You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
What one can be, one must be!
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Self-actualized people. . . live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
I had never experienced anything like it before and I don't think I have experienced anything like it since [on Ruapehu]. It was my dreams coming true in a way, and from there on I tended to become more of a doer than a dreamer.
When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.
So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong. . . But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.
Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life.