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| INSPIRATION | ||
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Here
are some of my favorite quotes. I feel they can be reliable and useful
sources of inspiration and insight in our daily lives.
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"If you treat an individual as he is,
he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought
to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet; dramatist; and philosopher "We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way." Viktor Frankl (1905), Austrian psychiatrist and author "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "If we always do what we always did, we'll always get what we always got." Anon "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." William James (1842-1910) American Psychologist and Philosopher "Real human freedom is the ability to pursue between the events of our lives and choose how we will respond." Rollo May "Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day." Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself "To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self. . . . And to venture in the highest sense is precisely to become conscious of one's self." Soren Kierkegaard "He who is not being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan ". . . the passions that enslave us, the hidden motives that can pervert us, and the illusions that can blind us." Douglas Labier, Modern Madness: The hidden Link Between Work and Emotional Conflict "The nature of every bureaucracy is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and this to dehumanize them." Hannah Arendt, A Report on the Banality of Evil: Eichmann in Jerusalem "We all surrender some part of our personality to the organization. . . The important thing is not so much the organization's pressures as the need to be aware of them. What's devastating is the number of people who find organization ideas superior to their own. They surrender and they enjoy it." John Kenneth Galbraith "When we express our true nature, we are human beings. When we do not, we do not know what we are. We are not an animal, because we walk on two legs. . .we may be a ghost; we do not know what to call ourselves. Such a creature does not actually exist." Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind "Only when a man makes use of his power of self-awareness does he attain to the level of a person, to the level of freedom. At that moment he is living, not being lived." E. F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed "It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor." Edmund Spenser "Intellectually, people may aspire for emancipation or enlightenment but emotionally they love small bondages around them. . . They feel satisfied by knowing about liberation, reading about it, imagining it. They feel satisfied about this because the word "Liberation" has it's own intoxication, the emotional feel about the meaning of the word has an intoxications." Vimala Thakat, "Set Them on Fire" A Portrait of a Modern Sage "Truth and change have a powerful similarity. They both deal with a constantly unfinished task. It is the perennial pursuit of this unfinished task to which both the philosopher and the chief executive must be directed." Theodore Levitt, Marketing for Business Growth "The only way out is through." Robert Frost, Poet and author "I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes within. It is there all the time." Anna Freud "If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." Thomas Edison "Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tide and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." Teilhard De Chardin
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