When chaos breaks out, I stand calm and confident, knowing that something beautiful will emerge beyond what I could have imagined or planned.
Patricia A. Wilson, The Heart of Community Engagement

Markus

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Dale Carnegie

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Baruch Spinoza

The harder it is to make a decision, the closer to equivalent your options are. The hardest decisions are often the most inconsequential. Michael

Markus

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

William Penn

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. Seneca

Markus

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Xenophon

The world is full of wonder; you must only look up to see it!
Ben Gillison

Markus

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Josh Billings

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal

The greatest pleasure of the single life is freedom. Once you're free, you feel like a bird; fly when you want to, and chirp when the feeling takes you.
Shuping Wu, Single in the City

Markus

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

Now is the time to dedicate yourself to life and no more copy and paste.
I. H. Elyonor, Translingual

Markus

"Loose lips sink ships"

and

"The walls have ears".

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

George Santayana