#193 Responsible Advocacy

We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged. ~ Bill Clinton

- To what extent has the Internet and social media enhanced societal values?
- How can you contribute to its positive role?

William Shakespeare: 20 Enduring Quotes

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright and is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets.

Where does one begin creating a list of memorable lines from his immortalized plays? Rather than choosing some of the famous longer passages, I have selected some shorter lines which provide some perspective on human nature:

-Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

-A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

-This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

-How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world.

-It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

-Wisely and slow, they stumble who run fast.

-Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

-If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

-Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

-In time we hate that which we often fear.

Selected by quoteflections.

-Everything that grows holds in perfection but a moment.

-Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

-What is past is prologue.

-In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty.

-Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

-Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.

-Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

-Expectation is the root of all heartache.

-Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.

-Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

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#192 Infinite Yes

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings

- What yeses surround you?

#191 A Life of Action

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. ~ Thomas Jefferson

#190 Excel in the Excellent

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ~ Epictetus

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful for other persons. ~ Aristotle

- At what things do you excel?
- How can you use these gifts to enrich not only yourself but others?

#189 20 years from now

20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one’s you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Mark Twain

- How disappointed are you by the things you didn't do over the last 20 years?
- How happy are you about what has transpired?
- What are several aspirations on your 'bucket list'?

#188 Go Back to Self

This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Smile, breathe and go slowly. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

- How often do you 'lose yourself'?
- What brings you back?
- What helps you to achieve contentment and personal peace?

#187 Reverse the Degradation

Willful waste brings woeful want. ~Thomas Fuller

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. ~ Mason Cooley

With each passing day, it is becoming increasingly clear that the strategy of environmental exploitation that characterized the 20th century is reaching the end of its natural life. We are in the early stages of a transition from an attitude that, in Herman Daly's felicitous phrase, 'treats the Earth like a business in liquidation' to one that is committed to preserving the planet's 'natural capital.' The principle underlying this shift is really quite simple: if we want a high quality of life for ourselves and future generations - a high quality of life in all its senses - we cannot continue to degrade the quality of the natural systems of which we are a part. ~ Carl Frankel