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"Love does not make the world go around, just up and down a bit." -- Crossfire
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.
"Frustra fit per plura, quod potest fieri per pauciora." (It is vain to do with more what you can do with fewer.) -- William of Ockham
"If you can touch the clocks and never start them, you can start the clocks and never touch them. That's logic as I know and use it." -- The Golux, in The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber
"Love me truly, fail me never, woman will I be forever; but if love should fail me thrice, I shall vanish in a trice. So tells the tale, so runs the spell. Prince Jorn, do you love me well?" -- The Princess, in The White Deer by James Thurber
"There's magic here, I warn you, Prince. What's mightier than
magic?"
'Miracle.'
"What's miracle?"
'Love's miracle enough.'
"Armor, Prince, is stronger stuff."
-- The Black Knight and Prince Jorn, in The White Deer by James
Thurber
"I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Attributed to Voltaire, though apparently said by someone else in summary of Voltaire's view.
"We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire." -- George Saintsbury, A History of Criticism
"Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasure of the mind. Books are humanity in print." -- Barbara Tuchman
Tell your feet the alphabet.
Tell your feet the multiplication table.
Tell your feet where to go, and watch 'em go and come back.
Can you dance a question mark?
Can you dance an exclamation point?
Can you dance a couple of commas?
And bring it to a finish with a period?
Can you dance like the wind is pushing you?
Can you dance like you are pushing the wind?
Can you dance with slow wooden heels
and then change to bright and singing silver heels?
Such nice feet, such good feet.
-- Carl Sandburg, "Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance To"
"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'" -- Kahlil Gibran
"For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble." -- Emmet Fox
"Let us do something beautiful for God." -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
"Whenever God intends to bring about any great thing, he generally begins with a day of small things." -- George Whitefield
"For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church." -- Sylvain of Athos
"I accept all the religions of the past, and I worship God with them all. I leave my heart open to those of the future. The Book of Revelation is not yet complete." -- Vivekananda
"Cultivation of tolerance for other faiths will impart to us a truer understanding of our own." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"There is only one God but his names are countless, and countless are the aspects under which He can be considered. Name Him with any name and worship Him in the form you like best, you are sure to reach Him." -- Ramakrishna
"I came to the conclusion long ago, after prayerful search and study and discussion with as many people as I could meet, that all religions were true, and also, that all had some error in them; and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear...." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"To me God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality; God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience...He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"To be able to hear the divine calling, for grace to flow abundantly, it is enough to love something dearly, music, the sun, or a little child." -- Ramakrishna
"The past must be abandoned to God's mercy, the present to our fidelity, the future to divine providence." -- St. Francis de Sales
"Prayer is a special exercise of faith. Faith makes the prayer acceptable because it believes that either the prayer will be answered, or that something better will be given." -- Martin Luther
"God changes not what is in a people, until they change what is in themselves." -- The Koran
"It must not be assumed that it is only through the order and finality of the universe that one comes to the Creator; one can also come to the knowledge of the light through shadows." -- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Who sees his Lord
Within every creature,
Deathlessly dwelling
Amidst the mortal:
That man sees truly.
-- The Bhagavad-Gita
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." -- Confucius
"One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator." -- Chief Seattle
"There is no god higher than truth." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"If three of us travel together, I shall find two teachers." -- Confucius
"When I am prey of terror and fear, I shall bless Him...when I am in distress, I shall praise Him. And when He saves me, I shall shout out with joy." -- from the Dead Sea Scrolls
"It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing." -- John Henry, Cardinal Newman
"What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man." -- Chief Seattle
"Just as water extinguishes a fire, so love wipes away sin." -- St. John of God
"A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man." -- Henry Ward Beecher
"Faith is the proof of what cannot be seen. What is seen gives knowledge, not faith." -- Pope Gregory I
"It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintain it and work it out in his life." -- Epictetus
"I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religion is a sacred duty." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Tears are often the telescope through which men see far into heaven." -- Henry Ward Beecher
"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance." -- Kahlil Gibran
"I may not have any design upon my neighbor as to this faith, which I must honor even as I honor my own. For I regard all the great religions of the world as true, at any rate for the people professing them, as mine is true for me." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Religion is not something that you and I can touch. Religion is the worship of God -- therefore a matter of conscience. I alone must decide for myself and you for yourself, what we choose." -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Whatever wish men bring me in worship,
That wish I grant them.
Whatever path men travel is my path...
-- The Bhagavad Gita
"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." -- Matthew 5:9
"If one acquires a good name he acquires something for himself." -- The Talmud
"To keep the body in good health is a duty: otherwise the mind is not strong and clear." -- Buddha
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
-- Lao-tzu
"Envy and wrath shorten the life and carefulness bringeth age before the time." -- Ecclesiasticus 30:24
"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course." -- Kahlil Gibran
"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted..." -- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short." -- Confucius
"All things should be done decently and in order." -- 1 Corinthians 14:40
"Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity." -- Lao-tzu
"Listen to everything, forget much, correct little." -- Pope John XXIII
"Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant." -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart." -- Confucius
"Prejudices, jealousies and suspicions make the soul miserable." -- George Whitefield
"To think twice is quite enough." -- Confucius
"Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace." -- Romans 14:19
"Into the well which supplies thee with water, cast no stones." -- The Talmud
"Be not righteous over much." -- Ecclesiastes 7:16
"If thou hast abundance, give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little." -- Tobit 4:8
"Face the facts candidly -- and then you can alter them." -- Emmet Fox
Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.
-- Lao-tzu
"In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." -- Proverbs 17:22
"Let us look at our own shortcomings and leave other people's alone; for those who live carefully ordered lives are apt to be shocked at everything, and we might well learn very important lessons from the persons who shock us." -- St. Teresa of Avila
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can.
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
-- John Wesley
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do... And as we let our own light shine, we unconciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -- Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
"We will surely get to our destination if we join hands." -- Aung San Suu Kyi
"If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?" -- Maya Lin
"Peace is a never ending process....It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together." -- Oscar Arias Sanchez
"Give all, but without expectation or hope of recompense." -- Pope John XXIII
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." -- Epictetus
"A soft answer turneth away wrath but grievous words stir up anger." -- Proverbs 15:1
"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors." -- Confucius
"Seven qualities characterize the clod and seven the wise man: the wise man does not speak before him that is greater than he in wisdom; he does not break into his fellow's speech; he is not in a rush to reply; he asks what is relevant and replies to the point; he speaks of first things first and of last things last; of what he has not heard he says: 'I have not heard'; and he acknowledges what is true. And the opposites apply to the clod." -- The Talmud
"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellowman, either by a considerable gift, or a sum of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood, and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and the summit of charity's golden ladder." -- Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon)
"One cannot have a happy life without wisdom, honesty, and justice, but these three are inseparable from pleasure." -- Epicurus
"If you cannot make yourself what you would like to be, how can you expect to have another person exactly to your wishes? We want to see others perfect, yet our own faults go unattended." -- Thomas a Kempis
"Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life." -- Jonathan Edwards
"Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness." -- Confucius
"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles." -- Confucius
"Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth." -- Proverbs 27:2
"Three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon, and the truth." -- Buddha
"Do not let yourself be guided by the authority of the sacred texts, nor by simple logic, nor by appearance or opinion, nor even by the teachings of your master; when you know in yourself that something is bad, then give it up, and accept the good and follow it." -- Buddha
"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means...to a free society." -- Felix Frankfurter
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character..." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We are rapidly becoming a nation that is polarized along every possible line: gay vs. straight, feminist vs. conservative, pro-choice vs. anti-choice...in a nation of laws we have started to resort to acts of terror on large and small scales on either side of the spectrum. For two hundred years we prided ourselves on the idea -- sometimes flawed, and with occasional interruptions -- that we solved our problems at the ballot box, not with bullets or trunchens or muggings or firebombings. But now more and more both sides are frozen in concrete, opposing opinions are no longer tolerated or are proof of disloyalty or stupidity or cupidity or bigotry or immorality, people are reduced to stereotypes and jingoisms, everybody's demonized and nobody listens. We don't talk with each other, we yell AT each other. We are two steps away from madness and one step away from Beirut." -- J. Michael Straczynski (creator of Babylon 5), January 23, 1995
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -- Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
"The basis of a democratic state is liberty." -- Aristotle
"America is woven of many strands." -- Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson
"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good." -- Barbara Jordan
"Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations." -- Walt Whitman
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." -- Judge Learned Hand
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home..." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments." -- Mercy Otis Warren
"The land was ours before we were the land's." -- Robert Frost, "The Gift Outright"
"Let us look at each other without mistrust, meet each other without fear, talk with each other without surrendering principle." -- Pope John XXIII
"My political views are those of the Lord's prayer." -- St. John Bosco
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue." -- Confucius
"If either wealth or poverty are come by honestly, there is no shame." -- Confucius
"If you talk to God you are praying; if God talks to you you have schizophrenia." -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin
"Todos en el mundo sonreimos en la misma lengua." [Everyone in the world smiles in the same language.] -- Mexican American proverb
"Mankind is one, and all men are alike in that which concerns their creation." -- Bartolome de las Casas
"Friends are people who see all the colors and feel all the textures in your personality and love you for the crazy quilt that is you. Friends help sew together a heart rent with sadness, bind a wound torn with pain, mend an ache and stitch it with comfort."- Emma Walters Downey
"Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring." - Carmen Snow
"I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers." -- Kahlil Gibran
"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." -- Proverbs 23:7
"You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." -- John 8:32
"Our deeds, good or evil, follow us like shadows." -- Buddha
"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." -- Song of Solomon 8:7
"In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand." -- Gerald Holton