“All human activity is prompted by desire.”

- Bertrand Russell

“Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person’s point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.”

- Arlo Guthrie

“A closed mouth never gets fed.”

-  Daniel Bell

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.”

- James Allen

“That’s the risk you take if you change: that people you’ve been involved with won’t like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”

- Lisa Alther

“Our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.”

- George Eliot

“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]”

- Richard Bach

“Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.”

- A Course In Miracles

“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”

- Calvin Coolidge

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

- Aristotle