Persons and societies

"Persons and societies do not submit passively to surroundings and events. They make choices as to the places where they live and the activities in which they engage -- choices based on what they want to be, to do and to become. Furthermore, persons and societies often change their goals and ways; they can even retrace their steps and start in a new direction if they believe they are on a wrong course. Thus, whereas animal life is prisoner of biological evolution which is essentially irreversible, human life has the wonderful freedom of social evolution which is rapidly reversible and creative. Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny."

-- Rene Dubos

Give of yourself

Give of yourself as the Angels do, and wonderful things will come to you.

~Ramadan

Experience is

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

~unknown

Do you really want

"Do you really want to look back on your life
and see how wonderful it could have been
had you not been afraid to live it."

~ Caroline Myss

The traditions of our people

The traditions of our people are handed down from father to son. The Chief is considered to be the most learned, and the leader of the tribe. The Doctor, however, is thought to have more inspiration. He is supposed to be in communion with spirits... He cures the sick by the laying of hands, and payers and incantations and heavenly songs. He infuses new life into the patient, and performs most wonderful feats of skill in his practice.... He clothes himself in the skins of young innocent animals, such as the fawn, and decorated himself with the plumage of harmless birds, such as the dove and hummingbird ...

~Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute, (1844-1891)

Though they are so great

Though they are so great, so glorious, so pure, so wonderful, that the very sight of them (if we were allowed to see them) would strike us to the earth, as it did the prophet Daniel, holy and righteous as he was, yet they are our fellow-servants and our fellow-workers, and they carefully watch over and defend even the humblest of us.

~Cardinal Newman

If only

If only I could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to accomplish anything.

~unknown

I've had

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

~Groucho Marx

Too much

Too much a good thing can be wonderful.

~Mae West

I've had

I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it.

~Groucho Marx

I don't want

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

~Marilyn Monroe

From what I can tell

From what I can tell, God is particularly averse to the concept of the free ride, and he goes to great lengths to make sure that people who have settled comfortably into their wonderfully-fulfilling-lives-which-are-ultimately-to-be-rewarded-with-a-trip-to-heaven get their reality check.

~Grace Gibson