The significant problems we face
cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at
when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

You must be the change you wish to see in the world
-Mahatma Ghandi

I never let my schooling interfere with my education
-Mark Twain

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world,
and loose his own soul?
- Matt. 16:26

They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin

God can't pour a one gallon idea into a one cup mind.
-Hugh Nibley

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas
as in escaping from old ones.
-John Maynard Keynes

First they ignore you,
then they ridicule you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
-Mahatma Ghandi

No distance of place or lapse of time
can lessen the friendship of those who are
thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
-Robert Southey

If you are going through Hell,
keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Not all who wander are lost.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

God recognizes only one justification for seeking wealth,
and that is with the express intent of helping the poor.
-Hugh Nibley

Careerism is the determination to reign in hell
rather than serve in heaven.
-Hugh Nibley

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
- Shakespeare

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?'
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.
And, as we let out own light shine,
we consciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela

Oh, the comfort,
the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but to pour them all out, just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithhful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping,
and then, with the breath of kindness,
blow the rest away.
- George Eliot

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Photography

I was born in Hoboken. I am an American.
Photography is my passion.
The search for truth is my obsession.
-Alfred Stieglitz

To me, photography is an art of observation.
It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place...
I've found it has little to do with the things you see
and everything to do with the way you see them.
-Elliott Erwitt

For the first time I know what love is;
what friends are; and what art should be.
LOVE is a seeking for a way of life;
the way that cannot be followed alone;
the resonance of all spiritual and physical things....
FRIENDSHIP is another form of love -- more passive perhaps,
but full of the transmitting and acceptances of things like thunderclouds
and grass and the clean granite of reality.
ART is both love and friendship and understanding:
the desire to give.
It is not charity, which is the giving of things.
It is more than kindness, which is the giving of self.
It is both the taking and giving of beauty,
the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
It is a recreation on another plane of the realities of the world;
the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men,
and of all the interrelations of these.
-Ansel Adams