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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else. - John Irving Posted December 29, 2019
Santa Claus is anyone who love another and seeks to make them happy; who gives himself by thought of word or deed in every gift that he bestows. - Edwin Osgood Grover Posted December 22, 2019
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. - Kahlil Gibran Posted December 15, 2019
You don’t really know how much you can do until you stand up and try. - Dave Posted December 8, 2019
I think we can all do better. - Jim Jefferies Posted December 1, 2019
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie Posted November 24, 2019
Life is a candle before the wind. - Japanese Proverb Posted November 17, 2019
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. Posted November 10, 2019
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. - Aldous Huxley Posted November 3, 2019
The ordinary man looks outward. - Zen Saying Posted October 27, 2019
What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered: “Is it his origins? The way he comes to life?” I don’t think so. It’s the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them. - Hellboy Posted October 20, 2019
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories. - Taisen Deshimaru Posted October 13, 2019
Words never fail. We hear them, we read them, they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we live. Who speaks reason to his fellow men bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought. – Richard Mitchell, Less than Words Can Say Posted October 6, 2019
If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. - Confucius Posted September 29, 2019
And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and Autumn was awakened. - Raquel Franco Posted September 22, 2019
So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart. - Billy Collins, The Names (in honor of the 2,792 who perished on September 11th) Posted September 8, 2019
I hope what doesn't pass is this idea ... of what it means to work — the honor of the working person and the dignity of work. ... a reevaluation of the idea that some jobs are better than others ... . There is no job that is better than another – it might pay better, it may have better benefits, it might look better on a resume and on paper; but, actually, it's not better. Every job is worthwhile and valuable. - Geoffrey Owens Posted September 1, 2019
The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught. - Vauvenargues Posted August 25, 2019
It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. - Claude M. Bristol August 17, 2019
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson Posted August 11, 2019
Violence is a dead end. It is a sign neither of courage nor power ... . That's not how moral authority is claimed, that's how it is surrendered. - President Barack Obama August 4, 2019
Unity in diversity is the order of the universe. Just as we are all human, we are all distinct. - Swami Vivekananda Posted July 28, 2019
That thou mayest have pleasure in everything, seek pleasure in nothing. That thou mayest know everything, seek to know nothing. That thou mayest possess all things, seek to possess nothing. That thou mayest be everything, seek to be nothing. - St. John of the Cross Posted July 21, 2019
The sound of water says what I think. - Chuang-tzu Posted July 14, 2019
It is a fault to cling to a fault. - Confucius Posted July 7, 2019
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. - William Faulkner Posted June 30, 2019
The summer night is like a perfection of thought. - Wallace Stevens The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm Posted June 23, 2019
A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way. - Unknown Posted June 16, 2019
Learning follows only when we first identify and embrace our ignorance. - John H. Lienhard Posted June 9, 2019
Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything. - Phenomenon Posted June 2, 2019
They fought together as brothers-in-arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation. - Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Posted May 26, 2019
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. - Attributed to Buddha Posted May 19, 2019
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. - Erich Fromm Posted May 12, 2019
We see evil in others because we know the evil in ourselves. We never forgive those who wound us because we believe that we would never be forgiven. We say the painful truth to others because we want to hide it from ourselves. We show our strength, so that no one can see our frailty. That is why, whenever you judge your brother, be aware that it is you who is in the dock. - Okakura Kakuzo Posted May 5, 2019
[The human being's funniest characteristic is] our contradictoriness. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived. - Jaime Cohen Posted April 28, 2019
We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. - Adlai Stevenson Posted April 21, 2019
A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. - Turkish Proverb Posted April 14, 2019
The earth was made round so that we do not see too far down the road. - Out of Africa Posted April 7, 2019
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius Posted March 31, 2019
To know that you know, and to know that you don’t know – that is real wisdom. - Confucius Posted March 24, 2019
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. - Vida D. Scudder Posted March 17, 2019
If you are trying to aim for it, you are turning away from it. - Zen Saying Posted March 6, 2019
The wise– understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others. - Tibetan Proverb Posted March 3, 2019
If you want to see, see at once. When you begin to think, you miss the point. - Dogo Posted February 24, 2019
Guard against impostures of pretended patriotism. - George Washington Posted February 17, 2019
If the wrong person preaches the right teaching, even a right teaching becomes wrong. If the right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching becomes right. - Muso Kokushi Posted February 10, 2019
Preeminent scholars can obtain Tao in the battlefield. Secondary scholars can obtain Tao in urban areas. Lower scholars can obtain Tao only in the mountains. - Pao Piao Tse Posted February 3, 2019
You owe it to everyone (including yourself) to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world. - Georges Bernanos Posted January 27, 2019
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Posted January 20, 2019
Not even seven thousand years of joy can justify seven days of repression. – Hafez Posted January 13, 2019
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. - Banksy Posted January 6, 2019 |
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