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“If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people, you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.” Thomas Merton  

“Humankind seems to teeter between hubris and paranoia: the hubris of our ever-growing power contrasts with the paranoia that we’re permanently and increasingly under threat. At the zenith we realise we have to come down again…we know that we have more than we deserve or can defend, so we become nervous. Somebody, something is goingContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #357”

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”  Pope John XXIII via Philip Humbert

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

“There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.” Leo Tolstoy

“I don’t have any regrets at all. I tell my daughters that all the time – ‘don’t look back. You’ll only trip over’.” Sir Michael Caine

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake” Aristotle 2016 #25

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”  Thomas Edison   2016 #4