“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, first you must invent the universe.”
– Carl Sagan
“Dust is made mostly of us, so perhaps that is why it chooses to settle.”
– @eidolonhex
“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”
– Bill Nye
“A death is not the extinguishing of a light,
but the putting out of the lamp
because the dawn has come.
Life is given to us,
we earn it by giving it.
Let the dead have the immortality of fame,
but the living the immortality of love.
Life’s errors cry for the merciful beauty
that can modulate their isolation into a
harmony with the whole.
Life, like a child, laughs,
shaking its rattle of death as it runs.”
– Tagore
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
― Nelson Mandela
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
– Nelson Mandela
“You aspire to do great things? Begin with little ones.”
– Augustine of Hippo
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”
– Maimonides
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Polish – Rumi
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”
– Rumi
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
– William James
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
– Seneca the Younger
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.”
– Eric Idle
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A thousand candles – Buddha
“A thousand candles may be lit by a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
– Buddha
“To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.”
– Stephen R Covey