Quotes April 21, 2018

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington,
First US president
 
 
 
 
“Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.”
Bertrand Russell,
Conquest of Happiness
 
 
 
 
“In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually one discovers that it’s not boring at all but very interesting.”
John Cage, Silence:
Lectures and Writings, by John Cage
 
 
 
 
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
Proverbs 17:22
 
 
 
 
“The autumn moon is incomparably beautiful. Any man who supposes the moon is always the same, regardless of the season, and is therefore unable to detect the difference in autumn, must be exceedingly insensitive.”
Essays in Idleness,
The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko
 
 
 
 
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde
 
 
 
 
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy or too impatient. … One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
author and aviator
 
 
 
 
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
James A. Michener,
author
 
 
 
 
Solidarity among men has one of its strongest foundations in the experience of sharing one’s own suffering with the suffering of all.
Erich Fromm,
social psychologist