The Power of Myths

 "We are accustomed to think of myths as the opposite of science.  But in fact they are a central part of it: the part that decides its significance in our lives.  So we very much need to understand them.  Myths are not lies.  Nor are they detached stories.  They are imaginative patterns, networks of powerful symbols that suggest particular ways of interpreting the world.  They shape its meaning." - Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By

Use of Satire

 "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them." -- Thomas Jefferson

Success

 "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill 

Radical Empathy

  "Radical empathy, on the other hand, means putting in the work to educate oneself and to listen with a humble heart to understand another's experience from their perspective, not as we imagine we would feel. Radical empathy is not about you and what you think you would do in a situation you have never been in and perhaps never will.  It is a kindred connection from a place of deep knowledge that opens your spirit to the pain of another as they perceive it."   -- Isabel Wilkerson, from Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent

"We are Our Choices"

"We are our choices."

"Man in condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.  It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."

"Freedom is what you do with what is done to us."

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

Direction of Your Thoughts

 "Your life is always moving in the direction of your strongest thoughts." – Craig Groeschel

Eat the frog first ...

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”  - Mark Twain

Impossible?

 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." - Louis D. Brandeis, 20th-century US Supreme Court Justice

The Education of an Englishman

 "We think in generalities, but we live in detail." - Alfred Whitehead, The Education of an Englishman, 1926

Hope's two daughters

 "Hope has two daughters; their names are Anger and Courage.  Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are."  - Augustine of Hippo