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The Longest Journey ~ Daj Hammarskjold
The longest journey
Is the journey inwards
Of him who has chosen his destiny
~ Daj Hammarskjold
The Real Voyage of Discovery ~ Marcel Proust
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
In a world of change… ~ Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
“In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.”
— Eric Hoffer
Growing Old ~ Samuel Ullman
Nobody grows old. merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~ Samuel Ullman
Simplicity ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I wouldn’t give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity; I would give everything for the simplicity on the far side of complexity.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love Expands Intelligence ~ Maturana
“Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.”
~ Humberto Maturana
Knowing ~ Socrates
“The only true wisdom is to know you know nothing.”
~ Socrates
The Way Things Are ~ Talmud
We don’t see things as they are. We only see things as we are.
~ Talmud
What the World Needs
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what make you come alive. And then go and do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~Howard Thurman
Optical Delusion
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his … Continue reading