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(Barry Lopez)

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Life changing, life sustaining words

Proverbs and Quotes... Culture's collected wisdom is often packed into short, pithy statements told over and over again. Add to this the wisdom of those who speak for and out of a culture and seek to pass on life changing, life sustaining words. These words shape and become part of our stories.  

Please add to this post the words and quotes that you feel have shaped your life and identity. We start with a sharing by Jeremy Compagno, student in the International Business Management Program at IAE in Aix-en-Provence, France, who found this quote from Martin Luther King an important motivator in his life:

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree Bro', yes Bro' !! ;-)

March 24, 2009 at 8:31 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Carl Gustav Jung

... So every time we judge someone we should wonder why we do so, no matter hard it is when we think we are right.

Marie de Saint-Seine

March 24, 2009 at 8:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

'Two heads are better than one, even if they are cod's heads.' Courtesy of my Grandmother.

October 30, 2009 at 1:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

… Come, my friends,
‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles……

Ulysses, by Alfred Tennyson

January 5, 2010 at 4:03 AM  

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