Martin Luther King, Jr. on Progress

A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
April 4, 1967

Source: hartford-twp.com

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Scott Memmer on Skidding

Look where you want to go, and not at what you might run into. One big mistake novice drivers make is to focus on obstacles.... Unfortunately, the human body has an invisible connection with the mind. When the mind focuses on something, the body follows. Don't do that. Instead, direct your attention to the open space next to the tree. The body -- and car -- will follow.

Scott Memmer
Here's Looking at You, Skid
Driving Tips at Edmunds.com

Source: edmunds.com

Joseph Campbell on Perspective

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

Joseph Campbell from Sukhavati
 
Source: goodreads.com

Joseph Campbell on Living

People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

Source: sapphyr.net

Benjamin Franklin on Resolution

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Benjamin Franklin

Source: thinkexist.com

Khalil Gibran on Character

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Khalil Gibran

Source: thinkexist.com

Reality TV Wisdom: Shear Genius

I'm from Colorado, the higher the hair, the closer to God.

On modernizing a classic Dolly Parton hair design

Matthew
Shear Genius, March 24, 2010
Bravo, Reveille Productions

Tony Robbins on Change

Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.

Tony Robbins

Source: twitter.com/tonyrobbins

Bill Clinton on Hindsight

I found Rahm. I created him. I made him what he is today. I am so sorry.

Bill Clinton
Regarding White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel
at the 125th annual Gridiron Club Dinner, March 20, 2010

Source: huffingtonpost.com

Reality TV Wisdom: Holmes on Homes

If I had a money tree, you already cut it down.

Homeowner Jennifer in Pasedena, CA
Regarding a conversation with her original contractor

Holmes on Homes, Pasadena 911
HGTV, Make It Right Productions

Television Rewind

As always, should you or any of your IM force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck, Jim. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds.

The Voice on the Tape to Jim Phelps (Peter Graves)
Mission: Impossible, 1967 - 1973
Created by Bruce Geller
 
Thank you, Peter Graves, 1926 - 2010
 
 
Source: imdb.com

Dave Barry on Housework

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

Dave Barry

Source: quotegarden.com

Deepak Chopra on Meditation

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It's a way of entering into the quiet that's already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.

Deepak Chopra

Source: catanna.com

Andrew J. Holmes on Humility

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Andrew J. Holmes
Wisdom in Small Doses, published in 1927

Source: quotegarden.com

Albert Einstein on Opportunity

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Source: wisdomquotes.com