The World's Future Lies In ALL The World's Children

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- Victor Hugo

It takes a village to raise a child.
- Nigerian proverb

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
- Frederick Douglass

Education is the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
- Abraham Lincoln

Our worst crime is abandoning the children...
Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot.
- Gabriela Mistral

Further reading: The Test is How We Care for Society's Children

Honor the Children

Feed the Children

Teach by Example

God's Children
    

Fear, NO! Kindness, Science and Progress, YES!

Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage

There are no constraints on the human mind,
no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our
progress except those we ourselves erect.
- Ronald Reagan

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas
as in escaping from old ones.
- John Maynard Keynes

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Incite a riot of new ideas.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Further reading: A Better Plan

Choice vs. Conformity

Flexibility

Progress
      

Welcome New Ideas

I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas
as in escaping from old ones.
- John Maynard Keynes

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no constraints on the human mind,
no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our
progress except those we ourselves erect.
- Ronald Reagan

Incite a riot of new ideas.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Choice vs. Conformity

Progress

A Better Plan 

Flexibility
      

Our Future is the World's Children

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela

Education is the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
- Abraham Lincoln

It takes a village to raise a child.
- Nigerian proverb

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- Victor Hugo

Our worst crime is abandoning the children...
Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot.
- Gabriela Mistral

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
- Frederick Douglass

Further reading: Honor the Children

The Test is How We Care for Society's Children

Feed the Children

God's Children

Teaching by Example
    

Force

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,
it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
- David Friedman

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Don't fight forces, use them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Though force can protect in emergency,
only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation
can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Force always attracts men of low morality.
- Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Further reading: The Oak and the Reeds - a fable by Aesop

Use and Misuse of Power

Don't Struggle

Aesop: Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail

Live Softly

The Sailboat Metaphor

A Shared Dream

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

We are each of us are angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius

Individual commitment to a group effort -
that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Imagine what you could accomplish if you enrolled others into your dream. The world changes when people of vision and commitment create an infectious enthusiasm for their ideas. What is your great idea whose time has come?

Today's affirmation:
I feel unity with Spirit and with all that is.
My life is richer for sharing my being with all those I meet.
Each experience, however it appears at the time,
highlights and strengthens the fabric of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Power of Teamwork

Win-Win vs. Compromise

William Arthur Ward

My Personal Greatest Hero

Progress

Cooperation

Everything Happens In Its Own Time

Everything happens in its own time.
- old proverb

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

Keep moving.
Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Nature does not hurry,
yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Further reading: 12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Go With the Flow - Six Ways to Live a Happier Life

Have Patience

Never Give Up on Life

Just Do Your Best

Fortitude

Progress

Patience

Time

New Ideas

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain

I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage

New ideas pass through three periods:
1) It can't be done.
2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing.
3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
- Arthur C. Clarke

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas
as in escaping from old ones.
- John Maynard Keynes

Incite a riot of new ideas.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind

Be True to Yourself

Be Adaptable

Progress

Ideas

Adapt

Move Forward

The Past

Beauty is whatever gives joy. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is whatever gives joy. - Edna St. Vincent Millay 

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka 

  To love beauty is to see light. - Victor Hugo 

 We are blessed to experience nature's paintbox. 

 Further reading: CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Life is magnificent - just as it comes.

Victor Hugo quote: An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

What new ideas are you resisting? What traditions are you clinging to? What would be possible if you opened yourself to inspiration without reservation?

Affirmation: I am unlimited. I am unstoppable.


Further reading: Resilience is about believing in yourself, and trusting your own wisdom rather than being swayed by the opinions of others. - jlh