Natural Laws
Compiled by Roger F. Cram

  1. When you tug at something in nature, you find it is attached to the rest of the world.
    (Albert Einstein)

  2. One cannot simultaneously prepare for peace and war.
    Albert Einstein

  3. If you do not change direction, you will end up where you are heading.
    Lao Tzu

  4. We have the power to guide and encourage what is meant to be.
    Carol Ruggie
    (Sparrow Village Project) - South Africa

  5. It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to build a bomber.
    (Anonymous)

  6. You can't hold another man down without getting down in the ditch with him.
    Booker T Washington

  7. Allow your reason to control your anger instead of your anger controlling your reason.
    Nelson Mandela

  8. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
    Ghandi

  9. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
    Anais Nin

  10. War does not decide who's right, only who's left.
    Albert Einstein

  11. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
    (Unknown)

  12. The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
    Mark Twain

  13. If the people will lead, the leaders will follow.
    (Unknown)

  14. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
    Calvin and Hobbes

  15. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
    Albert Einstein

  16. Fools rush in where fools have been before.
    Anonymous

  17. Be careful, the last time we mixed politics and religion, people got burned at the stake.
    (Unknown)

  18. When you're arguing with idiots, make sure they're not doing the same thing.
    (Unknown)

  19. Reality is for people who lack imagination. 
    Albert Einstein

  20. Nothing happens until something moves.
    Albert Einstein

  21. The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
    Anonymous

  22. You're just jealous because only I hear those wonderful voices.
    (Unknown)

  23. I believe in elves, fairies, good men, and other mythical characters.
    (Unknown)

  24. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
    Albert Einstein

  25. The universe will altar reality to fit the your expectations.
    (Unknown)

  26. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
    Edmund Burke

  27. Indifference in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.
    Genetta Sagan

  28. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
    Blaise Pascal

  29. Give of yourself anonymously to increase the amount of goodness in the world, not to received recognition from others for your deeds. (ego-free compassion).
    Hal “Hooper” Reichle and SSSSH

  30. Humans have choices outside our instincts, animals do not – this is the difference between them. This fact creates immediate accountability for human behavior. 
    Jack Soules PhD, Professor Emeritus Cleveland State University, The Curse of Being Human

  31. As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to others less fortunate.
    Arthur Saunders – Tuskegee Airmen

  32. The only time we can fail is if we quit. Most perceived failures are only stepping stones being small problems encountered along the path to a goal. Obstacles are opportunities for growth, therefore, encourage and embrace them. Arthur Saunders – Tuskegee Airmen

  33. Enrapture yourself with the constant joys, challenges, and accomplishments of your journeys, for the associated victories are fleeting and few. Passion and Discipline –
    (Don Quixote’s Lessons For Leadership, Professor Emeritus James G. March, Stanford University)

  34. Love is a conscious intentional commitment revealed ONLY in your behavior choices toward the ones we love.  It is NOT a wonderful warm feeling in our heart.
    Roger F. Cram

  35. Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.
    Jim Horning

  36. Argue for your shortcomings and they're yours! 
    Richard Bach

  37. Observe everything,  judge nothing.
    (Unknown)

  38. The happiest of people don't have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have.
    (Anonymous)

  39. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Matter cannot be created or destroyed. All the matter and energy that ever existed still exists -- no more, no less. Therefore, the matter and energy that comprises all of everyone, our bodies, our thoughts, and our souls, have always been and will always be. Take comfort in this.
    Roger F. Cram

  40. Take care of yourself first; if you don't, you won't have the needed health, strength, spirit, or attitude to take care of others.
    (Unknown)

  41. Humans prosper in both health and spirit when living with love, happiness, and peace.  Humans get sick and wither when living with stress, sadness, and in judgment of others. Perhaps our bodies and minds are telling us something about the natural laws that created us.  Perhaps we should listen.
    Roger F. Cram

  42. Each day, you have the same number of minutes that Edison had, or Galileo, or Einstein, or Leonardo da Vinci.
    (Unknown)

  43. Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.  
    (St. Francis of Assisi)

  44. The most important things in life aren't things.  
    (Anonymous)

  45. If you keep nourishing your inner dragons with contempt and malice for others, they will keep growing, and eventually devoure you. 
    Roger F. Cram

  46. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.   
    (Anonymous)

  47. Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.  
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  48. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.  
    (Anonymous)

  49. Failing is a successful completion of a stepping stone toward a goal. 
    Roger F. Cram

  50. Excel in your abilities instead of competing; that way no one has to lose in order for you to win.

  51. Each day is a continued battle for our control; not for our control over others, but for control of our response to them.
    (
    Native American - Cheyenne Tribe)

  52. The only battles we will ever fight are the ones inside us.
    (
    Native American – Iroquois Tribe)

  53. There is a perpetual battle in your heart between Good and Evil. Which one will win this conflict? The one you feed.
    (Native American, Wampanoag Tribe)

  54. Governments search for peace through summit meetings, peace treaties, sanctions, and intimidating weapons.  Peace is not among those things. Peace is only inside you; find it there and then give it to your government. 
    Roger F. Cram

  55. No one can make you angry unless you give them permission.
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  56. As a manager, try to catch your employee doing something right.
    (Unknown)

  57. Manage things; lead people.
    (Unknown)

  58. Leadership is a choice, not a position.
    (Unknown)

   59. Our excess, if we give it away, is critical for the survival for the destitute; if we keep it, we are burdened with its storage, protection, and care. When
        we die, it is usually discarded by our heirs.
        Roger F. Cram

   60. I can hardly move because I ate too much at Thanksgiving. My neighbors can hardly move because they have no food.
       Roger F. Cram

   61. Do not fill your life with compassion and love attempting earn your way into heaven, but rather for your own enrichment while alive.
        Roger F. Cram