Wonder, Innovation, Happiness

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
~ Robert Fulghum

The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
~ Tom Peters

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.
~ Anonymous

Simplicity, Mythology, Patriots

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
~ Groucho Marx

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to
believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
~ Douglas Adams

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing
for their country.
~ Bertrand Russell

Man enough, Unreasonable, Depression

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is
to be man enough to stand up.
~ Robert A. Heinlein (Between Planets)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
~ George Bernard Shaw

A new study shows that licking the sweat off a frog can cure
depression. The down side is, the minute you stop licking, the frog
gets depressed again.
~ Jay Leno

Hunger, certain Patriots, Uniqueness

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~ Mother Teresa

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
~ Henry A. Wallace

If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and approves of you, then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness and, therefore, your excellence.
~ Anonymous