Everything And Nothing

Life...

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
    ~Mahatma Ghandi

Deep summer...

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."
   ~ Sam Keen

The last of the human freedoms...

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
~Victor Frankl

Time has no divisions...

“Time has no divisions to mark its passage. There is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.”
~ Thomas Mann

What the world needs now...

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"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive."
~ Howard Thurman

Twenty years from now...

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did do."
~ Mark Twain

Democracy

"Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possiblities in ordinary people."
~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Persistence...alone

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: Nothing is more common than unrewarded talent. Education alone will not: The world is full of educated failures. Persistence alone is omnipotent.”
~Calvin Coolidge

Burning the Candle

"It's better to burn out than to fade away"
- Neil Young, 1978, "Hey Hey, My My"

"It's better to burn out than to fade away"
- Kurt Cobain, 1994, Last line of his suicide note

"Is it better to burn out or fade away?"
- Barry, 2000, High Fidelity

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Abiding pleasures

"As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people."
~P. G. Wodehouse