Meet David Spoey

“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." --Albert Einstein

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." --Henry Miller

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw

“What luck for the rulers that men do not think." --Adolph Hitler

“Experience is not what happens to you - it's how you interpret what happens to you." --Aldous Huxley

“Those who make peaceful reform impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." --J. F. Kennedy

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." --Martin Luther King

“It's never too late to be what you might have been." --George Elliot

“Life's like a movie; write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending..." --Jim Henson

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." --William Blake

“When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect." --Peace Pilgrim

“Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love." --Lao Tsu

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." --Euripedes

“The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity." --Ludwig Wittgenstein

“When we love, we are the universe and the universe lives in us." --O. Pirmez

“Ships are safe within the harbor, but is that what ships are for?"

“Opinions founded on prejudice are always defended with the greatest violence." --Hebrew proverb

“Man has no body distinct from his soul; for that called body is a portion of soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age." --William Blake

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." --Douglaus Everett

“A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed... When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic." --Dresden James

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." --Robert A. Heinlein

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." --Phyllis Diller

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." --George Bernard Shaw “All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." --Johann von Goethe

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart." --Helen Keller

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." --Nietzsche

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." --Frank Outlaw

“Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing... just expressed differently." --Robert McPhillips

First the energy of God descends upon the Earth, then it pretends whatever it wants to be, then it ascends back to its source. You are God pretending to be whatever you are right now. Do you understand what this means? You have allowed yourself to descend, but by pretending to be less than what you are, you have not ascended back to God." --Thomas (Indigo Child)

“Wisdom is knowing what path to take next... Integrity is taking it." --Robyn Elprehzleinn

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." --Meister Eckhart

“Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow--it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it." --Shakti Gawain

“We see things not as they are, but as we are." --H.M. Tomlinson

“It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." --Adler

“I hear and forget. I see and remember. I do and I understand." --Confucius

“Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them."" --William Blake

“The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation." --William James

“Intuition is not contrary to reason, but outside the province of reason." --Carl Jung

“The great mass of people more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a minor one." --Adolph Hitler

“You can discover what your enemy fears most by what he uses to frighten you." --Eric Hoffer

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." --Albert Einstein

“Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all." --Helen Keller

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." --Soren Kierkegaard

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility." --Henry Longfellow

“To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions." --Eckhart Tolle

“When you look at the long history of man, you see that more hideous crimes have been comitted in the name of obedience than have been comitted in the name of rebellion." --C. P. Snow

“Nothing happens unless first a dream." --Carl Sandburg

“If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful." --C. S. Lewis

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." --Mother Teresa

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." --Goethe

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." --Goethe

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it?"

"Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you." --Pericles

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change - and to preserve change amid order" --Alred North Whitehead

“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear." --Michel de Montaigne

“The only stupid question is one not asked."

“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." --Henri Poincare

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." --Carl Jung

“Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box."

“Wisdom begins in wonder." --Socrates

"He who dares nothing need hope for nothing."

"Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in our own." --Adam Gordon

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure - than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt

“God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you." --St. Bernard of Clairveux

“If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others." --Dalai Lama

“Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own." --Chinese proverb

“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks." --Will Durant

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --George Bernard Shaw

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer injury to our self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their self-importance, learn so easily; and why older people, especially if vain or arrogant, cannot learn at all." --Thomas Szasz

“When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane."

“This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." --William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

“Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic" -- Werner Ehrhart

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt

“The best way to know God is to love many things." --Vincent Van Gogh “It takes more courage to alter an opinion than to stick with it."

"Ex
pecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." --Shari R. Barr

“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." --Robert Service

“Persistence. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." --Calvin Coolidge (President USA)

“Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other gold."

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." --Chinese Proverb

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." --Galileo Galilei

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"Life isn't measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away."

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." --Albert Einstein

“Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing." --Guy Kawasaki

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." --Plutarch

“The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and the pig enjoys it."

"An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true."

"Years ago, my momma taught me that two wrongs don't make a right - but I soon figured out that three left turns do." --Jim Hightower

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."

"If you lend someone $25 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it."

“If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each guest has been sent as a guide from beyond." --Rumi

“All of life is a near-death experience."

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." --William James

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." --Teilhard de Chardin

"Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit." --Napoleon Bonaparte - stated near the end of his life

“My religion is simple, my religion is kindness." --Dalai Llama

“Life is what happens when you are making other plans." --John Lennon

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
--Mother Teresa

“Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." --Mark Twain

“There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre." --Heraclitus

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." --Cherokee Expression

“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."