"Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has clearly never spent their money on pizza."

-- Andrew W.K.

“In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.”
“Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it's so much easier when you have support.”
“But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.”
“If infants are ready to do something, they will do it. In fact, when they are ready, they have to do it.”

Source : Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”
“We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.”
“He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.”
“Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.”

Source : "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.
“Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold it firmly enough, it will fly away. Indeed, freedom can be both fragile and elusive, and so-as the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum so powerfully reminds us-it requires our eternal vigilance, our willingness, our ability, our conviction to stand up for that which we think is right.”

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