What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
-Albert Pike

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
- Theodore Zeldin

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

-Kahlil Gibran

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
-William James

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. --Alvin Toffler

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S. Truman

Love

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." - Mother Teresa

Living...

Each moment of the everyday, every action of living, poses the question: how it might be lived differently, more truthfully and respectfully.
- Markuz Wernli Saito