An Optimist

“I am optimistic up to the 59^th minute of the 11^th hour.”

Harry Edwards

1893-1976

Take the First Step

“Take the first step in faith.  You don’t have to see the whole staircase.  Just take the first step.”

Dr Martin Luther King Jr

(1929-1968)

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