If possible

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

~ Goethe

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Silence

Silence is exhilarating at first—as noise is—but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

~ Edward Hoagland

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Fear

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

~ Francis Chan

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Growth

There’s a world of difference between insisting on someone’s doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

~ Fred Rogers

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Creativity

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

~ Anthony Jay

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Knowledge

A great challenge of life: Knowing enough to think you are right, but not knowing enough to know you are wrong.

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Sight

I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

~ Agnes Varda

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Travel

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you’re going to see just about all that you can handle.

~ Paul Auster

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Wisdom

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.

~ Bill Nye

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Leadership

Leading into a world of unknowns, a world where you don’t have the answer, the best you can do is to ask better questions, as well as help those around you to do the same.

~ Pascal Finette

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