“The ultimate measure of a person is not where s/he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where s/he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The ultimate measure of a person is not where s/he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where s/he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
-R. Buckminster Fuller
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
-William Blake
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world… indeed, it is the only thing that ever has!”
-Margaret Meade
“I had five upscale restaurants in the city. I only have two left. They’re in Little Italy. One of them is the largest in the city—21,000 square feet. I’m about to close them at the end of the year.”
“Why?”
“Because I don’t feel cooked food is good for us. Live raw food is what’s best for us. I don’t believe in cooked food anymore.”
So said Sal Anthony as I was sampling one fo the best raw chocolate bars I’ve ever eaten in his new organic Raw Vegan Restaurant in Union Square, NYC. Read the rest of this entry »
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I never see what has been done. I only see what remains to be done.”
-Buddha
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in–forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Only you can give yourself permission to be happy. We grow up when we realize that no one else is going to tap us on the shoulder and say, ‘Now you have done enough so you can be happy.’ Take a deep breath and make the decision that you will connect with your own happiness for the next five minutes. At the end of this time, make the commitment for the next five minutes, and then the next. Know that your ability to be happy lies within you, only you, and is not dependent on your circumstances.”
-Judith Hanson Lasater