| Quotes |
| Modern man thinks he loses time when he doesn't do things quickly. Yet he doesn't know what to do with the time he gains - except kill it. - Erich Fromm |
| They tell you that if you play with fire you'll get burnt...but what they don't tell you is if you stay away from fire, you may never feel its warmth, nor revel in its illumination. - anon. |
| Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let memory be your travel bag. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates |
| No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living. - Marie Beynon Ray |
| We can do no great things - only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa |
| True friendship is like sound health; the vaule of it is seldom known until it is lost. - Charles Caleb Colton |
| Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. - Helen Keller |
| Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard |
| Humility is the solid foundation of all our virtues. - Confucius |
| That they may have a little peace; even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally. - William Feather |
| Phenomena are preceded by the heart; ruled by the heart; made of the heart. - Thanissaro Bhikku |
| Not knowing when the Dawn will come, I open every door. - Emily Dickinson |
| If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it? - anonymous |
| How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. - Dr. Jon Wardrip |
| If I have seen farther than other men it is by standing on the shoulders of giants - Isaac Newton |
| The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed. - anon. |
| Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. - Victor Borge |
| What you do may seem insignificant, but it's important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi |
| Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde |
| Real friends stab you in the front. - Oscar Wilde |
| Dreams are but thoughts until their effects be tried. - William Shakespeare |
| Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light. - Albert Schweitzer |
| All people look for a pathway to reality but, searching for it, they often misunderstand what they encounter. They pursue names and categories instead of going beyond that name to that which is real. - Digha Nikaya |
| What is a friend? A single soul shared by two people. - Aristotle |
| Be yourself; No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong. - James Herlihy |
| Time is the fire in which we burn. - Gene Roddenberry |
| Everything can be taken away from a person but one thing: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. - Victor Frankl |
| Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to attack because you are a vegetarian. - Dennis Wholey |
| We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. - Arthur Schopenhauer |
| When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain |
| The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves. - Hoffer, on Dissent and Disagreement |
| A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. - Albert Einstein, The World as I See It |
| Beauty is truth and truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know. - William Blake |
| Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. - Cicero |
| In the history of man it has already been proved that the human will is more powerful than the gun. - The Dalai Lama |
| the following quotes are from The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy |
| There are other worlds. Other kinds of dreams. Dreams in which failure is feasible. Honourable. Sometimes even worth striving for. Worlds in which recognition is not the only barometer of brilliance or human worth. There are plenty of warriors that I know and love, people far more valuable than myself, who go to war each day, knowing in advance that they will fail. |
| The only dream worth having...is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead... ...To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try to understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget. |
| Courage wealth and status cannot undermine her integrity. Poverty and inferiority cannot alter her resolution. Power and authority cannot lessen her dignity. |
| The most unbearable thing is having to narrow yourself down: having to spend too much time with a person who guards his limits. It could be someone whose honesty coincides with his limits and who protects his narrowness against restlessness, but also against evil. But it doesn't help much to be aware of that: for one who is after truth, even the neatest narrowness is intolerable. She races along the borders and curses their impassability. -Elias Canetti, The Secret Heart of the Clock |
| We are all afraid that we cannot hold the sorrow and beauty of the world... But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart, as much as it is the true nature of a flower to open in the sunlight. - anon |
| The Serenity Prayer Ask for the serenity to accept the things you cannot change, the courage to change the things you can, and the wisdom to know the difference. |
| Time heals what reason cannot. - Seneca, Agamemnon |