Issue 131

  • What can we gain by sailing to the moon if
    we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
    Author: Thomas Merton
  • Be such a person, and live such a life,
    that if every one were such as you,
    and every life such as yours,
    this earth would be God's paradise.
    Author: Phillips Brooks
    Contributed by Patricia Wiyono
  • We Forget
    We ask for a piece of sand and he gives us a beach.
    We ask for a drop of water and he gives us an ocean.
    We ask for time and he gives us life eternal.
    And it is so easy for us to fall in love with the gift
    and forget the Giver!
    Author: Edward Farrell
  • The toughest thing about success is
    that you've got to keep on winning.
    Author: Irving Berlin
  • People who want the most approval get the least and people who need
    approval the least get the most.
    Author: Wayne Dyer
  • Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober,
    not to make us sorry but wise.
    Author: Henry Ward Beecher
  • The average estimate themselves by what they do,
    the above average by what they are.
    Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
  • Please all, and you will please none.
    Author: Aesop
    Topic: Pleasing
  • The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but
    the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
    until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
    Author: Louis I. Kahn

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