“Watch your thoughts; they become words.

Watch your words; they become actions.

Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits; they become character.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen.

There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.”

~ Frank Outlaw

There are four means by which we can bootstrap ourselves toward happiness through purposeful action. These include:

• Deep love and family commitment
• Meaningful work and career
• Social and political involvement
• Transcendency and spirituality

 ~ Alexander Green

“Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident.”

~ Nancy Kerrigan

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” 

~ Anatole France

“There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one’s maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.”

~ Philip Guedella

All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.

~ Jean Goss

“Without AMBITION one starts nothing. Without WORK one finishes nothing. The prize will NOT be sent to you. You have to WIN it. The man who knows HOW will always have a job. The man who also knows WHY will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but PRINCIPLES are few. The man who grasps PRINCIPLES can successfully select his own METHODS. The man who tries METHODS, ignoring PRINCIPLES, is sure to have trouble.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

— time is a tree (this life one leaf)

but love is the sky and i am for you

just so long and long enough

— ee cummings, “as freedom is a breakfast food”

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

~ Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)