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Shards of Truth |
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2020 |
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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come whispering "it will be happier". - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Posted December 27, 2020
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. - Hal Borland Posted December 20, 2020
Be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice. - Shunryu Suzuki Posted December 13, 2020
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. - Matthew Arnold Posted December 6, 2020
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Posted November 29, 2020
It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. - Noel Coward Posted November 22, 2020
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. - Kahlil Gibran Posted November 15, 2020
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Posted November 8, 2020
You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader. You can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance. - General Eric K. Shinseki Posted November 1, 2020
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others. - Mahatma Gandhi Posted October 25, 2020
Are those conspirators that you spy through your window or is it a mirror reflecting the chattering parasites in your mind? - Stewart Stafford Posted October 18, 2020
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set rolling it must increase. - Charles Caleb Colton Posted October 11, 2020
Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. - Dale Carnegie Posted October 4, 2020
Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality. - Sheri S. Tepper Posted September 27, 2020
Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar. - Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing Posted September 20, 2020
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. - Clarence Darrow Posted September 13, 2020
Our labor preserves us from three great evils: weariness, vice, and want. - Voltaire Posted September 6, 2020
Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience. - T. F. Hodge Posted August 30, 2020
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. - Elie Wiesel Posted August 23, 2020
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. - Ogden Nash Posted August 14, 2020
Stupid is as stupid does. - Forrest Gump Posted August 9, 2020
When historians pick up their pens to write the story of the 21st century, let them say that it was your generation who laid down the heavy burdens of hate at last and that peace finally triumphed over violence, aggression and war. So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide. - John Lewis Posted August 2, 2020
Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass. - William Shakespeare Posted July 26, 2020
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic. - Diane Setterfield Posted July 19, 2020
From biased words I can see wherein the speaker is blind; from immoderate words, wherein he is ensnared; from heretical words, wherein he has strayed from the right path; from evasive words, wherein he is at his wits’ end. - Mencius Posted July 12, 2020
The gentleman understands righteousness, the petty man understands interest. - Confucius Posted July 5, 2020
The seal, the pyramid [on the back of a dollar bill], it's unfinished. With the eye of God looking over it. And the words “Annuit Coeptis”. "He", God, "Favors our Undertaking". The seal is meant to be unfinished, because this country's meant to be unfinished. We're meant to keep doing better. - The West Wing June 28, 2020
A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us. - Émile Gaboriau Posted June 21, 2020
Do boldly what is righteous. Act bravely for a just cause. Rise gallantly to the occasion. - Chinese Proverb Posted June 14, 2020
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. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. - Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963) Posted June 7, 2020
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. - Lydia Maria Child Posted May 31, 2020
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. - Theodore Roosevelt Posted May 24, 2020
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. - Benjamin Franklin Posted May 17, 2020
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 people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank Posted May 10, 2020
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances. - Martha Washington Posted May 3, 2020
If we don’t change the direction we’re headed, we will end up where we are going. - Chinese Proverb Posted April 26, 2020
How is it possible the most intellectual creature to ever walk the planet Earth is destroying its only home? - Jane Goodall Posted April 19, 2020
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Posted April 12, 2020
It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. - Noel Coward Posted April 5, 2020
Without the crashing waves and the sharp and treacherous rocks along the shore, we could not enjoy the beauty of the splash-flowers. - Chinese Proverb Posted March 29, 2020
The wish for healing has ever been the half of health. - Hippolytus Posted March 22, 2020
Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. - Bishop Reginald Heber Posted March 15, 2020
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller Posted March 4, 2020
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. - Eleanor Roosevelt Posted March 1, 2020
The Universe loves edges – it’s where stuff happens. - Richo Cech Posted February 23, 2020
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? - Abraham Lincoln Posted February 16, 2020
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot Posted February 9, 2020
You cannot do right in one department of life while occupied doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole. - Mahatma Gandhi Posted February 2, 2020
Do not follow the idea of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. - Dōgen Posted January 26, 2020
As my sufferings mounted, I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. - Martin Luther King Jr. Posted January 19, 2020
Everything natural – every flower, tree, and animal – has important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen. - Eckhart Tolle Posted January 12, 2020
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. - Annie Dillard Posted January 5, 2020 |
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