Ideas

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." - Eleanor Roosevelt ...

"No one who has stood for high values — love, truth, justice — has died being able to declare victory, once and for all. If we embrace values like those, we need to find ways to stand in the gap ...

“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”     - Charles Spurgeon ...

"You only get one chance. You have one journey through life; you cannot repeat even one moment or retrace one footstep. It seems that we are meant to inhabit and live everything that comes toward us." - John O’Donohue ...

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche ...

"Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears.  It seems to absolve us." - Van Wyck Brooks ...

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." - Arthur Ashe ...

“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” - Fran Lebowitz ...

"Expressing anger is a form of public littering." - Willard Gaylin ...

"Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved." - Marcus Antonius ...