Great Quotes

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."--Mahatma Gandhi

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.  For, indeed, that's all who ever have." --Margaret Mead

As you may already know, I am a big fan of

Henry David Thoreau

"Our life is frittered away by detail..."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.  I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary.  I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life..."

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names...It looks poorest when you are richest.  The faultfinder finds faults even in paradise.  Love your life, poor as it is.  You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.  The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode..."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

"Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains."--Jean Jaques Rousseau, Du Contrat Social

"For in time from things falsely good there must result a true evil."--Aristotle, The Politics

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