QUOTES

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." - Aldous Huxley

"God damn it," he said, "there are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked. Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos." - Franny & Zooey, J.D. Salinger

"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it." - Helen Keller

“Whatever the work is, do it well—not for the boss but for yourself.” - Toni Morrison

“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” - Alan Watts

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. " - Mark Twain 


”Service is love made visible." - Stephen Colbert

"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence...The grass is greenest where it is watered." - Robert Fulghum

"Ni sisi is the Swahili words for 'it is us.' It is us who owns our problems and it is us who will come up with the solutions." - John Githongo

"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." - Leo Tolstoy



“If you wou’d not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing.” -Benjamin Franklin a.k.a. Richard Saunders in Poor Richard’s Almanack – May 1738

“As I've told you many times, I'm split in two. One side contains my exuberant cheerfulness, my flippancy, my joy in life and, above all, my ability to appreciate the lighter side of things.” - Anne Frank

“Kindness, love for its own sake. Some people call that God.” - Rabbi, Six Feet Under, S2 E7

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“When people speak of traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present thinks they can radically change the future by doing something small.” - Barbara R. Nelson

"Creativity is intelligence having fun." — Albert Einstein