Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
~ Chalmers
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Missionaries →
Questions →
The only question that really matters, the only question whose correct answer can exert a civilizing influence on the future specialist, is the question asked by Buddha and Jesus, by Lao-Tsu and Socrates, by Job and Aeschylus, and Chaucer and Shakespeare and Dostoevsky, by every philosopher, every mystic, every great artist: Who am I and what, if anything, can I do about it?
~ Aldous Huxley
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Well-composed →
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits.
~ Napoleon
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Noticing →
All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice.
~ Elliott Erwitt
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Silence →
The path to all great things passes through silence.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Unnecessary →
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; Rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
~ C.S. Lewis
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Communication →
A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.
~ Cicero
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Hardship →
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
~ Alain de Botton
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Perfectionism →
Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination.
~ Dan Miller
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