WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING "The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein "If there is no struggle, there can be no progress."  - Fredrick Douglas “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” - Beverly Sills “Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.” - William Lamb “Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is to live everything.  Live the questions now.  Perhaps you will then gradually without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” - R. M. Rilke “Sometimes it proves the highest understanding is not to understand.” - Baltasar Gracian “Every man is a damn fool for at least 5 minutes everyday; wisdom consists of not exceeding that limit.” - Elbert Hubbard "Experience is not what happens to you;  it is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley "The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define." - C.S. Lewis “We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.” - Rutherford Rogus "Truth telling is important, but the telling of truth does not mean the fixing of it.  When truth is fixed it becomes dogma."  - Samara "Just don't expect to be free from the consequences of what you do, while doing what you want." - Isabelle Holland (Man without a face)   KINDNESS “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless.” - Mother Teresa “When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.” - Reshad Field “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.” - Johann Goethe “Trust and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.” - Ralph Emerson AND THEN SOME... “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” - Emily Dickinson “Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time.  Some people bear 3 – all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.” - Edward E. Hale "Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for the bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move thee stars to pity." - G. Flaubert “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to learn the appreciation of honset critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden path or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” - Ralph Emerson