Thoughtful Quotes

• Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
  
  
• Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
  
  
• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
  
  
• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
  
  
• Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
  
  
• If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, keep moving forward. ---- Martin Luther King Jr.
  
  
• In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
  
  
• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
  
  
• All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. Know that there is no darkness around us. Take the hands away and there is the light which was from the beginning. Darkness never existed, weakness never existed. We who are fools cry that we are weak; we who are fools cry that we are impure.
  
  
• No bad action goes unchecked with impunity. A bath in the holy river Ganges purifies one, but the impurities turn out to be more clever than us. Sri Ramakrishna says that the ghosts of lust, greed, etc. in persons taking a bath in the Ganges disembark and wait on the trees on the bank, to resettle on their shoulders after they have finished their holy Ganges-bath! Nothing will be of any help unless we have purified our own mind from the dross of ancient fear, medieval hatred and modern greed. There is no reward in heaven for hatred and injury to a section of children of the same God by His other children. If all are not already His children then how does He claim to be omnipotent? Such a god has competitors and he is no better than a rank despot--cruel, vindictive and demanding! ---- Vivekananda
  
  
• You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
  
  
• The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
  
  
• Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. ---- Robert Anton Wilson
  
  
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ---- Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ---- Kahlil Gibran
  
  
• Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem. ---- Walt Whitman
  
  
• People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. ---- St. Augustine
  
  
• I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. ---- Dawna Markova
  
  
• When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. ---- Cherokee Expression
  
  
• Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.' ---- The Talmud
  
  
• When making your choices in life, do not neglect to live. ---- Johnson, Samuel
  
  
• Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ---- John Updike
  
  
• Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is but today's dream. ---- Kahlil Gibran
  
  
• Do not go where the path leads, rather go where there is no path, and leave a trail. ---- David Perkins
  
  
• We are all angels with one wing. The only way to fly is to embrace one another.
  
  
• I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean, Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens, Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance, And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance... I hope you dance...
  
  
• Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. ---- William Wallace,BraveHeart
  
  
• There are many things in life that will catch your eye - but only a few things will catch your heart. Pursue those!
  
  
• My prayer for you is a dream big enough to capture your heart, bright enough to illuminate your mind and deep enough to satisfy your spirit. May you find the strength to pursue it and be enriched by it across the years.
  
  
• Be as humble as a blade of grass, as patient as a tree, give respect to all, expect respect from none, chant unceasingly the name of the Lord. ---- Sri Chaitanyadev
  
  
• The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again. ---- Sri Ramakrishna
  
  
• The greatest mistake we do upon the birth of a child is to give him a name!
  
  
• Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage - and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still - the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see. ---- Robert Nathan
  
  
• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
  
  
• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ---- Buddha
  
  
• Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
  
  
• A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
  
  
• Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
  
  
• People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. ---- Soren Kierkegaard
  
  
• If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ---- Abigail Van Buren
  
  
• A being that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ---- Eisenhower (1890-1969)
  
  
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do ... Explore. Dream. Discover. ---- Mark Twain
  
  
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• A great many open minds should be closed for repairs. ---- Toledo Blade
  
  
• Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable and fall asleep and miss your life.
  
  
• I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.
  
  
• In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be done to secure these interests. ---- Chanakya
  
  
• It is much more advantageous for politicians to keep a problem alive than solve it.
  
  
• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ---- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  
  
• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. ---- Bisset, Jacqueline
  
  
• Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ---- Hebrews 11:1
  
  
• Work like you don't have the money
  Dance like nobody's watching
  Love like you've never been hurt.
  
  
• If you're looking for the key to the Universe, I have got some good news and some bad news. The bad news: There is no key to the Universe. The good news: It was never locked.
  
  
• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well mannered. ---- Voltaire
  
  
• A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world. ---- Mohammed
  
  
• Doubt sees the obstacles faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest night Faith sees the day. Doubt dreads to take a step Faith soars on high. Doubt questions 'who believes?' Faith answers, 'I.'
  
  
• Success in any endeavour depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
  
  
• The greatest happiness in the world is the conviction that we are loved.
  
  
• Only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.
  
  
• Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
  
  
• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ---- Guillaume Apollinaire
  
  
• If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. ---- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
  
• People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
  
  
• Achievement is to spend life for something which outlasts it. ---- William James
  
  
• Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. ---- John Erskine
  
  
• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ---- Derek Bok
  
  
• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ---- Voltaire
  
  
• We grow small trying to be great.
  
  
• A good sermon should have a good beginning and a good ending, and they should be as close together as possible.
  
  
• Definition of courage: ' Grace under pressure '. ---- Ernest Hemingway
  
  
• Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. ---- Kahlil Gibran
  
  
• Alice came to a fork in the road. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? responded the Cheshire cat. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter. ---- Lewis Carroll
  
  
• Success is just getting up one more time than you fall. ---- Roxanne Quimby
  
  
• Success doesn't come from one brilliant idea but from a bunch of small decisions. ---- Roxanne Quimby
  
  
• Decide what you want to be and every message should deliver that idea at every point of contact with the consumer. And finally, stay with it. ---- Jack Trout
  
  
• A warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: Does this path have a heart? ---- Carlos Castaneda
  
  
• Insanity: doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results. ---- Albert Einstein
  
  
• If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ---- David Carradine
  
  
• When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder. ---- William Joseph Slim
  
  
• Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ---- Sidney J. Harris
  
  
• Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind
  
  
• You may delay, but time will not. ---- Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. ---- Aldous Huxley
  
  
• Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time. ---- Norman Ford
  
  
• They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ---- Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. ---- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  
  
• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. ---- Kuralt, Charles
  
  
• A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. ---- Hall, Manly
  
  
• Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ---- Hughes, Langston
  
  
• In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. ---- Kennedy, John F.
  
  
• A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. ---- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
  
  
• A ship in a harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. ---- John A. Shedd
  
  
• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. ---- Abigail Van Buren
  
  
• The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ---- William Shakespeare
  
  
• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ---- Ralph W. Sockman
  
  
• Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. ---- E. Joseph Crossman
  
  
• Some things have to be believed to be seen. ---- Hodgson, Ralph
  
  
• Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. ---- Peter McArthur
  
  
• Do more than belong: participate.
  Do more than care: help.
  Do more than believe: practice.
  Do more than be fair: be kind.
  Do more than forgive: forget.
  Do more than dream: work.
  ---- William Arthur Ward
  
  
• All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ---- Mark Twain
  
  
• Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. ---- Johnson, Samuel
  
  
• Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. ---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide. ---- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
  
• All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. ---- James Thurber
  
  
• Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing. ---- Alexander Woollcott
  
  
• My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity. ---- Paulo Coelho
  
  
• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ---- Oscar Wilde
  
  
• We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ---- John W. Gardner
  
  
• The truth is more important than the facts. ---- Frank Lloyd Wright
  
  
• Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. ---- Robertson Davies
  
  
• When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
  
  
• If all of our wishes were gratified, many of our dreams would be destroyed.
  
  
• Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ---- Harold Whitman
  
  
• Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. ---- Albert Einstein
  
  
• What are you doing? Examining the world's major religions. I'm looking for something that's light on morals, has lots of holidays, and with a short initiation period.
  
  
• Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. ---- F. M. Hubbard
  
  
• Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. ---- Jules de Gaultier
  
  
• Agnes' Law: Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
  
  
• Logic doesn't apply to the real world. ---- Marvin Minsky
  
  
• If the grass is greener on other side of fence, consider what may be fertilizing it.
  
  
• One difference between a man and a machine is that a machine is quiet when well oiled.
  
  
• If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. ---- Pope John Paul I
  
  
• Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
  
  
• Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
  
  
• Patageometry, n.: The study of those mathematical properties that are invariant under brain transplants.
  
  
• Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. ---- George Bernard Shaw
  
  
• While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
  
  
• Idiot, n.: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. ---- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
  
  
• The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming dragon.
  
  
• Intolerance is the last defense of the insecure.
  
  
• You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
  
  
• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ---- Salvor Hardin
  
  
• Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
  
  
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• Dawn, n.: The time when men of reason go to bed. ---- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
  
  
• We really don't have any enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
  
  
• I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. ---- Will Rogers
  
  
• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. ---- Beckett
  
  
• Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
  
  
• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ---- H. L. Mencken
  
  
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ---- Oscar Wilde
  
  
• The idea is to die young as late as possible. ---- Ashley Montagu
  
  
• There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. ---- Dr. Who
  
  
• I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ---- Winston Churchill
  
  
• It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
  
  
• The tree that bears the most fruits also gets the most stones.
  
  
• Until people feel that you understand them, they will not be open to your influence.
  
  
• Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers. ---- Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
  
  
• In the depths of winter, I finally learnt that there was in me an invincible summer. ---- Albert Camus
  
  
• Your work is to discover your world ..... and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ---- Buddha
  
  
• Dont walk infront of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behine me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me, and be my friend.
  
  
• There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ---- Saint Theresa of Jesus
  
  
• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ---- John F. Kennedy
  
  
• I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. ---- Herbert Bayard Swope
  
  
• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. ---- Abigail Van Buren
  
  
• My people? Who are they?
  I went into the church where the congregation
  Worshiped my God. Were they my people?
  I felt no kinship to them as they knelt there.
  
  My people! Where are they?
  I went into the land where I was born,
  Where men spoke my language...
  I was a stranger there.
  My people, my soul cried. Who are my people?
  
  Last night in the rain I met an old man
  Who spoke a language I do not speak,
  Which marked him as one who does not know my God.
  With apologetic smile he offered me
  The shelter of his patched umbrella.
  I met his eyes... And then I knew..
  ---- Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni
  
  
• The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. ---- David Starr Jordan
  
  
• Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. ---- Harold Wilson
  
  
• At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by 'I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.' Hungry not only for bread -- but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing -- but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks -- but homeless because of rejection. ---- Mother Teresa
  
  
• It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ---- Moliere
  
  
• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. ---- John Ford
  
  
• Perfection, then, is finally achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ---- Antoine de St. Exupery
  
  
• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. ---- G. H. Hardy (1877 - 1947)
  
  
• Anyone who thinks he is too small to make a difference has never been in bed with a mosquito.
  
  
• It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.
  For you cannot live in someone else. You cannot find yourself in someone else. You cannot be given a life by someone else. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.
  To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
  
  
• The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ---- Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
  
  
• Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. ---- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
  
  
• Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt. ---- William Van Horne
  
  
• When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. ---- R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895-1983
  
  
• In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness. ---- Ann Faraday
  
  
• Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. ---- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
  
  
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ---- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
  
  
• Worry is like a swing. Though you keep moving, you reach nowhere!
  
  
• Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity. ---- Paul Graham
  
  
• It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ---- J. Krishnamurthi
  
  
• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ---- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
  
• We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
  
  
• The function of an expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons. ---- David Butler
  
  
• A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. ---- Alanis Morissette
  
  
• The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself. ---- Marcus Aurelius
  
  
• Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart. ---- Omaha Proverb
  
  
• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. ---- William Henry Channing
  
  
• We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.
  
  
• Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best,and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you! ---- Christian D. Larson
  
  
• Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. ---- Henry Ward Beecher
  
  
• Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. ---- Kurt Vonnegut
  
  
• I know not what I seem to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ---- Isaac Newton
  
  
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ---- Theodore Hesburgh
  
  
• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee.
  And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. ---- Robert Frost
  
  
• When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ---- Henry J. Kaiser
  
  
• Whatever else you do or forbear, impose upon yourself the task of happiness; and now and then abandon yourself to the joy of laughter. And however much you condemn the evil in the world, remember that the world is not all evil; that somewhere children are at play, as you yourself in the old days; that women still find joy in the stalwart hearts of men; And that men, treading with restless feet their many paths, may yet find refuge from the storms of the world in the cheerful house of love. ---- Max Ehrmann, 1872-1945
  
  
• Don't be so humble - you are not that great. ---- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
  
  
• 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. ---- Galileo Galilei
  
  
• There are no facts, only interpretations. ---- Friedrich Nietzsche
  
  
• Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. ---- Paul Erdos
  
  
• Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ---- Thomas Henry Huxley
  
  
• Dancing is silent poetry. ---- Simonides
  
  
• He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. ---- Friedrich Nietzsche
  
  
• God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ---- Voltaire
  
  
• Black holes are where God divided by zero. ---- Steven Wright
  
  
• A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. ---- John D. Rockefeller
  
  
• All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. ---- Ambrose Bierce
  
  
• You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. ---- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  
  
• The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. ---- Albert Einstein
  
  
• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ---- Oscar Wilde
  
  
• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ---- Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. ---- Socrates
  
  
• The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ---- Niels Bohr
  
  
• A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. ---- Frank Lloyd Wright
  
  
• Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. ---- Pierre Laplace, to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
  
  
• It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish. ---- Carol Green
  
  
• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ---- Dr. Seuss
  
  
• It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ---- Oscar Wilde
  
  
• If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ---- E.B. White
  
  
• Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. ---- Horace Mann
  
  
• I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed. ---- Etty Hillesum
  
  
• How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ---- Henry David Thoreau
  
  
• You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much. ---- Tove Jansson
  
  
• This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it -- that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings. ---- Walter Lippmann
  
  
• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ---- Jacques Barzun
  
  
• I want to give them dry, hard reason, softened in the sweetest syrup of love and made spicy with intense work, and cooked in the kitchen of yoga, so that even a baby can easily digest it. ----Vivekananda
  
  
• Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge. ----Kahlil Gibran
  
  
• He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. ----Tao Te Ching
  
  
• We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time? ----Vivekananda
  
  
• If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid. ----Sister Nivedita
  
  
• Truth is available only to those who have the courage to question whatever they have been taught.
  
  
• I disagree with the idea that freedom is obedience to the laws of nature. I do not understand what it means. According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. It may be said that the conquest of lower laws was through the higher. But even there, the conquering mind was only trying to be free; and as soon as it found that the struggle was also through law, it wanted to conquer that also. So the ideal was freedom in every case. The trees never disobey law. I never saw a cow steal. An oyster never told a lie. Yet they are not greater than man. This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom; and this obedience to law, carried far enough, would make us simply matter -- either in society, or in politics, or in religion. Too many laws are a sure sign of death. ----Vivekananda
  
  
• Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West -- every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion. ----Vivekananda
  
  
• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. ----Mark Twain
  
  
• Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. ----Nicole Krauss
  
  
• There is only one way to put mystical experiences into words, and that is poetry. ----Jaggi Vasudev
  
  
• Life is not in its use. There is nothing to get out of it. If you live it totally, thats it. ----Jaggi Vasudev
  
  
• Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. ----Edward Abbey
  
  
• The air doesn't love you, but it gives life. That's how you should become -- simply nourishing everything around you. ----Jaggi Vasudev
  
  
• When you eat, you take in a part of the earth. How we treat the planet is how we treat our own bodies. ----Jaggi Vasudev
  
  
• There is no mortality. It is only the immortal who can die; the mortal could neither be born nor perish. There is nothing finite. It is only the infinite who can make for Himself limits; the finite can have no beginning nor end, for the very act of conceiving its beginning and end declares its infinity. ----Aurobindo
  
  
• They tried to bury us. They didn't realize we were the seeds. ----Mexican Proverb