Venture Beyond with Trevor Loy

Read no history—nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Any plan conceived in moderation, must fail when circumstances are set in extremes

Many men go fishing all their lives, not knowing it is not fish they are after.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders.

Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Finish each day and be done with it; you have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his work for peace. It destroys her own inner capacity for peace. It kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.