#1058 Put there a Spark

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

To accomplish great things one must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.

Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things.  Awaken people's curiosity.  It is enough to open minds; do not overload them.  Put there just a spark.  If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

The Truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter and that is everything.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Quotes by Anatole France

- What are your imperfections?
- When have you been sparked by some skilful writing or speech?
- Could you add several more adjectives about what life is?

#1057 Remember your humanity

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Remember your humanity and forget the rest.

Quotes by Bertrand Russell

- What is an important bridge for you to cross?
- What important problem needs a solution?
- How can you enrich your humanity?

#1056 Steps on the path

 In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

We're all just walking each other home.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Quotes by Ram Dass

- How can you be an encouragement for others?
-What message about life might you find today?
-How accepting are you of what life brings?

#1055 Dwell upon excellencies

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the listening earth
Repeats the story of her birth.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

- To what extent have you defined a worthy purpose for your life?
- How has education enriched your life?
- What good can you spread in small ways?

#1054 An act of courage

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Quotes by Seneca

- What lessons have you learned about living?
- How will you live your life today?

#1053 Between receiving and giving

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

The best that mankind ever knew:
Freedom and life are earned by those alone
Who conquer them each day anew.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Quotes by Goethe

- What is your perception of the world?
- How readily do you share what is on your heart?
-Why does one need imagination to understand reality?
-How balanced is your receiving and giving?

#1052 The same question

In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.

Potential has a shelf life.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

Quotes by Margaret Atwood

- For what do you yearn?
- Where lies your potential?
- What question dominates your life?