Dan Hussain

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -- Marianne Williamson (A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Ch. 7-3)

He who has a why, can endure any how. — Friedrich Nietzche

In order to succeed, you must be willing to fail. — Anonymous

Even a fool knows that you can not touch the stars, but that does not stop a wise man from trying. — Anonymous

If we are to achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible; if we are to become all that we can be, we must dream of being more. — Gale Baker Stanton

The present is but a fleeting moment; tomorrow will prove the reality of our determination. – Tom Becket

Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality. –Dalai Lama

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. — W. Shakespeare

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. — Charles du Bois

There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in the moment. — Shunryu Suzuki

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
– Lao Tzu

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has
seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986)

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful;
he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in�it because it is beautiful.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth�knowing, and if nature
were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
— Henri Poincare.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense. — Pierre-Simon de Laplace

Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein

Know then theyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Placed on this isthmus in a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the skeptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic’s pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a God, or beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die; and reas’ning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little or too much;
Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused, or disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great Lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
– Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Essay on Man, Ep. II, 1, 1-18

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing.
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing
than to have answers which might be wrong. I have
approximate answers and possible beliefs and different
degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not
absolutely sure of anything and there are many things
I don’t know anything about…
– Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

In these darkened rooms, where I spend
oppressive days, I pace to and fro
to find the windows. — When a window
opens, it will be a consolation. –
But the windows cannot be found, or I cannot
find them. And maybe it is best that I do not find them.
Maybe the light will be a new tyranny.
Who knows what new things it will reveal.
– Constantine P. Cavafy (1903)

[Ghosts] are un-sci-en-ti-fic. They contain no matter and have no energy
and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in
people’s minds…. Of course the laws of science contain no matter and have
no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people’s minds.
– Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

it is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
– ursula le guin

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle
of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer
wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead.
We all had this priceless talent when we were young.
But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist
never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence
of his being.
– Hans Selye (1907-1982)

Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though chequered by
failure, than to dwell with those poor souls in that perpetual
twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
– Teddy Roosevelt

It is because science is sure of nothing that it is always advancing. — Emile Duclaux (1840-1904)

A paradox is truth standing on its head to attract attention. – Nicholas Falletta

i believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge–
that myth is more potent than history.
i believe that dreams are more powerful than facts–
that hope always triumphs over experience–
that laughter is the only cure for grief.
and I believe that love is stronger than death.
– the storyteller’s creed

We may or may not be majestic as a species,
but if one considers an astronomer sitting alone
on a cold night at a telescope on a mountain top,
one must conclude we are certainly obsessed with
knowing what and where we are.
– Anonymous

Geological time inspires awe, and there are no
certainties about the future, but perhaps it is
almost certain that someday they will collect
our skulls and call us Early Man.
– Anonymous

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life
when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be
enthusiastic about.
– Charles Kingsley

The failure to teach the presence of absolutes and truth in our schools is
what is primarily responsible for the education disaster that nearly
everyone now sees or forecasts for the near future…. If a philosophy and
worldview once produced generations of young people who could read, write,
and think while resisting, for the most part, the temptation to engage in
anti-social and personally corrupting behavior, why doesn’t it make sense
to return to that philosophy and reject the one that has brought us crack
cocaine in the school yard and drive-by shootings at the playground?
– Cal Thomas

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime, therefore we
must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes
complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be
saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone;
therefore we must be saved by love.
– Reinhold Niebuhr

False facts are highly injurious to the progress
of science, for they often long endure; but false
views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm,
as everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving
their falseness.
– Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something! — Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

He who would do good to another must do it in
Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea
of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer; for
Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely
organized Particulars.
– William Blake (1757-1827)

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to�you.
The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen – your values and choices.
That which happened by accident – what family you were born into, in what country, and where
you went to school – is totally unimportant.
– Ayn Rand

Happiness is knowing you don’t matter, but living as if you do. — Anonymous

In the perfect world, the best of us would become teachers, and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. — Anonymous

To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition;
to wait on divine Love; to write truth first on the tablet of one’s own heart -
this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
— Mary Baker Eddy

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
– Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

Hence the great civilizing influence of capital, its production of a stage of society compared to which all earlier stages appear to be merely local progress…
– Karl Marx

I can pretend that things last.
I can pretend that lives last longer than moments.
Gods come, and gods go.
Mortals flicker and flash and fade.
Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust…
But I can pretend
— Neil Gaiman (Destruction to Morpheus in Brief Lives)

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
— Richard Feynman (speaking in regard to the Challenger explosion)