(Richard Bach)
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
(Anthony Robbins)
Those who are choosy often pick the worst.
(Philippines proverb)
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
(American Proverb)
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
(John Lancaster Spalding)
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
(Anonymous)
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
(Bernard Baruch)
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
(Plutarch)
Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example, are today still strongly committed to communal living after practicing it, punctuated only by occasional lapses into private enterprise, for 450 years. The Hutterian rate of membership turnover has been only about 0.0006 per year.
(Benjamin Zablocki)
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
(Emily P. Bissell)