#1044 To forgive all

-Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

-An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

-Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

-I put the words down and push them a bit.

 -Words should be an intense pleasure, just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

-To understand all is to forgive all.

Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

-  How often do you feel squeezed by the past and future?
- What wonderful constructions have you enjoyed by an artist? (art, writing, craft, etc.)
- How much do you understand?  Forgive?

#1043 Among the winds

-If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

-Light tomorrow with today.

-My sun sets to rise again.

-What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

-The little cares that fretted me,
I lost them yesterday
Among the fields above the sea,
Among the winds at play.

Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

- How much desire do you have for something to believe in?
- How much light do you have today?
- How do you lighten your cares?

#1042 Get used to it

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Life is not fair; get used to it.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Quotes from Bill Gates 

- What are several problems in our world?
- What general solutions might begin to alleviate these problems?
- Why be wary of success?
- How does one cope with the unfairness of life?

#1041 Wider than our views

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

- What lives within you?
- What foundations are you building?
- What need we learn from nature and the universe?

#1040 Make one music

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.

The greater man, the greater courtesy.

Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

I am a part of all that I have met.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Let knowledge grow from more to more,
But more of reverence in us dwell;
That mind and soul, according well,
May make one music as before,
But vaster.

Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

- How much change in the world have you noticed?
- What positive change might you seek?
- How much have your mind, heart,  and soul grown in harmony?

#1039 Taught me to understand

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Quotes by Charles Dickens

- When has your heart been hardened?
- How did you revive your warm heart for yourself/ for others?
- To whom could your heart be extended?

#1038 Desire to achieve

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

 The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

 Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

 A creative person is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

 Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Quotes by Ayn Rand

- How do you keep your fire burning?
- What do you hope to achieve?
- What small steps can you take to get there?