The secret of life is to have no fear. - Fela Kuti
Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope. - Alain de Botton
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. - Guillaume Apollinaire
I consider we are all the same as human beings, mentally, emotionally and physically. In order to ensure a more peaceful world and a healthier environment we sometimes point a finger at others saying they should do this or that. But change must start with us as individuals. If one individual becomes more compassionate it will influence others and so we will change the world. - HH Dalai Lama
We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is a banquet of common enchantment waiting for our alchemist’s eyes to notice. - Jacob Norby
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. - Confucius
You become, It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.
But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand. - Margery Williams - The Velveteen Rabbit
Free thinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless. - Leo Tolstoy
*The first day we all pointed to our own countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth. - Prince Sultan bin Salman al-Saud, astronaut, STS-51-G
My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work. – Unknown
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. - Jerry Seinfeld
*Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
*I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. - Steven Wright
*I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it. -
