#1078 Big with wonder

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.  ~ Ray Bradbury

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.  ~ Ansel Adams

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.  ~ Thomas Aquinas

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.  ~ Rollo May

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.  ~ Mason Cooley

Quotes about myths

- What big dreams may you share?
- What myths and creeds convey truths?
- What shapes your beliefs?

#1077 A profound effect

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

Emotion is contagious.

Achievement is talent plus preparation.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

- When have you observed the tipping point in action?
- What skill(s) have you polished through thousands of hours of practice?
-  What subtlety do you need to think about?
- With what values and people do you surround yourself? 

#1076 Fear in a Handful

Watch my dust.   ~ Babe Ruth

Dust webbed the window and the showtrays. Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails. Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones.  ~ James Joyce

Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease.   ~Israelmore Ayifore

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.  ~ Benjamin Franklin

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.  ~ T. S.Eliot

(Quotes about dust.)

- Where do you show resolve?
- What benefits do you provide on your daily journey?
- What is your attitude to death?

#1075 Our true destiny

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places. David W. Orr

The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.

Quotes by David Orr

- When have you been actively involved in a worthwhile cause?
- How can you contribute in a meaningful way in your community? 

#1074 Too caught up

In the end, just three things matter:

How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go.

You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without."

If your compassion does not include yourself, then it is incomplete.

Quotes by Jack Kornfield

- How well have you lived?
- How well have you loved?
- How well have you learned to let go?

#1073 Forward toward growth

Self- actualizing people must be what they can be.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

What is necessary to change about a person is to change his awareness of himself.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

 Quotes by Abraham Maslow

- To what extent are you what is within?
- What skills and interests have you developed?
- What are the diverse ways to solve a problem?
- Where lies growth for you?

#1072 The secret of life

I have a new philosophy.  I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Oh yes, I'm at my happiest when I have a good idea and I'm drawing it well, and it comes out well and somebody laughs at it.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.

 Quotes by Charles Schulz

- What do you dread about life?
- How much value is there to have no purpose, direction, aim, or meaning?
- When are you happiest?