YOU: Pondering the Journey

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance.

The second you get to travel you see that human beings no matter where they come from, they are the same.


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We are reduced to some abstract notion, when you call a whole country "axis of evil," or fanatics, or terrorists or whatever, after a while people forget that these are people you are talking about, they are human beings.

- Marjane Satrapi
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions,

perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

- Henry David Thoreau

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One cannot do right in one department of life

whilst doing wrong in any other department.

Life is one indivisible whole.

- Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in time,
matter, and energy,
which make up the whole of the world.

I believe in reason, evidence and the human mind,
the only tools we have;
they are the product of natural forces
in a majestic but impersonal universe,
grander and richer than we can imagine,
a source of endless opportunities for discovery.

I believe in the power of doubt;
I do not seek out reassurances,
but embrace the question,
and strive to challenge my own beliefs.

Found at a Blog. Blogger unknown.

I accept human mortality.

We have but one life,
brief and full of struggle,
leavened with love and community,
learning and exploration,
beauty and the creation of
new life, new art, and new ideas.

I rejoice in this life that I have,
and in the grandeur of a world that preceded me,
and an earth that will abide without me.

The second half of the Blog above.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.

But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes,

but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

- Helen Keller