Quotes

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“If you put fences around people, you get sheep.”

— William McKnight, Former 3M CEO

“Silence is sometimes the best answer.”

— His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

— Mark Twain

“I asked for strength, and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for wisdom, and God gave me problems to learn to solve.
I asked for prosperity, and God gave me a brain and brawn to work.
I asked for courage, and God gave me dangers to overcome.
I asked for love, and God gave me people to help.
I asked for favors, and God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted.
I received everything I needed.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Within every man there is the reflection of a woman,
and within every woman there is the reflection of a man.
Within every man and woman there is also the reflection
of an old man and an old woman, a little boy and a little girl.”

— Hyemeyohsts Storm

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we had when we created them.”

— Albert Einstein

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J.R.R. Tolkein, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Politicians have a responsibility not to inflame division or misrepresent the facts, and to show leadership to counter views that would demonise asylum seekers or abrogate Australia’s international obligations…The facts are that Australia’s current refugee intake of about 13,750 a year is small by international standards and forms less than 10% of our total permanent migration intake. Boat arrivals deemed to be refugees make up an even smaller proportion of that – less than 2% of all migrants to Australia.”

— Jeff Lawrence , ACTU Secretary, July 2010

“Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.”

— Richard Iannelli
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