(To read about Sister Karen Klimczak, the originator of the peaceprints signs, click here.) This is in response to the horrific incident that happened at the University of California at Davis very recently (to see videos and photos, click here or here). It is inconceivable to me that this actually happened. Whatever side of theContinue reading “Blessed Are The Peacemakers (Five Quotes on Non-Violence)”
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Five Quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. America willContinue reading “Five Quotes from Abraham Lincoln”
Five Quotes From Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.” “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”Continue reading “Five Quotes From Oscar Wilde”
Five Quotes from John Lennon
John Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) “It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.” “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call GodContinue reading “Five Quotes from John Lennon”
More Fortune Cookie Philosophy…and Five Quotes Regarding the Effect of Thought
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” —The Buddha “Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.” —Henry David Thoreau “The ancestor of every action is a thought.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson “A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”Continue reading “More Fortune Cookie Philosophy…and Five Quotes Regarding the Effect of Thought”
Five Quotes from William Arthur Ward
If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it. To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation. It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — notContinue reading “Five Quotes from William Arthur Ward”
Five Quotes From Carlos Castaneda
Image found here. “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” “The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.” “In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there isContinue reading “Five Quotes From Carlos Castaneda”
Five Quotes from Simone Weil
Simone Weil3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943To read more about Simone Weil, click here and here. “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” “It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that isContinue reading “Five Quotes from Simone Weil”
Five Quotes from Lao Tzu
The image of Lao Tzu was found here. To learn more about him, click here. At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking,Continue reading “Five Quotes from Lao Tzu”
Five Quotes from Nelson Mandela
Image found at the Wall of Inspiration. Mr. Mandela was born 93 years ago today and the world is a better place because of him. To read a previous post quoting him click here. “I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keepingContinue reading “Five Quotes from Nelson Mandela”
Five Quotes (and a short video) from Seth Godin
“Here’s the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can’t tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there’d be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don’t you hate that? IContinue reading “Five Quotes (and a short video) from Seth Godin”
Five Quotes From Ernest Hemingway
When I was a young and impressionable man two writers in particular had a great effect on my life: Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway. Like them or not, they both had their own style of writing and didn’t follow others; individualism, I believe, is a virtue hidden in all of us but we often stifleContinue reading “Five Quotes From Ernest Hemingway”
Five Quotes from Joseph Campbell
“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know theyContinue reading “Five Quotes from Joseph Campbell”
Five Quotes About Bicycles
Photo found here. Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it, if you live.—Mark Twain When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.–H.G. Wells Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. It has done more to emancipate women than anything elseContinue reading “Five Quotes About Bicycles”
Five Quotes from Leo Tolstoy
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” “I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him andContinue reading “Five Quotes from Leo Tolstoy”
Five Quotes and a Song from Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is a favorite singer-songwriter of mine so it’s only appropriate that I post about him as he reaches the milestone of 70 years on this earth. The internet, of course, abounds with videos of him (some great, some not-so-great, and some where he seems almost like a parody of himself), but the belowContinue reading “Five Quotes and a Song from Bob Dylan”
Five Quotes From Bob Marley
Bob Marley, 6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981 Picture found here. Redemption Song is one of my favorite songs by Bob Marley and the Wailers, and the below version is a very moving one (I think). For five more quotes from Bob Marley, click here. To read Five Quotes from other people, click here.Continue reading “Five Quotes From Bob Marley”
Five Quotes from Albert Einstein
Yes, I know it is actually 6 quotes–counting the one in the below image–but I find them all inspiring. For more quotes from Einstein, click here. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius —Continue reading “Five Quotes from Albert Einstein”
Five Quotes from Helen Keller
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men 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. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in theContinue reading “Five Quotes from Helen Keller”
Five Quotes from The Dalai Lama
Photo found here. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. Today, more than ever before, life mustContinue reading “Five Quotes from The Dalai Lama”
Urban Simplicty 