I collect quotes that resonate with me for some reason. I put them here. I’ve just updated my collection.

-“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry~

“Every cell in your bloodstream is less than 28 days old (with the exception of a small number of memory B and T lymphocytes — part of the adaptive immune system). Even among those persistent memory cells, the individual biomolecules of which they are comprised will be turned over within a period of hours to months.Pretty much all the cells in your body — except for the central nervous system and some components of the immune system — are less than a decade old. Even among those that are long-lived, it’s a case of George Washington’s Axe: two handles and three axe-heads later a case can be made that they’re not the same. You are nothing more and nothing less than a copy of yourself.” ~Charlie Stross~

- Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day to day living that wears you out.”~Anton Chekhov~

- “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” ~Marcus Aurelius~

- “Love is being stupid together.” ~Paul Valery~

- “From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.” ~Jimmy Reid~

- “Health is a characteristic which emerges from living in a fair and civilized society” ~Harry Burns~ (Chief Medical Officer for Scotland)

- “Now the names of these new Distempers are the Strong Fives, the Moon-pall, the Marthambles, and the Hockogrocle. Although the Names, Natures, Symptoms and several cures of these New Diseases are altogther Unknown to our greatest Physicians, and the particular knowledge of them would (if conceal’d) be a vast advantage to the aforesaid person; yet he, well knowing that his country’s good is to be prefer’d to his private interest, doth hereby promise all sorts of People, a faithful cure of any or all of the Diseases aforesaid, at as Reasonable Rates as our modern Doctors have for that of any common Distemper. ” ~Dr. Tufts~

- “To serve educational needs, without regard to the vulgar irrelevancies of class and income is part of a teacher’s honour.” ~R.H. Tawney~

- “Everyone must have two pockets, with a note in each pocket, so that he or she can reach into the one or the other, depending on the need. When feeling lowly and depressed, discouraged or disconsolate, one should reach into the right pocket, and, there, find the words: ‘For my sake was the world created.’ But when feeling high and mighty one should reach into the left pocket, and find the words: ‘I am but dust and ashes.’” ~Simcha Bunim~

- “What does the Lord require of you? Only this: to do justice, to love kindness, to walk humbly with your God.” ~Micah 6.8~