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If you think technology will solve your problems then you don't understand technology - and you don't understand your problems.

— Laurie Anderson

Anxiety changes to excitement when you smile.

— Judy Raiten

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

— Unknown

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing

— George Bernard Shaw

It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

— Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. To be born means that something which did not exist comes into existence. But the day we are born is not our beginning. It is a day of continuation....

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Always make new mistakes.

— Esther Dyson

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.

— G.K. Chesterton

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunity.

— Pogo

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.

— Wilma Mankiller

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened
about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

— Marianne Williamson

Ninety percent of life is just showing up.

— Woody Allen

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine

how good it is:
nor how valuable it is;

nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate YOU.

Keep the channel open . . .
No artist is pleased . . .

There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

— Martha Graham

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone every day.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go some place you've never been before.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

— Dalai Lama

We are praying that mankind does wake up and think about the future, for we haven't just inherited this earth from our ancestors, but we are borrowing it from our unborn children.

— Joseph Chasing Horse

I slept and dreamt that life was joy,
I awoke and saw that life was service,
I acted and behold, service was joy.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

People single me out for being an activist, but I always say that the impulse is inborn - it just needs to be nurtured. It starts when you're little, and you see some kids being unkind to another kid on the bus. Maybe you do something. Maybe you don't. But there was that little hint in your brain that something was wrong, that you weren't comfortable with the situation.

Throughout your life, you have the opportunity to learn from that experience, to react to that little voice inside of you that says something has crossed your moral bottom line, to ignore what others are telling you to do and honor your impulse. The very core of being an activist is being true to yourself.

— Susan Sarandon

You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?

— Richard Bach

It is possible to commit no mistakes, and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.

— Jean-Luc Picard

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

— Charles Dickens

A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.

— Rosellen Brown

Breathe into the hard times.

— Dahlia

If you don’t have a sense of humor about it, then it isn’t funny.

— Wavy Gravy

You can't change the world
But you can change your perception of the world
And if you can change your perception of the world
Then you can change the world!

— Barry Brilliant

Do you know why angels can fly?

Because they take themselves lightly!

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There is only one real blasphemy: the refusal of joy.

— Paul Rudnick

Life is uncertain, always eat dessert first.

— Ernestine Ulmer

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

— Helen Keller

How You Are Does Not Matter.
What matters is How You Are in Relation to How You Are.

— Peter Rengel

May you live all the days of your life.

— Jonathan Swift

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends.

— Woody Allen

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

— Frank Lloyd Wright