Rebecca [Fortunate One]

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. -Florence Scovel Shinn
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau
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The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. - Robert Cushing
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream.
- Mark Twain
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. - J.M. Barrie
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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach. - Bertrand Russell
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There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. - Logan Pearsall Smith
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive. - E. E. Cummings
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Let your capital be simplicity and contentment. - Henry David Thoreau
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? - Lois McMaster Bujold
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True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. - Mignon McLaughlin
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. - George Carlin
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. - Henry Ford
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I'm an idealist without illusions. - John F. Kennedy
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I say that a true idealist who does something truly good for humanity must have both feet on the ground, else he is a dreamer and a romantic. - Robert Ley
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No true idealist lacks good business sense, and no sound company can survive without idealism. - Robert Ley
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Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves. - Confucius
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. - R. Buckminster Fuller
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful. - R. Buckminster Fuller
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - R. Buckminster Fuller
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. - R. Buckminster Fuller
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. - R. Buckminster Fuller
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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. - Rita Mae Brown
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Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. It isn't charity to give away things you want to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing. - Myrtle Reed
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To do carefully and constantly and kindly many little things is not a little thing. - Unknown
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An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart. - Robert M. Sapolsky
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The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match. - Todd Ruthman
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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed. - Jan de Hartog
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There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. - Emma Goldman
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It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? - Richard Bach
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Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to presume to go about unlabelled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog, not under proper control. - Thomas Henry Huxley
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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well. - Peter Ustinov
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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. - John Wooden
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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden
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Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden
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Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer. - Mignon McLaughlin
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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. - Mignon McLaughlin
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Science is built with facts as a house is with stones--but a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. - Jules Henri Poincare
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Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even. - Franklin P. Jones
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If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also. - Mahatma Gandhi
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)
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I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington
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It is on our shoulders to create the future. Nobody's going to do it for us. - Andrew Cohen
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Here's to the Crazy Ones! The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.- Jack Kerouac: On The Road
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The only reason why you don't do great things is because you cling timidly to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.
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Excellence is the result of
Caring more than others think is wise,
Risking more than others think is safe,
Dreaming more than others think is practical, and
Expecting more than others think is possible.
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To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there. - Thiruvalluvar
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A man who is 'ill-adjusted' to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister. - Hermann Hesse
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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. - Aldous Huxley
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. - Kahlil Gibran
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Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. - Jalaluddin Rumi
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Unless a good deed is voluntary, it has no moral significance. - Everett Dean Martin
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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. - Robert A. Heinlein
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. - Albert Einstein
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. - Carlos Fuentes
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Every man's memory is his private literature. - Aldous Huxley
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. - Amos Bronson Alcott
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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -- in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -- known to medical science is work. - Thomas Szasz
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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. - John Gray
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What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm. - Henry David Thoreau
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always. - Albert Schweitzer
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The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions -- none more so than the most capable. - Theodore Dreiser
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. - Anais Nin
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. - Anais Nin
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. - Anais Nin
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. - Anais Nin
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. - Anais Nin
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. - Anais Nin
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If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it -- too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul -- the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds. - Plato
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A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints. - Pablo Picasso
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Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid. - Albert Schweitzer
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To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation" -- this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats. - Aldous Huxley
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The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning. - Brendan Gill
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That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. - James Kern Feibleman
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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - Laurens van der Post
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Love involves a peculiar, unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. - Diane Arbus
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Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used. - Elbert Hubbard
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Genius is eternal patience. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. - Robert Graves
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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. - George Eliot
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. - Plato
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Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy. - Thomas Merton
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The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money. - John Henry Jowett
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I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. - Mark Twain
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' - Kahlil Gibran
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. - Joseph Joubert
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen. - Aldous Huxley
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment. - Albert Einstein
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Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. - Benjamin Jowett
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Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings, we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will want to free all sentient beings from suffering. This is karuna, compassion, which in turn gives rise to the responsibility to create happiness and its causes for all. - Suresh Jindal
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Live simply.
Love generously.
Care deeply.
Speak kindly.
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