SimplyNeo Quotes

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

Some people don’t really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

The way a book is read – which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book – can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate – even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.