QUOTES

• "There is no failure in life except in the failure to find meaning out of life."
  
• "The solution is always inside."
• "If you are rushing, something needs to change."
• "What you think at this very moment, is the seed for what will come next."
• "Be aware of your thoughts at each moment."
• "Genuine, undivided, uninterrupted attention is the water that can make anything grow."
• "Embrace the present moment, but do not cling to it."
• "If it is finished, it cannot be creative."
• "Real honesty is never pretending that you don't feel the way that you do."
• "The reason true honesty is uncommon is because it would cause most of what we do to be put into question."
• "Listen to children."
• "Give your child your attention. All of it."
• "Give."
• "Donating your money is a nice gesture, but donating your time is noble."
• "The tone makes the music."
• "Those who triumph over the weaknesses of themselves, are the world's best people."
• "All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest."
• "Truth, love, life and beauty are all ONE thing. It is what is left after removing all that is not so."
• "Slow down. Maybe even try stopping."
• "Growth is not to have more. It is to BE more, as a human being.
• "Want what you get and you won't get upset."
• "Try to want what you have...and not have what you want."
• "The question we all seem to be avoiding is, "WHY?"" 
• "Just because an idea is possible, does not mean it is worth doing."
• "Help another achieve what they want, and not what you think they should want."
• "...with what we call the 'developed world,' maybe we are overdeveloped outwardly and underdeveloped inwardly. Maybe it is we who, for all our wealth, are living in poverty."
• "The best advice comes from those who have learned from mistakes, not from those who find mistakes."
• "The great fault in modern times is that we keep looking for more. The answer is already here."
• "Once we stop making stuff that we already have and don't need - what are we going to do with ourselves?"
• "Man's true purpose is to serve, protect and create beauty.  Anything else is a waste of life."
• "Man does not grow by what happens to him, but by what he does about what happens to him."
• "Nothing that is good can ever be attained by force."
• "Change is only good if it does not involve escaping."
• "Why is everyone rushing, if the ultimate goal is only found in stillness?"
• "The greater the adversity, the greater the opportunity."
• “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
• "Helping cannot involve pity, otherwise we are only complementing ourselves for being better than someone else."
• "If we would spend as much time and money and energy on preventing war as we do fighting it, we would live in a much more peaceful place."
• "In an effort to make a quick profit, we have made everything disposable, including humans."
• "We are always growing. Never think, for one moment, that you are finished. It is never finished. If you can accept that, life becomes a reward."
• "The modern individual is guided not by conscience but by convenience."
• "It is not one's actions that matter, but the motive behind those actions."
• "Want to grow? Stop talking. Start listening."
• "Love cannot be defined or explained with words. The more you talk about it, the less you have. And when the time finally comes when you have defined it precisely, you don't have any of it left."
• "The difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man enjoys doing those very things that the foolish man has to do against his will."
• "He who gains control over himself is greater than he who gains control over a city."
• "Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."

• "The solution to happiness is to stop trying to be happy."
• "Equilibrium is the goal. Moderation is the means."
• "Where there is division, there is loss."
• "Why is it that a paper certificate has become more important than competence?"
• "By running from our problems, we manage to run from the very lesson we were supposed to learn."
• "There is no failure in life except in the failure to find meaning out of life."

• “[Tom Sawyer] had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.”
• "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
• "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds."

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Silent Night with news broadcast during Vietnam War - Simon & Garfunkel

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