"Systems are not in Nature, they are in the mind of humans"
— Claude Bernard
"Try and leave this world a little better than you found it."
— Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell
"The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares"
— Edward Abbey (A Voice Crying in the Wilderness)
"The pleasure we derive from a journey is more dependent on the mind-set we travel with than on the destination we travel to."
— Alan Rabinowitz.
"If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest-in all its ardor and paradoxes-than our travels."
— Alain de Botton
"The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room"
— Blaise Pascal
"I am not an optimist neither am I a pessimist. I am a very serious possibilist."
— Hans Rosling
“Early childhood intervention that enhances self-control is likely to bring a greater return on investment than harm reduction programs targeting adolescents alone”
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserves your love and affection."
— Buddha (via willw2)
