Inspirational Quotes
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The word quote is closely related to the word "to cite", which means "to put into action." It is our hope that these quotes will be used as teaching tools for those who preach, and teach.
It is also hoped that many of these quotes will become centering prayers, i.e., short, memorable, spiritual reminders that are recited throughout the day as a means of getting us to act on that which should be acted upon, or to confirm that which should be confirmed and solidified.
The Beautiful Hands of a Priest
We need them in life's early morning.
We need them again at its close;
We feel their clasp of true
Friendship, we seek them when tasting life's woes.
At the altar each day we behold them,
And the hands of a king on his throne
Are not equal to them in their
Greatness: their dignity stands all alone;
And when we are tempted and wander
To pathways of shame and of sin,
It's the hand of a priest that will absolve us
--- not once, but again and again.
And when we are taking life's partner,
Other hands may prepare us a feast,
But the hand that will bless and unite
Us is the beautiful hand of a priest.
God bless them and keep them all holy
For the Host which their fingers caress;
When can a poor sinner do better than
To ask Him to guide thee and bless?
When the hour of death comes upon us
May our courage and strength be increased
By seeing raised over us in blessing the
Beautiful hands of a priest -- Author unknown
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Abandonment of Self
There's a difference between dying to one's self and killing one's self -- Annoymous
Only when the ego has been trampled underfoot can one be fully and truly free -- Pope John XXIII
When a person is no longer imprisioned by attachment to anything he or she become free to enjoy them for what they truly are --- Abba Moses
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do -- Aristotle
To achieve satisfaction in everything desire it in nothing. To possess everything, desire to have nothing. To be everything, desire to be nothing. To know everything, desire to know nothing -- John of the Cross -- (As harsh as such words sound, they have captured people's attention because they suggest something to do.)
We must not give only what we have; we must give what we are -- Cardinal Mercia
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security -- Gail Sheehy
The only way to "get away" from ourselves is to effect a change within ourselves. What we need is not a change of scene, but a change of soul -- Sidney Greenberg
Whoever fixes his eyes upon himself gives no light. St. Thomas Aquinas
If you give all, but life retain, Your gift is nothing and in vain -- Iben: Brand
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and, as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can -- George Bernard Shaw
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Action/Doing/Getting Started/Venturing Out/Determination/Purpose/Futuring versus Inertia/Procrastination/Inaction/Giving Up
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we will find the way -- Abraham Lincoln
Life does not require us to be the biggest or the best, it asks only that we try -- Author unknown
Anybody running beats anybody walking, and anybody walking beats anybody sitting -- Tom Bunk
The body is given out on loan - don't waste it and expect to use it tomorrow -- Shapiro
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have -- Thomas Jefferson
There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that second-best is anything but the second-best -- Doris Lessing
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settle for -- Maureen Dowd
Between saying and doing many pairs of shoes are worn out – Italian Proverb
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has -- Margaret Mead
Instead of worrying about the future, let us labor to create it -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible -- Saint Francis
Unless you really will it; Life just gives you time and space, It's up to you to fill it
Anonymous
The purpose of life is a life of purpose -- Robert Byrne
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been -- George Eliot
Victory is in the doing -- Anonymous
There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not exercise human control. They would rate a generous deed as no more praiseworthy than a wink, a crime as no more voluntary than a sneeze . . . such a philosophy undercuts all human dignity . . . all of us have the power of choice in action at every moment of our lives -- Fulton J. Sheen
Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I will understand -- American Proverb
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand -- Baruch Spinoza
Whatever you can do or dream, you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The dialectician is like the gardener who aids his plants, but is unable to do for them what they must do themselves -- Huntington Cains
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job -- George Crane
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it -- John Henry Newman
To sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of human beings -- Abraham Lincoln
Do what you can, with what you have, where you can -- Teddy Roosevelt
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind -- Irish Proverb
The world is a dangerous place to be not because of the people who do evil; but because of the people who stand by and let them -- Albert Einstein
There are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there -- Indira Gandhi
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward -- your destiny -- here and now -- Dag Hammarskjold
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out -- Italian Proverb
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul -- Mark Twain
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you, you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. I am free to choose what that something is, and the something I have chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands that this is not optional, that I do whatever I can, whenever I can, wherever I am, for as long as I can, with whatever I have, to try to make a difference -- Jimmy Carter
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for -- Simone de Beauvoir
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing -- Aristotle
Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right -- Henry Ford
No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work - Anonymous
This thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down - Mary Pickford
Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished - Ausonius, Latin Poet
Let the beauty we love be what we do -- Rumi
Earth's crammed with heaven
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees takes off his shoes,
The rest sit around and pluck the blackberries -- Elisabeth Barrett Browning
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm -- Winston Churchill
Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them -- Henry S. Haskins
A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new -- Albert Einstein
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit -- Aristotle
Every action of ours must be accompanied by a reflection to orient it, to order it, to make it coherent, so that it does not lapse into a sterile and superficial activism -- Gustavo Gutierrez
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dissatisfaction with oneself is a sign of friction, and therefore a sign of movement -- Leo Tolstoy
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there -- Edwin Louis Cole
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do -- Johann von Goethe
Even if you're on the right track, you'll still get run over if you just sit there - Will Rogers
If you remain indifferent in time of adversity, your strength will depart from you -- Proverbs 24:10
That a thing is true, is no reason that it should be said, but that it should be done -- Cardinal John Henry Newman
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch -- Jim Rohn
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Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it -- HH The Dali Lama
Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear. Marcus Buckingham
You won't do ministry that really matters until you define what matters. Aubrey Malphur
The true measures of a church are not “how many” but “how loving,” not “how relevant” but “how real.” Robert Lewis
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up men to gather wood, divide the word, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint Exupery
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is knowledge of our own ignorance -- Benjamin Franklin
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows all the corners -- Irish Proverb
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security -- Gail Sheehy
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure . . . than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat -- Theodore Roosevelt
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king -- Erasmus
The high-minded man must care more for what is right than for what people think -- Aristotle
He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind -- German Proverb
Remember man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up -- John Maxwell
To lead the people, walk behind them -- Lao-Tzu
Better ask twice than lose your way once. -- Danish Proverb
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender -- William Booth
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You'll never know how strong you are -- until being strong is the ONLY choice you have!
If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world -- Elizabeth Janeway
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome – Samuel Johnson
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator -- Francis Bacon
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains two descriptions: might have, and should have -- Louis E. Boone
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered -- G. K. Chesterton
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is -- H. Jackson Browne
Admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail -- Seneca
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils -- Francis Bacon
Take a risk a day -- a one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it -- Susan Jeffers
Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been -- Arthur Ransome
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open -- Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time -- Goethe (1749-1832)
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult -- Seneca
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures -- Susan Jeffers
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity --- Lou Holtz
Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance! – Fritz Reiner
In this life we will encounter hurts and trials that we will not be able to change; we are just going to have to allow them to change us. --- Ron Lee Davis
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much – Mother Teresa
We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?” Unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way – Philip E. Berstein
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake --- Victor Hugo
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was --- Dag Hammarskjold
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Advice should always be consumed between two thick slices of doubt -- Walt Schmidt
Nothing is given so profusely as advice -- Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Less advice and more hands -- German Proverb
If according to times and needs you should be obliged to make fresh rules and change certain things, do it with prudence and good advice -- St. Angela Merici
Advice should be viewed from behind -- Swedish Proverb
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Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more -- Scottish Proverb
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box -- Italian Proverb
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes -- Malcolm de Chazal
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you -- Satchel Paige
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. -- Arnold Bennett
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do -- Andrew Carnegie
Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise. -- Chinese Proverb
You're not as young as you used to be, but you're not as old as you're going to be. So watch it! -- Irish Proverb
It is that little bit of insanity that keeps us all sane -- Kevin Cunningham
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made . . .
Trust God; see all,
Nor be afraid.
Robert Browning Hamilton
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art -- Anonymous
You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man -- Herclitus
A man's difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes -- Anonymous
When saving for old age, be sure you put away a few pleasant thoughts -- Anonymous
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old -- William James
Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do -- Golda Meir
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Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich -- Sarah Bernhardt
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals -- Benjamin Franklin
In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero -- Daniel J. Boorstin
It is hard to free fools from chains they revere -- Voltaire
The worst thief is not the one who takes what he needs but the one who keeps what he does not need when others need it -- Leo Tolstoy
If you want to reach out to others be ready to soil your hands -- Fr. Alex Rebbelo
We are, as Plato beautifully says, born not for ourselves alone. Our country claims a share in our existence, and our friends a share. . . .The whole produce of the earth was created for the use of men, and men themselves are here for the sake of their fellow men that they may mutually assist one another -- Cicero
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people -- Oriental proverb
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own -- Confucius
A life spent centering only on itself will in the end occupy a very, very small universe -- Former Senator John Glenn
Promoting just one small thing in another may just be the thing that gives a person life-long success -- Eugene Hemrick
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far -- Will Rogers
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If it is true that the Holy Spirit is peace of soul. . .and if anger is disturbance of the heart . . . then there is no greater obstacle to the presence of the Spirit in us than anger -- John Climacus
Anybody can become angry -- that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power -- Aristotle
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
Touch me with noble anger -- William Shakespeare
It is easy to fly into a passion -- anybody can do that. But to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way -- that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it -- Aristotle
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it's poured -- Unknown
A river that is deep does not make waves when someone throws a stone into it. The same applies with us. If you get angry at insults thrown at you, you are a puddle -- Leo Tolstoy
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? -- Picasso
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself -- Henry Miller
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life -- learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some - Robert Fulghum
Art is the grandchild of God -- Dante
The artistic temperament is a disease which afflicts amateurs -- G. K. Chesterton
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom -- Anais Nin
The author Robert Louis Stevenson had great difficulty with illness in his short life. One day, his wife came into the room where he was coughing and said, "I suppose you will tell me that it's a glorious day." Stevenson replied that's precisely what he'd planned to say. Seeing the sunlight stream through his bedroom window, he explained: "I refuse to let a row of medicine bottles be the circumference of my horizon."
Action is eloquence -- Shakespeare
Excess violates proportion and makes bad art --- bad ethics -- Plato
Wherever you are – if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that eternal life within you, all the time.
Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, some boundless contiguity of shade, where rumour of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful or successful war, might never reach me more -- William Cowper
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What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Erica E. Hirsch
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go -- T.S. Eliot
Too low they build who build beneath the stars -- Edward Young
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all. Vince Lombardi
When the great scorer comes to mark against your name; He'll write not ‘won' or ‘lost,' But how you played the game. -- Grantland Rice
I have missed more than 9,000 shots, lost almost 300 games, on 26 occasions been entrusted to take the game winning shot -- and missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed -- Michael Jordan
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it - Michael Jordan
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it -- Lou Holz
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are -- Muhammad Ali
Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, some way – Roger Staubach
If you believe in yourself, have dedication and pride and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards -- Paul "Bear" Bryant (Late, great coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team)
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is in reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want -- Margaret Young
When we are whom we are called to be, we will set the world ablaze -- Catherine of Siena
There is a desire within each of us, in the deep center of ourselves that we call our heart. We were born with it, it is never completely satisfied, and it never dies . . . Our true identity, our reason for being, is to be found in this desire -- Gerald May
I am not what I ought to be.
I am not what I want to be.
I am not what I hope to be.
But still, I am not what I used to be.
And by the grace of God, I am what I am -- John Newton
One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees -- Charles Pierre Péguy (1873 - 1914), French writer and poet
Be careful never to shelter your conscience behind somebody else's conscience -- From the Movie on the Life of Young Maxim Gorky
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes -- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), English philosopher, statesman, and lawyer
– To open ourselves to the truth and to bring ourselves face to face with our personal and collective reality is not an option that can be accepted or rejected. It is an undeniable requirement of all people and all societies that seek to humanize themselves and to be free -- Bishop Jan Gerardi
Our deepest calling is to grow into our authentic selfhood -- Parker Palmer
Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak -- Senator Paul D. Wellstone
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing -- Abraham Lincoln
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced – James Baldwin
When people ask me, "What do you do?" I say I create crisis, because crisis is that edge where change is possible -- Lisa Fithian
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject -- Winston Churchill
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude -- Thomas Jefferson.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity -- Stephen Covey
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess -- John W. Gardner
The measure of people's real character is what they would do if they knew they would never be found out -- J.C. Macauley
The look is an act that comes directly from an inwardness with the straight-line accuracy of a bullet -- Ortega
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character -- Robert Half
We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full live requires character -- Seneca
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams, Actor and comedian
There are days when you can't get the ball in the basket, no matter how hard you try. But there is no excuse for not playing good defense -- A Basketball Coach
Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push -- Joann Thomas
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive -- Elbert Hubbard
He who hesitates is sometimes saved -- James Thurber
Living healthily is nothing less than arriving at old age accepting one's one and only life cycle as that something that had to be and that, by necessity, permitted of no substitution -- Erik Erikson
We can only really understand ourselves when we can see ourselves in everyone else -- Leo Tolstoy
If you don't know where you're going, how will you know if you get there? -- An Old Saying
There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head -- Theodore Roosevelt
I can resist everything but temptation -- Oscar Wilde
Wealth is more about focus than about money, and focus is a choice -- Anonymous
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed -- Jonathan Swift
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Seek what unites, not what divides -- Pope John XXIII
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together -- Vesta M. Kelly
To keep ourselves totally apart so as not to become sullied is the most sullied thing of all -- Leo Tolstoy
The deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness -- Erich Fromm
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self-centered way, but in the whole human family. Peace Pilgrim
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When a person has compassion for all living creatures, only then are they noble -- Buddha
To me, God and compassion are one and the same. Compassion is the joy of sharing. It's doing small things for the love of each other-just a smile, or carrying a bucket of water, or showing some simple kindness. These are the small things that make up compassion -- Mother Teresa
One who feels no compassion will become insane -- Hasidic saying
Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences -- Susan B. Anthony
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul. Where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless -- Eric Hoffer
Make no judgements where you have no compassion -- Anne McCaffrey
If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow -- Daphne Rose Kingma
Whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate -- Sylvia Boorstein
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The number one reason we forget is because we aren't paying attention in the first place -- Lynn Stern
The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better -- Elizabeth Bowen
Concentration is the secret of strength -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The purer the eye of her attention, the more power the soul finds within herself. But it is very rare to find a soul who is entirely free, whose purity is not soiled by the stain of some secret desire of her own. Strive, then, constantly to purify the eye of your attention until it become utterly simple and direct -- Dag Hammarskjold
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention -- Julia Cameron
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer - Barbara De Angelis
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The conscience cannot be calmed by new ideas. No. It can be calmed only when we stop trying to justify ourselves -- Leo Tolstoy
An organization can develop a strong and vibrant voice of conscience only by finding ways to harmonize its multiple voices of conscience. Frederick Bruce Bird
A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself. Ben Okri
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If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk -- Raymond Inman
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees -- Victor Hugo
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world -- Joseph Addison
As long as I have food I don't need when someone else has none, or have two coats and someone else has none, I share in a constantly repeated crime -- Leo Tolstoy
What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. Hermann Hesse
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards -- Alberto Salazar
Fear is a part of everything you do . . . You have to take great risks to get big rewards -- Greg Louganis
The world does not belong to those who sign up. The world belongs to those who show up -- Frazz
The will to do, the soul to dare -- Sir Walter Scott
Success is getting up one more time than you fall down -- Author Unknown
You must do the thing you think you cannot do – Eleanor Roosevelt
Know what your values are and then stick with them. Don't let people talk you out of what you know is right -- Flip Saunders
Tough times never last, tough people do -- Robert Schuller
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Talking about bulls is not the same as facing them in the ring -- Mexican Proverb
Nothing is to be feared, it is to be understood. Marie Curie
Courage is the universal and essential self-affirmation of one's being -- Paul Tillich
Last but not least, courage -- moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle -- the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other -- General Douglas MacArthur
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear -- Ambrose Redmoon
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed -- Booker T. Washington
Some days there aren't any trumpets, just lots of dragons. Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow -- Mary Anne Radmacher
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's important that people should know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for -- Mary Waldrip
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point -- C.S. Lewis
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step: only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road -- Dag Hammarskjold
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall -- Nelson Mandela
Courage is fear that has said its prayers -- Unknown
It is from the greatest danger that the greatest glory can be won. Pericles
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat -- Teddy Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You MUST do the thing that you think you cannot do -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
To a pioneering spirit who was discouraged by frequent criticism the Master said, "Listen to the words of the critic. He reveals what your friends hide from you." But he also said, "Do not be weighed down by what the critic says. No statue was ever erected to honor a critic. Statues are for the criticized" -- Anthony de Mello, SJ
Courage is not freedom from fear. It's being afraid and going on anyway -- Anonymous
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they lie in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat -- Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do -- Walter Bagehot
Courage is being scared to death . . . and saddling up anyway -- John Wayne
Life demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible -- not to have run away -- Dag Hammarskjold
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one Elbert Hubbard
All knowledge used to promote injustice should be called cunning rather than wisdom. And so a spirit willing to face danger, if it is moved by selfishness and not by desire for the common good, may be styled bold, but it is not courageous -- Plato
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage – Rainer Maria Rilke
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength -- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834), British essayist
Better to be too credulous than too skeptical -- Anonymous
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I have yet to find the person . . . who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would do under a spirit of criticism -- Charles Schwab
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism -- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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There is no such thing as a trifle, a simple detail may reveal a universe. Goethe
The unexamined life is not worth living -- Socrates
Man's mind cannot wrest the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul -- Leo Tolstoy
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper -- Eden Phillpots
Never lose a holy curiosity -- Albert Einstein
A good scientist is a person in whom the childlike quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions -- Frederick Seitz
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind -- Samuel Johnson
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You are making progress if each mistake you make is a new one - Anonymous
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca the Elder c 60 BC - c AD 37
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You are afraid of death, but ask yourself what it would be like if you had to live forever as the person you are now -- Leo Tolstoy
Death is the transformation of the envelope that contains our spirit. Do not confuse the envelope with its contents -- Leo Tolstoy
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire -- Margaret Mead
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As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences -- Eugene McCarthy
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Government can be preserved only by statesmen with knowledge in proportion to their task --- Plato
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects -- J. William Fulbright
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? -- Mahatma Gandhi
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Delight yourself in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart -- Psalm 37:4
Desire is to love as belief is to faith: each is a means to an end; each is so easily mistaken for the end -- Fenton Johnson
When I no more can stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire. When I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire --- wake in me boundless desire -- George Mac Donald
It's not that we have desire, we are desire -- John Eldredge
The damage of abandoned desire is a life lost unto itself -- John Eldredge
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I know the price of success -- dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Real Glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves -- Anonymous
I have never known a successful man who did not appreciate the discipline that it takes to win -- Vince Lombardi
The law of life is sacrifice and discipline -- Christopher Dawson
Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back -- W. K. Hope
Ultimately, the only power to which a person should aspire is that which one exercises over oneself -- Elie Wiesel
You win not by chance, but by preparation -- Roger Maris
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties -- Francis Bacon
I consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it -- Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul -- Joseph Addison
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world -- Nelson Mandela
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil -- C.S. Lewis.
Always play as if the master heard you -- Schumann
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent -- Norman R. Augustine
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Let me tell you this: Faith comes and goes. But if it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will -- Flannery O'Connor
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean become dirty, the ocean does not become dirty -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
—Good "faith" is so called because through it a promise becomes a fact -- Cicero
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven -- George Bernard Shaw
In every conceivable manner, the family is linked to our past, and bridge to our future -- Alex Haley
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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage -- Erma Bombeck
I prefer butter to margarine, because I trust cows more than I trust chemists-- Joan Dye Gussow
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it -- Buddy Hackett
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh -- Will Rogers
The two biggest sellers in bookstores are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it -- Andy Rooney
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity -- Voltaire
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch-- Orson Welles
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving -- H.U. Westermayer
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook -- William James
Forgiveness is not forgetting; it has more to do with how something is remembered. It's not remembered with bitterness -- Rev. Douglas R. Baker
To forgive oneself" -- No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive -- Dag Hammarskjold
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To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others -- Nelson Mandela
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a person of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable,
Freedom is not the right to do whatever we want; It is the privilege of doing what we ought; It is not private licence; it is public responsibility; It is not freeing ourselves; it is binding ourselves for the good of all. Bishop Robert Brown
To be free, to be able to stand up and leave everything behind -- without looking back. To say Yes -- Dag Hammarskjold
Freedom . . . . is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men; no treasures that the earth holds buried or the sea conceals can compare with it; for freedom, as for honor, life may and should be venture -- Miguel de Cernates
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live -- Saul Alinsky
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states -- Mahatma Gandhi
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way -- Viktor Frankl
Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither – Benjamin Franklin
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Hold a true friend with both your hands -- Nigerian Proverb
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad – Arnold Glasow
I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble -- Mennonite Proverb
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day -- Sally Koch
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go --- Margaret Walker
If a man have not a friend he may quit the stage --- Francis Bacon
A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds treasure --- Sir. 6:14
Perfect friendship is rare; and it is always a conquest, not a given --- Sir.
I used to think getting old was about vanity --- but actually it's about losing people --- Joyce Carol Oates
Never explain; your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it. --- Victor Grayson
A friend may well be reckoned the master piece of nature --- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate chooses your relations, you chose your friends --- Jacque Delille
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. — Mark Twain
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need. — Plautus
A friendship from which the everyday disappears becomes an allegory — Jules Romains
A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness — Desmond Morris
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it. James Howell
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty -- Sicilian Proverb
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad -- Arnold Glasgow
A friend is one who understands our faults, yet finds our virtues. Author Unknown
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you -- Elbert Hubbard
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away -- Walker Percy
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit -- Albert Schweitzer
Hold a true friend with both hands -- Nigerian Proverb
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. William Penn
He is my friend who speaks well of me behind my back -- Thomas Fuller
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities -- C.S. Lewis
Counsel, conversation, encouragement, consolation, sometimes even criticism are found at their best among friends -- Cicero
Don't let grass grow on the path of friendship -- Blackfoot Indian Saying
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are -- Gail Godwin
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one -- C.S. Lewis
Bonding with someone is the best; sometimes the only defense we have against life's contingencies and randomness -- Matthew Klam
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Generosity fosters abundance -- Anonymous
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give -- Norman Marceswan
Generosity is powerful medicine that tastes good -- Anonymous
Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you -- Anonymous
One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving -- Amy Carmichael
It often happens that the office of giving gives us the merit to receive -- St. Augustine
If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be -- Antonio Porchia (1885-1968), Writer
For the kingdom to come in this world, disciples must have the competence to see and the courage to act, which is a call to do as Jesus did, working for justice through loving service to the poor -- Constitution 2, Article 14 of the Congregation of Holy Cross Brothers
If you wish to better your life, be ready to sacrifice it -- Leo Tolstoy
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He who plants trees benefits another generation -- Caecilius Statius as quoted by Cicero
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever -- Isak Denison
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall – think of it, ALWAYS -- Mahatma Gandhi
The age of nations is past, it remains for us now, if we do not wish to perish, to set aside the ancient prejudices and build the earth -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
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No man desires anything so eagerly as God desires to bring men to the knowledge of Himself. God is always ready, but we are very unready. God is near us, but we are far from Him. God is within, and we are without. God is friendly -- we are estranged -- Meister Eckhart
The love of God is like the Amazon river flowing down to water one daisy -- Unknown
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy . . . may be the surest proof of all of God's reality -- Rabbi Harold Kushner
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on -- Carl Sandburg
God has created me to do him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another -- John Cardinal Newman
Woe unto them that keep a God like a silk hat, that believe not in God, but in a God. Woe unto them that are pompous for they will sooner or later be ridiculous. Woe unto them that are tired of everything, for everything will certainly be tired of them. Woe unto them that cast out everything, for out of everything they will be case out. Woe unto the flippant, for they shall receive flippancy. Woe unto them that are scornful for they shall receive scorn. Woe unto him that considers his hair foolishly, for his hair will be made the type of him. Woe unto him that is smart, for men will hold him smart always, even when he is serious -- G.K. Chesterton
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us -- Henry David Thoreau,
You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God -- Albert Einstein
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world -- C. S. Lewis
Since God offers to manage our affairs for us, let us once and for all hand them over to His infinite wisdom, in order to occupy ourselves only with Himself and what belongs to Him -- J.P. de Caussade
I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it -- Abraham Lincoln
Only you can be you. God designed each of us so there would be no duplication in the world. No one has the exact same mix of factors that make you unique. That means no one else on earth will ever be able to play the role God planned for you. If you don't make your unique contribution to the Body of Christ, it won't be made -- Rick Warren
Conscience is God's presence in man -- Emanuel Swedenborg
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much -- Mother Teresa
Live seeking God, then you will not live without God -- Leo Tolstoy
It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people confuse God with what is not God -- Leo Tolstoy
Christ has no body now but yours; no hands, no feet on earth, but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world; Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good; Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours -- Saint Teresa of Avila
The encounter with Jesus is fundamentally different from that with Goethe or Socrates . . . There are only two ways possible of encountering Jesus: man must die or he must put Jesus to death -- Bonhoeffer.
God writes straight with crooked lines -- a Portuguese Proverb
God may be subtle, but malicious He is not -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, quoted by Albert Einstein, when asked by the Dean of Letters & Science at Princeton, what phrase should be put over the main doors of the new Physics Building, in 1939, for students to ponder.
For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth, or the Inner Voice or "the Still Small Voice" mean one and the same thing -- Gandhi
When God loves me, He desires nothing else than to be loved by me. He loves me in order that I may love Him because He knows well that all who love Him, find in this very love their Joy and happiness -- St. Bernard of Clairvaux
If I have learned one thing in this life, it is that God will not tie my shoes without me -- Doug Boyd
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither -- C.S. Lewis
Heaven is to be in God at last made free -- Evelyn Underhill
In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men -- Cicero
God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does He make only one star shine onto the earth -- Eberhard Arnold
The net of Heaven is large and wide, but it lets nothing through -- Chinese Proverb
Let's not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God -- Henri Nouwen
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere -- Voltaire
Let nothing disturb you; Let nothing make you afraid; All things pass; But God is unchanging, Patience is enough for everything. You who have God lack nothing. God alone is sufficient -- Teresa of Avila
When the solution is simple, God is answering -- Albert Einstein
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Wealth should be like manure in the field. When it is in a big pile it makes a bad smell. But when it is distributed everywhere across the field, it makes the soil fertile -- Leo Tolstoy
Suggestions for Fasting and Feasting: Fast from discontent; feast on thankfulness. Fast from worry; feast on trust. Fast from anger; feast on patience -- Anonymous
I choose goodness...I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness -
Our good qualities do us far more harm than our bad ones -- Leo Tolstoy
Goodness is something so simple: always to live for others, never to seek one's own advantage -- Dag Hammarskjold
Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life -- Herbert N. Casson (1869-1951), Journalist
It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong -- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), Jurist and philosopher
We regret losing a purse or wallet full of money, but a good thought which has come to us, which we have either heard or read, a thought which we should have remembered and applied to our life, which could have improved the world --- we lose this thought and promptly forget about it, and we do not regret it, though it is more precious than millions -- Leo Tolstoy
Goodness is something so simple: always to live for others, never to seek one's own advantage -- Dag Hammarskjold
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow -- Melody Beattie
There is poverty and hunger and war in the world. And we prepare for more war. There is desperate suffering with no prospect for relief. But we would be contributing to the misery and desperation of the world if we failed to rejoice in the sun, the moon and the stars, in the rivers which surround this island on which we live, on the cool breezes of the bay, on what food we have and on the benefactors God sends -- Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker, July-August 1940
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants -- Joseph Addison
If we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life -- Mark Nepo
Gratefulness waters old friendships and makes new ones sprout -- An Old Russian Proverb
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' person. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success -- George Burton Adams
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others -- Cicero
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Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come -- Proverb, source unknown
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful -- Herman Cain
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us – Helen Keller
We can only be happy when we don't assume that the object of life is happiness -- George Orwell
That is the first important clue to your life design -- the discovery of what you'll be happiest doing -- Barbara Sher
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- Victor Hugo
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to yourself -- Henry David Thoreau
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions –the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, or heartfelt compliment -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith and acceptance; a quiet, tranquil realization of the love of God -- Chief White Eagle
Happiness is a butterfly Which, when pursued, is just out of grasp . . .But if you will sit down quietly, May alight upon you -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for -- Allan Chalmers
Happiness is most likely to find you when you are fully present in the moment -- Don Clark
Happiness is most likely to find you when you are fully present in the moment -- Don Clark
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are -- Attributed to Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory -- Rita Mae Brown
If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is Attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy -- Anthony de Mello
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do -- Freya Stark
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way -- Wayne Dyer
For we are made for happiness and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, "I am doing God's will on earth." All the righteous, all saints, all the holy martyrs were happy -- Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands – Japanese Proverb
A happy heart makes the face cheerful -- Book of Proverbs
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We can never truly understand people we hate, and never truly hate people we understand -- Dr. Mardy Grothe
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Hatred corrodes the container it's contained in. Proverb
Just as all the water drains out of a bucket with even the tiniest hole, all the joy of life drains from our soul when we hate even one person -- Leo Tolstoy
We dislike people not because they are evil; we think they are evil because we dislike them -- Leo Tolstoy
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To keep the body in good health is a duty .... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our minds strong and clear -- Buddha
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Hardening of the heart ages people more quickly than hardening of the arteries - Anonymous
What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow -- James Stephens
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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man pick'd out of ten thousand -- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), English poet and playwright
When we honor, we are honored. Baltasar Gracian
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Sufferings bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, which has been given to us -- Romans 5:3-4
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark -- George Iles
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage -- Samuel Johnson
No man is able by himself to grasp the supreme good of eternal life; he needs divine help. Hence there is here a two-fold object (goal): the eternal life we hope for, and the divine help we hope by -- Saint Thomas Aquinas
Sweet hope is sovereign comfort of our life: our joy in sorrow, and our peace in strife -- St. John Beaumont
Nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God -- Thomas a Kempis
Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be, blest -- Alexander Pope
Waitings which ripen hopes are not delays -- Edward Benlowes
As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is a mere flattery or platitude. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable -- G.K. Chesterton
I would be starved until I die rather than die starved of hope -- Joseph Wood
Bodily suffering makes wicked souls miserable, but borne with fortitude it purifies souls that are good -- St. Augustine
Understand that it is not good for someone to despair of himself because of his temptations; rather, temptations procure crowns for us if we use them well -- Annoymous
No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much to do -- Dorothy Day
When we yield to discouragement or despair it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future -- St. Therese of Lisieux
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaningless and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today -- Albert Schweitzer
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance -- Robert F. Kennedy
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow -- Orison Swett Marden
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right -- Ezra Taft Benson
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No matter how bad you feel, there is always someone out there who feels worse, and is still moving -- Anonymous
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought -- Simone Weil
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing -- Meister Eckhart
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. Brenden Francis
If you think little of yourself, you will have peace wherever you live -- Abba Poemen
I am not young enough to know everything -- Oscar Wilde
There is something in humility that strangely exalts the heart -- Saint Augustine
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts -- Bertrand Russell
Think like a wise man but express yourself like the common people -- W.B. Yeats
Be exceedingly humble, for the hope of humankind is the worm -- Rabbi Levitas of Yavneh
Teach your tongue to say I do not know and you will progress -- Talmud
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help - George MacDonald
What does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your Lord -- The Prophet Micah 6:8
Humble persons know what they are and what they aren't, what they have and what they don't have, and they never confuse the two -- Joan Chittister
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility -- Jonathan Edwards
To keep your marriage brimming With love in the loving cup Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up -- Ogden Nash, A Word to Husbands
Real humility, because it is real honesty, is always costly -- Demetrius Dumm, O.S.B.
In humility is perfect freedom -- Thomas Merton
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is -- Phillips Brooks
Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all -- G.K. Chesterton
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one -- J. D. Salinger
True humility makes no pretence of being humble, and scarcely ever utters words of humility -- Saint Francis de Sales
Humility: that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot -- Thomas Moore
It takes one a long time to grow young. Pablo Picasso
Humility is a descending charity and charity is an ascending humility -- Jean Pierre Camus
Humility leads to strength and not weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them -- John J. McCloy
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A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad – Arnold Glasow
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes there place -- Mark Twain
Tell the truth and run -- Yugoslavian Proverb
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously -- Thomas Sowell
Since the early bird catches the worm, it's a good idea to begin your day as soon as you can -- unless, of course, you happen to be a worm - Edwin Bliss
If you haven't struck oil in your first three minutes, stop boring! -- George Jessel
If you want someone to laugh at your jokes, tell him he has a sense of humor -- Herbert V. Prochnow, Editor
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket -- Author unknown
People live forward but think backward -- Howard Bleichner
Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today, it's called golf.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit! -- R. E. Shay
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem -- John Galsworthy (1867-1933), Novelist and dramatist
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Ignorance is the curse of the God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven -- Shakespeare
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance -- Thomas Carlyle
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them -- Ralph Gerard
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them – George Bernard Shaw
For a dreamer lives forever, and a toiler dies in a day -- John Boyle O' Reilly, "The Cry of the Dreamer"
Life without a daily dream is not life at all. It is, at best, an excursion into boredom -- Joan Chittister
The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun -- Henry Ward Beecher
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours -- Henry David Thoreau
We do not understand the meaning of prophetic imagination unless we see the connection between the religion of static triumphalism and the politics of oppression and exploitation -- Walter Brueggemann
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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As the sun illuminates the moon and stars so let us illuminate each other -- Master Lui
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience-- Harper Lee
It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe -- Thomas Paine
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy -- Martin Luther King
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude is itself a fortune -- Henry Ward Beecher
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The Lord will drench you with His showers, but he will dry you with His sun -- Czech Proverb
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning -- Psalms
Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God -- Paul Claudel
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy -- Milton Erickson, M.D.
Joy is the happiness of love –love aware of its inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, but Joy comes from within, and it is therefore, within reach of everyone in the world -- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Decide that Joy is the hue you want your heart to be. Then start making the little and large choices that over time will paint your heart happy -- Thomas Kinkade
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain! --- Anonymous
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them -- Kahlil Gibran
Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning – Marcus Aurelius
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable
People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt -- "the Younger" Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (4? BC - 65 AD)
One kind word can warm three winter months -- Anonymous Japanese proverb
I love thee for a heart that's kind -- Not for the knowledge in thy mind -- W. H. Davies
Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. --French Proverb
What wisdom can find that is greater than kindness -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
If we take people as they are, we make worse. If we treat them as if they were what they ought to be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming -- Goethe
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted -- Aesop
Surround yourself with optimists; negativity is not a sounding board for creativity -- Karl Mettke
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? -- George Eliot
The meaning of life is discovering our gifts. The purpose of life is giving them away -- Unknown
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble -- Rudyard Kipling
There may be a hundred things you know about a person--all of them bad. But there may be just one thing you don't know, which if you did know, would completely change your opinion -- Robert H. Lauren
A soft answer turns away anger -- Proverbs Chapter 15 verse 1
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear -- C. N. Bovee
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless -- Mother Theresa
Live simply, Love generously, Care deeply, Speak kindly . . .
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again -- Stephen Grellet
Kindness lets life begin anew -- Romano Guardini
There is no surer way of calling the worst out of anyone than that of taking their worst as being their true selves; no surer way of bringing out the best than by only accepting that as being true of them -- E. F. Benson
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do -- Mother Teresa
Kindness is being well disposed toward life, our neighbor and our self -- Anonymous
Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! -- Henri F. Amiel (1821-1881), Writer and educator
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either -- Golda Meir
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh -- Agnes Repplier
Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is -- Horace Walpole
Save the world through prayer? I don't think so. I'm going to save it through laughter -- taken from the book, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul by Tony Hendra
When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit -- taken from the book, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul by Tony Hendra
You grow up the very first day you have a laugh at yourself -- Ethel Barrymore
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on -- Bob Newhart
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspiration and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth -- Victor Borge
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor -- Jennifer James
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either -- Golda Meir
In laughter there is always a kind of joyousness that is incompatible with contempt or indignation -- Voltaire
Humor is staying in touch with our inner clown -- Anonymous
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is -- Francis Bacon
The gods too are fond of a joke -- Aristotle
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh -- Agnes Repplier
Laugh as much as possible. Always laugh; it is the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human being -- Maya Angelou
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader -- John Quincy Adams
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom -- General George Patton
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, we did it ourselves -- Lao-Tzu
You do not lead by hitting people over the head that's assault, not leadership -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most important thing a captain can do is to see the ship from the eyes of the crew -- Pacific Fleet Commander D. Michael Abrashoff
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power -- Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves -- Anonymous
Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear Marcus Buckingham
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them -- Joseph Roux (Meditations of a Parish Priest)
Leadership is not about power. It's not about control; it's about helping people live according to the vision -- Ken Blanchard & Phil Hodges
The real test of the leader is whether those served grow as persons. Do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more like themselves to become servants? -- Robert Greenleaf
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant -- Shakespeare
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want -- Dianne Feinstein
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The exercise of authority without accountability is not servant-leadership: it is tyranny -- Report of the National Review Board
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power -- he's free again -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
If you can't completely eradicate wrong ideas, or deal with inveterate vices as effectively as you wish, that's no reason for turning your back on public life altogether. You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds -- St. Thomas More, Utopia 1517
If you're planning for one year, grow rice. If you're planning for 20 years, grow trees. If you're planning for centuries, grow leaders -- Chinese proverb
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things -- Elinor Smith
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds -- Albert Einstein
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a fine thing to put social programmes on paper. But it is important to know what sort of people you have to carry them out -- Bernanos
If the church does not subject itself to the judgment which is pronounced by the church, it becomes idolatrous towards itself. Such idolatry is its permanent temptation -- Paul Tillich
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy -- General Norman Schwarzkopf
The road to success is always under construction -- Author Unknown
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity -- General George Patton
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power -- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership is the art of getting others to do something you want done because they want to do it -- Anonymous
Discourage conformity, uniformity, and centralization because they stifle innovation -- Principles of Excellent Installations, U.S. Department of Defense
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it -- Theodore Roosevelt
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated -- Mahatma Gandhi
Everything is riding on this. Ultimately our global leadership is riding on this. It's not Saddam that is the issue; it's whether America can lead, lead constructively and in a way that others respect it -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught -- Oscar Wilde
The body is a house of many windows; there we sit, showing ourselves and crying out to the passers-by to come and love us -- Robert Louis Stevenson
If one finds in one or two words matter which yields thought, relish and consolation, one should not be anxious to move forward, even if the whole hour is consumed on what is being found -- St. Ignatius
A powerful agent is the right word. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Most of our problems can be solved. Some of them will take brains, and some of them will take patience, but all of them will have to be wrestled with like an alligator in the swamp. Harold Washington (1922-1987)
Books are the carriers of civilization.
Without books history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are the engines of change, windows on the world (as a poet said) lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print -- Barbara W. Tuckman
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes -- Erasmus
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand -- Chinese Proverb
The unexamined life is not worth living -- Socrates
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation: it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. Paul Tournier, Psychiatrist and author
Judge a person by the questions they ask rather than by the answers they give -- Voltaire
The true source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think . . . . Let us dare to read, think, speak and write -- John Adams
We learn neither by thinking or by doing. We learn by thinking about what we are doing -- Anonymous
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions -- Susanne Langer
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing, an exact man -- Bacon
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn -- Mary Shelly, Frankenstein
In books lies the soul of the whole past time -- Carlyle
Live as though you'll die tomorrow, learn as though you'll live forever -- Anonymous
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned -- Lucius Seneca
A page of history is worth a volume of logic -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is the courage to ask the right questions that makes for moral character. It is the ability to ask the right questions that makes for scientific progress -- Joan Chittister
We are here to do. And through doing to learn; And through learning to know; And through knowing to attain wonder; And through wonder to attain wisdom; And through wisdom to find simplicity; And through simplicity to give attention; And through attention To see what needs to be done -- Ben Hei Hei
My rule is always to do the business of the day in the day -- Arthur Wellesley Wellington
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it -- Pam Shaw
The shortest answer is doing -- Proverb
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child -- Carl Gustav Jung
The trees and stones will teach you what you never learn from the masters -- Bernard of Clairvaux
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. ––he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself -- The Rev. R. Inman
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous -- Confucius
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them -- Mark Twain
Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them -- Thomas Merton
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it -- Aristotle
To study is a good way to learn; to hear it is still a better way; to teach it is the best of all -- Erasmus
We know, not by a direct and simple vision, not at a glance, but as it were, by piecemeal and accumulation ... by going around an object, by comparison. John Henry Newman
Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it -- Polly B. Berends
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand -- St. Augustine of Hippo
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Everyone seems normal until you get to know them -- Anonymous
Sit at dinner tables and socialize as long as you can, for these are the bonus times of your lives -- al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abi-Talib
I am an artist at living, and my work of art is my life -- Japanese philosopher, Suzuki
Life may not be the party we hoped for -- but while we're here, we might as well dance! -- Anonymous
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust -- Attributed to Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919), U.S. poet.
Facts influence. They are revered by people who cannot contradict them. Like statistics they are extremely dangerous. They must be controlled and only revealed where essential -- Michael Shea
Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing -- Oscar Wilde
The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does -- Anonymous
Never look at the doors closing behind you or you'll miss the ones opening ahead -- Cyril Magnin
When life gives you lemons, throw them back and say, "make your own lemonade!" -- Kayla Merrell, Brent Coburn, and Rachel Crisp
Life is like a roller coaster, so why not sit up in the front with your hands in the air? -- Rachel Crisp
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do -- Benjamin Franklin
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid -- Walter Winchell
Christians should live with the Bible in one hand and newspapers in the other -- Karl Barth
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important -- Bertrand Russell
If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm -- Frank Lane
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending -- Carl Bard
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office -- Robert Frost
We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams -- Gypsy Proverb
It's good to have an end to journey toward; but it's the journey that matters, in the end -- Ursula K. LeGuin
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child -- Laurens van der Post
Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours -- Marcus Aurelius
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! -- November! -- Anonymous
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step -- Lao-tzu
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium . . . the world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open -- Martha Graham - Dance to the Piper
Most of us spend our lives as if we have another one in the bank -- Ben Irwin
If I should die and leave you here awhile Be not like others soon undone. Who keep long vigil by the silent dusk and weep. For my sake, turn again to life and smile, Nerving thy heart and trembling hand, To do something to comfort weaker hearts than thine. Complete those dear, unfinished tasks of mine, And I perchance, may therein comfort you -- From the memorial service celebrating the lives of Marcia Wellstone Markuson, Sheila Wellstone and Senator Paul David Wellstone
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life -- Seneca
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose -- Plutarch
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something -- Benjamin Franklin
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it -- Sydney J. Harris
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors -- Johnson
Life's tough . . . it's even tougher if you're stupid -- John Wayne
For the benefit of the flowers, we water the thorns, too -- Jewish saying
Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow - James Dean
A man should live only for the present day -- Sophocles
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits -- Robert Louis Stevenson
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do -- Olin Miller
It's very strange. Sometimes you lie in bed at night and you don't have a single thing to worry about . . . That always worries me -- Charlie Brown (by Charles Schulz)
Yesterday is a cancelled cheque; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have -- so spend it wisely -- Kay Lyons
Yesterday is history, Tomorrow a mystery. Today is a gift, That's why we call it The Present -- Anonymous
There are cracks in everything; that's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why -- Eddie Cantor
In three words I can sum up everything that I have learned about life. It goes on -- Robert Frost
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being -- John Updike
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late -- Benjamin Franklin
There will come a time, when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning -- Lois L'Amour
Life itself can't give you joy, Life -- Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine -- Saint Thomas Aquinas
Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day living that wears you out -- Anton Chekhov
The perfect journey is circular ---- the joy of departure and the joy of return -- Dino Basli
One of the most dangerous temptations is the temptation to prepare to live, instead of living -- Leo Tolstoy
Sometimes victory isn't an option. And when you're probably going to lose. . .why not do it with style, and maybe, just maybe, do a little good in the process? -- Anonymous
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They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind -- Native American Proverb
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you -- Winnie the Pooh
All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity -- Cardinal Desire Joseph Mercier
Active love is more than a feeling or a thought; it is a concrete action -- from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others -- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Love brings a voiding of our ego, which allows us to fill it anew. Unless your loving attains to this void or self-emptiness, you have no chance for renewal. This is what Christ meant when he said unless you die, you cannot be reborn or begin anew -- from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Love changes one more than knowledge does. Love is more powerful than thought -- from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
The true guilt of mankind lies not in our crimes but in our failure to commit acts of love -- from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving -- St. Francis De Sales
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today -- Will Rogers
Hell is the suffering of being unable to love -- from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement. Lope de Vega Fuenteovejuna
Love either finds equality or makes it. John Dryden, Marriage A La Mode
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within -- James Baldwin
Self-forgetfulness, liberation from our own ego and its clamorous demands, is the gift that love gives us -- from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Symptoms of disease are nothing but a disguised manifestation of the power of love; and all disease is only love transformed -- Thomas Mann
Hatred can be overcome only by love -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction -- Mahatma Gandhi
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave -- Mahatma Gandhi
I shall not pass this way again; let me now relieve some pain, remove some barrier from the road, or lighten someone's heavy load - Eva Rose York
The first step in personhood is to allow ourselves to be loved. To know ourselves loved is to have the depths of our own capacity to love opened up -- John Main, O.S.B.
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer -- Anthony Trollope
Where there is no love, put love -- and you will find love. -- St. John of the Cross
Conquer your foe by force, you increase his enmity; conquer by love, and you will reap no after-sorrow -- Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King
– It's easy to halve the potato where there's love -- Irish Proverb
Hate has a reason for everything, but love is unreasonable -- V. Raiuhes Ahaefuthe
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best way to know God is to love many things -- Vincent Van Gogh
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence -- Henry David Thoreau
Whoever wants to eliminate love is preparing to eliminate man as such -- Pope Benedict XVI
The bread which you do not use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes that you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the money that you keep locked away is the money of the poor; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit -- St. Basil the Great circa 300 AD
All the things in this world are not worth one human thought, and all the efforts of human thought are not worth one act of charity -- Blaise Pascal
As we advance in love, we grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of the soul -- from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey -- Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Work is love made visible -- Kahil Gibran
The very best love is unconscious love -- Leo Tolstoy
Everybody can be great . . . because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love -- Martin Luther King Jr.
It is love that makes us see beauty, not beauty -- Leo Tolstoy
Our family is a circle of love, Guided and directed from God above. With every union and every birth, Our circle grows with joy and mirth. This love that flows so strong and deep, Leaves us memories to treasure and keep. And when a sadness comes along, Our circle tightens, remaining strong. Anyonymous
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind . . . For love not only annihilates our fear of meaningless but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness -- Leo Tolstoy
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I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have -- Coleman Cox
Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch -- Max O'Rell
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it -- Thomas Jefferson
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. -- Russian Proverb
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It is a challenge to all Catholics to never let receiving the Eucharist become something ordinary -- Shawn Tunink
The Blessed Virgin Mary once told Her faithful servant Alain: "My Son so loves those who assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that, if it were necessary He would die for them as many times as they've heard Masses."
When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt - Saint Jean Vianney
If we really understood the Mass, we would die of joy - Saint Jean Vianney
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us - Saint Jean Vianney
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee - Saint Jean Vianney
The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross - Saint Thomas Aquinas
It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do without Holy Mass - Saint Pio
The heavens open and multitudes of angels come to assist in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Saint Gregory
The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass - Saint Augustine
When Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels who adore the divine victim immolated on the altar - Saint John Chrysostom
The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer!" - Pope Paul VI
For each Mass we hear with devotion, Our Lord sends a saint to comfort us at death. (revelation of Christ to St. Gertrude the great).
The Holy Mass would be of greater profit if people had it offered in their lifetime, rather than having it celebrated for the relief of their souls after death" - Pope Benedict XV
Once, St. Teresa was overwhelmed with God's Goodness and asked Our Lord "How can I thank you?" Our Lord replied, "ATTEND ONE MASS."
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Maturity: among other things -- not to hide one's strength out of fear and, consequently, live below one's best -- Dag Hammarskjold
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Memory is the treasurer and guardian of all things -- Cicero
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Cicero in praising Caesar . . . . says: "Of all they virtues none is more marvelous or more graceful than they mercy." -- St. Augustine
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The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart – John Welwood
You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself . . . Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility -- Nelson Mandela
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive -- John Paul II (1920-2005)
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards -- St. Francis Xavier
To put an engine in position, to heat the boiler, to set it in motion, but not to attach the connecting belt is what has been done with the teaching of Christ. People teach Christianity but don't practice it -- Leo Tolstoy
You won't do ministry that really matters until you define what matters -- Aubrey Malphurs
The problem is not that Christianity has been tried and found wanting, but rather that it's been found difficult and never tried -- G.K. ChestertonAgeless
The true measures of a church are not "how many" but "how loving," not "how relevant" but "how real" -- Robert Lewis Ministerial Wisdom --- It is clear that emphasizing the growth of the churches divides the camp. It is really a divisive topic. How strange when all are presumably disciples of the Lord -- Donald McGavran
Missionary leadership will require skills in evoking a language about the church that reshapes its understanding on it purpose and practices -- Darrell Guder
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees -- Benjamin Franklin
The road to hell is littered with the manuscripts of church sermons written late on Saturday -- Alan Harris
The pastor should visit the cemetery as often as he is able. This is wholesome for him personally, for his preaching, for his spiritual care, and also for his theology -- Bonhoeffer, Spiritual Care
The cancer of careerism is terminal and incurable; even clerics contract it -- Alex Rebello
The job of priests with respect to the lay people is not to make them the longa manus of the clergy, telling them what they've got to do; but to make them believing men and women, adult Christians, leaving them to meet and fulfill the concrete demands of their Christianity on their own responsibility and in accordance with their own consciences -- Yves Congar
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue -- Benjamin Franklin
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of -- Joseph Addison
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Knowledge, right principles, true thoughts are not at their post; and the place lies open to the assault of false and presumptuous notions -- Plato
Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken -- Horace Mann
Live in such a way that those who know you but don't know God will come to know God because they know you -- Unknown
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 path, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life breathes easier because you have lived: this is to have succeeded -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There is a hard and fast rule we must always remember: if a good end can be achieved only through bad means, either it is not a good end, or its time has not yet come -- Leo Tolstoy
You are what your deep driving desire is. As your desire, so is your will. As your will, so is your deed. As your deed, so is your destiny -- Hindu scriptures
He who multiplies riches multiplies cares -- Benjamin Franklin
The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried -- Irish Proverb
If slackness and greed did not come into the soul, the spirit would not be overcome in combat with the enemy --- Abba Poemen
Hell is not so bad as the road that leads to it -- Yiddish Proverb
The road to hell is always in good repair because its users pay so dearly for its upkeep.
We are learning a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them -- G.K. Chesterton
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry -- African Proverb
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him -- Leo Aikman
The habit of giving into our lusts is like a hidden stream under the foundations of a house. The house will eventually fall -- Leo Tolstoy
We advance to the truth by experience of error; we succeed through failures. We know not how to do right except by having done wrong. . . Such is the process by which we succeed; we walk to Heaven backwards -- John Henry Newman
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something -- Henry David Thoreau
There is no such thing as a political change of social systems: only moral change within the soul -- Leo Tolstoy
Life is for one generation; a good name is forever --Japanese Proverb
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy -- Corrie Ten Boom
In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good -- Mahatma Gandhi
You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge -- Bulgarian Proverb
The best things in life aren't things -- Ann Landers (1918-2002), Advice columnist
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it -- Ogden Nash
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself -- Jane Addams
The sin of our times is the sin that believes in nothing,
Cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, Interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, Finds purpose in nothing. Lives for nothing, and remains Alive because there is nothing for which it will die -- Dorothy Sayers
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little -- Edmund Burke
If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy -- Unknown
To err is human; to blame it on the other guy is even more human -- Bob Goddard
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock – Thomas Jefferson
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green -- Francis Bacon
I don't hold no grudges more'n five years -- William Kennedy
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Let not a day pass if possible, without having heard some fine music, read a noble poem, or seen a beautiful picture -- Goethe
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song -- Maya Angelou
It is not without reason that the ancestors and prophets wanted nothing else to be associated as closely with the Word of God as music -- Martin Luther
Let us sing now, not in order to enjoy a life of leisure, but in order to lighten your labors. You should sing as wayfarers do -- sing, but continue your journey. Do not be lazy, but sing to make your journey more enjoyable. Sing, but keep going -- St. Augustine
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light -- Claude Debussy
Keep time. How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept -- Shakespeare
Music does not pleadfor war's end. Music will illuminate war's horror, so that all who hear that music will then demand war's end -- Anonymous
God gave us music that we might pray without words. From a German opera house
He who learns to play music in his eightieth year will play at the resurrection -- Turkish Proverb
Those who think that music ranks among the trifles of existence are in gross error -- William E. Gladstone
The first and most indispensable quality of any artist is to feel respect for great men, and to bow down in spirit before them; to recognize their merits, and not to endeavor to extinguish their great flame in order that his own feeble rushlight may burn a little brighter -- Mendelssohn
Music's a great and never-failing treasure to those who've learnt and studied it in youth -- Theophilus
That mind alone whose every thought is rhythm can embody music, can comprehend its mysteries, its divine inspirations, and can alone speak to the senses of its intellectual revelations -- Beethoven
Have you real talent-real feeling for art? The study music – do something worthy of the art-and dedicate your whole soul to the beloved saint -- Longfellow
Call in sweet music. I have heard soft airs can charm our senses and expel our cares -- Sir J. Denham
Music is to the mind as air is to the body -- Plato
– There were millions tortured, shot, Or starved long before Hitler. This symphony is a tombstone to all. If we all read from the Palms of David before hearing the 7th symphony, [of Shostakovich] There would be fewer stupid things -- Dimitri Shostakovich, Russian Composer
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Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Show me your garden and I will tell you what you are like – Alfred Austin
If of they mortal goods thou art bereft And two loaves alone to thee are left Sell one, and buy a hyacinths to feed thy soul – Sheilth Muslik-uddin Saadi Shirazi
With a few flowers in my garden . . . I live without envy – Lope de Vega
Where flowers bloom, so does hope – Lady Bird Johnson
The simplest and shortest rule of morality consists in compelling as little service as possible from others, and serving others as much as possible. It involves demanding as little as possible from others, and in giving others as much as possible -- Leo Tolstoy
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be – Clementine Paddleford
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Non-violence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain -- Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed -- Mahatma Gandhi
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself -- William Faulkner
Work to become, not to acquire -- Confucius
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it -- C.S. Lewis
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If we push ourselves beyond measure we will break; it is right for us from time to time to relax our efforts -- Abba Anthony
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Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding -- Kahlil Gibran
I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars -- Og Mandino
Pain -- is missed -- in Praise -- Emily Dickinson
Grave illness sobers the soul -- Eccles. 31,2
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts -- Andrew Young
Accustom children to a true notion of things -- George Shelley
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of others. Pope John Paul II
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child -- Carl Jung
The reality of the house is order The blessing of the house is community The glory of the house is hospitality The crown of the house is godliness Frank Lloyd Wright
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility -- Leo Tolstoy
Wood that grows warped can never be straightened -- Greek Proverb
My parents always told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done -- Author unknown
Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn -- Frank A. Clark
True education consists of forming the hearts of young people. Knowledge and scholarship have meaning only when placed in a context of values -- Father Basil Moreau, founder of Holy Cross
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you -- Robert Fulghum
Wants quickly grow up to be needs -- Anonymous
One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night -- Margaret Mead
This is our moment here at the crossroads of time. We hope our children carry out dreams down the line. They are the vintage. What kind of life will they live? Is this a curse or a blessing that we give? -- Billy Joel, "Two Thousand Years"
Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society -- Joan Ganz Cooney
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them -- Lady Bird Johnson
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings -- Hodding Carter
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education -- John Ruskin
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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow -- Anonymous Chinese proverb
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury -- Jean de la Fontaine
Life on the farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days -- [Henri-Alban Fournier], Alain-Fournier (1886–1914), Novelist
Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake -- Victor Hugo
Patience does not mean indifference. We may work and trust and wait, but we ought not to be idle or careless while waiting -- Author unknown
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life -- Chinese proverb
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves -- Rainer Maria Rilke
A patient person has great understanding, but a quick-tempered person displays folly. Proverbs
Patience is also a form of action -- Auguste Rodin
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the undercurrents of the soil; but you have to be willing to wait and receive -- John Hay
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves -- Rainer Maria Rilke
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world -- Helen Keller
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May the Lord grant me a sword and no need to use it -- Czech Proverb
One sword keeps another in the sheath -- George Herbert
Don't lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset -- St. Francis De Sales
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame -- Thomas A. Kempis
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us -- The Dalai Lama
Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart -- Marel Morin
Inner peace and outer peace are synonymous in the sense that, without one, the other wouldn't happen -- Yoko Ono
Peace is not the absence of war. It is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, and justice -- Spinoza
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Straighten out your problems out before you go to bed. That way you will wake up smiling -- Louis Fromm
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset -- Saint Francis de Sales
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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way! -- A.J. Muste
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives -- Abba Eban
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both -- Abraham Flexner
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure -- Abraham Lincoln
Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy -- Abraham Lincoln
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends -- Abraham Lincoln
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived -- Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves -- Abraham Lincoln
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era--a permanent state of what I call violent peace -- Admiral James D. Watkins
In war, truth is the first casualty -- Aeschylus
Any excuse will serve a tyrant -- Aesop
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one -- Agatha Christie
No war is inevitable until it breaks out -- A. J. P. Taylor
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic -- A. J. P. Taylor
Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after -- Alan Watts
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives...inside ourselves -- Albert Camus
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners -- Albert Camus
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants -- Albert Camus
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding -- Albert Camus
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting -- Albert Camus
Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war -- Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one -- Albert Einstein
Force always attracts men of low morality -- Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder -- Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding -- Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing -- Albert Einstein
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth -- Albert Einstein
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood -- Aldous Huxley
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning -- Albert Einstein
Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us -- Hebrew 12:1
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We cannot ensure success, but we can deserve it -- Joseph Addison
There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up -- Thomas Alva Edison
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won -- Sir Winston Churchill
The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong in the broken places Ernest Hemingway
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance -- Samuel Johnson
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent -- Calvin Coolidge
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day -- Albert Schweitzer
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If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm -- Yiddish Proverb
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust -- Henry David Thoreau
The doors of wisdom are never shut -- Benjamin Franklin
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire -- Arab Proverb
Every patient is a doctor after his cure -- Irish Proverb
If youth only knew; if age only could -- Henri Estienne
We torture ourselves with the past and in our worry spoil the future simply because we do not pay sufficient attention to the present. The past is gone. The future does not exist. There is only now -- Leo Tolstoy
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom -- Greek Proverb
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up men to gather wood, divide the word, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea -- Antoine de Saint Exupery
It is far easier to write ten volumes of philosophy than to put a single precept into practice -- Leo Tolstoy
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, It's about learning to dance in the rain -- Authors Unknown
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of discussion -- Plato
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Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent -- Leonard Ravenhill
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered -- Jean Ingelow
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together -- Mother Teresa
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying -- François de Sales
Prayer is a right understanding of that fullness of joy which is to come, with true longing and trust -- Julian of Norwich
Give up all else that you may be a man of prayer. Leave the common people on the plain and with Moses climb the mountain to pray to God -- Dom Bonaventure, Prior of Parkminster
When we work, we work. When we pray, God works -- J. Hudson Taylor
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself -- Mother Teresa
Mental prayer is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends: it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us -- Teresa of Avila
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for -- Dag Hammarskjold
That God should have time for you, you seem to take as much for granted as that you cannot have time for Him -- Dag Hammarskjold
Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus -- Therese of Lisieux
Even if you are committing mortal sins, keep on praying, and I guarantee you will reach the harbor of salvation -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Contemplation is a sudden gift of awareness, an awakening to the Real within all that is real. A vivid awareness of infinite Being at the roots of our own limited being. An awareness of our contingent reality as received, as a present from God, as a free gift of love -- Thomas Merton
Remember, it always pleases God when we come before Him as suppliants. He loves us to ask, pray, beseech, to the point of importunity . . . The Heart of God invites us all to put It to the proof. The more he gives, the more He desires to give. He loves to see the trust which makes us persist in knocking unceasingly -- Blessed Placid Riccardi, OSB, (1844-1915)
The fruit of Silence is prayer. The fruit of Prayer is faith. The fruit of Faith is love. The fruit of Love is service. The fruit of Service is peace -- Mother Teresa
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent -- Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view -- Emerson
Night is drawing nigh —" For all that has been --Thanks! To all that shall be -- Dag Hammarskjold
Prayer and life are co-extensive: you pray as you live, and you live as you pray -- Alex Rebello
We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action -- Mother Teresa
Prayer begins when we gather ourselves -- Louis Cameli
God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry -- Saint John Vianney
The person who prays is never a nobody -- Ernest Hello
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself -- Mother Teresa
Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace. Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it. Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen Reinhold Niebuhr
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We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are. Talmud
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The priest is not an angel sent from heaven. He is a man, a member of the Church, a Christian. Remaining man and Christian, he begins to speak to you the word of God. This word is not his own. No, he comes to you because God has told him to proclaim God's word. Perhaps he has not entirely understood it himself. Perhaps he adulterates it. Perhaps he falters and stammers. How else could he speak God's word, ordinary man that he is? But must not some one of us say something about God, about eternal life, about the majesty of grace in our sanctified being; must not some one of us speak of sin, the judgment and mercy of God? -- Karl Rahner
There are too many priest, who, without dishonoring their calling and character, take low views of the dignity of their mission -- Rev. P. Millet, S.J.
There is no use in walking anywhere to preach if your walking isn't your preaching -- St. Francis of Assisi
It is not the institution or structures of society that the priest has to transform, but the people and they themselves will do the rest -- Frederico Suarez
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips -- Oliver Goldsmith
Our priests have been given "the privilege of making visible to people the love of Jesus Christ and the graces he wants to give them through the sacraments" -- Magnificat
The only real motivation for celibacy is being faithful to the total imitation of Jesus Christ . . . Celibacy is an issue of love, and love cannot be explained or reasoned . . . The why and wherefore of celibate love for Christ is celibate love for Christ. It cannot be explained further than that -- Cardinal Godfried Daneels of Belgium
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In deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly -- St. Thomas Aquinas
Prudence is the cause of the other virtues being virtues at all -- Josep Pieper
All Ten Commandments of God pertain to the practice of prudence -- Josep Pieper
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If people think you are wise, do not think that you are special. Wisdom comes from knowing Reality, and knowing Reality is the purpose for which you were created -- Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai
Reality is a collective hunch -- Mel Seesholtz, Educator
Reality is not the same to the doer as it is to the sayer -- Haki Madhubuti, Poet and publisher
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Reconciliation is coming to an understanding our hearts have been longing for. Author unknown
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Good sense eludes the overhasty pen -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so." -- Lord Byron
Remorse is like the cracking of an eggshell or a grain of corn, as a result of which the seed starts to grow -- Leo Tolstoy
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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal -- Albert Schweitzer
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Continue to receive Communion, and don't worry about not being able to receive the sacrament of Penance.
Jesus will prize your good will.
Remember what I have told you so often:
as long as we are not certain of being in serious sin,
we need not abstain from Communion – Padre Pio
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Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish -- Ovid
Always behave like a duck -- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath -- Jacob Braude
We were meant to live for so much more . . . maybe we've been living with our eyes half open -- Switchfoot, Meant to Live
Study only the best, for life is too short to study everything -- P. Emanuel Bach
No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn -- Hal Borland
The student should continually examine his own work with the same acuteness he would be expected to show, were he teaching another -- Josef Hoffman
Sages do not speak before those Whose wisdom and experience exceed their own; do not interrupt another's words; are not in a hurry to reply; ask relevant questions, give relevant answers; speak without deception; feel free to say, "I don't know" when the matter is unfamiliar; acknowledge the Truth and admit error -- Unknown author
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going -- Beverly Sills
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May your walls know joy, each room hold laughter and every window open to greater possibility -- Mary Anne Radmacher
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"He had delusions of adequacy."
- Walter Kerr
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.."
- Oscar Wilde
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one."
- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second ....if there is one."
- Winston Churchill, in response.
"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
- John Bright
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb
"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson
"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
- Paul Keating
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
- Forrest Tucker
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
- Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...for support rather than illumination."
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
- Billy Wilder
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx.
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Security is a superstition--it does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure -- Helen Keller
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death -- James F. Byrnes
Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk. Peter Drucker
There are no safe harbors—the only safe harbor is competency. T. J. Rodgers
The conformist is not born. He is made...Many teachers and professors seem hell-bent on imbuing their students with a desire to achieve "security" above all. J. Paul Getty
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it does not exist; the moderns pretend that nothing else exists -- Bishop Fulton Sheen
In a culture where the aesthetic experience is denied and atrophied, genuine religious ecstasy rare, intellectual pleasure scorned—it is only natural that sex should become the only personal epiphany of most people. Gary Snyder
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The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, and the fruit of love is silence -- Mother Teresa
Of this there is no doubt, our age and Protestantism in general may need the monastery again, or wish it were there. The ‘monastery' is an essential dialectical element in Christianity. We therefore need it out there like a navigation buoy at sea in order to see where we are, even though I myself would not enter it. But if there really is true Christianity in every generation, there must also be individuals who have this need -- Soren Kierkegaard
The contemplative waits in silence and when he is 'answered', it is not so much by a word that bursts into his silence. It is by this silence itself suddenly, inexplicably, revealing itself to him as a word of great power -- Thomas Merton
Silence like the sunlight will illuminate you in God -- Thomas Merton
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf -- Native American saying
Speech must die to serve that which is spoken -- Paul Ricoeur
A loss of silence is as serious as a loss of memory and just as disorienting. Silence is, after all, the natural context from which we listen. Silence is also the natural context from which we speak --- Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one -- George Washington
I shut my eyes in order to see -- Paul Gauguin
We have to earn silence . . . to work for it; to make it not an absence but a presence; not emptiness but repletion. Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands -- Pico Iyer
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary -- La Rochefoucauld
All you need to do to receive guidance is to ask for it and then listen -- Sanaya Roman
– This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude -- Jean de la Bruyere
Better one word less than one word too many -- Maltese Proverb
We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen . . . . We choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Either be silent or say things that are worth more than silence -- Leo Tolstoy
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf -- Native American saying
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind -- Walter Bagehot
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy -- Will Durant
A pair of good ears will drink dry a hundred tongues -- Benjamin Franklin
The primary virtue of inner stillness is to transform the heart -- Abba Paul
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens -- Jimi Hendrix
One who loves God necessarily loves silence -- Thomas Merton
All I did was listen. For I believe full surely that God's spirit is in us all -- Julian of Norwich
He who stays in the desert and practices stillness is delivered from three temptations, that of hearing, that of speaking and that of seeing. He has only one temptation, that of the heart -- Abba Anthony
The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you hear what is sounding outside of you -- Dag Hammarskjold
The best thing about not saying anything is the fact that it can't be repeated -- Anonymous
The monk is one who is separated from all, yet is united to all -- Evagrius Ponticos
Silence is the only language God speaks. Everything else is a bad translation -- Unknown
To live without speaking is better than to speak without living -- Abba Moses
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally -- Thomas Merton
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time -- Carlyle
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech -- Plutarch
Stillness slows the treadmill of events and desires that distracts us from the One who is essential --- Abbba Poemen
There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the less he spoke Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree?
The best and most wonderful thing that can happen to you in life, is that you should be silent and let God work and speak -- Dag Hammarskjold
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Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -- Henry David Thoreau
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When perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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When ideas are manipulated for personal ends, for class or group interests, the name for this is sophistry -- Plato
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Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it -- Victor Hugo
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? -- Kahlil Gibran
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement -- Abraham Lincoln
I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me -- Robert Browning Hamilton
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys -- Alphonse de Lamartine
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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. . .Live the question now. Rainer Maria Rilke
The purpose behind questions is to initiate the quest. Phil Cousineau
A major obstacle to creativity is wanting to be in the peak season of growth at all times. . .
But if we see the soul's journey as cyclical, like the seasons. . . then we can accept the reality that periods of despair or fallowness are like winter — a resting time that offers us a period of creative hibernation, purification, and regeneration that prepares us for the births of spring. Linda Leonard
I love the dark hours of my being in which my senses drop into the deep. Rainer Marie Rilke
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you, don't go back to sleep. Rumi
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing. . .not healing, not curing . . . that is a friend who cares. Henri J. Nouwen
A thousand half-loves must be surrendered to take a whole heart home. Rumi
Tears and weeping indicate a significant frontier in the way of the desert. They bespeak a promise. In fact, they are the only way into the heart. John Chryssavgis
And always remember....
when life hands you Lemons,
ask for Tequila and Salt and call me over!
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils is set free in those who have religious faith. Religion will always drive irreligion to the wall -- William James
Living the good life is frequently dull and flat and commonplace. Our greatest problem is to make it fiery and creative and capable of spiritual struggle -- Nikolai Berdyaev
Good friends are like stars........
You don't always see them,
But you know they are always there.
I would rather have one rose and a kind word
from a friend while I'm here
than a whole truck load when I'm gone.
Happiness keeps You Sweet,
Trials keep You Strong,
Sorrows keep You Human,
Failures keeps You Humble,
Success keeps You Glowing,
But Only
God keeps You Going
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness -- William Blake
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills -- Thomas a Kempis
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others -- Thomas a Kempis
Infantile love follows the principle: “I love because I am loved.”
Mature love follows the principle: “I am loved because I love.”
Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.”
Mature love says: “I need you because I love you” -- Erich Fromm
By a Carpenter mankind was made,
and only by that Carpenter can mankind by remade -- Desiderius Erasmus
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground -- Dante Allighieri
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too -- Frederick Buechner
The soul can split the sky in two, and let the face of God shine through -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
The window of my soul I throw open to the sun -- John Greenleaf Whittier
All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out -- The Apocrypha, Chapter 7, section 6
Those that lose wealth, lose much; those that lose friends, lose more; but those that lose spirit, lose all -- Spanish proverb
Then thought I to understand this: But it was too hard for me; Until I went into the sanctuary of God -- Psalm 73:16-17
The Master had no use at all for scholarly discourses. He called them "pearls of wisdom." "But if they are pearls, why do you scorn them?" said the disciples. "Have you ever known pearls to grow when planted in a field?" was the reply -- Anthony de Mello, SJ
Great saints have great defects just as tall trees cast long shadows -- Alex Rebello
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it -- La Rochefoucauld
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly -- St. Francis de Sales
Absolute trust in God in the present and complete tranquility in regard to what is going to happen in the future -- Anonymous
An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day -- Henry David Thoreau
Make two homes for thyself -- one actual home -- and another spiritual home, which thou art to carry with thee always -- Saint Catherine of Siena
I do not understand the mystery of grace--only that it meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us -- Anne LaMott
Strange is our situation upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, Not knowing why, yet sometimes Seeming to a divine purpose -- Albert Einstein
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way" -- C.S. Lewis
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike -- John Muir
Retirement has many advantages. It becomes a time to remake one's soul, to interiorize, to mediate and begin a cram course for the final exam -- Fulton J. Sheen
–- To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda or even stirring people up, but in being a living mystery; It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist -- Dorothy Day
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue -- Natalie Clifford Barney
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. Thomas Merton
One who can apprehend and consider vice with all of its baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, is the true wayfaring Christian -- John Milton
There is no history but that of the soul, no peace but that of the soul -- St. John Perse
Fear is not a bad place to start a spiritual journey -- Kathleen Norris
Let one who cannot be alone beware of community. Let one who is not in community beware of being alone -- Dietrich Bonhoffer
If God has forgiven you your past, you have no right to continue clinging to it -- Alex Rebello
If you're going through hell, keep going -- Winston Churchill
Nothing but self-will can separate us from God -- Saint Alphonsus Ligouri
Advent is primarily about the coming of God, and only in a secondary way about our asking, seeking, waiting, and longing -- Maria Boulding
He, who loses money, loses much; He, who loses a friend, loses much more; He, who loses faith, loses all.
It is a form of trade, you see. I ask God for souls and pay Him by giving up everything else -- Saint John Bosco
Most High glorious God, Enlighten the darkness of my heart. Give me right faith, sure hope and perfect charity. Fill me with understanding and knowledge, That I may fulfill your commands -- St. Francis of Assisi
Let nothing disturb you; let nothing dismay you; all things pass; God never changes. Patience attains all that it strives for. Those who have God find they lack nothing; God alone suffices -- St. Teresa of Avila
Sanctity is love of God and of men carried to a sublime extravagance -- Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
A person desperately searching for God is like a fish desperately searching for water -- Anonymous
In his poor heart man has places which do not yet exist and into them enters suffering in order to bring them to life -- Leon Bloy, "Pilgrim of the Absolute."
Man never fastened one end of the chain around the neck of his brother, that God didn't fasten the other end around the neck of the oppressor -- Edwin Markham
Learn to hate your faults, but to hate them calmly -- Saint (Padre) Pio
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet -- Frederick Buechner
To sin is human, but to persist in sin is devilish -- Saint Catherine of Siena
What page, what passage of the inspired books of the Old and New Testaments is not the truest of guides for human life? -- Rule of St. Benedict
The glory of God is a human being fully alive -- St. Irenaeus
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at the moment, we expected some other good -- C.S. Lewis
He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- James Elliot
The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place -- St. Therese of Lisieux
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy -- Corrie Ten Boom
You are a fish swimming in the ocean of God -- Sai Baba
We are all pilgrims on the wearisome roads of our life. There is always something ahead of us that we have not yet overtaken. When we do catch up with something it immediately becomes an injunction to leave it behind us and go onwards. Every end becomes a beginning -- Karl Rahner, S.J. (Meditations and Prayers)
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people, claims, and petitions. We may pass them by, preoccupied with more important tasks . . . When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of opportunity raised in our path to show us that, not our way, but God's way must be done. It is a strange fact that people frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this, but actually they are disdaining God's ‘crooked yet straight path.' But it is a part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform a service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian, murdered by the Nazis during WWII
When men have harnessed the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, they will harness for God the energies of love, and then for the second time in the history of this world, man will have discovered Fire -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be -- Thomas A'Kempis
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all -- Karl Rahner
If you're planning for one year, grow rice. If you're planning for 20 years, grow trees If you're planning for centuries, grow leaders If you're planning for eternity, go to confession -- Australian proverb
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart -- Francis of Assisi
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us --Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity -- Oren Arnold
Know what you are doing, and imitate the mystery you celebrate: Model your life on the mystery of the Lord's cross --- From the rite of Ordination of a Priest
Everything lies in the circular movement between procession and return, the cataphatic and the apophatic, nothing can find fulfillment except by entering into this movement -- Von Balthasar
If you plant for a year, plant grain. If you plant for ten years, plant trees. If you plant for a 100 years, plant men. If you plant for eternity, plant the word -- Unknown
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting! -- John Locke
It's time to stop being gripped by fear and to start gripping God -- Unknown
The true Christian is one who becomes a sacrifice in order to call attention to the truth that Christ is the only true sacrifice -- Soren Kierkegaard
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Races are the celebration of your training -- Dan Browne
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy -- Dag Hammarskjold
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason -- Dag Hammarskjold
Go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it and don't let anyone throw you off. That is following your bliss.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate -- Thomas Watson, Sr.
Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so . . . keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves -- Dag Hammarskjöld
It's important that people should know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for -- Mary H. Waldrip
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Quotes by Steven Wright that are serious, humorous and worth contemplating
Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
I intend to live forever.... so far, so good.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
My mechanic told me "I couldn't fix your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have the film.
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If the world is cold make it your business to build fires -- Horace Traubel
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped -- Calvin Coolidge
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Without suffering we know neither our limitations, nor ourselves -- Leo Tolstoy
If you are not strong, ask for troubles to make you so -- Leo Tolstoy
Self reform and peace are not achieved through the patience which others show us, but through our own long-suffering towards our neighbor -- Abba John Cassian
The only person who doesn't fall is the one who doesn't strive toward anything. Fall a thousand times and get up a thousand times and if you don't despair, you will make progress -- Leo Tolstoy
For the saints, suffering continues to be suffering, but it ceases to be an obstacle to his mission, or to his happiness, both of which are found positively and concretely in the will of God -- Thomas Merton
The consolation is this and this our faith too: By our suffering and our failures, by our acceptance of the Cross, we unleash forces that help to overcome the evil in the world -- Dorothy Day
Wherein lies true suffering? Suffering consists of being conscious of my sinfulness and how my sin contradicts life and then to feel further how far I am from realizing in my own person the truth which seeks to manifest itself in the world -- Leo Tolstoy
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Worry is a waste of imagination -- Walt Disney --
"Most of my life's worst experiences never actually happened" – Mark Twain
There is no middle way: you are a slave either of people or of God -- Leo Tolstoy
If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it's not the gospel you believe, but yourself -- Augustine of Hippo
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake -- Victor Hugo
The coffin is the brother of the cradle -- German Proverb
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done' -- C.S. Lewis
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright -- Blaise Pascal
How does a lapse of faith occur? Very simply: one begins to live like everybody else -- Leo Tolstoy
I do not know which of our afflictions God intends that we overcome and which He means for us to bear.…But this is certain: Some I have overcome, some I continue to bear. Jean Toomer (1894-1967), Poet and novelist
It may be that the day of judgment will dawn tomorrow; in that case we will gladly stop working toward a better future. But not before. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings -- Socrates
Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that really gives rest to the restless human heart -- Chuck Colson
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Thrift is essential to well-ordered living --- John D. Rockefeller
Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse --- Seneca
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest --- Agesilaus II, King of Sparta
He who does not economize will have to agonize --- Confucius
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? Cicero
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character --- Calvin Coolidge
Be thrifty, but not covetous --- Benjamin Franklin
The thrift that does not make a man charitable sours into avarice ----- M.W. Harrison
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship --- Benjamin Franklin
A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need. --- Sidney Carrol
He that builds before he counts the cost acts foolishly; and he that counts before he builds, finds he did not count wisely --- Benjamin Franklin
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them -- Marcel Proust
Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all -- Norman Cousins
Time is necessary. But in the realm of the spirit an instant of it is enough -- W.H. Auden
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them -- Marcel Proust
Time is too slow for those who wait Too swift for those who fear Too long for those who grieve Too short for those who rejoice But for those who love Time is eternity -- Anonymous
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It doesn't always get worse -- Ann Trason
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance -- Frederick Douglass
Trust . . . is the foundation for innovation and coordination of the supply chain, customer interaction, and market, product and service development -- Peter Keen
Trust one who has gone through it -- Virgil (70 - 19 BC), Roman poet
Trust yourself. You know more than you think -- Benjamin Spock
The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth can be another profound truth -- Niels Bohr
I tore myself from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me -- Simone de Beauvoir
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! -- William Blake (1757 - 1827), British poet, painter, engraver, and mystic
"I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.""Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?""I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?""You will have grown accustomed to it." -- Anthony De Mello, SJ
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart -- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist
Truth, in short, from a psychological standpoint, is agreement of relations; falsity, disagreement of relations -- John Dewey (1859 - 1952), U.S. philosopher and educator
What is truth said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer -- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), English philosopher, statesman, and lawyer
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature -- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), English philosopher, statesman, and lawyer
The first casualty when war comes is truth -- Hiram W. Johnson (1866 - 1945), U.S. politician and reformer
Truth is a sharp and bitter thing to the vulgar -- Erasmus
Sometimes I have to console myself with the fact that he who has lived a lie loves the truth -- Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and stage director
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me -- Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986), French writer and feminist theorist
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth -- Attributed to Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Love truth, but pardon error -- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), French writer and philosopher
The first casualty of war is truth -- Anonymous
He said true things, but called them by wrong names -- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), British poet
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men -- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), British poet and critic
It takes two to speak the truth—one to speak, and another to hear -- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), U.S. writer
The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things -- Plato (428? BC - 347? BC)
As fish were made to swim in water, human beings were made to thrive in the truth -- Nicholas Lash
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth -- John Locke (1632 - 1704), English philosopher
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great -- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Chinese philosopher, administrator, and moralist
Whoever is careless with truth in small matters, cannot be trusted in important affairs -- Albert Einstein
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths -- Anonymous
Caring for souls (Ministry) means for me helping through truth -- Romano Guardini
The more clearly a person perceives the essential truth in any matter and the more quickly and accurately he can see and explain the reason for it, the wiser and more farsighted he will be considered -- Cicero
The first reaction to truth is hatred -- Tertullian
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell -- Harry S. Truman (1884 - 1972), U.S. president.
Dialogue is only possible between people who remain what they are, and who speak the truth -- Albert Camus
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary -- Cicero (106 - 43 BC), Roman orator and statesman
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything -- Mark Twain
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Truth never damages a cause that is just -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth fears no trial -- Anonymous
The world stands upon three things:
Upon truth Upon peace Upon justice "Speak truth each to the other, establish peace, and render honest judgment in your gates" (Zechariah 8:16) -- Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), U.S. physician and writer
By a lie a person throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a person -- Emmanuel Kant
The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it -- Gordon Allport
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth -- Benjamin Disraeli
We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them. This way of looking is, in the first place, attentive. The soul empties itself of all its own contents in order to receive the human being it is looking at, just as he is, in all his truth -- Simone Weil
No one can attain the truth without a hundred errors along the way -- Meister Eckhart
Before you tell the "truth" to the patient, be sure you know the "truth," and that the patient wants to hear it -- Richard Clarke Cabot (1868 - 1939)
When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends -- Mark Twain
Errors, like Straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for Pearls must dive below -- John Dryden (1631 - 1700), English poet, playwright, and literary critic
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds -- Albert Einstein
People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes -- Abigail Van Buren
To destroy another life for the sake of justice is like repairing the misfortunate of losing one arm by cutting off the other arm for the sake of equity -- Leo Tolstoy
The evil we use violence against to protect ourselves from is far less evil than the evil we do to ourselves by using violence -- Leo Tolstoy
Justice is destroyed in two ways: by the false prudence of the sage, and by the violent act of the man who possesses power -- St. Thomas Aquinas
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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones -- Tim McCarver
Glory is but the shadow of virtue -- Cicero
Knowledge stimulates virtue, and virtue reflects knowledge -- Procopius of Gaza
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, Personal Integrity, Humility, Courtesy, Wisdom, Charity -- Dr. William Menninger
Glory is acquired by virtue but preserved by letters -- Petrarch
Virtue is that which makes men fight for the right -- Stoic Philosophers
The only reward of virtue is virtue -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue -- Francis Bacon
Virtue is the harmony between the parts of the soul -- Plato
To be criticized, denounced, and despised by good men, by our own friends and relatives is a severe test of virtue -- Saint Frances de Sales
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue. These five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness -- Confucius
Much advance publicity was made for the address the Master would deliver on "The Destruction of the World" and a large crowd gathered at the monastery grounds to hear him. The address was over in less than a minute. All he said was:
"These things will destroy the human race:
politics without principle,
progress without compassion,
wealth without work,
learning without silence,
religion without fearlessness
and worship without awareness." -- Anthony de Mello, SJ
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Visioning
Changes that appear turbulent to organizations that rely heavily on planning may appear normal to, even welcomed by, those who prefer a more visionary or learning approach. Put more boldly, if you have no vision but only formal plans, then every unpredicted change in the environment makes you feel like the sky is falling -- Henry Mintzberg
When people can't see what God is up to, they stumble all over themselves -- Proverbs 29:18.
Most artists look for something fresh to paint' frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar -- Andrew Wyeth
Words create worlds -- Anonymous
[On how he made discoveries] By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light -- Isaac Newton
The most important thing in life is to have a focus and a purpose -- Marcus Aurelius
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed -- Einstein (1879-1955)
The urgent need of the present generation is light and warm. The light of knowledge, and the warmth of high idealism. Reinhold Niebuhr
Ideals do not determine what we do to make a living in life; they govern what we become as we do it -- Joan Chittister
We must become the change we want to see - Mohandas Gandhi
If you don't believe in miracles, you'll never see one. If you believe in miracles, you'll see them all the time -- Albert Einstein
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew -- Abraham Lincoln
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly -- Langston Hughes
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with the success unexpected in common hours -- Henry David Thoreau
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It's deciding how you will go about achieving it, and staying with that plan -- Tom Landry
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision -- Anonymous
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar -- Andrew Wyeth
Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny - Carl Schurz
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world -- Oscar Wilde
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses - Ziggy
The world always steps aside for people and organizations who know where they're going -- Miriam Larsen
Changes that appear turbulent to organizations that rely heavily on planning may appear normal to, even welcomed by, those who prefer a more visionary or learning approach. Put more boldly, if you have no vision but only formal plans, then every unpredicted change in the environment makes you feel like the sky is falling -- Henry Mintzberg
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones -- John Cage
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up -- Dag Hammarskjold
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world -- Oscar Wilde
We need the kind of vision that tells us when to stop something as well as when to begin something -- Joan Chittister
It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want -- Richard D. Rosen
Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The significance of human beings does not lie in what we attain but rather in what we long to attain -- Kahlil Gibran
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand -- Thomas Carlyle
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Only the dead have seen the end of war -- Plato
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron -- Dwight Eisenhower 1953 speech
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist -- Indira Ghandi
An unjust peace is better than the justest war -- Cicero
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind -- Mahatma Gandhi
My subject is War And the pity of War. The poetry is in the pity . . . All a poet can do today is warn -- Wilfred Owen, British Poet
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword -- Ulysses S. Grant
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The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten -- Jewish Saying
We cannot control the parade of negative thoughts marching through our minds. But we can choose which ones we will give our attention to. Picture your thoughts as people passing by the front of your home. Just because they're walking by doesn't mean you have to invite them in -- Gladys Edmunds
There's no thief like a bad book -- Italian Proverb
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested -- Francis Bacon
What was once thought can never be unthought -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
If you are thinking a year ahead, sow a seed. If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people -- Kuan Tzu (7th Century BC)
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it -- Walter Bagehot
You cannot see wisdom, but you can see its reflection. Its reflection is happiness, fearlessness, and kindness -- Sylvia Boorstein
The significant problems we face can never be solved at the level of thinking that created them -- Albert Einstein
The fickle-minded man is merely a witness to the constant border warfare between life and death . . . but the serious man has entered into a treaty of friendship with the opposing forces, and his life has in death's earnest thought the most faithful of allies -- Soren Kierkegaard
To choose time is to save time -- Francis Bacon
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is bitterest -- Confucius
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook -- William James
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle -- Robert Alden
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers -- Tennyson
The wisest person knows he knows nothing -- Socrates
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts -- Sir Philip Sidney
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom -- Francis Bacon
The person who teaches others by actions, not words, is truly wise -- Abba Hyperichius
Seek advice from every wise person and do not despise any useful counsel -- Tobit 4:18
Wisdom is becoming to peacemakers, in whom there is no movement of rebellion, but only obedience to reason -- St. Augustine
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotations -- Isacc D'Israeli
Words create worlds -- Anonymous
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty -- Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind -- Mahatma Gandhi
No matter how rich or poor we are, we will always be rich compared to some people and poor compared to others -- Anonymous
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If you want something very, very bad, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it is yours forever. If it doesn't it was never yours to begin with -- Anonymous
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