"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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4/28/11

Bernie Siegel Quotes


"Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs …Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about." ~Bernie Siegel

"When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for." ~Bernie Siegel

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JOHN LENNON Quotes


"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality." ~John Lennon

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." ~John Lennon

"Being honest may not get you many friends, but it will always get you the right ones." ~John Lennon

“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.” ~John Lenon

"Everything is clearer when you're in love." ~John Lennon

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end." ~John Lennon

"I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another." ~John Lennon


"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now." ~John Lennon

"I get by with a little help from my friends." ~John Lennon

"It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love" ~John Lennon

“Imagine all the people living life in peace.” ~John Lennon

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." ~John Lennon

"Limitless undying love which shines around around me like a million suns; it calls me on and on across the universe." John Lennon

"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." ~John Lennon

"Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow." ~John Lennon

"Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and that's just barely possible." ~John Lennon

"Nobody told me there'd be days like these." ~John Lennon

"One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.” ~John Lennon

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." ~John Lennon

"Peace and love are eternal." ~John Lennon

"People grow through other people. If we are in good company, it is more pleasant." ~John Lennon

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." ~John Lennon

"The more I see, the less I know for sure." ~John Lennon

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life." ~John Lennon

“We all shine on…like the moon and the stars and the sun…we all shine on…come on and on and on…” ~John Lennon

"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it." ~John Lennon

"When you do something noble and beautiful and no one notices, do not be sad. For the sun, every morning, is a beautiful spectacle and yet, most of the audience still sleeps." ~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

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Gail Pursell Elliot - believe and think

"What we believe determines our thoughts. What we think determines our perspective." ~Gail Pursell Elliot, (The Positive Thoughts)

Thought for Today - Light Hearted Soul

"You are a light hearted soul who laughs in the face of fear, and only cries tears of joy." ~Thought for Today-UK

Frances Ward Weller - friend

"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself." ~Frances Ward Weller

4/25/11

Martin Seligman - optimism

"Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are." ~Martin Seligman

Comte de Buffon - patience

"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius." ~Comte de Buffon

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

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"A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out." ~G. C. Lichtenberg

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"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


"Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle." ~Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.” ~G. C. Lichtenberg
"What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!" ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Wilson Mizner Quotes


"Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down." ~Wilson Mizner

“Art is science made clear.” ~Wilson Mizner

"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave." ~Wilson Mizner

"God help those who do not help themselves." ~Wilson Mizner

"The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep." ~Wilson Mizner

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ROBERT FROST Quotes


"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." ~Robert Frost

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." ~Robert Frost

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." ~Robert Frost

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone." ~Robert Frost

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." ~Robert Frost

"A poetry begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." ~Robert Frost

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." ~Robert Frost

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." ~Robert Frost

"Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense." ~Robert Frost

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me." ~Robert Frost

"Freedom lies in being bold." ~Robert Frost

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it." ~Robert Frost

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." ~Robert Frost

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” ~Robert Frost

“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn” ~Robert Frost

"I'm not a teacher but an awakener." ~Robert Frost

"I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed." ~Robert Frost

"If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving." ~Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:It goes on." ~Robert Frost

"It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts.  The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-- that he will never get over it.  That is to say, permanence in poetry, as in love, is perceived instantly.  It hasn't to await the test of time.  The proof of a poem is not that we have never forgotten it, but we knew at sight we never could forget it." ~Robert Frost

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor." ~Robert Frost

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." ~Robert Frost

"Nothing Gold Can Stay”." ~Robert Frost

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." ~Robert Frost

"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice" ~Robert Frost

"Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves." ~Robert Frost

"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on." ~Robert Frost

‎"The best way out is always through." ~Robert Frost

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." ~Robert Frost

"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything." ~Robert Frost

"The only way out is through." ~Robert Frost 

“The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”
~Robert Frost

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." ~Robert Frost

"The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day." ~Robert Frost

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." ~Robert Frost

"The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." ~Robert Frost

"There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow." ~Robert Frost

"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate." ~Robert Frost

"Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting." ~Robert Frost

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession." ~Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." ~Robert Frost

"We love the things we love for what they are." ~Robert Frost

"We ran as if to meet the moon." ~Robert Frost

"You can’t get too much winter in the winter." ~Robert Frost

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Thought for Today - Wings to Fly

"You are a courageous soul who recognises that whatever you face will become the wings with which to fly." ~Thought for Today-UK

4/24/11

Thought for Today - Like A Star

"At the end of the day, on the wings of your thoughts, go beyond the cares and troubles of the world. Remove your mind from everything and everyone, and become blissfully detached, like a star. Like a star, be free to radiate light, for your essence is light and peace. Enjoy the simplicity of the night sky, the peace. And then, when you want to, you can shoot down to earth." ~Thought for Today-UK

Taisen Deshimaru Quotes


"From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories." ~Taisen Deshimaru

"If you are not happy here and now, you never will be." ~Taisen Deshimaru


"Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit." ~Taisen Deshimaru

"Think with your whole body." ~Taisen Deshimaru

"Time is not a line, but a series of now-points." ~Taisen Deshimaru

"To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give." ~Taisen Deshimaru

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Edmond and Jules de Goncourt - untiring love

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence." ~Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige Quotes


“Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.” ~Satchel Paige

"Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." ~Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way." ~Satchel Paige

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ANN LANDERS Quotes


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"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love." ~Ann Landers

"Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs." ~Ann Landers

"Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised." ~Ann Landers

"Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley." ~Ann Landers

"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life." ~Ann Landers

“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness -a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.” ~Ann Landers

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." ~Ann Landers

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass." ~Ann Landers

"Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head." ~Ann Landers

"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most important piece of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'" ~Ann Landers

"It is far better to be alone than to wish you were." ~Ann Landers

"It's not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings." ~Ann Landers

"It takes no more time to be courteous than to be rude." ~Ann Landers

"Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." ~Ann Landers

"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses." ~Ann Landers

"Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business." ~Ann Landers

"No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic." ~Ann Landers

"Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat." ~Ann Landers

"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies." ~Ann Landers

"Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day." ~Ann Landers

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed." ~Ann Landers

"People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude." ~Ann Landers

"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim." ~Ann Landers

"Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams." ~Ann Landers

"Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset." ~Ann Landers

"Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it." ~Ann Landers

"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most." ~Ann Landers

"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie." ~Ann Landers

"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead." ~Ann Landers

"The secrets of a long fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed." ~Ann Landers

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." ~Ann Landers

"Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” ~Ann Landers

"We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us." ~Ann Landers

"What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings." ~Ann Landers

"Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough, and (2) Too much." ~Ann Landers

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ELBERT HUBBARD Quotes


"A friend is someone who knows all about you, and still loves you." ~E. Hubbard

"A little more persistence, a little more effort,  and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." ~Elbert Hubbard 

"All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite." ~Elbert Hubbard

"All things come through desire, and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed." ~ Elbert Hubbard

"As we grow better, we meet better people" ~Elbert Hubbard

"Carry your chin in and the crown of your head high. We are gods in the chrysalis." ~ Elbert Hubbard

"Do not fear being misunderstood; and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do, and then without violence of direction you will move straight to the goal." ~Elbert Hubbard4

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." ~Elbert Hubbard

“Every saint has a bee in his halo.” ~Elbert Hubbard

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." ~Elbert Hubbard

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Fences are made for those who cannot fly." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Happiness is a habit – cultivate it." ~Elbert Hubbard

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words." ~Elbert Hubbard

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate." ~Elbert Hubbard

"If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends." ~Elbert Hubbard

"If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why." ~Elbert Hubbard on Loyalty

"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do; and then, as the days go gliding by, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the elements it needs." ~Elbert Hubbard

“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.” ~Elbert Hubbard

"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Many a man"s reputation would not know his character if they hggvmet on the street." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." ~Elbert Hubbard

"No matter what you have done for yourself, or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Preserve a right mental attitude; the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not." ~Elbert Hubbard

"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live." ~Elbert Hubbard

"The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour." ~Elbert Hubbard

"The greatest mistake you can make i life is to always be afraid that you're going to make one." ~Elbert Hubbard

"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work." ~Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)

"The love we give away is the only love we keep." -Elbert Hubbard

"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed-it is a process of elimination." ~Elbert Hubbard

"There is no failure except in no longer trying." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Thought is supreme. Preserve the right mental attitude—the attitude of courage, frankness and good-cheer. To think rightly is to create." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every hand-clasp." ~Elbert Hubbard

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William James Quotes


"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." ~William James (1842 - 1910)

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It Does! " ~William James

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." ~William James

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter." ~William James, American Psychologist (1842-1910)

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact." ~William James

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." ~William James

"Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit." ~William James

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." ~William James

“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of [a person's] pride.” ~William James

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome." ~William James

"Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming." ~William James in The Principles of Psychology

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." ~William James

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." ~William James

“Often enough, our faith beforehand in an uncertifiable result is the only thing that makes the result come true.” ~William James

"Our greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." ~William James

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it." ~William James

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." ~William James

"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. " ~William James

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlasts it." ~ William James (1842-1910)

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." ~William James

"The greatest discovery of my age is that men can change their circumstances by changing the attitude of their mind." ~William James

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can change his life by changing his attitude of mind." ~William James

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." ~William James

“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” ~William James

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over the another." ~William James

"The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there." ~William James

"To change your life: start immediately; do it flamboyantly, no exceptions." ~William James

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause." ~William James on Cause

"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep." ~William James 

“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.” ~William James

"Wherever you are it is your friends who make your world." ~William James

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4/23/11

James Ishmael Ford - ideals

"In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain, are family and friends." ~James Ishmael Ford

Sandra Carey - wisdom

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. Knowledge helps you to make a living. Wisdom teaches you to make a life." ~Sandra Carey

Mason Cooley Quotes


"A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart not from more blessings!" ~Mason Cooley

"Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better." ~Mason Cooley

"Generosity knows how to count, but refrains." ~Mason Cooley

"Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are." ~Mason Cooley

"The neuroses parody the virtues." ~Mason Cooley

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes

"Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favour and glad to do Thy will." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Be sincere; be brief; be seated." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Far better is to dare powerful and mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failures; than to take ranks with those who are poor in spirit, who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Paralytic President

"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"In our personal ambitions we are all individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Success often comes to those who dare and act, it seldom goes to the timid that are afraid of the consequences of seeking righteousness." ~Franklin Dlano Roosevelt

“The test of government is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide for those who have little.” ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

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F Scott Fitzgerald Quotes


"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, ..., I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Don’t let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don’t worry about losing your “personality,” as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"For what it's worth: It's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Forgotten is forgiven." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald from BrainyQuote

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind." ~F Scott Fitzgerald

"I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

“No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald on Honesty

"People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher — a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity." ~from "This Side of Paradise" (1920), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on this day 25 September 1896.

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." ~F Scott Fitzgerald

"There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they’re born." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Writers aren't exactly people. They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Your longings are universal longings, you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

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4/22/11

Henry Bromel - vanity

"Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity." ~Henry Bromel

Rose B Mashigo - triumph


Thought for Today - Enemy of Happiness

"The enemy of happiness is wasteful thoughts. To stop yourself from thinking wasteful thoughts focus your mind on God." ~Thought for Today-UK

Robinson Jeffers - stone


Photo: Katoomba Coal Mine 1878
27 September 2017

"I have grown to believe a stone is a better pillow than many visions." ~Robinson Jeffers

Vida D Escudder

"It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed." ~Vida D Escudder

4/21/11

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Quotes


"A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene." ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Photography: Quarantine Bay, NSW
March 21, 2011
@lcd, australia


"Seeking is not always the way to find." ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two
Brothers, 1827

OTHERS

"The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it." ~Augustus Hare

"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel." ~Augustus Hare

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“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.” ~Julius Charles Hare

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Sulamith Ish-Kishor - heart

"The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unexpected." ~Sulamith Ish-Kishor (1896-1977)

Ai Weiwei - powerful


"As an artist, I have to relate to humanity’s struggles. I never separate these situations from my art." ~Ai Weiwei

"Maybe being powerful means to be fragile." ~Ai Weiwei

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Thought for Today - Spaces of Silence

"Love your mind by allowing it spaces of silence and it will serve you tirelessly." ~Thought for Today-UK

Henry Bergson Quotes


"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." ~Henry Bergson, French Philosopher (1859-1941)

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." ~Henri Louis Bergson

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." ~Henri Bergson

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4/20/11

Thought for Today - wisdom

"You have the determination to plant seeds of change now, and the wisdom to wait for the fruits to emerge." ~Thought for Today-UK

Neltje Blanchan - fragrance of spring

"Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?" ~Neltje Blanchan

Chris Crowley, Henry S. Lodge, Lesley Dormen - limbic connections

"Every single human being on the planet craves limbic connections. We just need to head out the door to build them. The tide of social atrophy — of limbic decay — is not that strong. It's just remorselessly steady. The ultimate message is swim against the tide, every day. If you work at it steadily, it is almost impossible to fail." ~
Chris Crowley & Henry S. Lodge, MD and Lesley Dormen (Find Health and Healing Through Friendships)

James O'dea - civilization

"Without empathy there is no way forward for civilization." ~James O'dea

Sydney Smith - nature


"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." ~Sydney Smith

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed." ~Sydney Smith

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Thought for Today - Change

"It is wise to bend rather than to break. Those who change will get spiritual wisdom. Conversely, those who have wisdom will decide to change. Change is the first law of Nature." ~Thought for Today-UK

4/17/11

Galileo Galilei Quotes


"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." ~Galileo Galilei

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." ~Gallileo

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night" ~Galileo

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." ~Galileo Galilei

“It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.” ~Galileo Galilei

"Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe." ~Galileo Galilei

"Nevertheless, it turns!" ~Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go." ~Galileo Galile

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." ~Galileo Galilei

"They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.." ~Galileo Galilei

"Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me." ~Galileo Galilei

"We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them discover it within themselves." ~Galileo Galilei

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." ~Galileo Galilei.

BIO

Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science." Wikipedia

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Thought for Today - Honesty and Clarity

"Honesty does not mean simply speaking your mind. Honesty means to be very clear about everything going on inside you. Where there is honesty, feelings become pure and clean. Honesty is where there are no other thoughts or feelings inside, other than those that God himself would have. Such clarity is reflected in your words; they will be filled with the power of truth, and spoken with ease and without hesitation. The genuine honesty cultivated within you is what will reach out and touch others." ~Thought for Today-UK

Joseph Epstein

"Honesty for a writer is rather different from honesty for others. Honesty, outside literature, means not lying, establishing trust through honorable conduct, absolute reliability in personal and professional dealings. In writing, honesty implies something rather different: it implies the accurate, altogether truthful, reporting of feelings, for in literature only the truth is finally persuasive and persuasiveness is at the same the measure of truth. One might think this would be easy enough to do, but it isn't especially when one is under the added pressure of making both the feelings and the reporting of them keenly interesting." ~Joseph Epstein

William Law - perfection

"Be intent upon the perfection of the present day." ~William Law

4/16/11

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

"Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature." ~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes


"Accept yourself just the way you are." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"All human suffering is the result of believing in lies. To become aware of this is the first thing we must do." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in." ~don Miguel Ruiz

"All the magic you possess is based on your word, and you cast spells all the time with your opinions. You can either put a spell on someone with your word, or you can release someone from a spell." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"An enlightened mind knows how to use imagination as wings, flying ever higher toward the unknowable." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

”As you work through your own healing, remember that you are held up by the strength and love of the warriors who have come before you." ~Don Miguel Reyes

"Be impeccable with your Word. Speak with Integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of Truth and Love." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"By changing ourselves. By loving ourselves, the message we deliver to our children carries the love and truth." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life." ~Miguel Angel Ruiz

"Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Each human mind is fertile, but only for those seeds for which it is prepared." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Every relationship is as unique as the individuals that are in it." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Forgiveness is the only way to heal." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Go inside yourself and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"If someone gives you an opinion and says, "Hey, you look so fat," don't take it personally, because the truth is that this person is dealing with his or her own feelings, beliefs, and opinions. That person tried to send poison to you and if you take it personally, then you take that poison and it becomes yours. Taking things personally makes you easy prey for these predators, the black magicians. They can hook you easily with one little opinion and feed you whatever poison they want, and because you take it personally, you eat it up." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn’t walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"If you can see yourself as an Artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?" ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears." ~Miguel Ruiz

"Impeccability of the word can be measured by your level of self-love. If you love yourself, you will express that love in your interactions with others, and that action will produce a like reaction." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"It's not the stars that create light, but rather light that creates stars." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Let us be aware of our power to create a dream of heaven where everything is possible. Help us to use our imagination to guide the dream of our life, the magic of our creation." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Life as you perceive it is a reflection of your perception and beliefs." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Love is always kind, and that kindness makes you generous and opens all the doors. Love is generous." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"No matter how dark things are or seem to be, raise your sights and see possibilities, for they are always there." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Our best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when we are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret." ~Miguel Ruiz

"People say the conflict is between good and evil.  The real conflict though is between truth and lies." ~Don Miguel Ruiz 

"Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life--when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future. You are childlike." ~ Don Miguel Ruiz

"Surrendering to life is an act of power." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at anytime." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"The first step to personal freedom is awareness." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"The truth doesn't need us [to exist] but a belief does, and sometimes we confuse the two." ~Don Miguel Ruiz, Jr.

"The whole world can love you, but that love will not make you happy. What will make you happy is the love coming out of you." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn’t dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"We don't have the right to change anyone else, and no one else has the right to change us. You dance or you don't dance." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"We humans create the story of separation, and we search for what we believe we don't have." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, NOT because they deserve to be forgiven but because we love ourselves so much we don't want to keep paying for the injustice.....When someone can touch a wound and it no longer hurts you then you know you have truly forgiven." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally…Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"When we love each other unconditionally, our mirror is clean; we see others and ourselves as we really are, beautiful expressions of the divine." ~Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

"When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"When you focus on your dreams, set goals and take action you are able to create anything you desire." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"When you hear an opinion and believe it, you make an agreement and it becomes part of your belief system. The only thing that can break this agreement is to make a new one based on truth. Only the truth has the power to set you free." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"When you refuse to take things personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your feelings of anger, jealousy—and even your sadness—will simply disappear if you don’t take things personally." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"With awareness today, remember that everyone you see, everyone you meet, everyone you interact with is a part of you. What you do to another you also do to yourself. Loving and recognizing the equal divinity in all beings is recognizing the divinity in yourself." ~Don Miguel Ruiz Jr., author of Living A Life of Awareness: Daily Meditations on the Toltec Path

"Words are my paintbrush, and my life is the canvas. What I paint with words is the way I see myself. . . the way I see my entire reality. What I paint is my life, and how it looks depends on how I use the word." ~Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements for a Better Life

"You are wise when you no longer act against yourself." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"You just change yourself and just like magic, everything starts changing around you." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Your own opinions and point of view reflect your own agreements and are personal to you. It is no one’s truth but yours." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"You will know you have forgiven someone when you see them and you no longer have an emotional reaction." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

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Joseph Pulitzer -read to remember

"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." ~Joseph Pulitzer

Thought for Today - humility

"Humility dismisses nothing, rather, it takes even small things into consideration. It recognises that whatever life presents, needs to be respected. Small things are easily found in something big, but inside little things there is often greatness." ~Thought for Today-UK

Terri Gulick - if

"If it's meant to be; it's up to me." ~Terri Gulick

4/15/11

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Quotes

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run." ~Abraham Lincoln, 28 June 2012 entry
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." ~Abraham Lincoln, "House Divided" Speech (1858)

"A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be." ~Abraham Lincoln

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." ~Abraham Lincoln

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" ~Abraham Lincoln

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~Abraham Lincoln

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." ~Abraham Lincoln

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” ~Abraham Lincoln

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people" ~Abraham Lincoln

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.” ~Abraham Lincoln

"Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history." ~Abraham Lincoln on Citizenship

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." ~Abraham Lincoln

"God bless my mother; all I am or hope to be I owe to her." ~Abraham Lincoln

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help." ~Abraham Lincoln

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards." ~Abe Lincoln

"I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down." ~Abraham Lincoln

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." ~Abraham Lincoln

“I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” ~Abraham Lincoln

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends" ~Abraham Lincoln

"I do not like that man. I must get to know him better." - Abraham Lincoln

"I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end." ~Abraham Lincoln

"I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference." ~Abraham Lincoln

"I don’t like to hear cut and dried sermons. No – when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees." ~Abraham Lincoln

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.” ~Abraham Lincoln

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him." ~Abraham Lincoln

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day." ~Abraham Lincoln

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life" ~Abraham Lincoln

"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward." ~Abraham Lincoln

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come." ~Abraham Lincoln

"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come." ~Abraham Lincoln

"I would rather be a little nobody, than to be an evil someday." ~Abraham Lincoln

"If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world." ~Abraham Lincoln

“If I were to try to read, much less answer all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I can and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. But if the end brings me out wrong, ten angelthe s of God swearing I was right would make no difference.” ~Abraham Lincoln

"If you want to achieve success, keep believing in yourself even when nobody else does." ~Abraham Lincoln 

"If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive." ~Abraham Lincoln

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~Abraham Lincoln

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him." ~Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe"~Abraham Lincoln

"Let's "greet this day with a forgiving spirit!" ~Abraham Lincoln

"Live a good life. And n the end, it's not the years in a life, it's the life in the years." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~Abraham Lincoln

"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it." ~Abraham Lincoln

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~Abraham Lincoln

"No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy." ~Abraham Lincoln

"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent." ~Abraham Lincoln

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." ~Abraham Lincoln

"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~Abraham Lincoln

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." ~ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AMERICAN PRESIDENT

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." ~Abraham Lincoln

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." ~Abraham Lincoln

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships." ~Abraham Lincoln

"The probability that we may fail in our struggle ought not to deter  us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. " ~Abraham Lincolm 

"The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left after those who hustle." ~Abraham Lincoln


"This nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."~Abraham Lincolm

"Those who cannot stand to fight for Liberty and Dignity, deserve none." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." ~Abraham Lincoln


"We can complain because rose 🌹 bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses " ~Abraham Lincoln

"We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated by unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~Abraham Lincoln

"When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say." ~Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." ~Abraham Lincoln

“With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase” ~Abraham Lincoln

"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die." ~Abraham Lincoln

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." ~President Abraham Lincoln

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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." ~Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President, (1809-1865)

"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." ~Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong; You cannot help the poor by discouraging the rich; You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer; You cannot further the brotherhood by inciting class hatred among men.” ~Abraham Lincoln

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was." ~Abraham Lincoln

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The character of the sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln:

“In temper he was Earnest, yet controlled, frank, yet sufficiently guarded, patient, yet energetic, forgiving, yet just to himself; generous yet firm.”

“His conscience was the strongest element of his nature. His affections were tender and warm. His whole nature was simple and sincere – he was pure, and then was himself.”

“Such a nature was admirably constituted to direct an heroic struggle on the part of a people proud enough to prefer a guide to a leader, a man commissioned to execute the popular will but, as in his case, strong enough to enforce his own.”

BIO

Lincoln was a role model for character, integrity, and honesty, traits that never left him throughout the trials and tribulations of leading a country during one of the worst periods of its history.

Of course Lincoln was president during the 19th century when character was a highly-regarded quality. According to historian Warren Susman in his book Culture as History, the use of the word “character” peaked in the 19th century. “

Character was a key word in the vocabulary of Englishmen and Americans,” says Susman, and so important to society that it was promoted as an essential component of one’s identity.


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Sarah Vowell - words

"Even writers need relief from words." ~Sarah Vowell

GEORGE HERBERT Quotes


"A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast." ~George Herbert on Guests

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread." ~George Herbert

“A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.”  ~George Herbert

“A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.” ~George Herbert on Proverbs

"A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose." ~George Herbert on Proverbs

"An ill agreement is better than a good judgement." ~George Herbert on Proverbs

“For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.” ~George Herbert on Proverbs

"Fractures well-cured make us more strong." ~George Herbert

“Good service is a great inchantment.” ~George Herbert on Proverbs

"Good words are worth much, and cost little." ~George Herbert

“He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.” ~George Herbert

"He that is angry at a feast is rude." ~George Herbert on Proverbs

"He who cannot forgive others burns the bridge over which he himself must pass." ~George Herbert

“If the old dog barke he gives counsell.” ~George Herbert

“In every country dogges bite.” ~George Herbert

"It's absurd to warme one in his armour.” ~George Herbert

"Justice pleaseth few in their owne house." ~George Herbert on Proverbs

"Life is half spent before we know what it is." ~George Herbert

"Little journeys, and good cost, bring safe home." ~George Herbert

"Living well is the best revenge." ~George Herbert

"Love, and a cough, cannot be hid." ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

"Love makes all hard hearts gentle." ~George Herbert

“Mills and wives ever want.” ~George Herbert on Proverbs

“No hair so small but hath his shadow.” ~George Herbert

"Of all smells, bread;
Of all taste, salt"
~George Herbert

"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life." ~George Herbert

“Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.” ~George Herbert on Proverbs

"Storms make oaks take deeper root." ~George Herbert

"The best mirror is an old friend." ~George Herbert

“The chief box of health is time.” ~George Herbert

"The shortest answer is doing." ~George Herbert

"Thou who hast given so much to me, give one thing more-a grateful heart." ~George Herbert

"We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better." ~George Herbert on Proverbs

"When a friend asks there is no tomorrow." ~George Herbert

“When God will punish, He will first take away the understanding.” ~George Herbert on Proverbs

"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

“Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes.” ~George Herbert on Proverbs

“Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.” ~George Herbert on Proverbs

“Woe be to him that reads but one book.” ~George Herbert

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"Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master’s flower, but leave it having done
As fair as ever and as fit to use
So both the flower doth stay and honey run."

~George Herbert

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"Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, — a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise."
~George Herbert

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In George Herbert (1593-1633), profound religious sensibility is richly allied with a playful wit and with literary and musical gifts of the highest order. Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to "pattern poems", the shapes of which reveal their subjects. Such technical agility never seems ostentatious, however, for precision of language and expression of genuine feeling were his primary concerns. Herbert is one of the finest religious poets in any language, though even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exuberant inventiveness. The poems he made achieve a perfection of form and feeling, a luminosity and a metaphysical grandeur unexcelled in the history of English writing.

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Bernard M. Baruch Quotes


"Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation." ~Bernard M. Baruch

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” ~Bernard M. Baruch

"During my 87 years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think." ~Bernard Baruch

"Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." ~Bernard M. Baruch


“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” ~Bernard M. Baruch from Robin L Photography

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed." ~Bernard Baruch

"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles." ~Bernard M. Baruch

"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am." ~Bernard M. Baruch

"We live in a highly organised state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state." ~Bernard Baruch

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Linda Della Donna Quotes

"Let the chips fall where they may." ~

"One of the things I like about me after I feel slighted or hurt by an action of an unsuspecting good-natured friend, is my ability to pick myself up, dust myself off, and face a new day refreshed and secure in the knowledge that I am being the best I can be." ~Linda Della Donna

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Allison Halliday, Joanne Hambert - gardening

"Gardening is a wonderful occupation and teaches you many things in subtle ways. The benefits are great and rewarding. Being surrounded by nature and beauty, is joy enough
when shared with friends and other plant lovers." ~Allison Halliday and Joanne Hambert, Authors, Country Style Magazine

Grant Denyer - dinner

"The secret to a good dinner is belly laughs." ~Grant Denyer, Channel Seven, Sunrise Weather Reporter, New Idea Magazine

Jessica Rowe Quotes

"The best way to live your life is to live it well." ~Jessica Rowe, Channel Seven Newsreader, New Idea Magazine

"Tough times make you appreciate all the good things you have" ~Jessica Rowe, Channel Seven Newsreader, New Idea Magazine

4/13/11

Shakti Gawain Quotes


"Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it." ~Shakti Gawain

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you." ~Shakti Gawain

"My primary relationship is with myself--all others are mirrors of it. As I learn to love myself, I automatically receive the love and appreciation that I desire from others.  If I am committed to myself and to living my truth, I will attract others with equal commitment. My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.  As I learn to love myself, I receive the love I desire from others." ~Shakti Gawain

"Our life is a reflection of what we believe we deserve. As we deepen our acceptance of and open ourselves to the Infinite love of the universe, a new power flows through us, releasing us from the bondage of our old way of life."
~Shakti Gawain

"Problems are messages." ~Shakti Gawain

"Rather than blaming ourselves for the things we do not like in our life, we now realize we are manifesting our reality and have the power to change it." ~Shakti Gawain

"The key to independence lies in knowing that at every moment, in every instance, we are creating our life. The more we acknowledge this truth, the more power and freedom we experience." ~Shakti Gawain

"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." ~Shakti Gawain

"The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive … and begin to act accordingly." ~Shakti Gawain

"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf." ~Shakti Gawain

"There is a wise being living inside of you. It is your intuitive self. Focus your awareness into a deep place in your body, a place where your "gut feelings" reside. You can communicate with it by silently talking to it, making requests, or asking questions. Then relax, don't think too hard with your mind, and be open to receiving answers. They are usually very simple and relate to the present moment, not the past or the future, and they feel right." ~Shakti Gawain, from Living Life Fully

"Trust your instinct, every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness." ~Shakti Gawain

"We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe  most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly." ~Shakti Gawain

"We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: we must learn to contact our inner source of happiness and satisfaction and flow it outward to share with others--not because it is virtuous to do so, but because it really feels good." ~ Shakti Gawain

"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people’s models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open." ~Shakti Gawain

"What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly." ~Shakti Gawain

"When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously." ~Shakti Gawain

"When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations." ~Shakti Gawain — Bestselling author and a pioneer in personal growth and consciousness

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Calvin Coolidge Quotes


"It takes a great man to be a good listener." ~Calvin Coolidge (TFBFG 2014/mpw)

"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good." ~President Calvin Coolidge

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." ~Calvin Coolidge — 30th President of the United States (1872-1933)

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Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey Quotes


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"As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way." ~Mary Anne Radmacher

"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way." ~Mary Anne Radmacher

"Breathe in the winds of courage that each day you may discover in fresh ways what it is to soar above this sacred earth and sweetly land in her arms at dusk." ~Mary Anne Radmacher

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'." ~Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey — Contemporary American poet, writer and artist

"Lean forward into your life. Catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life." ~Mary Ann Radmacher

"Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen Hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is."
~Mary Anne Radmacher

"She Danced.
She Sang.
She Took.
She Gave.
She Loved.
She Created.
She Dissented.
She Enlivened.
She Saw.
She Grew.
She Sweated.
She Changed.
She Learned.
She Laughed.
She Shed her skin.
She Bled on the pages of her days.
She walked through walls.
She LIVED with Intention."
~Mary Anne Radmacher / Living Eulogy

"Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow." ~Mary Anne Radmacher

"Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways--as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly." ~Mary Ann Radmacher

"There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world." ~Mary Anne Radmacher

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