Choosing to remain polite when someone is rude is choosing happiness and peace over stress and conflict.

“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.” Vernon Howard

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

‎"The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day." -Anne Lamott

Saying that global warming isn't happening because you're getting colder is like standing at the stern of the Titanic and saying that it can't be sinking, because you're getting higher.

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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert F. Kennedy,

""You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
--R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

"Seek those who seek the truth, but flee from those who have found it."