Yesterday I woke before dawn and drove (with a tall, 5-pump vanilla latte from Starbucks in the center console drink holder of my car) under cloudy skies to Claremont, where for the better part of the day I sat in a theater at Claremont Graduate University, listening to a dozen of the most respected names in positive psychology present their ideas ( Read more... )

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Always cite your sources: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/957894?page=1

I don't know where the following quotes come from originally but they are all on the above website, listed as belonging to Albert CamusWith that said, and noting that without a source ( Read more... )

"This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in ( Read more... )

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

"If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained."

-- Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

My eyes divide the sky
As sirens sound in heaven
My will brings down the moon
And shatters it to pieces

-- Assemblage 23, Divide

"It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt."

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

-- Neil Gaiman, Fables & Reflections

"Life is really wonderful," said Neil ( Read more... )

If you haven't yet seen the documentary called The Human Footprint, I highly recommend it. Here's the National Geographic website that includes information about it as well as supplementary info. It really gives you insight to just how much STUFF each and every one of us uses, on average,from the day we're born to the day we die, in our lifetime in ( Read more... )