Words for My Soul

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
- Evan Esar

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.
- Don Marquis

“Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.”
-Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935); poet, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes

“Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.”
-Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876), philosopher

“When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.”
-Stedman Graham (b. 1951); speaker, author, educator, businessman

“Example has more followers than reason.”
-Christian Nestell Bovee; author

“A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.”
-Plutarch (46-137), historian, biographer, essayist

“We need not think alike to love alike.”
-Francis David (1510-1579), clergyman

“The average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.”
-Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) industrialist, businessman, philanthropist

“Therefore hold to the things which are reliable. Look to simplicity; embrace purity; Lessen the self; diminish desire. ”
-Laozi; ancient Chinese philosopher, central figure in Taoism