The Smallest Things

“Sometimes, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

Winnie the Pooh

About an Ass

“An ass went looking for horns and lost his ears.”

Arab Proverb

Our Prime Purpose

 

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

Dalai Lama

(1935-)

Liars

“Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.”

Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Republic (1972)

The Wilderness

“What sets the wilderness apart in the modern way is not that it is dangerous (it’s almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it’s solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more in the zoo).  It’s that five miles out in the woods you can’t buy anything.”

Bill McKibben

Ecologist b 1960

The Happiness of Another

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert Anson Heinlein

(1907 – 1988)

ROOT OF ALL EVIL

“For the love of money is the root of all evil; and while some have coveted after it, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But as for you, O man of God, flee from all these things; aim at and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness and gentleness of heart."

1Timothy 6:10-11