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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, magic and power in it.  Begin it now. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)

 

By thought, I embrace the universal.  (Blaise Pascal)

 

I think, therefore I am.  (René Descartes)

 

Paradise is where I am.  (François Voltaire)

 

Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of anew work, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument. (Francis Bacon)

 

To find yourself, think for yourself.    (Socrates)

 

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.  (Aristotle)

 

In everything natural, there is something marvelous.  (Aristotle)

 

Learn to be silent.  Let your quiet mind listen and absorb. (Pythagoras)

 

Our life is what our thoughts make of it.  (Marcus Aurelius)

 

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.  (Marcus Aurelius)

 

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me, and the moral law within me.  (Immanuel Kant)

 

Uttering a true sentence changes the world.  (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

 

It takes a whole village to raise a child.  (African proverb)

 

You will see with clear vision only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outward, dreams;  who looks inward, awakens.  (Carl Jung)

 

Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years  ago....Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.  (Carl Jung)

 

Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.  In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.  (Erich Fromm)

 

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

 

To obtain a vision of Beauty and Divinity, each man should begin by making himself beautiful and divine.  (Plotinus)

 

It is obvious that invention or discovery, be it in mathematics or anywhere else, takes place by combining ideas.  (Jacques Hadamard.)

 

All things are for the sake of good and the good is the cause of everything beautiful.  (Plato)

 

There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed." (John Keely)

 

I firmly believe that everything in the universe is interconnected, that knowledge is one. (Isaac Asimov)

 

JOY!