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Not to be occupied and not to exist are one and the same thing for a man.
– Voltaire
The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. We should endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
– G.K. Chesterton
So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes.
– Marcus Aurelius
Do what you can, with what you got, where you are.
– Teddy Roosevelt
Our resources are growing, not shrinking, because resources are defined by human creativity. In fact, there are no such things as “natural resources.” There are only natural raw materials. It is human ingenuity that turns natural raw materials into resources
– Robert Zubrin
Where your fear is, there your task is.
– Carl Jung
The Lord seeks creators, not destroyers. For he who creates good thereby destroys evil. And he who sets out to destroy evil will quickly forget about building up good and turn into a villain.
– Nikolai Velimirovich
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he’s supposed to be.
– Duncan Trussell
To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?
– John Boyd
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
– C.S. Lewis
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A change is as good as a rest.
– Grandpa Perkins
The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.
– Warren Buffet