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“The human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it.”

“They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue…”

— Rollo May

“Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.”

— Rollo May

“Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.”

— Rollo May

“We must bring three parts in four of the treat along with us — In short we must be happy within — and then few things without us make much difference — This is my Shandean…”

— Laurence Sterne

“Opinion leads us by the ears, the eyes, — and, I had almost said, by the nose. It warps our understandings, confounds our judgments, dissipates experience and turns our passions…”

— Laurence Sterne

“Generosity and courage are associate virtues; and the character which possesses the former, must, in the nature of mental arrangements, be adorned with the latter.”

— Laurence Sterne

“We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted…”

— Laurence Sterne

“I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pester’d the world ever convince me to the contrary.”

— Laurence Sterne

“When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.”

— Laurence Sterne

“’Tis a quiet journey of the heart in pursuit of Nature, and those affections which arise out of her, which make us love each other,—and the world, better than we do.”

— Laurence Sterne

“I don’t believe in optimism. I believe in optimal behavior. That’s a different thing.”

— Ray Bradbury

“I like to play. I’m interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Libraries raised me. I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember.”

— Ray Bradbury

“You must never receive a gift, ever, without returning the gift twice over.”

— Ray Bradbury

“We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.”

— Paul Tillich

“Faith is the most centered act of the human mind.”

— Paul Tillich

“There's just one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in Opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found…”

— John Galsworthy

“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a…”

— John Galsworthy

“How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least…”

— John Galsworthy

“Being a leader is an awesome responsibility. There are days when it can be frightening to know that the fate of the organization rests on your shoulders.”

— William H. McRaven

“Why is there a reluctance to be the face of the solution? Because if you are going to be the face of the solution, it likely means you had a hand in the problem.”

— William H. McRaven

“As a leader you can't have a bad day. You must never look beaten, no matter the circumstance.”

— William H. McRaven