COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

8/11/2014

Quotes


“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” - Peter Drucker

“In a sense, recursive equations are the ‘assembly language’ of functional programming, and direct recursion the goto.” - Jeremy Gibbons

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” - Marcus Aurelius

“They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.” - Gerald Massey

“People who achieve access to the deepest roots of their freedom can completely change.” - Peter Koestenbaum

“It’s a healthy thing to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.” - Bertrand Russell

“People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals that do not inspire them.” - Anthony Robbins

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” - Albert Einstein

“Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.” - Roger Ebert.

“Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.” - Tim O’Reilly

“The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren’t really opposed to each other.” - Pema Chödrön, (Start Where you Are)

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

“Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.” - Daniel C Dennett

“Every time you share your vision, you strengthen your own subconscious belief that you can achieve it.” - Jack Canfield

“The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.” - G.K. Chesterton

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books.” - Chinese proverb

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