Fear, Arrogance, Genius

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
~ Peter McWilliams

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public
debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be
tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be
curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work,
instead of living on public assistance.
~ Cicero - 55 BC

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Advancement, Play, Caring

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been
sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful,
rebellious, and immature.
~ Tom Robbins ,author

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of
whatever a body is not obliged to do.
~ Mark Twain, author

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,
a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~ Leo Buscaglia

Smile, Pain, Saving graces

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your
smile can be the source of your joy.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our
pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is
his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
~ C.S. Lewis

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Therefore, we are
saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense
in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore,
we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the
standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are
saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr