Speaker 1

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” — Simone Weil

“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.” — Oscar Wilde

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” — Tennessee Williams

Speaker 2

“We live by stories we tell ourselves.” — Joan Didion

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” — Yann Martel

“The map is not the territory.” — Alfred Korzybski

Speaker 3

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” — Mary Shelley

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” — Pablo Picasso

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.” — Arthur Rimbaud

Speaker 4

“Fear is interest paid on a debt you may not owe.” — John Maxwell

“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation.” — John Dewey

“What is not brought to consciousness returns as fate.” — Carl Jung

Speaker 5

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other.” — Roland Barthes

“A good traveler has no fixed plans.” — Lao Tzu

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” — Plato

Speaker 6

“Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.” — Peter Elbow

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

“Vision without execution is hallucination.” — Thomas Edison

Speaker 1

“Live in fragments no longer.” — Anaïs Nin

“The present changes the past.” — Jorge Luis Borge

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

Speaker 2

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” — John Lennon

“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.” — Seneca

“The act of paying attention is a form of resistance.” — Rebecca Solnit

Speaker 3

“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” — George Bernard Shaw

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou

“Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.” — John Ruskin

Speaker 4

“Freedom lies in being bold.” — Robert Frost

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” — Rumi

“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

Speaker 5

“Man is condemned to be free.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” — Charles Kettering

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” — Henri Bergson

Speaker 6

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.” — Isak Dinesen

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” — Rudyard Kipling

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

Speaker 1

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.” — Augustus Hare

“The most radical thing you can do is be yourself.” — bell hooks

“Chaos is a friend of mine.” — Bob Dylan

Speaker 2

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms.” — Viktor Frankl

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.” — Michel de Montaigne

“Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.” — Hannah Arendt

Speaker 3

“The longest way round is the shortest way home.” — James Joyce

“Imagination decides everything.” — Blaise Pascal

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James

Speaker 4

“No one saves us but ourselves.” — Buddha

“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day.” — Horace Mann

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein

Speaker 5

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” ― Joan Powers

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut

“Canned food is a perversion. I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.” ― John Kennedy Toole

Speaker 6

“Poetry is like a second throat. It is another way to speak.” - Patricia Smith

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” - Alfred Tennyson

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard

Speaker 1

“One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” - Cassandra Clare

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” - Marthe Troly-Curtin

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” - Toni Morrison

Speaker 2

“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus

“We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” — John Culkin

Speaker 3

“The opposite of play is not work, it is depression.” — Brian Sutton-Smith

“People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.” — Peter Senge

“A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.” — Martin Heidegger

Speaker 4

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle

“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.” — John Burroughs

“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.” — W. Edwards Deming

Speaker 5

“Chance favors the prepared mind.” — Louis Pasteur

“You cannot step into the same river twice.” — Heraclitus

“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude toward them.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Speaker 6

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” — William James

“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.” — Sophocles

“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” — Neil Postman

Speaker 7

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.” — Audre Lorde

“You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.” — Wayne W. Dyer

“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.” — Octavia E. Butler