Considerations

The following quotes are from Napkin Notes: On the Art of Living by Gary Michael Durst, Ph.D., pp. 220-224:

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
— Albert Einstein

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
— John B. Sheerin

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
— Benjamin Franklin

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Without going outside, you may know the whole world. Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know.
— Lao Tzu

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of normal man.
— R.D. Laing

I am an optimist. It does not seem much use to be anything else.
— Winston Churchill

Face the simple fact before it becomes involved.
Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
The most involved fact in the world
Could have been faced when it was simple.
The biggest problem in the world
Could have been solved when it was small.

The simple fact that he finds no problem big
Is a sane man's prime achievement.
— Lao Tzu

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
— Epicurus

And only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous: to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.
— Dorothy Thompson

The Universe is not to be narrowed down to the limits of the understanding, which has been man's practice up to now, but the understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.
— Francis Bacon

The fool who knows he is a fool is that much wiser. The fool who thinks he is wise is a fool indeed.
— Buddha