From Leadership Wired volume 10, Issue 12

“There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.”
~ Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom; mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
~ Lao Tzu

“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a whole life’s experience.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Action

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“Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

“What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”

~ John Ruskin

“I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not.”

~ Lucille Ball

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”

~ Conrad Hilton

“Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”

~ Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C.

..become a person of value

“Don’t try to become a person of importance. Try to become a person of value.” Albert Einstein

....reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

Do not depend on the hope of results.
You may have to face the fact that your work will be
apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all,
if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect.
As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to
concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness,
the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and
less for an idea and more and more for specific people.
In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that
saves everything.

--Thomas Merton

....Beyond all and in all is God.

Either you look at the universe as a
very poor creation out of which
no one can make anything, or you look
at your own life and your own part in
the universe as infinitely rich, full of
inexhaustible interest, opening out
into the infinite further possibilities for
study and contemplation an praise.
Beyond all and in all is God.

Thomas Merton 17.07.1956