Living, Pigs, Be Kind

Everything that lives, Lives not alone, nor for itself.
~ William Blake

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
~ Winston Churchill

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~ Plato

Play, Patriotic grace, Kindness...

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
~ Plato, Greek philosopher

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.
~ Peggy Noonan (Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now)

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
~ Jerry Seinfeld

No comparisons

Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
~ Advice

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
~ Plato

Dwell in possibility.
~ Emily Dickinson

of knowledge and learning

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

~ Plato

"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?"

~ Cicero