Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 140
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service
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Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.
Pierre-Paul Grasse
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.
All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield
It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.
Jeremy Jackson
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Anthony Froude
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My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward.
I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.
Joss Whedon
