may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that
Lucille Clifton
[Optimism] is not about providing a recipe for self-deception.
The world can be a horrible, cruel place,
and at the same time it can be wonderful and abundant.
These are both truths.
There is not a halfway point;
there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground.
Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Progress doesn't come from early risers—
progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
Religion will not regain its old power
until it can face change
in the same spirit as does science.
Its principles may be eternal,
but the expression of those principles
requires continual development.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World