“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not lead single-issue lives.” - Audre Lorde

To strengthen an economic system means agents in system must explore, test boundaries. Not the consultants nor the policy makers. The entrepreneurs. - Shawn Cunningham

"Tell me and I will forget, show me and I might remember, involve me and I will understand." - Confucius

"We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration" - Josefa Iloilo

"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." - African Proverb

"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value." - Jim Rohn

Forgiveness is not true compassion - Krishnamurti

Forgiveness is not true compassion
What is it to be compassionate? Please find out for yourself, feel it out, whether a mind that is hurt, that can be hurt, can ever forgive. Can a mind that is capable of being hurt, ever forgive? And can such a mind which is capable of being hurt, which is cultivating virtue, which is conscious of generosity, can such a mind be compassionate? Compassion, as love, is something which is not of the mind. The mind is not conscious of itself as being compassionate, as loving. But the moment you forgive consciously, the mind is strengthening its own center in its own hurt. So the mind which consciously forgives can never forgive; it does not know forgiveness; it forgives in order not to be further hurt.
So it is very important to find out why the mind actually remembers, stores away. Because the mind is everlastingly seeking to aggrandize itself, to become big, to be something When the mind is willing not to be anything, to be nothing, completely nothing, then in that state there is compassion. In that state there is neither forgiveness nor the state of hurt; but to understand that, one has to understand the conscious development of the 'me'.
So, as long as there is the conscious cultivation of any particular influence, any particular virtue, there can be no love, there can be no compassion, because love and compassion are not the result of conscious effort.

J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life

"At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable." - Christopher Reeve

“Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people’s opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!” - Steve Maraboli

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people, to focus your energies on answers, not excuses." - William Arthur Ward

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." - Maya Angelou

"A Bad System Will Beat a Good Person Every Time" - W. Edwards Deming

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." - Peter T. Mcintyre

"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth." - Aesop

"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid." - Goethe

Quotes on how systems work by Humberto Maturana

"A living system, due to its circular organization, is an inductive system and functions always in a predictive manner: what happened once will occur again. Its organization, (genetic and otherwise) is conservative and repeats only that which works. For this same reason living systems are historical systems; the relevance of a given conduct or mode of behavior is always determined in the past."

"Coherence and harmony in relations and interactions between the members of a human social system are due to the coherence and harmony of their growth in it, in an ongoing social learning which their own social ( linguistic) operation defines and which is possible thanks to the genetic and ontogenetic processes that permit structural plasticity of the members."

"By organization Maturana refers to the relations between components that give a system its identity, that make it a member of a particular type. Thus, if the organization of a system changes, so does its identity. By structure Maturana means the actual components and relations between components that constitute a particular example of a type of system. The organization is realized through the structure, but it is the structure that can interact and change. So long as the structural changes maintain the organization, the system’s identity remains." - John Mingers about Humberto Maturana

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” - Mary Radmacher

Quotes from the TV series, Criminal Minds, series 4-7

The quotes are from series 4 to series 7. The full list is available at the Criminal Minds wiki page here.

"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical" - Blaise Pascal

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure." - Tacitus

"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions." - Mildred Listette Norman

"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn." - C.S. Lewis

"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one other it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden." - Budhha

"We all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin." - André Berthiaume

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible.” - Thomas A. Kempis

"What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do." - Aristotle

Quotes from the TV series, Criminal Minds, series 1-4

The quotes are from series 1 to series 4. The full list is available at the Criminal Minds wiki page here.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him." - Euripides

"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind." - Robert Oxton Bolton

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." - Fredrich Nietzsche

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent"- Mahatma Gandhi

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." - Francois de la Roche Foucauld

"It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." - Rose Kennedy

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars." - Khalil Gibran

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light" - Plato

"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always." - Mahatma Gandhi

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." - G.K. Chesterton

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He's simply the acceptable face of invading realities." - Clive Barker

"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.” - Frank Miller

"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.” - John Steinbeck

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another." - Antole France

"The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic." - Voltaire

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell." - Thomas Fuller

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles..." - Mark Twain

"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett

“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.” - Mahatma Gandhi

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it" - Helen Keller