Mind

"It's not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
René Descartes

Creativity

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?"
But it is "why in God's name isn't everyone creative?"
Where was the human potential lost?
How was it crippled?
I think therefore, a good question might be not "why do people create?" but "why do people not create or innovate?"
We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Abraham Maslow

Life is Pretty Simple

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci

Beware

Beware of the man whose belly does not move when he laughs.
Chinese Proverb

Change

"Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary."
Viktor Frankl from Man's Search for Meaning

Love is...

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.”
Viktor Frankl

Don't say....

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Where there is shouting.....

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci

Heart

A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved.
The Wizard from the Wizard of Oz

A New Year

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year.
It is that we should have a new soul.
G. K. Chesterton

Blessed

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

Creativity

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm

Not only for Christmas

Somehow, not only for Christmas
But all the long year through
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.
And the more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to you glad.
John Greenleaf Whittier:

Remember

Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

Immature love...

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
Erich Fromm

Peace

You are your own peace. Be it.
Dr. Wayne Dyer

Work and Play

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain

Computers

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell

Good Friends

Sole Purpose....

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962

Torture

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung

Unseen

Problems

Problems are not stop signs. They are guidelines.

Government

Nature

"Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another."
John Muir, naturalist and explorer (1838-1914)

The Last Key

Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

Live your beliefs.....

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau

Your Consent

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Be Happy

Don't

I Think.....

Creation

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung

The Shoe...

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung

To Laugh Often.....

Friend

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness, that is the friend who cares.
Henri J.M. Nouwen

Talk

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato

(even more) Yoda Wisdom

[Luke:] I can’t believe it.
[Yoda:] That is why you fail.

Stories

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.” - Ben Okri

Happiness

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
Chuang Tzu

When I Quote Others....

"When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly." - Michel de Montaigne