Archived Quotes
Quotes previously used (listed by author)
Quotes previously used (listed by author)
"Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world." - Aeschylus
"Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world." - Aeschylus
"The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything." - Isabel Allende
"The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything." - Isabel Allende
“You only have one life, but if you live it well, that’s enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy?” - Isabel Allende
“You only have one life, but if you live it well, that’s enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy?” - Isabel Allende
“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are." – Isabel Allende
“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are." – Isabel Allende
“I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.” - from the Anasazi Foundation's "The Seven Paths"
“I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.” - from the Anasazi Foundation's "The Seven Paths"
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou
"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation." - Maya Angelou
"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation." - Maya Angelou
“Chaos. Confusion. Disorder. My work here is done.” - Anon.
“Chaos. Confusion. Disorder. My work here is done.” - Anon.
"A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else." - Anon.
"A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else." - Anon.
"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes." - Hannah Arendt
"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes." - Hannah Arendt
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." - Hannah Arendt
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." - Hannah Arendt
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - St. Augustine
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - St. Augustine
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
"Each day provides its own gifts."
"Each day provides its own gifts."
“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”
“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
"It is a ridiculous thing to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.”
"It is a ridiculous thing to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.”
"Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you."
"Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you."
”Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts”
”Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts”
"Look within: do not allow the special quality or worth of anything to pass you by."
"Look within: do not allow the special quality or worth of anything to pass you by."
"The soul of a man harms itself...when it turns away from another human being."
"The soul of a man harms itself...when it turns away from another human being."
"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense."
"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense."
"Even if you burst with indignation, they will carry on regardless. Do not be upset...concentrate on the matter at hand and see it for what it is. Remind yourself of your duty to be a good man and what nature demands: then do it straight and unswerving...Always, though, in kindness, integrity and sincerity."
"Even if you burst with indignation, they will carry on regardless. Do not be upset...concentrate on the matter at hand and see it for what it is. Remind yourself of your duty to be a good man and what nature demands: then do it straight and unswerving...Always, though, in kindness, integrity and sincerity."
"Injustice is sin. Universal Nature has constituted rational creatures for the sake of each other - to benefit one another as deserved but never to harm."
"Injustice is sin. Universal Nature has constituted rational creatures for the sake of each other - to benefit one another as deserved but never to harm."
"Today I escaped from all bothering circumstances - or rather I threw them out. They were nothing external, but inside me, just my own judgements."
"Today I escaped from all bothering circumstances - or rather I threw them out. They were nothing external, but inside me, just my own judgements."
"Good or ill for the rational social being lies not in feeling but in action: just as also his own virtue or vice shows not in what he feels, but in what he does."
"Good or ill for the rational social being lies not in feeling but in action: just as also his own virtue or vice shows not in what he feels, but in what he does."
"Claim your entitlement to these epithets - good, decent, truthful; in mind clear, cooperative, independent - and take care not to swap them for other names.; and if you do forfeit these titles, return to them quickly."
"Claim your entitlement to these epithets - good, decent, truthful; in mind clear, cooperative, independent - and take care not to swap them for other names.; and if you do forfeit these titles, return to them quickly."
"Whenever you take offense at the wrong done by another, move on at once to consider what similar wrong you are committing."
"Whenever you take offense at the wrong done by another, move on at once to consider what similar wrong you are committing."
"If, when you finally come close to your exit, your fear is not that you will cease to live but that you never started a life in accordance with nature, then you will be a man worthy of the universe that gave you birth." - Marcus Aurelius
"If, when you finally come close to your exit, your fear is not that you will cease to live but that you never started a life in accordance with nature, then you will be a man worthy of the universe that gave you birth." - Marcus Aurelius
"Life is what we are alive to. It is not length but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness, kindness, purity, love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hope is to be all but dead." - Maltbie D. Babcock
"Life is what we are alive to. It is not length but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness, kindness, purity, love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hope is to be all but dead." - Maltbie D. Babcock
"If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer." - Joan Baez
"If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer." - Joan Baez
"The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation." - Joan Baez
"The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation." - Joan Baez
"The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out." - James Baldwin
"The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out." - James Baldwin
"The most despicable thing a person can be is indifferent to other people's pain." - James Baldwin
"The most despicable thing a person can be is indifferent to other people's pain." - James Baldwin
"We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope." - James Baldwin
"We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope." - James Baldwin
“Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.”– Dave Barry
“Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.”– Dave Barry
"You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you." - Martha Beck
"You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you." - Martha Beck
"The way we do anything is the way we do everything." - Martha Beck
"The way we do anything is the way we do everything." - Martha Beck
"Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go." - Martha Beck
"Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go." - Martha Beck
"Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove." - Jeremy Bentham
"Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove." - Jeremy Bentham
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation." - Jeremy Bentham
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation." - Jeremy Bentham
"Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too." - Yogi Berra
"Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too." - Yogi Berra
“The first peace is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” - Black Elk
“The first peace is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” - Black Elk
"And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father." - Black Elk
"And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father." - Black Elk
"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the Sun...The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees." - William Blake
"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the Sun...The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees." - William Blake
ELWOOD: "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
ELWOOD: "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
JAKE: "Hit it." - The Blues Brothers (1980)
JAKE: "Hit it." - The Blues Brothers (1980)
"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail." - Pearl Buck
"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail." - Pearl Buck
"When words are both true and kind, they can change the world." - Buddha
"When words are both true and kind, they can change the world." - Buddha
"I teach but two things, suffering and the end of suffering." - Buddha
"I teach but two things, suffering and the end of suffering." - Buddha
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” - Leo Buscaglia
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” - Leo Buscaglia
"No one should have to travel alone." - Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
"No one should have to travel alone." - Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." - Joseph Campbell
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." - Joseph Campbell
"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else." - Joseph Campbell
"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else." - Joseph Campbell
"We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” —Joseph Campbell
"We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” —Joseph Campbell
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."
"We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more.”
"We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more.”
"What we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise."
"What we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise."
"In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die… With this joy, through long struggle, we shall remake the soul of our time..."
"In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die… With this joy, through long struggle, we shall remake the soul of our time..."
"In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
"In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.” - Albert Camus
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.” - Albert Camus
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened." - Albert Camus
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened." - Albert Camus
"Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath." - George Carlin
"Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath." - George Carlin
“We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We’ve added years to life, not life to years.” – George Carlin
“We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We’ve added years to life, not life to years.” – George Carlin
"Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money." - George Carlin
"Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money." - George Carlin
"Just 'cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town." - George Carlin
"Just 'cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town." - George Carlin
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” - George Carlin
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” - George Carlin
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."- Rachel Carson
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."- Rachel Carson
"I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature." - Pablo Casals (at age 93)
"I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature." - Pablo Casals (at age 93)
“A day without laughter is a day wasted” - Nicolas Chamfort
“A day without laughter is a day wasted” - Nicolas Chamfort
"How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree." — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
"How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree." — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” - G.K. Chesterton
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” - G.K. Chesterton
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” ― G.K. Chesterton
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” ― G.K. Chesterton
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
"What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The good of the people is the greatest law." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The good of the people is the greatest law." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love." - Arthur C. Clarke
"A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love." - Arthur C. Clarke
"As I've aged, I've found the world far, far more ridiculous than I thought." - John Cleese
"As I've aged, I've found the world far, far more ridiculous than I thought." - John Cleese
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius
"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." - Calvin Coolidge
"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." - Calvin Coolidge
"Along with love, compassion is the face of altruism. It is a feeling from deep in the heart that you cannot bear others' suffering without acting to relieve it." - His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
"Along with love, compassion is the face of altruism. It is a feeling from deep in the heart that you cannot bear others' suffering without acting to relieve it." - His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” - Angela Davis
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” - Angela Davis
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” ― Simone de Beauvoir
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” ― Simone de Beauvoir
“That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.” ― Simone de Beauvoir
“That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.” ― Simone de Beauvoir
"My view of human nature is that all of us are just holding it together in various ways — and that’s okay, and we just need to go easy with one another, knowing that we’re all these incredibly fragile beings." - Alain de Botton
"My view of human nature is that all of us are just holding it together in various ways — and that’s okay, and we just need to go easy with one another, knowing that we’re all these incredibly fragile beings." - Alain de Botton
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” ― Emily Dickinson
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” ― Emily Dickinson
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” - Emily Dickinson
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” - Emily Dickinson
"We turn not older with years but newer every day." - Emily Dickinson
"We turn not older with years but newer every day." - Emily Dickinson
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts. No animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts. No animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"To love someone means to see him as God intended him." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"To love someone means to see him as God intended him." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
"As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.” - Umberto Eco
"As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.” - Umberto Eco
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” - Umberto Eco
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” - Umberto Eco
"Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose. - Thomas Edison
"Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose. - Thomas Edison
"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable." - Albert Einstein
"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable." - Albert Einstein
"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war." - Albert Einstein
"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war." - Albert Einstein
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” - Albert Einstein
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” - Albert Einstein
"My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred." - Albert Einstein
"My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred." - Albert Einstein
"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." - Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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." - Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. ” - Epictetus
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. ” - Epictetus
"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” - Epictetus
"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” - Epictetus
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” ― Epictetus
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” ― Epictetus
“To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.” ― Epictetus
“To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.” ― Epictetus
“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.” - Epictetus
“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.” - Epictetus
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ― Epictetus
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ― Epictetus
“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” ― Epictetus
“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” ― Epictetus
"As in walking you take care not to tread on a nail or to twist your foot, so take care that you do not harm your Governing Principle." - Epictetus
"As in walking you take care not to tread on a nail or to twist your foot, so take care that you do not harm your Governing Principle." - Epictetus
“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.” - Epictetus
“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.” - Epictetus
"No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen." - Epictetus
"No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen." - Epictetus
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus
"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life." - Epicurus
"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life." - Epicurus
"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing." - Euripides
"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing." - Euripides
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” - William Faulkner
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” - William Faulkner
“In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.” - Marsilio Ficino
“In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.” - Marsilio Ficino
"We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace." - Pope Francis
"We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace." - Pope Francis
"God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it." - Pope Francis
"God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it." - Pope Francis
“We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.” ― St. Francis of Assisi
“We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.” ― St. Francis of Assisi
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
“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
“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
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” ― Viktor Frankl
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” ― Viktor Frankl
Do we not know the feeling that overtakes us when we are in the presence of a particular person, [which] roughly translates as, 'The fact that this person exists in the world at all, this alone makes this world, and a life in it, meaningful." - Viktor Frankl
Do we not know the feeling that overtakes us when we are in the presence of a particular person, [which] roughly translates as, 'The fact that this person exists in the world at all, this alone makes this world, and a life in it, meaningful." - Viktor Frankl
"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right." - Aretha Franklin
"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right." - Aretha Franklin
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - R. Buckminster Fuller
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - R. Buckminster Fuller
"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody." - R. Buckminster Fuller
"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody." - R. Buckminster Fuller
“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place." - R. Buckminster Fuller
“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place." - R. Buckminster Fuller
"Isn't all artwork - or all decent art - a mirror? Might a great painting not even reformulate the question "what is it about" to "what am I about"? -Maria Gainza
"Isn't all artwork - or all decent art - a mirror? Might a great painting not even reformulate the question "what is it about" to "what am I about"? -Maria Gainza
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi.
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi.
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” - Gabriel García Márquez
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” - Gabriel García Márquez
"Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” ― Gabriel García Márquez (from Love in the Time of Cholera)
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” ― Gabriel García Márquez (from Love in the Time of Cholera)
"I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man only when that man needs help to get up from the ground." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man only when that man needs help to get up from the ground." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” - Kahlil Gibran
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” - Kahlil Gibran
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." - Khalil Gibran
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." - Khalil Gibran
"I tell law students…if you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself… something that makes life a little better for people less fortunate than you." - Ruth Bader Ginsberg
"I tell law students…if you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself… something that makes life a little better for people less fortunate than you." - Ruth Bader Ginsberg
"The most basic fact of aesthetic experience...that delight lies somewhere between boredom and confusion." - Ernst Gombrich
"The most basic fact of aesthetic experience...that delight lies somewhere between boredom and confusion." - Ernst Gombrich
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall
"It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight, art. We are citizens, as Socrates would have said, & we have it available as our own." - Paul Goodman
"It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight, art. We are citizens, as Socrates would have said, & we have it available as our own." - Paul Goodman
"Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!" - Paul Goodman
"Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!" - Paul Goodman
"Children know something that most people have forgotten. Children possess a fascination with their everyday existence that is very special and would be very helpful to adults if they could learn to understand and respect it." - Keith Haring
"Children know something that most people have forgotten. Children possess a fascination with their everyday existence that is very special and would be very helpful to adults if they could learn to understand and respect it." - Keith Haring
"I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence." - Vaclav Havel
"I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence." - Vaclav Havel
“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"We don't know why art should exist or why a few human beings should be capable of it and even fewer of doing so with enduring excellence." - Shirley Hazzard
"We don't know why art should exist or why a few human beings should be capable of it and even fewer of doing so with enduring excellence." - Shirley Hazzard
“God may have made the world for the last week in September.” - Peter Heller, Celine
“God may have made the world for the last week in September.” - Peter Heller, Celine
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." - Ernest Hemingway
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." - Ernest Hemingway
"The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic." - bell hooks
"The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic." - bell hooks
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." - Victor Hugo
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." - Victor Hugo
"A good day starts in the morning" (Il buongiorno si vede dal mattino) - Italian proverb
"A good day starts in the morning" (Il buongiorno si vede dal mattino) - Italian proverb
“A mother understands what a child does not say.” — Jewish proverb
“A mother understands what a child does not say.” — Jewish proverb
"I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression." - Mary Harris Jones ("Mother Jones")
"I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression." - Mary Harris Jones ("Mother Jones")
"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, it will tell you." - Carl Jung
"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, it will tell you." - Carl Jung
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." - Carl Jung
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." - Carl Jung
“There is nothing more precious than laughter–it is strength to laugh and lose oneself, to be light.” -Frida Kahlo
“There is nothing more precious than laughter–it is strength to laugh and lose oneself, to be light.” -Frida Kahlo
“We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.” - Marina Keegan
“We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.” - Marina Keegan
“I want enough time to be in love with everything.” - Marina Keegan
“I want enough time to be in love with everything.” - Marina Keegan
"What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over." - Marina Keegan
"What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over." - Marina Keegan
"We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay." - Marina Keegan
"We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay." - Marina Keegan
“It's not quite love and it's not quite community; it's just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team." - Marina Keegan
“It's not quite love and it's not quite community; it's just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team." - Marina Keegan
"The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen." - Sam Keen
"The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen." - Sam Keen
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." - Helen Keller
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." - Helen Keller
"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." - John F. Kennedy
"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." - John F. Kennedy
“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now." - Jack Kerouac
“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now." - Jack Kerouac
“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?" - John Maynard Keynes
“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?" - John Maynard Keynes
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"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 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, Jr.
"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, Jr.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?" - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?" - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” - Lao Tzu
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” - Lao Tzu
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao Tzu
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao Tzu
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu
“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” ― Lao Tzu
“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” ― Lao Tzu
"Respond to anger with virtue. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle the great while it is still small." - Lao Tzu
"Respond to anger with virtue. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle the great while it is still small." - Lao Tzu
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ― Lao Tzu
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ― Lao Tzu
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
"From wonder into wonder existence opens." - Lao Tzu
"From wonder into wonder existence opens." - Lao Tzu
"Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love." - Lao Tzu
"Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love." - Lao Tzu
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal." - Bruce Lee
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal." - Bruce Lee
“There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love.” ― Stan Lee
“There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love.” ― Stan Lee
Stan Lee, Marvel Comics "superhero", passed away at age 95 on Nov 12, 2018
"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end." - John Lennon
"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end." - John Lennon
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” - John Lennon ("Imagine")
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” - John Lennon ("Imagine")
"Imagine all the people living life in peace." - John Lennon
"Imagine all the people living life in peace." - John Lennon
Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” ― John Lubbock
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” ― John Lubbock
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers." - Andre Malraux
"In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers." - Andre Malraux
“Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.” - Nelson Mandela
“Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.” - Nelson Mandela
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” - Nelson Mandela
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” - Nelson Mandela
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela
“I never lose. I either win or learn.” - Nelson Mandela
“I never lose. I either win or learn.” - Nelson Mandela
"You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die." - Gabriel Marcel
"You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die." - Gabriel Marcel
“I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers...” - Gabriel Marcel
“I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers...” - Gabriel Marcel
“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.” ― Herbert Marcuse
“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.” ― Herbert Marcuse
“Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.” ― Herbert Marcuse
“Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.” ― Herbert Marcuse
“In times of division and strife, build bridges to the hearts of those clouded by anger, hurt, hatred, and ignorance, so you can help open and understand their minds and hearts, and they can understand yours.”― Imania Margria
“In times of division and strife, build bridges to the hearts of those clouded by anger, hurt, hatred, and ignorance, so you can help open and understand their minds and hearts, and they can understand yours.”― Imania Margria
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” - Bob Marley
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” - Bob Marley
"Live the life you love. Love the life you live." - Bob Marley
"Live the life you love. Love the life you live." - Bob Marley
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
"Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through." - Karl Marx
"Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through." - Karl Marx
"We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended." ~ Francois Mauriac
"We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended." ~ Francois Mauriac
"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois Mauriac
"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois Mauriac
"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others." -Francois Mauriac
"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others." -Francois Mauriac
"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them." - Andre Maurois
"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them." - Andre Maurois
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
"When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you." - Thomas Merton
"When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you." - Thomas Merton
"You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope." - Thomas Merton
"You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope." - Thomas Merton
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image." - Thomas Merton
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image." - Thomas Merton
"Perhaps it is curiosity — about anything and everything — that made me the writer I am…With this attribute goes another which I prize above everything else, and that is the sense of wonder. No matter how restricted my world may become I cannot imagine it leaving me void of wonder." - Henry Miller
"Perhaps it is curiosity — about anything and everything — that made me the writer I am…With this attribute goes another which I prize above everything else, and that is the sense of wonder. No matter how restricted my world may become I cannot imagine it leaving me void of wonder." - Henry Miller
“Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.” - Joan Mills
“Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.” - Joan Mills
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will." - Michel de Montaigne
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will." - Michel de Montaigne
"Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices." - Michel de Montaigne
"Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices." - Michel de Montaigne
"I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other" - Michel de Montaigne
"I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other" - Michel de Montaigne
"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things." - Michel de Montaigne
"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things." - Michel de Montaigne
“Every man has within himself the entire human condition” - Michel de Montaigne
“Every man has within himself the entire human condition” - Michel de Montaigne
"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully." - Michel de Montaigne
"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully." - Michel de Montaigne
“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.” - Michel de Montaigne
“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.” - Michel de Montaigne
"The secret to aging is to face the loss of youthful beauty and strength, and from there use all the resources we have to be creative, positive, and optimistic." - Thomas Moore
"The secret to aging is to face the loss of youthful beauty and strength, and from there use all the resources we have to be creative, positive, and optimistic." - Thomas Moore
"When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." - Toni Morrison
"When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." - Toni Morrison
"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression." - Toni Morrison
"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression." - Toni Morrison
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” - Toni Morrison
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” - Toni Morrison
“I get angry about things, then go on and work.” - Toni Morrison
“I get angry about things, then go on and work.” - Toni Morrison
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe" - John Muir
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe" - John Muir
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." - John Muir
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." - John Muir
"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.” - Lewis Mumford
"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.” - Lewis Mumford
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self." - Iris Murdoch
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self." - Iris Murdoch
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." - Pablo Neruda
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." - Pablo Neruda
“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.” – Joseph Fort Newton
“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.” – Joseph Fort Newton
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
"Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love?' These are the real questions." - Henri Nouwen
"Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love?' These are the real questions." - Henri Nouwen
“It's always the old to lead us to the war, It's always the young to fall..." - Phil Ochs
“It's always the old to lead us to the war, It's always the young to fall..." - Phil Ochs
"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." - Mary Oliver
"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." - Mary Oliver
“It must be a great disappointment to God if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day.” ― Mary Oliver
“It must be a great disappointment to God if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day.” ― Mary Oliver
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” - George Orwell, "1984"
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” - George Orwell, "1984"
"The difference [between pizza cooked in a wood-fired oven and a regular pizza oven] is that between ethereal immortality and pedestrian bread seasoned with ignominy." - Scott Paglia, Quora website
"The difference [between pizza cooked in a wood-fired oven and a regular pizza oven] is that between ethereal immortality and pedestrian bread seasoned with ignominy." - Scott Paglia, Quora website
“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.” - Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.” - Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.” - Ann Patchett
“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.” - Ann Patchett
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.” - Sylvia Plath
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.” - Sylvia Plath
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch
"The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it." - Plutarch
"The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it." - Plutarch
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." - Plutarch (c. 100 A.D.)
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." - Plutarch (c. 100 A.D.)
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." - Plutarch
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." - Plutarch
"This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.” - Maria Popova
"This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.” - Maria Popova
"The object of human communication is not the exchange of information but the exchange of understanding." - Maria Popova
"The object of human communication is not the exchange of information but the exchange of understanding." - Maria Popova
"She was who she should be in this world, without once ever worrying about what that meant." - Richard Powers (Bewilderment)
"She was who she should be in this world, without once ever worrying about what that meant." - Richard Powers (Bewilderment)
"As I grow to understand life less and less, I grow to love it more and more." - Jules Renard
"As I grow to understand life less and less, I grow to love it more and more." - Jules Renard
“In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’ ” —Adrienne Rich
“In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’ ” —Adrienne Rich
“If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.” - Adrienne Rich
“If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.” - Adrienne Rich
“My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
“My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.” - Adrienne Rich
reconstitute the world.” - Adrienne Rich
“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing." - Will Rogers
"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing." - Will Rogers
"The Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking." - Will Rogers (1928)
"The Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking." - Will Rogers (1928)
"Happiness is not a goal. It's a by-product of a life well lived." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Happiness is not a goal. It's a by-product of a life well lived." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ ” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ ” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1937)
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1937)
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Teddy Roosevelt
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Teddy Roosevelt
"Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Be impeccable with your word...
"Be impeccable with your word...
"Don't take anything personally...
"Don't take anything personally...
"Don't make assumptions...
"Don't make assumptions...
"Always do your best."
"Always do your best."
"With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love." - Rumi
"With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love." - Rumi
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." - Bertrand Russell
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." - Bertrand Russell
If thou hast no sympathy for the troubles of others, thou art unworthy to be called by the name of "man" - Saadi
If thou hast no sympathy for the troubles of others, thou art unworthy to be called by the name of "man" - Saadi
"The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence.
"The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence.
When the calamity of time affects one limb The other limbs cannot remain at rest.
When the calamity of time affects one limb The other limbs cannot remain at rest.
If thou hast no sympathy for the troubles of others
If thou hast no sympathy for the troubles of others
Thou art unworthy to be called by the name of a human."
Thou art unworthy to be called by the name of a human."
- Saadi (Inscription at the United Nations building)
- Saadi (Inscription at the United Nations building)
"My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family." - Bayard Rustin
"My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family." - Bayard Rustin
"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.” - Carl Sandburg
"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.” - Carl Sandburg
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." - George Santayana
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." - George Santayana
“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
"I am life that wills to live in the midst of other life that wills to live." - Albert Schweitzer
"I am life that wills to live in the midst of other life that wills to live." - Albert Schweitzer
"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." - Seneca
"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." - Seneca
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” – Seneca
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” – Seneca
"All cruelty springs from weakness." - Seneca
"All cruelty springs from weakness." - Seneca
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca
"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older." - Seneca
"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older." - Seneca
“Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?” — Seneca
“Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?” — Seneca
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing." - Seneca
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing." - Seneca
"Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won." - William Shakespeare
"Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won." - William Shakespeare
"There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life: to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others." - Mary Shelley, "The Last Man"
"There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life: to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others." - Mary Shelley, "The Last Man"
"Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life." - Hugh Sidey
"Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life." - Hugh Sidey
"Before you open your mouth to speak, ask yourself three questions: is it true? is it kind? is it necessary?" - Sisters of Mount Scholastica Benedictine Monastery
"Before you open your mouth to speak, ask yourself three questions: is it true? is it kind? is it necessary?" - Sisters of Mount Scholastica Benedictine Monastery
“We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.” - Huston Smith
“We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.” - Huston Smith
"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom" - Socrates
"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom" - Socrates
"The search for meaning is in how you live your life but also in how you describe it and what else is around you." - Rebecca Solnit
"The search for meaning is in how you live your life but also in how you describe it and what else is around you." - Rebecca Solnit
“To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.” - Rebecca Solnit
“To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.” - Rebecca Solnit
"Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style." - Rebecca Solnit
"Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style." - Rebecca Solnit
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. (Qué hermoso es no hacer nada y luego descansar)" - Spanish proverb
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. (Qué hermoso es no hacer nada y luego descansar)" - Spanish proverb
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” - Wallace Stevens
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” - Wallace Stevens
"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. We can all sense a mysterious connection to each other." - Meryl Streep
"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. We can all sense a mysterious connection to each other." - Meryl Streep
"Punk rock isn't something you grow out of. Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'. " - Joe Strummer
"Punk rock isn't something you grow out of. Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'. " - Joe Strummer
“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.” - Shunryu Suzuki
“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.” - Shunryu Suzuki
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift
"The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it." - Andrei Tarkovsky
"The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it." - Andrei Tarkovsky
"All things seem possible in May" - Edwin Way Teale
"All things seem possible in May" - Edwin Way Teale
"The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.” ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.” ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly." - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
"You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly." - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” - Mother Theresa
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” - Mother Theresa
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"When you love someone, you have to offer that person the best you have. The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"When you love someone, you have to offer that person the best you have. The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence." - Thich Nhat Hanh
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” - Henry David Thoreau
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” - Henry David Thoreau
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat." - Leo Tolstoy
"My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat." - Leo Tolstoy
"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know." - Leo Tolstoy
"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know." - Leo Tolstoy
"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken." - Leo Tolstoy
"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken." - Leo Tolstoy
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” – Leo Tolstoy
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” – Leo Tolstoy
“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.” – Leo Tolstoy
“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.” – Leo Tolstoy
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.” - Leo Tolstoy
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.” - Leo Tolstoy
"Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy, and dull things become cheerful." - Leo Tolstoy
"Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy, and dull things become cheerful." - Leo Tolstoy
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” —Harriet Tubman
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” —Harriet Tubman
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." - Desmond Tutu
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." - Desmond Tutu
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu
"God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion." - Desmond Tutu
"God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion." - Desmond Tutu
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
"Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that makes you smile."
"Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that makes you smile."
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness... Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness... Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
"If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away."
"If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away."
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
"Give every day of your life the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life."
"Give every day of your life the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life."
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." - Jim Valvano
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." - Jim Valvano
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." - Voltaire
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." - Voltaire
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” ― Voltaire
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” ― Voltaire
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. " - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. " - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Thank you, life, for having been.
"Thank you, life, for having been.
In the shooting gallery
In the shooting gallery
where the top score was ten
where the top score was ten
I tried to make a hundred
I tried to make a hundred
thank you for letting me make that mistake"
thank you for letting me make that mistake"
- Andrei Vosnesenzky, from "Autumn in Sigulda"
- Andrei Vosnesenzky, from "Autumn in Sigulda"
"But if you really learn how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down." - David Foster Wallace
"But if you really learn how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down." - David Foster Wallace
“It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.” ― David Foster Wallace
“It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.” ― David Foster Wallace
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” - George Washington
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” - George Washington
“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” ― Alan Watts
“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” ― Alan Watts
“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way” – Alan Watts.
“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way” – Alan Watts.
"I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything." - Alan Watts
"I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything." - Alan Watts
"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." - Alan Watts
"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." - Alan Watts
“If you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water… You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.” - Alan Watts
“If you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water… You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.” - Alan Watts
"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, 'What are you going through?' " - Simone Weil
"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, 'What are you going through?' " - Simone Weil
“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.” - Simone Weil
“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.” - Simone Weil
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." - Simone Weil
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." - Simone Weil
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” - Simone Weil
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” - Simone Weil
"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil
"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil
"Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand." - Simone Weil
"Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand." - Simone Weil
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends." - Walt Whitman
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends." - Walt Whitman
"To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." - Walt Whitman
"To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." - Walt Whitman
"There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance." - Walt Whitman
"There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance." - Walt Whitman
"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul." - Walt Whitman
"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul." - Walt Whitman
"Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me." - Walt Whitman
"Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me." - Walt Whitman
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” - Walt Whitman
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” - Walt Whitman
"That none may lack, that bitter night, for bread and clothing, warmth and light." - John Greenleaf Whittier
"That none may lack, that bitter night, for bread and clothing, warmth and light." - John Greenleaf Whittier
"All the windows of my heart I open to the day." - John Greenleaf Whittier
"All the windows of my heart I open to the day." - John Greenleaf Whittier
“Not everyone will like you. Not everyone will be kind to you. Not everyone will agree with you. That does not mean you have to be unkind in return.” - Brianna Wiest
“Not everyone will like you. Not everyone will be kind to you. Not everyone will agree with you. That does not mean you have to be unkind in return.” - Brianna Wiest
"The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love." - Tennessee Williams
"The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love." - Tennessee Williams
“On or about December 1910, human character changed. I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden, and there saw that a rose had flowered, or that a hen had laid an egg. The change was not sudden and definite like that. But a change there was, nevertheless; and, since one must be arbitrary, let us date it about the year 1910.” -Virginia Woolf, from “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”, 1924. Today (January 25,2018) is Virginia Woolf's 136th birthday
“On or about December 1910, human character changed. I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden, and there saw that a rose had flowered, or that a hen had laid an egg. The change was not sudden and definite like that. But a change there was, nevertheless; and, since one must be arbitrary, let us date it about the year 1910.” -Virginia Woolf, from “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”, 1924. Today (January 25,2018) is Virginia Woolf's 136th birthday
“What is the meaning of life? The great revelation had never come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark." - Virginia Woolf
“What is the meaning of life? The great revelation had never come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark." - Virginia Woolf
"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful." - Malala Yousafzai
"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful." - Malala Yousafzai
"I wonder how foreign policies would look if we thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children." - Howard Zinn
"I wonder how foreign policies would look if we thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children." - Howard Zinn