System

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."
-Peter Drucker

Talent

"A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage...The fact is that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can."
-Sydney Smith

Colors

"As a child you were taught to see the world in geometric shapes and primary colors. It was as if the adults needed to equip you with more accomplishments. ("She knows her colors!") Then you had to spend the rest of your life unlearning them. That was life, as near as she could tell. Making everything simple for the first ten years, which in turn made everything more complicated for the subsequent seventy."
-Ann Brashares  Girls in Pants

Change

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
-Anatole Frances

Friends

"In friendship… we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years difference in the dates of our birth, a few more miles between certain houses, a choice of one university instead of another… —any one of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly, no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, “You have not chosen me,but I have chosen you,” can truly be said to every group of Christian friends, “You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.” The friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauty of others."-C.S.Lewis

Height

"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but on has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know."

~Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue

Beliefs

"A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition."
-Jose Bergamin