We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth. Norman Cousins
There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. They teach the truth by living it. James A. Garfield
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost
I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta... I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.. And I think we should remember we are part of a great whole, for which convenience we call nature. All living things are our brothers and sisters. Kenneth Clark
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed. Albert Einstein
Be open. Don't close off the possibility of a new truth because you have been comfortable with an old one. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsh
Everything has a crack in it - that's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. Henry Van Dyke
There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Ghandi
In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary everyday life. Plato
Your life work is a state of Who You Are. If it is not, then why are you doing it? Neale Donald Walsh
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula Leguin
Many today feel a sadness we cannot name. Though we accomplish much of what we set out to do, we sense that something is missing in our lives and -- fruitlessly -- search 'out there' for the answers. What's often wrong is that we are disconnected from an authentic sense of self. Emily Hancock
Work is not always required.... There is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. George McDonald
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold Neibuhr
Thy will be done. - robbie xo
thanks to Lauren Trater, author of Life, for the quotations
