Things that make sense to me

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the sage harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

The Most Useful Information Is Often The Most Different From Your Current Information

When someone who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, they will either quit mistakenly perpetuating their belief, or cease to be honest!

A truth told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

It would be wise to remember the old adage that, at any moment in time, life always consists of two phases: 1) up until now, and; 2) from now on.

"Cowardice asks the question: is it safe?
Expediency asks the question: is it political?
Vanity asks the question: is it popular?
But conscience asks the question: is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular - but one must take it simply because it is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's not the label that's important, it's what you're doing. Besides, labels
can limit the scope and effectiveness of your message by confining it to the
level of ideas of the moment instead of setting it loose as an
emotional/spiritual force that inspires creative expansion and development.

Hippie Crap Saves The World
Mark Morford

I asked for strength.... and was given difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom.... and was given problems to solve. I asked for prosperity... and was given brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage... and was given danger to overcome. I asked for love... and was given troubled people to help. I asked for favors... and was given opportunities. I received nothing I wanted... I received everything I needed."
(Confucius)

"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.
When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin.
When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come.
Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved."
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
(Quotes from Albert Einstein)

Prior civilizations worked in harmony with nature where mankind today fights it, tries to get around it, or tries to control it.

"Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind...The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory."

- George Orwell

The wise man does not set his mind either for anything or against anything; what is right he will follow. - Confucius

"The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty."

- Gandhi

"The greatest losses of all are those from missed opportunities." -- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"The secret of success in life is to be ready for opportunity when it comes." -- Benjamin Disraeli

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

-Robert E. Lee

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

Alexander Tyler

Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened."
--Winston Churchill

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

(Theodore Roosevelt, 1918)

" But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing." ~ Thomas Paine

"If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning."
----Mahatma Gandhi

God has literally given us the keys to the universe. We just have to stop KILLING each other long enough to learn to use them.

See all as one. Treat all as one. Be all as one. And you will become one with all that God is.

Real truth is smaller than the eye can see and bigger than the mind can
conceive.

There is just one struggle and it is now, on this planet and on a personal level....meaning you only.
There is no enemy you can attack except yourself.
If you are busy attacking something else, you are wasting precious energy and you will fail. If you succeed, there will be no struggle anymore."

“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.”

"As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

"There is nothing more horrible than the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts."

"There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally."

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - G. Bernard Shaw

"The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open." -- Frank Zappa

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and
lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." --
Abraham Lincoln

Casinos make a lot more money off of the people who think they can play than they could possibly lose from the people who actually can.

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, burger in one hand, cold beer in the other, body thoroughly used up and totally worn out screaming "WOOHOO what a ride!" -- Unknown

"We, the willing, led by the knowing are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." Kennedy

A true friend is one who knows you're a good egg even if you're a little cracked.

Old minds think: If it didn't work last year, let's do MORE of it this year.	New minds think: If it didn't work last year, let's do something ELSE this year.
Old minds think: How do we stop these bad things from happening?	New minds think: How do we make things the way we want them to be?
Quoted from Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn