Look at anyone over 40 and you know they will be spending ever increasing time on the idea of their non-existence - Alain de Botton http://twitter.com/alaindebotton
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant - Robert Louis Stevenson
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel - Maya Angelou
If somebody kept a very accurate record of a human being, going through the era from the Gay '90s, from a very different kind of world through the turn of the century—as far into the twentieth century as you might live. I decided to make myself a good case history of such a human being and it meant that I could not be judge of what was valid to put in or not. I must put everything in, so I started a very rigorous record -Buckminster Fuller, Oregon Lecture #9, p.324, 12 July 1962[1]
I decided to leave a gift for others who would come later and be interested in quantum physics. And, as I did, I began to realise that while I was writing this book I was excited and fulfilled and engaged, and my life was meaningful and electric. And when I wasn't feeling those things, I was frightened, angry, bitter, jealous, resentful and a victim again. And I set the intention to live my life the way this book was being written: spontaneously, intelligently, and joyfully. And writing that book was a leap across a chasm, and I didn't know that I leaped and I didn't know even know the chasm was there. But when I was on the other side, I realised that the chasm was there and it's the chasm between thinking and doing. It's the chasm between inspiration and acting on your inspiration. And having acted, having done something, having contributed to the world, I found myself in another place. It was the difference between taking and giving. And my anger, my addictions didn't disappear for years but I had that experience in my life as a benchmark. And my life continued to change...put me in new territory, into a new consciousness - the consciousness of giving - Gary Zukav, December 2003 issue of Science of Mind magazine (www.scienceofmind.com) - http://www.mitchhorowitz.com/gary-zukav.html
Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms - up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested - probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name. So we are all reincarnations - though short-lived ones. When we we die our atoms will disassemble and move off to find new uses elsewhere - as part of a leaf or other human being or drop of dew- Bill Bryson
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree - Martin Luther King Jr.
Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown - Chinese proverb
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant - Robert Louis Stevenson
Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are - Nkosi Johnson, a Zulu boy who died of AIDS, aged 12