It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment and the courage to pay the price. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing, open always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. – Morris West

“You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” — Patrick Ness

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” – Buckminster Fuller

One of the most important skills this century: Learning how to learn

“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” — Carl Jung

“You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.” – Buckminster Fuller

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller

“Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.” – Gregory Bateson

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later… Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.” — Mary Hunter Austin