June 2011
9 posts
Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame…
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American writer and activist
One is responsible for one’s own life. Passivity provides no protection.
– Madeleine Kunin (1933 – ) Swiss-American diplomat and politician
Do what you can to do what you ought,
and leave hoping and fearing alone.
– Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and educator 4
For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in...
– Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) 26th president of the United States
A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own...
– Proverbs 18:2
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
– Marie Curie (1867–1934) Polish-born French physicist and chemist two-time Nobel Prize winner
Bad men need nothing more to compass
their ends than that good men should look...
– John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) English economist and philosopher
In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. ...
– Bobby McFerrin (1950 – ) American music artist 10-time Grammy Award winner
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher