| Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To
keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the
presence of fate is strength undefeatable. ~ Helen
Keller (1880-1968)
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| You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
(1861-1941) Indian writer and philosopher
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish
we didn't. ~ Erica Jong
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| Time does not change us. It just
unfolds us. ~ Max Frisch
You become what you believe. ~ Oprah
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The trouble with being number one
in the world—at anything—is that it takes a certain mentality
to attain that position in the first place, and that is something
of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve
number one, you don't relax and enjoy it. ~ Billie Jean King
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| We detest in others defects which
are much more glaring in us, and, with surprising impudence and thoughtlessness, express our surprise at them.
~ Michel Montaigne
(1533-1952)
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| Remember that you have only one
soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one
life, which is short and has to be lived by you alone; and there
is only one glory, which is eternal. If you do this, there will be
many things about which you care nothing. ~ Teresa
of Avila (1515-1582)
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I am passionately in love
With beauty, in its myriad shapes
and guises.
I take up the pen of poetry to
portray
And the thousand-fretted lute to
hymn
Beauty—silent, raging or
innocent,
Like the sublime and mighty
beauty
Of mountains and rivers, and
poetry, and thought.
~ The Lu, Vietnamese Poet
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Learn politeness from the impolite. ~ Egyptian Proverb
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| It's a poor rule that won't work
both ways. ~ Frederick Douglass
(1817-1895)
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| Blessed ... is he who has it in his
power to do evil, yet does it not. ~ Marguerite
of Navarre (1492-1549)
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| Those who play the game do not see
as clearly as those who watch. ~ Chinese
Proverb
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| Faith is a devout belief in what
one does not understand. ~ Marie Anne de Vinchy-Chamrond
(1697-1780)
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| Kindness is a mark of faith; and
whoever hath not kindness, hath not faith. ~ Muhammad (570-632)
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| The wise man will not look for the
faults of others, nor for what they have done or left undone, but
will look rather to his own misdeeds. ~ Dhammapada (c. 3rd
century B.C.E.)
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| The fool is thirsty in the midst of
water. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
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| He who forgives ends the quarrel.
~ African
Proverb
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| If a man foolishly does me wrong, I
will return to him the protection of my ungrudging love; the more
evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me. ~ Buddha
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Regret for wasted time
is more wasted time.
~ Mason Cooley
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| Imagine one of the reasons people
cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once
hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. ~ James Baldwin
(1924-1987)
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| We compound our suffering by
victimizing each other. ~ Athol Fugard
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When people have peace, they hate
it and long for excitement,
and when they have excitement, they want peace. ~ Amos Oz
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| Like beautiful flowers, full of
colors but without scent, are the well-spoken words of the man who
does not practice what he preaches. ~ Dhammapada (c. 3rd century
B.C.E.)
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| God is merciful to those who are
merciful to others. ~ Talmud
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| You're either part of the problem
or part of the solution. ~ Eldridge Cleaver
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| Those to whom love draws nigh are
the most severely tested. ~ Attar, Persian Poet
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| Truth is superior to man's wisdom.
~ Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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| The most malignant of enemies is
the lust which abides within. ~ Sa'di of Shiraz, Persian Poet
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| You can cut, or you can drug with
words. ~ Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
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Literature must be an analysis of
experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
~ Rebecca West (1892-1983)
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| Birth and death are not two
different states, but they are different aspects of the same
state. ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
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| Reading is actually plunging into
one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before.
You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation to
our own world perception and set of values. ~ Amalia Kahana-Carmon,
Israeli poet
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Books are . . . funny little portable pieces of thought. ~ Susan
Sontag, American writer and critic
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| Any coward can fight a battle when
he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight
when he's sure of losing. ~ George Eliot (1819-1880)
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| The key to life is making the best
of change. ~ Evelyn Nef
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| There is no escape—man drags man
down, or man lifts man up. ~ Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
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If reason dominates in man,
he rises higher than angels.
If lust overpowers man, he
descends lower than the beast.
~ Rumi (1207-1273)
Persian Sufi Poet
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| It is easier to live through
someone else than to become complete yourself. ~ Betty
Friedan
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I tell the truth: your enemy is
also your friend—his presence makes your
life fuller and richer.
~ Muhammad Iqbal (1873-1938)
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| Man is wise ...when he recognizes
no greater enemy than himself. ~ Marguerite
of Navarre (1492-1549)
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| If your enemy is hungry, give him
bread to eat; and if thirsty, give him water to drink. Even if he
came to kill you, give him food if he is hungry or water if he is
thirsty. ~ Talmud
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He who envies the happiness of
others derives from it only evil,
like the spider which, from a flower, derives poison. ~ Pachacutec
Inca Yupanqui (1438-1471)
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To be a poet is to shiver with the wind,
To dream by moonlight and to
frolic with the clouds;
To have one's soul pinned to a
thousand heartstrings,
Or torn apart by a hundred
different loves.
~ Xuan Dieu, Poetic Feelings
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I have all that I lost
and I go carrying my childhood
like a favorite flower
that perfumes my hand.
~ Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957)
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There comes a time when a cup
of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to
be plunged into an abyss or injustice where they
experience the blackness of corroding despair.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
American civil rights leader
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| Watchfulness is the path to immortality, and thoughtlessness
the path to death. The watchful do not die, but the
thoughtless are already like the dead. ~ Dhammapada
(c. 3rd century B.C.E.)
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If I can stop one Heart from
breaking
I shall not live in vain.
~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
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The man of Love follows the path of
God—and shows affection to both
the believer and the nonbeliever. ~ Muhammad Iqbal (1873-1938)
Indian Muslim Poet and Philosopher
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The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one
person and himself. ~ Garth Brooks
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| It's innocence when it charms us,
ignorance when it doesn't. ~ Mignon
McLaughlin
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| No one can possibly know what is
about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time,
for the only time. ~ James Baldwin
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| The true measure of a man is how he
treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ~ Ann
Landers
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| When you honor what you know your
spirit is telling you to do, you are making the most conscientious
decision, one for which you are willing to accept all the
consequences. You understand that when you know better, you ought
to do better — and doing better sometimes
means changing our mind; and you realize that letting go of what
others think you should do is the only way to reach your full
potential. ~ Oprah
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The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have,
and to be able to
lose all desire for things beyond your reach. ~ Lin Yutang
(1895-1976)
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To see what is right and not to do
it is want of courage. ~ Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.)
Chinese Philosopher
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| If you are afraid to die, you will
not be able to live. ~ James Baldwin (1924-1987)
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| Divine wisdom, intending to detain
us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the
prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly
distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this
tempestuous coast of time? ~ Madame de
Stael (1766-1817)
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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful
faces, truthful
pictures or songs, are highly beautiful. ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
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