Quotes to ponder

I haven't done it for a while, so I'm going to send you some of the quotes from my box of quotes Ann Overton and the Mastery Foundation gave me.

Print them out, if you like, to spend a few days pondering and wondering and learning from and being inspired by them.

"A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops."
                                                          --Amos Oz

"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."
                                                          --Steven Wright

"The future is not someplace we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination."
                                                          --John Schaar

"This God's mission, to help human beings, every human being, to progress from slavery to freedom. This is the mission of culture and education. And all the rest is interpretation."
                                                           --Rabbi Ofek Meir

"We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future."
                                                          --Marge Piercy


"Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery."
                                                           --Ludwig Wittgenstein


"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
                                                           --William Butler Yeats


"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness.
               To prove the thing exists.
And however futile each individual act of courage
             or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace--
               it still proves the thing exists.
                      Each act adds to the fund."
                                                            --Josephine Hart


"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worst, to avoid trouble."
                                                          -- Mohandas Gandhi

"May God bless you 
 with enough foolishness
   To believe that you can
     make a difference in the world,
So that you co what others
    claim cannot be done."
                                                          --From a Fanciscan Benediction

"Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing."
                                                           --Eugene Ionesco

Enjoy being with them. And be thankful you are.