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In 1993, when I first started playing with the internet, I put my personal quotes collection on a web page. My intention was really to have it readily available to…
Possibility Quotes
What is possible? What could happen? What are some alternatives to current reality, or to our current limited imagined futures? Here are some quotes about possibility to ponder.
Plans and Planning Quotes
To plan means to envision a future and the steps that it takes to get there. Here are some wise words from many sources about plans and planning.
Change Quotes
Personal change, social change, change in our environment — change, as the quote goes, is the only constant in life. Yet managing change, choosing change, sticking with positive change — that can be difficult.
Yes and No
When do we say YES and when do we say NO? Making choices can protect our self from unhappiness -- or from happiness! Here are some quotes from writers about…
Commitment Quotes
The root of "commitment" is about joining with others, engaging, giving your trust, sending with a purpose. To be committed is to be dedicated to a purpose, cause, or action.…
Beloved Community Quotes
Josiah Royce first used the term “The Beloved Community” to describe a condition of reconciliation. Royce also founded the Fellowship of Reconciliation, of which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a member. King popularized the term. The Beloved Community was not meant to be a vision of a heaven in the clouds, but a practical possibility humanity could create, on earth, as a spiritual goal. In Beloved Community, love and justice rule, people of all identities are equal and included, and conflict is solved by nonviolent means of reconciliation.
Stillness Quotes
Stillness quotes consider whether stillness is the opposite of activity, or another kind of activity. What does stillness bring to our lives? How can we practice stillness?
Now Quotes
In the moment, now, what is possible? Living in the present, instead of the past and the future, is an ancient practice and a modern technique, adding perspective, calm, openness, and relaxation to our lives.
Communication Quotes
Quotations about communication. People are social beings, and we need communication to live in relationship with each other. The challenge of communication is that we are also diverse individuals with…
Power Quotes
Power means the ability to do something, to exert strength or force, to direct or influence the behavior of others, or to influence the outcome of events. Sages have expressed a variety of opinions about power and when it is a virtue, when it is a vice, and when it is a neutral tool.
Opinion Quotes
An opinion is a conclusion or judgment, a belief. Opinions may or may not be based on facts and knowledge, but are based on experience and on limited factual knowledge, and are often flavored by emotion or group beliefs. Opinions are not certainty, though some who express opinions seem to think they are.
Fact Quotes
A fact is information that is known to be true or has been proven to be true. Facts are in contrast to interpretation or opinion, or even myths, fictions, and…