“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”
– William Blake
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Strength – Sons of Anarchy
“There’s an old saying – that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, I don’t believe that. I think the things that try to kill you make you angry and sad. Strength comes from the good things, your family, your friends, the satisfaction of hard work. Those are the things that will keep you whole, those are the things to hold onto when you’re broken.”
– Sons of Anarchy
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Engaged – Twitter
“What do you care about?” Is one of the best questions to get people engaged. What are you most excited about right now’, then ‘why?’, uncovers values
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Shining – Anne Lamott
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
– Anne Lamott
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Nothing happens – Vladimir Lenin
“There are decades when nothing happens. There are weeks where decades happen”
-Vladimir Lenin
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Anti-intellectualism – Isaac Asimov
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
– Isaac Asimov
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Recommending a person – Unknown
“Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person”
– Unknown
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Expect better – Jeph Jacques
“You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself. ”
– Jeph Jacques
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Remember this – Gregory Maguire
“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny. ”
– Gregory Maguire
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Eloquence – David Hume
“Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections.”
– David Hume
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A perspective – Marcus Aurelius
“Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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Choose – Dalai Lama XIV
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
– Dalai Lama XIV
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Perfectionism – Brené Brown
“When perfectionism is driving, shame is always riding shotgun and fear is the annoying backseat driver”
– Brené Brown
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Take sides – Elie Wiesel
“Whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation, take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
– Elie Wiesel
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Beyond speech – Joseph Campbell
“Significant images render insights beyond speech, beyond the kinds of meaning speech defines. And if they do not speak to you, that is because you are not ready for them, and words will only serve to make you think you have understood, thus cutting you off altogether. You don’t ask what a dance means, you enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means, you enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean, you enjoy yourself; or at least, so you do when you are up to snuff.
“But to enjoy the world requires something more than mere good health and good spirits; for this world, as we all now surely know, is horrendous. ‘All life,’ said the Buddha, ‘is sorrowful’; and so, indeed, it is. Life consuming life: that is the essence of its being, which is forever a becoming. ‘The world,’ said the Buddha, ‘is an ever-burning fire.’ And so it is. And that is what one has to affirm, with a yea! a dance! a knowing, solemn, stately dance of the mystic bliss beyond pain that is at the heart of every mythic rite.”
– Joseph Campbell (Myths to Live By)