a way of balancing
themselves out."
G. Burns

"We need to get to know each other,
listen to each other and
improve our knowledge of the world around us."
Pope Francis I

"I wanted something more.
But I did not know what."
Pope Francis I

"I'm a scientist.  I'm an educator.
My goal is to get people thinking straight in the first place,
just get you to be curious about the natural world.
That's what I'm about." N. deGrasse Tyson

"The only true happiness comes from
squandering ourselves for a purpose."
W. Cooper

"How many things
we held yesterday
as articles of faith which
today we tell as fables."
M. de Montaigne

"Only by allowing ourselves to be vulnerable
do we stand a chance of succeeding in love."
L. Buscaglia

"It's not about anger - it's about peace.
It's not about power - it's about grace.
It's not about knowing your enemy -
it's about knowing yourself."
Monk With No Name: Bulletproof Monk

"Piety is not what the lessons bring to people,
it's the mistakes they bring to the lessons."
Jerome Bixby - The Man From Earth

"Bear with the faults of others
as you would have them
bear with yours."
Phillips Brooks

"Let us permit nature to have her way.
She understands her business better than we do."
M. de Montaigne

"I do not speak the minds of others
except to speak my own mind better."
M. de Montaigne

"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words!
His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."
M. Twain

"Somebody once said if you live long enough,
sooner or later everything that can happen will happen."
G. Burns

"If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it."
Mother Teresa

"It's very human to cling to what we have,
but in so doing, we destroy
the natural ebb and flow of life."
L. Buscaglia

"It is very human to cling to what we have,
but in so doing we destroy
the natural ebb and flow of life."
L. Buscaglia

"What are you holding on to?"
L. Buscaglia's Mama

"I am more important than my problems."
J. Ferrer

"Tangible works of art fade with time,
chip from walls,
and may be discredited by passion trends.
But a life of love last forever."
L. Buscaglia

"Love last as long as we draw breath."
L. Buscaglia

"In love, we may find it
better to make allowances,
rather than make points."
L. Buscaglia

"With so many spectacular colors in the world,
it's a shame to make everything black and white."
D. R. Little

"Giving in does not imply
giving up any more than
being flexible is a sign of
lack of conviction.
More often,
by being willing to give a little,
we get more than we ever dreamed."
L. Buscaglia

"Those who think they know it all
have no way of finding out that they don't."
L. Bucsaglia

"If we are wise,
we discover that our
answers come only
when we work them out
for ourselves.
Others may contribute
to our understanding,
but the acquiring of
personal wisdom is
always an inside job."
Leo Buscaglia

"There is no failure except
in no longer trying."
E. Hubbard

"Success often lies just the other side of failure."
L. Buscaglia

"As Lloyd Jones assures us,
those who try to do something
and fail are infinitely better off
than those who try to
do nothing and succeed."
L. Buscaglia

"To be unsuccessful is not the same as failure.
Our disappointment is more likely to
provide an opportunity to learn and grow."
L. Buscaglia

"When love dies,
one or both partners have neglected it,
have failed to replenish and renew it.
Like any other living thing,
love requires effort to keep it healthy."
L. Buscaglia

"We are indeed like the three proverbial blind men,
each in touch with only his particular piece of the elephant
yet each claiming to know the nature of the whole beast.
So we squabble over our different micro-cosmic world views
and all wars are holy wars."
M. S. Peck

"- We must constantly revise and extend our understanding
to include new knowledge of the larger world.
We must constantly enlarge our frame of reference."
M. S. Peck

"We suffer, I believe, from a
tendency to define
religion too narrowly."
M. S. Peck

"For what does it profit a man
to gain the whole world
and forfeit his soul?"
Bible
English Standard Version
Mark 8:36

"...when a pupil is ready,
the teacher appears."
Me short-quoting R. Fulghum

"Almost anything can be worked out
if people are of good will and
light hearts and strong values."
R. Fulghum

"There is power in keeping
your mouth shut
and your eyes open."
M. Alibrando

"But I say if you're going to be an idiot,
you might as well smile and
let people think you're enjoying it."
G. Burns

"Life is lumpy.
And a lump in the oatmeal,
a lump in the throat,
and a lump in the breast
are not the same lump.
One should learn the difference."
R. Fulghum

"...when everyone has enough to eat,
everyone will dance."
Me short-quoting R. Fulghum

"It is through our dreams that we
maintain the possibility
of a better more meaningful life."
L. Buscaglia

"You don't lose to compromise,
you find it."
Me short-quoting L. Buscaglia 

"But it is always from strength that gentleness arises."
L. Buscaglia

"Love is certainly genetically inscribed,
but it needs to be evoked,
studied, taught and practiced
if it is to have any real meaning."
L. Buscaglia

"Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success."
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