Tuesday, February 28, 2006

"Do not depend on the hope of results . . .you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. . . .you gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. . . In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything."
- Thomas Merton

Monday, February 27, 2006

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
- Erich Fromm

Sunday, February 26, 2006

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix

Saturday, February 25, 2006

"Each single one of us is said to be of infinite worth... each one of us is a god carrier, each one of us god's viceroy. Can you imagine if we really believed that?"
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Friday, February 24, 2006

"The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Thursday, February 23, 2006

"I do not seek. I find."
- Pablo Picasso

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
- T.E. Lawrence

Friday, February 17. 2006

"Kaua e rangiruatia te hä o te hoe; e kore tö tätou waka e ü ki uta."

Do not lift the paddle out of unison or our canoe will never reach the shore.

- Maori Proverb

Thursday, February 16, 2006

"Whaia e koe ki te iti kahurangi; ki te tuohu koe, me maunga teitei"

"Seek the treasure you value most dearly: if you bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain."
- a Maori Whakatauki (proverb/saying)

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
- Douglas Adams

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

"Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone."
- Terry Pratchett

Monday, February 13, 2006

"It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination."
- Douglas Adams

Sunday, February 12, 2006

"Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason."
- Douglas Adams

Thursday, February 9, 2006

"Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it, it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened."
- Douglas Adams

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."
- G.K. Chesterton

Thursday, February 2, 2006

"What you want to say most is inadmissible. Say it anyway. Say it again. What they tell you is irrelevant can't be denied and will eventually be heard. Every question is a leading question."
- Lee Robinson

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
- Langston Hughes