09/30/15

No cow's like a horse, and no horse like a cow. That's one similarity, anyhow. -Piet Hein

09/29/15

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle

09/28/15

You aren't meant to be indestructible. You're meant to build a better self using what you can salvage from every time you've been destroyed. -Shane Koyczan

09/25/15

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours. -James M. Barrie

09/24/15

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life. -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

09/23/15

You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism. -Barack Obama

09/22/15

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers. -Patrick Rothfuss

09/21/15

Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. -Robert A. Heinlein

09/11/15

It’s really easy to complain. If you’re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good. -Lisa Williams

09/10/15

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. -Patrick Rothfuss

09/09/15

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge. -Jim Butcher

09/08/15

If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody. -Malcolm Bane

09/07/15

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. -Abraham Lincoln

09/04/15

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. -William James

09/03/15

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles. -Voltaire

09/02/15

Poetry breaks through the skin of suffering in which children are often imprisoned: silent, confused, scared.  A child's poetry is an intimate, trusting gift to her parent or to anyone who wishes to "read" her heart. -Alice Walker

09/01/15

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. -Albert Schweitzer