List of Quotations

Here is a huge list of all the quotations used on this site, by author.

• “Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear, positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.” -- Mark Victor Hansen
  
  
• “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• “We live in a time when there is so much distrust between those different from ourselves. Racism, religious intolerance, homophobia - all (of which are) symptoms of a lack of vision. I pray for the day we will be judged not by our skin color, gender, what gender we choose to make love to, or how we praise God, but by our integrity and contribution to our fellow man.” -- Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk
  
   The Dallas Morning News, January 8th, 2006
  
  
• “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  
  
• “Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.” -- Mason Cooley (1927-2002)
  
   U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989)
  
  
• “I really loved the book and I am now taking the necessary steps to live my life in the How Life Really Works way. THANK YOU SO MUCH!” -- Matt Grieve, Carnoustie, Scotland, UK
  
  
• “Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.” -- Maurice Maeterlinck
  
  
• “Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.” -- Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
  
  
• “Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take calculated risk - and to act.” -- Maxwell Maltz
  
  
• “Slumber not in the tents of your fathers! The world is advancing. Advance with it!” -- Mazzini
  
  
• “God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction.” -- Meister Eckhart
  
  
• “Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.” -- Merry Browne
  
  
• “The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.” -- Michel de Montaigne
  
  
• “Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.” -- Mignon McLaughlin
  
  
• “If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it but if the step is only a tiny one, don't worry if it is the largest one now possible.” -- Mildred McAfee
  
  
• “Religion can be defined as a system of beliefs and practices by means of which a group of people struggles with the ultimate problems of human life.” -- Milton Yinger
  
  
• “Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.” -- Mme. Du Deffand
  
  
• “Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.” -- Napoleon Hill
  
  
• “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” -- Napoleon Hill
  
  
• “A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.” -- Neale Donald Walsch
  
  
• “A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.” -- Neale Donald Walsch
  
  
• “And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.” -- Neale Donald Walsch
  
  
• “And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.” -- Neale Donald Walsch
  
  
• “Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.” -- Neale Donald Walsch
  
  
• “I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way'.” -- Neale Donald Walsch
  
  
• “FEAR is an acronym in the English language for "False Evidence Appearing Real"” -- Neale Donald Walsch
  
  
• “I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.'” -- Neale Donald Walsch
  
  
• “Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that -- it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.” -- Noam Chomsky
  
  
• “Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.” -- Nolan Bushnell
  
  
• “The power to fit in with one’s social peers can be irresistible. To a human lemming, the logic behind an opinion doesn’t count as much as the power and popularity behind an opinion.” -- Norman Livergood
  
  
• “Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.” -- Norman Vincent Peale
  
  
• “People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.” -- Oliver Goldsmith
  
  
• “A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.” -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
  
  
• “It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
  
  
• “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” -- Oprah Winfrey
  
  
• “The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.” -- Paul Kurtz
  
  
• “I am absolutely stunned by How Life Really Works. Although some things I have read from other sources, lots of other things like the 'marriage con' are totally new. Yet as I read it I know instinctively that every word is true. Other things I think I secretly already knew, but could not bring myself to admit before. My eyes (and mind) are becoming clearer with each issue. Like a fog lifting. Many thanks for everything and especially for making this information available to all.” -- Paul White, London, UK
  
  
• “Politician, flag & priest. In all the world I love them least. When nations wage their bloody wars, 'tis they alone have been the cause.” -- Pete Smith
  
  
• “If what is spoken about in How Life Really Works is true, then its brave author, has, knowingly put himself at considerable risk to a world that is going down a path of no return. For no Government likes to hear the truth.” -- Peter Fischer, Sydney, Australia
  
  
• “If I had known about How life Really Works before I made some of the major decisions in my life, I would have avoided much pain and conflict. How life Really Works makes you think and question everything, which is its ultimate goal, for sleeping people are easy to control. I can't recommend this book highly enough.” -- Peter Fischer, Sydney, Australia
  
  
• “I’d like to say a very special Thank-you to Michael for bringing out in the open what I have and I’m sure a very many others have deeply felt for numerous decades at varying levels of awareness.
  
  It was not until further investigation and study of what it has to offer did I realize it is founded for the purpose of an honest & free search for truth.
  
  More importantly it’s been built in such a way that encourages people to THINK, DO and take RESPONSIBILITY for themselves, instead of being led into deeper and deeper levels of slavery by outmoded and unsuitable methods such as a Monarchy, Globalization of Business or Government influenced solely by Economic Values which you pay for with your precious time and money.
  
  If what is spoken about in How Life Really Works is true, then its brave author, has, knowingly put himself at considerable risk to a world that is going down a path of no return. For no Government likes to hear the truth. There is no-one more so on this planet that would wish these “world concerns” would be anything but what they are, than its very founders.
  
  This inherently demonstrates the honesty that is automatically built into How Life Really Works from its founding as a “self checking” mechanism unlike any other organization I have known. “Well-off” free people (so to speak) don’t normally volunteer their free time to become involved in efforts such as this without very good reasons. That reason for me is truth, honesty, justice, morality and a deep sense of responsibility towards the well being of our earth.
  
  In order to achieve freedom, one must first be aware of the fact that 99% of us in the so called democratic free world aren’t free including me. The first step is to become aware of this fact and how it is possible. The next is to read this book which brings together a host of issues that should be continuously thought about and consistently challenged against ones own life and beliefs to remain meaningful and more over, lead you to the people, tools and a proven courses of action you can take to loosen yourself from the shackles you may think you don’t have.
  
  How Life Really Works shows you pathways how to enrich your love life, survive and be wealthy, protect, guidance, learn truths, love and be free to participate in life with a renewed passion unlike anything you will have witnessed before.
  
  How Life Really Works is like taking both the blue pill and the red pill at the same time. You are still free to believe what you like (that is, accepted as you are) whilst they show you the consolidated realities in the world by having an open mind and how you can change or improve on them. How Life Really Works has both inspired and shown me how to walk the steps to freedom and what I need to be aware of during this process.
  
  If I had known about How Life Really Works before I made some of the major decisions in my life, I would have avoided much pain and conflict. How Life Really Works makes you think and question everything, which is its ultimate goal, for sleeping people are easy to control. I can’t recommend this book highly enough.” -- Peter Fischer, Sydney, Australia
  
  
• “When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.” -- Peter O' Tool
  
  
• “Be kind.
  Everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.” -- Phyllos
  
  
• “Nature and wisdom never are at strife.” -- Plutarch
  
  
• “No one is thinking if everyone is thinking alike.” -- Porter B. Williamson
  
  
• “When we come in this world, we're given seeds.
  There is the seed of anger, but there is also a seed of kindness.
  There is a seed of love and a seed of understanding.
  Whatever seed you have sown in your garden of life is what you're
  going to sit under to rest.
  
  You have the intelligence to choose what will benefit you the most.” -- Prem Rawat
  
  
• “Having lived in a world where my opinions were considered "not worth listening to" and having had seriously frustrating thoughts about society, How Life Really Works is extremely hard to digest. My suspicious mind is boggled by the fact that there was merit in my suspicions. I am still trying to assimilate these truths with a rebellious mind. Do you realise how hard it is to accept that I may have been right in my suspicions all along?! When you have been considered a trouble maker for many years because you would not go with the flow and accept things you knew instinctively to be wrong, it is mind blowing to become enlightened. THANK YOU” -- Rae A Astbury, Attleboro, MA, USA
  
  
• “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “"I am" is the name of God.
  God is none other than the Self.” -- Ramana Maharshi
  
  
• “Did St. Francis really preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.” -- Rebecca West
  
  
• “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” -- Rich Cook
  
  
• “Here is the test to find if your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.” -- Richard Bach
  
  
• “Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” -- Richard Bach
  
  
• “My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.” -- Richard Branson
  
  
• “The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.” -- Richard Francis Burton
  
  
• “The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.” -- Rick Warren
  
  
• “I personally admit that your material did shock me... but then as you have said yourself, for a significant change to take place in life some paradigms have to be shifted and re-hashed... for people who refuse to believe there can be no proof... and for those who believe there need not be any. You are doing a job which is really incredible and thought-provoking. Keep up the good work and thanks very much again.” -- Ricky Priest, USA
  
  
• “A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.” -- Robert Bolton
  
  
• “Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -- Robert Heinlein
  
  
• “One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.” -- Robert Heinlein
  
  
• “To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  
• “Losers visualize the penalties of failure and winners visualize the rewards of success.” -- Rod Gilbert
  
  
• “I want to thank you for having me "on-board" and for keeping me up to date with your information. What I've read so far is vital information, necessary for the well-being of the Human Race.
  
  Personally, I've known about this information for many years and have searched for answers, to questions, that were not readily available in today's world. Like you, I like getting to the source of the problems surrounding us today. You can't fight a fire by spraying water at the tip of the flame, we need to get to it's source if we are to win. People, today, are deprived of the overall picture and scheme of things. Without knowing our past, we cannot see the future. It has helped me tremendously! Again, Thank you for the GOOD work!” -- Rodney Wayne Estes, Columbia, Missouri USA
  
  
• “There is a parallel universe that exists 180 degrees to the one in which our minds currently reside, and it can be accessed in 10 seconds. The necessary change is psychological. However, to perform this miracle, it is necessary to understand the forces that bind you in this present realm of existence.
  
  As near as I can discern, the author of How Life Really Works has effectively learned how to step outside this anti-civilization bubble where everyone is being pushed from side to side, never knowing what is going on, or who is pulling the strings, and view it from outside the bubble looking in.
  
  Be prepared to have you paradigm challenged, but stick with it. Don’t over-analyze, and don’t be concerned about things you don’t understand immediately. Stick with it to the conclusion and the pieces of the puzzle should snap into place.” -- Ron Robinson, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
  
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• “When you are physically 'stuck', remember that you are still spiritually FREE.” -- Ros Stiles
  
  
• “What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.” -- Saint Augustine
  
  
• “Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.” -- Saint Basil
  
  
• “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” -- Salvador Dali
  
  
• “A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.” -- Samuel Butler
  
  
• “I always knew there was more to life, there simply had to be. You showed me just how much I had been missing. Thanks to you, I'm having fun again and I'm more confident. Your system really works!” -- Samuel Hollings, Los Angeles, California
  
  
• “To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.” -- Samuel Johnson
  
  
• “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.” -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  
  
• “A truly good physician first finds out the cause of the illness, and having found that, he first tries to cure it with food. Only when food fails does he prescribe medication.” -- San Ssu-Mo, Tang Dynasty (618-907AD)
  
  
• “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.” -- Sandra Carey
  
  
• “No man was ever wise by chance.” -- Seneca
  
  
• “No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.” -- Seneca
  
  
• “For the record, I turned 48 in September. For 44 years I've been asking "Why?" Why is the World the way it is, and who am I within this. In this time, I graduated from the Global to the personal "Why" and what I could do to change "it". I believed, until recently, that I could not be happy, free or fulfilled, unless everyone else was.
  
  How Life Really Works really helped me move forward. I accept that the world is hardly anything to do with me really; I didn't think of, nor was I consulted on the unfairness, injustice, exploitation and sheer nastiness imposed on basically creative and loving beings that we are.
  
  I have spent a lifetime in conflict with others, for what I perceived to be our collective benefit. No more. The sheep love the pen, but the sword is mightier and this book paves the way for those brave hearts to reclaim their sword, reclaiming their power, as free individuals answering to a higher authority. Self actualisation, self responsibility.
  
  Anyone who has been asleep will wake up through this book and my wish for them is that they will find their own path to freedom, as I am finding mine and be encouraged that, whilst our paths are unique, we are working together.
  
  Maybe the World will change by our examples, maybe it won't. It's really none of our business. My business is my life, my love, my freedom and my joy and I wish you all well and may YOUR business flourish.” -- Serena G Martin, London, England
  
  
• “The first few chapters have been nothing new to me; been there, done that. I knew it was speaking of everything that I'd learned for myself and would be of great value to others for which this might have been 'news'. However the second half of How Life Really Works really helped me move forward. I accept that the world is hardly anything to do with me really; I didn't think of, nor was I consulted on the unfairness, injustice, exploitation and sheer nastiness imposed on basically creative and loving beings that we are. I have spent a lifetime in conflict with others, for what I perceived to be our collective benefit. No more. The sheep love the pen, but the sword is mightier and How Life Really Works paves the way for those brave hearts to reclaim their sword, reclaiming their power, as free individuals answering to a higher authority. Self-actualisation, self-responsibility.
  
  Anyone who has been asleep will wake up through this book and my wish for them is that they will find their own path to freedom, as I am finding mine and be encouraged that, whilst our paths are unique, we are working together. Maybe the World will change by our examples, maybe it won't. It's really none of our business. My business is my life, my love, my freedom and my joy and I wish you all well and may YOUR business flourish.” -- Serena G. Martin, London, UK
  
  
• “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” -- Shakespeare - Hamlet
  
  
• “The one "I am" at the heart of all creation, Thou art the light of life.” -- Shvetashvatara Upanishad
  
  
• “Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.” -- Sigmund Freud
  
  
• “If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it.” -- Sir Joshua Reynolds
  
  
• “The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism.” -- Sir William Osler, M.D.
  
  
• “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.” -- Sir Winston Churchill
  
  
• “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” -- Socrates
  
  
• “And in knowing that you know nothing, makes you the smartest of all.” -- Socrates
  
  
• “All I know is that I know nothing.” -- Socrates
  
  
• “The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” -- Solomon Ibn Gabriol
  
  
• “Much wisdom often goes with brevity of speech.” -- Sophocles
  
  
• “The burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness.” -- Sosan, The Third Zen Patriarch
  
  
• “The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.” -- Spinoza
  
  
• “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am in, therewith to be content.” -- St. Paul
  
  
• “It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it, and appropriately act on it.” -- Stephen Covey
  
  
• “I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.” -- Susan B. Anthony
  
  
• “In our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering.” -- T.S. Eliot
  
  
• “Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” -- T.S. Elliot
  
  
• “Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.” -- Teilhard de Chardin
  
  
• “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” -- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
  
  
• “Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.” -- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
  
  
• “Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day.” -- Thaddeus Golas
  
  
• “As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.” -- The Buddha
  
  
• “Hatred is not appeased by hatred in this world. By love alone is it appeased. This is a law Eternal.” -- The Buddha
  
  
• “"Are you a God?" they asked the Buddha.
  "No," he replied.
  "Are you an angel, then?"
  "No."
  "A saint?"
  "No"
  "Then what are you?"
  Replied the Buddha, "I am awake."” -- The Buddha
  
  
• “All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.” -- The Buddha Guatama
  
  
• “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” -- The Dalai Lama
  
  
• “My religion is kindness.” -- The Dalai Lama
  
  
• “We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.” -- The Dali Lama
  
  
• “Those wise ones who see that the consciousness within themselves is the same consciousness within all conscious beings, attain eternal peace.” -- The Upanishads
  
  
• “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” -- Theodore Roosevelt
  
   Sorbonne, Paris - France, April 23rd, 1910
  
  
• “Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes that it is water.
  At that moment, all fear of death disappears.” -- Thich Nhat Hanh
  
  
• “Tolerance and tranquillity are two characteristics of true love.” -- Thich Nhat Hanh
  
  
• “Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.” -- Thomas A. Edison
  
  
• “The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man.” -- Thomas Carlyle
  
  
• “This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.” -- Thomas Carlyle
  
  
• “I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” -- Thomas Carlyle
  
  
• “Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.” -- Thomas Dewar
  
  
• “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” -- Thomas Edison
  
  
• “Vision without execution is hallucination.” -- Thomas Edison
  
  
• “Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.” -- Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
  
   British philosopher. From the dedication, in De Cive (1642)
  
  
• “The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” -- Thomas Huxley
  
  
• “Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.” -- Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• “The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.” -- Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• “You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” -- Thomas Wolfe
  
  
• “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” -- Thoreau
  
  
• “Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.” -- Tyron Edwards
  
  
• “The big print giveth, and the small print taketh away.” -- Unknown
  
  
• “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” -- Ursula Le Guin
  
  
• “Truth never plays false roles of any kind, which is why people are so surprised when meeting it. Everyone must decide whether he wants the uncompromising truth or a counterfeit version of truth. Real wisdom consists of recommending the truth to yourself at every opportunity.” -- Vernon Howard
  
  
• “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one’s own way.” -- Victor Frankl
  
  
• “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” -- Victor Hugo
  
  
• “We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances — to choose one’s way.” -- Viktor Frankl
  
  
• “Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” -- Vincent Van Gogh
  
  
• “Do not look at the deeds of others, but be worthy masters of your own.” -- Vissarion
  
  
• “Is there anyone so wise as to learn from the experience of another?” -- Voltaire
  
  
• “Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!” -- W. Clement Stone
  
  
• “Our mind is of 3 categories: what we know, what we don’t know, and what we don’t know we don’t know. Not knowing is unfortunate; not knowing that we don’t know is tragic.” -- W. Erhart
  
  
• “All our dreams can become realized if we have the courage to pursue them in spite of our fears.” -- Walt Disney
  
  
• “Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul.” -- Walt Whitman
  
  
• “It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.” -- Walter Lippman
  
  
• “Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.” -- Walter Savage Landor
  
  
• “Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.” -- Wayne Dyer
  
  
• “There is something I do not know, the knowing of which could change everything.” -- Werner Erhard, founder of "The Forum"
  
  
• “Can we afford to be so arrogant as to pretend we know something we don’t know, the knowing of which could transform our lives?” -- Werner Erhard, founder of "The Forum"
  
  
• “What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” -- Werner Heisenberg
  
   Physics and Philosophy, 1963
  
  
• “Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.” -- Will Durant
  
  
• “The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.” -- William Burnham
  
  
• “The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” -- William Hazlitt
  
  
• “Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretences to both.” -- William Hazlitt
  
  
• “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” -- William James
  
  
• “The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.” -- William James
  
  
• “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” -- William Jennings Bryan
  
  
• “Michael, So far as I have read, all are true, and facts are evident. This is a logical view of truth over the brainwashed public. I highly recommend its content for a straight forward look at reality, and not a false sense of living in an unreal or imagined world as is accepted by non thinkers at this time. Even though I have been aware and authored an unpublished book of these very thoughts on reality, your revelations are more than welcome in my library of fact vs fiction.
  
  My impatience to continue with your expose' is hardly bearable, keep it coming. All Respect and love for all your efforts in an ever changing world of deceit. Your dedicated pupil...” -- William Joe Shaw, Cherokee Village, AR, USA
  
  
• “When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.” -- William Joseph Slim
  
  
• “The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.” -- William Penn
  
  
• “The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.” -- William Ralph Inge
  
  
• “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” -- William Shedd
  
  
• “Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.” -- Winston Churchill
  
  
• “We make a living from what we get;
  we make a life by what we give.” -- Winston Churchill
  
  
• “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.” -- Winston Churchill
  
  
• “But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.” -- Yossie Klein Halevi
  
  

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