Do not waste time thinking about what you could have done differently. Keep your eyes on the road ahead and do it differently now.

© Karen Salmansohn

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

© Buddha @quote

“Oh!" say the technophiles, "Science is going to fix all that! We will conquer famine, eliminate psychological suffering, make everybody healthy and happy!" Yeah, sure. That's what they said 200 years ago. The Industrial Revolution was supposed to eliminate poverty, make everybody happy, etc. The actual result has been quite different. The technophiles are hopelessly naive (or self-deceiving) in their understanding of social problems. They are unaware of (or choose to ignore) the fact that when large changes, even seemingly beneficial ones, are introduced into a society, they lead to a long sequence of other changes, most of which are impossible to predict (paragraph 103). The result is disruption of the society. So it is very probable that in their attempt to end poverty and disease, engineer docile, happy personalities and so forth, the technophiles will create social systems that are terribly troubled, even more so than the present one. For example, the scientists boast that they will end famine by creating new, genetically engineered food plants. But this will allow the human population to “keep expanding indefinitely, and it is well known that crowding leads to increased stress and aggression. This is merely one example of the predictable problems that will arise. We emphasize that, as past experience has shown, technical progress will lead to other new problems for society far more rapidly that it has been solving old ones.
Thus it will take a long difficult period of trial and error for the technophiles to work the bugs out of their Brave New World (if they ever do). In the meantime there will be great suffering. So it is not all clear that the survival of industrial society would involve less suffering than the breakdown of that society would. Technology has gotten the human race into a fix from which there is not likely to be any easy escape.

© Unabomber Manifesto, Ted Kaczynski

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

© Eriksson

Sometimes a hug is the answer
Even when the question is unknown.

© Unknown @quote

As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

© Steve Maraboli

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

© John Astin @quote

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

© Liberace

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

© Paulo Coelho @quote

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

© William Arthur Ward

I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

© Lin-yutang @quote

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

© Charles DeLint

You’ll have good days
Bad days
Overwhelming days
Too tired days
I’m awesome” days
I can’t go on” days
But every day you’ll still show up.

@quote

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

© Ray Bradbury

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. @quote

If you wish to be a writer, write.

© Epictetus

We’re all just walking each other home.

© Ram Dass @quote

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it. @quote

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

© Voltaire @quote

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

© Pierre Auguste Renoir