04/19/19

[The] ability to perceive one's own life in a way that encompasses the full spectrum of human possibility is essential to the search for meaning. -Daniel H. Pink

04/18/19

The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I expected. -Hugh Prather

04/17/19

When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty." This is not the answer most journalists expect. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. But it is true. -Mary Robinson

04/16/19

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. -Christina Rossetti

04/15/19

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. -Albert Bushnell Hart

04/12/19

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. -Giorgos Seferis

04/11/19

Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God. -Benjamin Spock

04/10/19

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. -Adlai Stevenson

04/09/19

You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident--it has to be intentional. -Mark Udall

04/08/19

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness. -Pierre Trudeau