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Last Updated:
August 4, 2004
"Love
is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop."
"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere: the
dew is never all dried at once: a shower is forever falling, vapor is
ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming,
on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth
rolls."
"The
whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other
forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains
pure in heart."
"To a worm in horseradish, the whole world is horseradish."
"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place."
"The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves."
"He
who opens a school door, closes a prison."
"When money speaks, the truth keeps silent."
" One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
"With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought, act by act, with every breath we build the kingdom of non-violence, the true home of the spirit of humanity."
"Better
to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."
"There
are only two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror
that reflects it."
"Thousands
of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle
will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
"Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
"Love
the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others...
And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
"I
would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn
out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would
rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than
a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live,
not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall
use my time."
"You
must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"Be
glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and
to play and to look up at the stars."
"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn
from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by
in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may,
for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth,
or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands
to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return."
"Wherever
there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
"Peace
is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion."
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.
"Each
second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that
will never be again And what do we teach our children? We teach them that
two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will
we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you
know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years
that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs,
your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move....You have the capacity
for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then
harm another who is, like you, a marvel?You must work, we must all work,
to make the world worthy of its children."
People
are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do
good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed
anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest
person with the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
"This
is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as
you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important
because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes,
this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have
left behind...let it be something good."
"Be
thine own palace or the world's thy jail."
"What wisdom can you find that is greater
than kindness."
"But what we call our despair is often only
the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter..."
"Nothing great in this world has been accomplished without passion."
"When the power of love is greater than the love of power,
we shall have peace on earth."
"Humans are not
the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous
cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent
bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would... not grow this twig
again."
"When I despair, I remember that all through
history
the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been
tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in
the end they always fall.Think of it ... always."
"To be a green and juicy crone comes
from having lived long enough to be deeply rooted in wholehearted involvements,
of living a personally meaningful life, however unique, feminist, or traditional
it may appear to others. It has to do with knowing who we are inside and
believing that what we are doing is a true reflection or expression of
our genuine self. It is having what Margaret Mead called PMZ, or post
menopausal zest for the life you have."
"You can follow your book and your
map of wars, but I'll go and follow my kids."
"True compassion is more than flinging
a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars
needs restructuring."
Look to this day for it is life. The very life
of life. The realities & verities of existence, the bliss of growth,
the splendor of power. For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only
a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
"The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts,and that is where all our battles should be fought."
"Mankind is at its best when it is most
free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must
recall that the basic principle of liberty is freedom of choice, which
saying many have on their lips but few in their minds."
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See Also for Word and Library Lovers:
http://wordsmith.org/awad/
http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/