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Not all of the quotes are from Unitarians, but they all reflect Unitarian values.
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Worth Thinking About - February 2012
- “To help the young soul, add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Unitarian Minister
- “It’s the optimists that get things done.” - George Takei (b. 1937)
- “People of accomplishment rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” - Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
- “Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.” - Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)
- “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” - Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)
- “One kind word can warm three winter months.” - Japanese proverb
- “My convictions have validity for me because I have experimented with the compounds of ideas of others in the laboratory of my mind. And I’ve tested the results in the living out of my life.” - Robert Fulghum (b. 1937), Unitarian Minister
- “My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.” - Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977)
- “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman (1899-1981)
- “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- “The future is still so much bigger than the past.” - Tim Berners-Lee (b. 1955), Unitarian
- “In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus (1913-1960)
- “Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.” - R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), Unitarian
- “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” - Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you have imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Unitarian
- “Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.” - Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), Unitarian
- “Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt.” - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
- “So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
- “What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.” - John Ruskin (1819-1900)
- “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” - Seneca (5 BC-65 AD)
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