John Saward's Sandbox

Random Quote

By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

— Sri Aurobindo

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Each day

Live each day as if it were your last...one day you will be right

— Leo Buscaglia

I wish to learn

A man came to Libnani, a Sufi teacher, and this interchange took place: Man: "I wish to learn, will you teach me?" Libnani: "I do not feel that you know how to learn." Man: "Can you teach me how to learn?" Libnani: "Can you learn how to let me teach?"

— (Libnani)

Knocking at God's door

I have lived on the lip of insanity, knocking at God's door. The door opens. I have been knocking from inside

— Rumi

Jobs of angels

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

— Brian Andreas

1000 miles

I never ran 1000 miles. I could never have done that. I ran one mile 1000 times.

— Stu Mittleman, World Record Holder for Ultra-Distance running

Time

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us

— Max Frisch

The next thing

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this .... I can take the next thing that comes along'.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

How?

How can people and computers be connected so that — collectively — they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?

— Basic research question of MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Where you are

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to start where he was.

— Lao-Tzu

Friend

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

— Emo Phillips