“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.â€
Category: What They Said…
“”You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
It’s true –
I’ve always loved
the daring
ones
Like the young black
man
Who tried
to crash
All barriers
at once,
wanted to
swim
At a white
beach (in Alamama)
Nude.
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
To live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. —
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
“I have often thought that the best way to define a man’s character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensively active and alive. At such moments, there is a voice inside which speaks and says, “This is the real me.”