Rick Williams:
CLASS OF 1967
Gunn High SchoolClass of 1967
Palo alto, CA
Rick's Story
Rick is from San Francisco, California. Rick's schools include Gunn High School.
Music Rick likes includes Elgar, Plácido Domingo, Leontyne Price. Books Rick likes include Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Henry James. Movies Rick likes include Woody Allen, Camp Beaverbrook Movie Homepage and Trailer, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Official Page). TV shows Rick likes include The Twilight Zone, Downton Abbey, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
One of Rick's favorite quotes is:""The life which is unexamined is not worth living." Socrates
"By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful."
Socrates
"Travel is life, intensified."
Rick Steeves
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
Socrates
"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
Socrates
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
Socrates
"Know thyself."
Solon
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
Socrates
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
John Keats (1795-1821)
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
"He has the longest of lives who suffers no time to be lost."
Seneca
"What we bear is not so important as how we bear it."
Seneca
"We become happy by not needing happiness."
Seneca
"Take care not to make your pain greater by your complaints."
Seneca
"Who has the most? He who desires the least."
Seneca
"Only the educated are free. This is education: to learn to wish that things should happen as they do."
Epictetus
"It is to make us noble, that God gives
us such opportunities of growth in strength
and courage as can be found only in adversit...Expand for more
y."
Marcus Aurelius
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely."
John E. E. Dalberg, Lord Acton
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
"Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you."
Rashi (attr.) (1040-1105)
"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well."
Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
"Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away."
Robert Baker Aitken Roshi (b.1917)
"Do not speak, unless it improves on silence. "
(Buddhist saying)
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
Seneca
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
Epictetus
"Always be a little kinder than necessary."
James M. Barrie
"...[D]o justice, ... love kindness, ... and walk humbly with your God."
Micah 6:8
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
“If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”
Woody Allen".
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