| "A bone to the dog is not chatity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." Jack London "Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference." Virginia Satir "We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full." Marcel Proust "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." Louis, Interview with the Vampire |
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"That which is beautiful is not always good. That which is good is always beautiful." Professor Arturo, Sliders "True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess." Louis Nizer "Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to BE happy under all outward circumstances. Happiness lies not in things nor in outward attainments. It is the god of our inner nature, buried beneath the mud of outward sense cravings." J. Donald Walters "Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it." Polly Berends "Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know." Michael de Montaigne |
| "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." Theses on Feuerbach "You must understand the whole of life, not just one part of it. That is why you must read... sing and dance... and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life." J Krishnamurti "Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." Jalal-Uddin Rumi "View your world as a transient place where souls choose to come because this is what they have selected as thier mode of learning to the most minute detail.." Emmanuel "When you have come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." Anonymous |
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"Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price through the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best." Eknath Easwaran "In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing." Antonio Porchia "No one knows whether death may not turn out to be the greatest of blessings for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they know for certain that it is the greatest of evils." Socrates "Life can only be understood backwards; It has to be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." Einstein |
| "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." Alfred Lord Tennyson "Do. Or do not. There is no try." Yoda "To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthingable that must be thought." Tom Robbins "From time without beginning, the tree of unknowing has been watered by the monsoon of mental habit. What a tangle of delusion it has become. Listen. Ponder. Practice." Caurangipa "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein |
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"Someday will always be "someday" until you make it today." Joy Bringer "This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle, wonderful, inscrutable, magical, and more, to whosoever will think of it." Thomas Carlyle "Only those who will risk going too far can possible find out how far they can go." T.S. Elliot "The serious problems in life are never fully solved. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution, but in our working at in incessantly." C.G. Jung "Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day." Goethe |
| "Be glad for life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to look up at the stars." Henry Van Dyke "[Be] at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world." Max Ehrmann, from Desiderata "You who perceive yourselves as puposeless and weak, open your eyes. The power is within you - your dreams are no more than a thought and an action away." The Book of Stoneclave "Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver." Barbara De Angelis |
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"Perhaps the main reason we are all here is to help others develop and discover who they are, and in the process, develop and discover who we are." Michael Bischoff "Make an effort to give love to others and enjoy other people's happiness as if it were your own." Ryuho Okawa "There is nothing permanent except change." Heraclitus "We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." Helen Keller "There is a hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much." Mother Teresa "It is not easy to find happines in our Selves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." Agnes Repplier |