Ideas

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pike ...

"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." - Helen Keller ...

'We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder ...

“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”  - Barbara Bloom ...

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”                               ― Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

"Character is simply habit long continued." - Plutarch ...

"Let no one mislead you or prevent you from seeing what really matters. Turn to Jesus, listen to him, and discover the true meaning and direction of your lives." - Pope Francis ...

"We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the moneymaking street, we ...

"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?" - Joan Didion ...

"In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used ...