What is man without

What is man without the beasts if all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

~ Chief Seattle

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An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

~ Carl Gustav Jung

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.

~ Washington Irving

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

~ Oscar Wilde

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.

~ James Magary

When we extend ourselves to another human being in any way at all, when we positively touch the life of one person, we benefit the whole of humanity.

~ Gail Pursell Elliott

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

~ James Earl Jones

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

~ Henry Havelock Ellis

Never use the word “impossible”. Throw it into the verbal waste bucket.

~ Unknown

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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