More Quotes

I read your comments these past few days and decided to let all of you out have more mental nourishment!


"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
- Buddha



To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
- Chinese proverb



It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
- Ernest Fitzgerald



"We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
- John W. Gardner



How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver"



Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."
-- Louisa May Alcott


"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire."
Ralph Waldo Emerson



"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
--- Rabindranath Tagore



"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
-- Helen Keller



"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."
Alexander Chase



"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." Ralph Waldo Emerson



"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
-- Henry David Thoreau


Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
Richard Bach


Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer


A life without cause is a life without effect.


"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.



"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." -Vaclav Havel



"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed." -- Bernard Edmonds



When the solution is simple, God is answering. Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)



When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir



"We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours



We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in an ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.- Mother Teresa



We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
- Seneca (3 B.C. - 65 A.D.)



We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
- John Webster



We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)



We love because it's the only true adventure.
- Nikki Giovanni



What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)



We can do not great things - only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa



"The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with"" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.
-- Ingrid Bengis"