“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.” – Abraham Lincoln, December 1862
“Life is not linear. It’s organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to circumstances they help to create for us.”
“It’s about passion and what excites our spirit and our energy. And if you’re doing the thing you love to do that you’re good at, time takes a different course entirely.”
“If you’re doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you’re doing something that doesn’t resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.”
“We have built our education systems on the model of fast food; everything is standardized. It’s impoverishing our spirits and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.”
“We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it’s an organic process. You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.”
“Had I the heavens embroidered cloths and wrought with gold and silver light of blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light the half light I would spread the cloths under your feet, but I being poor have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” – William Butler Yates
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