Neopage

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no
metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism.
It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth,
and to oneself the possibility of error.

- Alvin Toffler

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good
we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

- Flora Edwards

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in
itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it
is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

- Marcus Aurelius, 121 - 180

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts,
the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of
our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything
in sight.

- Michael Bridge

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore
we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes
complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore
we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous,
can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

- Reinhold Niebuhr, 1892 - 1971

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice,
they aren't.

The future ain't what it used to be.

- Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra



Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

- Salvador Dali

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches;
yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living
earth.

- Kahlil Gibran

Silence is always part of great music. Silence is always part of
great art. Silence is always part of great life.

- Robert Fulghum

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest
of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this
world alone and leave it alone.

- Thomas De Quincey

This above all: To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

- Hamlet, William Shakespeare

Keep close to Nature's heart ... and break clear away, once in
awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.

Most people are on the world, not in it. - have no conscious
sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused,
separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone,
touching but separate.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest
wilderness.

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of
glaciers, and of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers,
prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the
world, have come down from the mountains.

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere: the
dew is never all dried at once: a shower is forever falling, vapor
is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and
gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as
the round earth rolls.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the Universe.

- All from John Muir, 1838 - 1914

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an
invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

- Albert Einstein

Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give
me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that
is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand,
that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the
winds.

- Black Elk

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

- Marshall McLuhan, 1911 - 1980

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the
beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or
weary of life.... Those who contemplate the beauty of
the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long
as life lasts.

- Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder (1965)

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air,
but simply walking on this earth.

- Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth:
an instruction book didn't come with it.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human
knowledge is moonshine.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American
now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got
in wages.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around
for a coffin.

- Henry Louis Mencken, 1880 - 1956

The essence of volunteerism is not giving part of a surplus one
doesn't need, but giving part of one's self. Such giving is more
than a duty of the heart, but a way people help themselves by
satisfying the deeper spiritual needs that represent the best that
is in us.

- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend


Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You
don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to
make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a
heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

- Martin Luther King, Jr, 1929 - 1968


Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth
who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience,
and just plain love for one another.

- Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996


No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many
services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

- Ronald Reagan, 1911 - 2004

Those who can command themselves command others.

- William Hazlitt

A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create
conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the
dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our
enemies leaves us no choice.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from
injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate
their own persuits of industry and improvement, and shall not
take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the
sum of good government.

I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and
public debt as the greatest of dangers.... We must make our
choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only
as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my
neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks
my pocket, nor breaks my leg.

- Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826