Vincent Van Gogh

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one’s love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Sometimes it is well to go into the world and converse with people, and at times one is obliged to do [...]

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Tom Morris

The good life involves freedom, love, work, pleasure, challenge, friendship, community, service, and the sort of resources that can be used creatively. (Tom Morris – former professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame)

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Woody Allen

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. (Woody Allen, American Actor, Author, Screenwriter and Film Director, [b.1935])

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Carl Sagan

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. (Carl Sagan [1934-1996], was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and [...]

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Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. (Carl Sagan [1934-1996], was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences)

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G.K. Chesterton

Meaninglessness does not come when one is weary of pain, but when one is weary of pleasure. (G.K. Chesterton [1874-1936], an influential English writer – his prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.)

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Carl Sagan

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan [1934-1996], was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences)

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Charles Dickens

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them [...]

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Katherine Whitehorn

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. (Katherine Whitehorn, British journalist and writer)

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Dale Evans Rogers

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. (Dale Evans Rogers, American Singer, known as the “Queen of the West”)

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