Spiritual Health Learning Community Center Exploring Life's Horizons   »   Meditations Menu Meditations - Inspiration, Encouragement, Humor, Guidance and Reflection Civilization The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world. - William Fulbright The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. - John W. Gardner That civilization perishes in which the individual thwarts the revelation of the universal. - Rabindranath Tagore A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Barr When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine You cannot escape the age you live in: you are a product of it. You have to stand back from time to time and get your perspectives right. But then you have to come back and resume the task of contributing in your own way to your own age. - Colin Fletcher It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet. - James C. Dobson | Return to Meditations Menu | Copyright © 2004 Interrogative Imperative Institute. All Rights Reserved.