"Death is a distant rumor to the young"
-Andrew A. Rooney
"Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame"
-George Gordon
"God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath"
-John Donne
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity"
-Seneca
"Years, following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away"
-Horace
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings"
-Socrates
"Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go"
-Jean de La Fontaine
"Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time"
-George Carlin
"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death"
-Erik H. Erikson
"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon"
-Susan Ertz
"Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men"
-Herodotus
"Death is a debt we all must pay"
-Euripides
"People living deeply have no fear of death"
-Anaiïs Nin
"Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor"
-Homer
"Death is the surest calculation that can be made"
-Ludwig Büchner
"Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit"
-Bill Maher
"Suicide is the sincerest form of criticism life gets"
-Wilfred Sheed
"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure"
-J.K. Rowling
"Death
As a dark Shadow
Beckons his prey
Into the unknown
By a soft whisper
In the soul"
-Cindy Cheney
"Death doesn't bargain"
-August Strindberg
"Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark"
-Bertrand Russell
"With death comes honesty"
-Salman Rushdie
"Death is when the monsters get you"
-Stephen King
"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life"
-Bertolt Brecht
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Change
“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor”
-Robert Frost
“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change”
-Bill Clinton
“Nothing is permanent but change”
-Heraclitus
“Everything is the same as always”
-Peter Weiss
“Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant”
-Benjamin Disraeli
“The more things change, the more they are the same”
-Alphonse Karr
“Things do not change; we change”
-Henry David Thoreau
“Change or die”
-Claudian
“Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep”
-William Cullen Bryant
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation”
-Edmund Burke
“To change the name and not the letter,
Is a change for the worst, and not for the better“
-Robert Chambers
“Forward, forward let us range,
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change”
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Small change, small wonders--these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. It's a workable economy.”
-Barbara Kingsolver
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Life is always at some turning point”
-Irwin Edman
“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable”
-John F
“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts”
-Arnold Bennett
-Robert Frost
“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change”
-Bill Clinton
“Nothing is permanent but change”
-Heraclitus
“Everything is the same as always”
-Peter Weiss
“Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant”
-Benjamin Disraeli
“The more things change, the more they are the same”
-Alphonse Karr
“Things do not change; we change”
-Henry David Thoreau
“Change or die”
-Claudian
“Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep”
-William Cullen Bryant
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation”
-Edmund Burke
“To change the name and not the letter,
Is a change for the worst, and not for the better“
-Robert Chambers
“Forward, forward let us range,
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change”
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Small change, small wonders--these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. It's a workable economy.”
-Barbara Kingsolver
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Life is always at some turning point”
-Irwin Edman
“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable”
-John F
“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts”
-Arnold Bennett
Ambition
"Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend"
-Pierre Corneille
"Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds"
-J.M. Barrie
"On what strange stuff ambition feeds"
-Eliza Cook
"Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others"
-Susan Sontag
"Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes"
The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods"
-Alexander Pope
"Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking"
-Edward Dahlberg
"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition"
-James Madison
"Ambition can creep as well as soar"
-Edmund Burke
"Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust"
-Daniel Noonan
"Ambition never comes to an end"
-Yoshida Kenko
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy"
-Charlie McCarthy
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"
-Timothy Leary
"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals"
-Sir John Denham
"Big results require big ambitions"
-James Champy
"Ambition has no rest"
-Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"By low ambition and the thirst of praise"
-William Cowper'
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy"
-Charlie McCarthy
-Pierre Corneille
"Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds"
-J.M. Barrie
"On what strange stuff ambition feeds"
-Eliza Cook
"Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others"
-Susan Sontag
"Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes"
The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods"
-Alexander Pope
"Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking"
-Edward Dahlberg
"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition"
-James Madison
"Ambition can creep as well as soar"
-Edmund Burke
"Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust"
-Daniel Noonan
"Ambition never comes to an end"
-Yoshida Kenko
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy"
-Charlie McCarthy
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"
-Timothy Leary
"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals"
-Sir John Denham
"Big results require big ambitions"
-James Champy
"Ambition has no rest"
-Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"By low ambition and the thirst of praise"
-William Cowper'
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy"
-Charlie McCarthy
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Happiness
"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."
-John Stuart Mill
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
-Arthur Rubinstein
"We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same."
-Carlos Castaneda
"Don't worry. Be happy."
-Meher Babe
"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
-Henri Stendahl
"Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
-Count Leo Tolstoy
"A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand."
-Seneca
"Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else."
-Andre Gide
"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
-Woody Allen
"All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin."
-Lord Byron
"Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person."
-Elvis Presley
"See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."
-James Freeman Clarke
"Those who seek happiness, miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it."
-Holbrook Jackson
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
-Aristotle
"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
-Count Leo Tolstoy
"A great obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness."
-Bernard de Fontanelle
"Happiness is not the end of life: character is."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances."
-Martha Washington
-John Stuart Mill
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
-Arthur Rubinstein
"We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same."
-Carlos Castaneda
"Don't worry. Be happy."
-Meher Babe
"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
-Henri Stendahl
"Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
-Count Leo Tolstoy
"A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand."
-Seneca
"Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else."
-Andre Gide
"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
-Woody Allen
"All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin."
-Lord Byron
"Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person."
-Elvis Presley
"See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."
-James Freeman Clarke
"Those who seek happiness, miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it."
-Holbrook Jackson
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
-Aristotle
"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
-Count Leo Tolstoy
"A great obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness."
-Bernard de Fontanelle
"Happiness is not the end of life: character is."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances."
-Martha Washington
Friday, October 26, 2007
Kiss
Kissing may not spread germs, but they certainly lower resistance.
-Louise Erickson
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth ... and endures all the rest.
-Helen Rowland
It's impossible to kiss someone unexpectedly - only sooner than you thought. A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's the basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
-Mistinguette
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
-Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
-Robert Browning
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
-E. Cummings
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
-Peter De Vries
I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
-Ernest Hemingway
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.
-Mistinguett
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her--when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
-Helen Rowland
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
-Rupert Brooke
A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.
-Maupassant
-Louise Erickson
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth ... and endures all the rest.
-Helen Rowland
It's impossible to kiss someone unexpectedly - only sooner than you thought. A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's the basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
-Mistinguette
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
-Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
-Robert Browning
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
-E. Cummings
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
-Peter De Vries
I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
-Ernest Hemingway
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.
-Mistinguett
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her--when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
-Helen Rowland
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
-Rupert Brooke
A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.
-Maupassant
Self control , Discipline
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
-Jim Rohn
No man is free who is not master of himself.
-Epictetus
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
-Anonymous
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
-Anonymous
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
-Anonymous
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
-Proverbs
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
-Irish Proverb
If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please.
-Anonymous
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
-Anonymous
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
-Michael Johnson
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
-Prentice
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to
succeed in business – or in anything else, for that matter.
-Lee Iacocca, twentieth-century businessman
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
-Icelandic Proverb
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
-Socrates
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
-Anonymous
The basis of self-discipline: Don’t allow the edges to blur.
-Michael Johnson
-Jim Rohn
No man is free who is not master of himself.
-Epictetus
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
-Anonymous
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
-Anonymous
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
-Anonymous
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
-Proverbs
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
-Irish Proverb
If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please.
-Anonymous
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
-Anonymous
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
-Michael Johnson
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
-Prentice
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to
succeed in business – or in anything else, for that matter.
-Lee Iacocca, twentieth-century businessman
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
-Icelandic Proverb
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
-Socrates
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
-Anonymous
The basis of self-discipline: Don’t allow the edges to blur.
-Michael Johnson
Success
Don’t shoot for something unattainable – completely outside of your nature or opportunity.
-Michael Johnson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
-Abraham Lincoln
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
-Aristotle
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
-Ernest Hemingway
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
-Michael Johnson
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
-Traditional Proverb
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
-Anna Quindlen
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
-Rodney Dangerfield
You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
-Michael Johnson
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
-Christy Borgeld
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
-David McCullough
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
-Emily Dickinson
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
-G. K. Chesterton
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
-Michael Johnson
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
-Gerry Spence
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
-Dale Carnegie
From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.
-Yiddish Proverb
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein
There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
-Michel Montaigne, sixteenth-century French essayist
-Michael Johnson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
-Abraham Lincoln
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
-Aristotle
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
-Ernest Hemingway
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
-Michael Johnson
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
-Traditional Proverb
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
-Anna Quindlen
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
-Rodney Dangerfield
You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
-Michael Johnson
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
-Christy Borgeld
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
-David McCullough
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
-Emily Dickinson
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
-G. K. Chesterton
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
-Michael Johnson
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
-Gerry Spence
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
-Dale Carnegie
From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.
-Yiddish Proverb
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein
There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
-Michel Montaigne, sixteenth-century French essayist
Beauty
What worth has beauty if it is not seen?
-Italian Proverb
Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream.
-Walloon Proverb
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not want only destroy.
-Reverend Sean Parker Dennison
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
-Salma Hayek
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
-Turkish Proverb
Beauty is the gift of God.
-Aristotle
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
-Joseph Addison
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
-D.H. Lawrence
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head
-Proverbs
-Italian Proverb
Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream.
-Walloon Proverb
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not want only destroy.
-Reverend Sean Parker Dennison
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
-Salma Hayek
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
-Turkish Proverb
Beauty is the gift of God.
-Aristotle
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
-Joseph Addison
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
-D.H. Lawrence
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head
-Proverbs
Attitude
Attitude determines altitude.
-Anonymous
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
-William Shakespeare
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
-Charles Swindoll
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
-Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from "Faust"
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
-Anonymous
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
-Anonymous
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
-Anonymous
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Be who you are in every situation.
-Michael Johnson
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
-Anonymous
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
-Anonymous
-Anonymous
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
-William Shakespeare
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
-Charles Swindoll
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
-Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from "Faust"
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
-Anonymous
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
-Anonymous
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
-Anonymous
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Be who you are in every situation.
-Michael Johnson
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
-Anonymous
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
-Anonymous
Leadership
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
-Robert F. Kennedy
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
-Anonymous
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
-Karl G. Maeser
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow,
so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
-Anonymous
You really can change the world if you care enough.
-Marion Wright Edelman
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw
Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.
-Anonymous
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
-David O. McKay
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
-Iranian Proverb
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
-John Maxwell
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
-Ralph Nader
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
-Anonymous
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-Elbert Hubbard
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
-J. Richard Clarke
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Anonymous
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
-Dorothy Day
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
-Matthew
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
-Hubert Humphrey, U.S. vice president, senator
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
-Welsh Proverb
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
-Zen Proverb
-Robert F. Kennedy
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
-Anonymous
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
-Karl G. Maeser
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow,
so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
-Anonymous
You really can change the world if you care enough.
-Marion Wright Edelman
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw
Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.
-Anonymous
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
-David O. McKay
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
-Iranian Proverb
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
-John Maxwell
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
-Ralph Nader
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
-Anonymous
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-Elbert Hubbard
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
-J. Richard Clarke
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Anonymous
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
-Dorothy Day
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
-Matthew
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
-Hubert Humphrey, U.S. vice president, senator
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
-Welsh Proverb
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
-Zen Proverb
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Love,Romance
Love, like a river, will cut a new path
whenever it meets an obstacle.
-Crystal Middlemas
Love is like a mustard seed;
planted by God
and watered by men
-Muda Saint Michael
There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved.
- George Sand
There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved.
-George Sand
Love is strong yet delicate.
It can be broken.
To truly love is to understand this.
To be in love is to respect this.
-Stephen Packer
When you love someone,
all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
-Elizabeth Bowen
Marriage is not a ritual or an end.
It is a long, intricate,
intimate dance together
and nothing matters more
than your own sense of balance
and your choice of partner.
-Amy Bloom
We sat side by side in the morning light
and looked out at the future together.
-Brian Andres
Love is like a mountain,
hard to climb,
but once you get to the top
the view is beautiful.
-Daniel Monroe Tuttle
Love is not blind - It sees more and not less,
but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
-Will Moss
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
-Bill Wilson
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
-Bill Wilson
Love is a moment that lasts forever...
-Julie Wittey
Love isn't blind; it just only sees what matters.
-William Curry
Love that is true never grows old.
-Elben Bano
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
-Amy Bushell
A Friend's Love says:
" If you ever need anything,
I'll be there."
True Love says:
" You'll never need anything;
I'll be there."
-Jimi Hollemans
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling,
that if made from the heart will outlast anything...
-Raul and Samantha Juarez
Love is like a blazing flame,
golden and full of warmth.
-Ben Oliver
One look
One smile
One touch
One embrace
One kiss
One love
Two people
Two minds
Two souls
Two destinies
One road
One journey
One ending
Together.
-Melissa Higgins
Love is the emblem of eternity;
it confounds all notions of time;
effaces all memory of beginning,
all fear of an end.
-Madame de Stael
A bell is not a bell
until someone rings it,
a song is not a song
until someone sings it.
Love wasn't put
in the heart to stay,
for love isn't love
'til you give it away.
-Chanh Kha
Love is like a piece of art work,
even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
-Stacie Cunningham
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
-Rusty Silvey
Love,
The key that unlocks the bars of impossibility.
-Fikayo Ositelu
Love is when you look into someone's eyes
and see their heart.
-Jill Petty
Love is something you can't describe
like the look of a rose,
the smell of the rain,
or the feeling of forever.
-Kristen Kappel
Love is when you look into someone's eyes,
and see everything you need.
-Kristen Kappel
The best things in life
can never be kept;
They must be given away.
A Smile, a Kiss, and Love
-Tony Farrar
Like a child's infinite dreams,
is the endlessness of love.
-Renee Tripp
Finding love
is like finding one answer
to all of your prayers.
-Jennifer Regimbald
You know you've found love
when you look in their eyes
and find yourself.
-Monique Patton
What Is Love?
Love is a shy smile,
a sweet hello,
a soft caress...
Love is two hands entwined,
a lingering kiss,
a swelling of the heart...
Love is undeniable,
unforgettable,
unimaginable,
and what every heart yearns for...
-Sarah Ramirez
The bond of two peoples love cannot be broken,
Bend it, twist it, do what you will with it;
If it is true love then the sun will rise another day.
-Cody Heller
When I look into your eyes,
it's like falling in love all over again.
-Amanda Arco
Two Hearts,
Two Minds,
In time,
Did find,
One Love,
One Aim,
Two paths
The same!
-Kris
So many ways to say, "I love you",
never enough to say how much.
-Cameron Rand
Love is like a gentle breeze
that cascades through your entire being,
filling every fiber with emotion so deep
your heart grows wings.
-Kristalee Berry
Poetry is the song of the heart, molded by the mind.
-Roger W. Hancock
whenever it meets an obstacle.
-Crystal Middlemas
Love is like a mustard seed;
planted by God
and watered by men
-Muda Saint Michael
There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved.
- George Sand
There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved.
-George Sand
Love is strong yet delicate.
It can be broken.
To truly love is to understand this.
To be in love is to respect this.
-Stephen Packer
When you love someone,
all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
-Elizabeth Bowen
Marriage is not a ritual or an end.
It is a long, intricate,
intimate dance together
and nothing matters more
than your own sense of balance
and your choice of partner.
-Amy Bloom
We sat side by side in the morning light
and looked out at the future together.
-Brian Andres
Love is like a mountain,
hard to climb,
but once you get to the top
the view is beautiful.
-Daniel Monroe Tuttle
Love is not blind - It sees more and not less,
but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
-Will Moss
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
-Bill Wilson
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
-Bill Wilson
Love is a moment that lasts forever...
-Julie Wittey
Love isn't blind; it just only sees what matters.
-William Curry
Love that is true never grows old.
-Elben Bano
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
-Amy Bushell
A Friend's Love says:
" If you ever need anything,
I'll be there."
True Love says:
" You'll never need anything;
I'll be there."
-Jimi Hollemans
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling,
that if made from the heart will outlast anything...
-Raul and Samantha Juarez
Love is like a blazing flame,
golden and full of warmth.
-Ben Oliver
One look
One smile
One touch
One embrace
One kiss
One love
Two people
Two minds
Two souls
Two destinies
One road
One journey
One ending
Together.
-Melissa Higgins
Love is the emblem of eternity;
it confounds all notions of time;
effaces all memory of beginning,
all fear of an end.
-Madame de Stael
A bell is not a bell
until someone rings it,
a song is not a song
until someone sings it.
Love wasn't put
in the heart to stay,
for love isn't love
'til you give it away.
-Chanh Kha
Love is like a piece of art work,
even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
-Stacie Cunningham
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
-Rusty Silvey
Love,
The key that unlocks the bars of impossibility.
-Fikayo Ositelu
Love is when you look into someone's eyes
and see their heart.
-Jill Petty
Love is something you can't describe
like the look of a rose,
the smell of the rain,
or the feeling of forever.
-Kristen Kappel
Love is when you look into someone's eyes,
and see everything you need.
-Kristen Kappel
The best things in life
can never be kept;
They must be given away.
A Smile, a Kiss, and Love
-Tony Farrar
Like a child's infinite dreams,
is the endlessness of love.
-Renee Tripp
Finding love
is like finding one answer
to all of your prayers.
-Jennifer Regimbald
You know you've found love
when you look in their eyes
and find yourself.
-Monique Patton
What Is Love?
Love is a shy smile,
a sweet hello,
a soft caress...
Love is two hands entwined,
a lingering kiss,
a swelling of the heart...
Love is undeniable,
unforgettable,
unimaginable,
and what every heart yearns for...
-Sarah Ramirez
The bond of two peoples love cannot be broken,
Bend it, twist it, do what you will with it;
If it is true love then the sun will rise another day.
-Cody Heller
When I look into your eyes,
it's like falling in love all over again.
-Amanda Arco
Two Hearts,
Two Minds,
In time,
Did find,
One Love,
One Aim,
Two paths
The same!
-Kris
So many ways to say, "I love you",
never enough to say how much.
-Cameron Rand
Love is like a gentle breeze
that cascades through your entire being,
filling every fiber with emotion so deep
your heart grows wings.
-Kristalee Berry
Poetry is the song of the heart, molded by the mind.
-Roger W. Hancock
Hope, Faith, Idealism
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."
-Martin Luther
"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way."
-Carl Sandburg
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
-Albert Einstein
"Great hopes make great men."
-Thomas Fuller
"The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."
-Herbert Hoover
"A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist."
-Albert Hubbard
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
"There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
-John Ruskin
"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."
-Horace Walpole
"Light tomorrow with today."
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more."
-Boiste
-Martin Luther
"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way."
-Carl Sandburg
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
-Albert Einstein
"Great hopes make great men."
-Thomas Fuller
"The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."
-Herbert Hoover
"A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist."
-Albert Hubbard
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
"There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
-John Ruskin
"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."
-Horace Walpole
"Light tomorrow with today."
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more."
-Boiste
Courage
"Courage is the price life exacts for peace."
-Amelia Earhart
"The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground."
-Unknown
"Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use."
-Ruth Gordon
"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles."
-Bernard M. Baruch
"It isn’t the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage."
-Michael Josephson
"To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice."
-Confucius
"One man with courage makes a majority."
-Andrew Jackson
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
-William Shakespeare
"Courage easily finds its own eloquence."
-Plautus
"The world has no room for cowards."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
-Katharine Butler Hathaway
"When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."
-George Orwell
"If we could be heroes, if just for one day."
-David Bowie
"One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being."
-May Sarton
"Necessity makes even the timid brave."
-Sallust
-Amelia Earhart
"The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground."
-Unknown
"Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use."
-Ruth Gordon
"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles."
-Bernard M. Baruch
"It isn’t the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage."
-Michael Josephson
"To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice."
-Confucius
"One man with courage makes a majority."
-Andrew Jackson
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
-William Shakespeare
"Courage easily finds its own eloquence."
-Plautus
"The world has no room for cowards."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
-Katharine Butler Hathaway
"When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."
-George Orwell
"If we could be heroes, if just for one day."
-David Bowie
"One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being."
-May Sarton
"Necessity makes even the timid brave."
-Sallust
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Gratitude & Loyalty
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
-Cicero
"Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used.”
-Elbert Hubbard
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
-Thomas Hudson Jones
"Loyalty oaths increase the number of liars."
-Noel Peattie
"If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it."
-Terry Josephson
"When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree."
-Vietnamese saying
"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."
-Marcus Aurelius
-Cicero
"Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used.”
-Elbert Hubbard
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
-Thomas Hudson Jones
"Loyalty oaths increase the number of liars."
-Noel Peattie
"If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it."
-Terry Josephson
"When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree."
-Vietnamese saying
"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."
-Marcus Aurelius
Humility & Simplicity
“The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.”
-J.C. Hare
“Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.”
-John Morley
"Make a virtue of necessity."
-Geoffrey Chaucer
"A good name is more desirable than great riches."
-Bible, Proverbs 22:1
“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?”
-Steven Wright
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."
-Bible, Matthew 5:5
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century."
-Alexandr Solzhenitzyn
"The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time."
-Willem de Kooning
“Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.”
-Thomas Moore
Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues."
-Confucius
"Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights."
-Henry David Thoreau
"A taste for simplicity cannot last for long."
-Eugene Delacroix
-J.C. Hare
“Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.”
-John Morley
"Make a virtue of necessity."
-Geoffrey Chaucer
"A good name is more desirable than great riches."
-Bible, Proverbs 22:1
“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?”
-Steven Wright
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."
-Bible, Matthew 5:5
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century."
-Alexandr Solzhenitzyn
"The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time."
-Willem de Kooning
“Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.”
-Thomas Moore
Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues."
-Confucius
"Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights."
-Henry David Thoreau
"A taste for simplicity cannot last for long."
-Eugene Delacroix
Honesty
"We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot."
-Abraham Lincoln
"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision."
-Pope John Paul II
"Honesty is not a policy, it is a state of mind."
-Eugene L’Hote
"Frankness invites frankness."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready to call it falsehood tomorrow."
-William James
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
-Elvis Presley
"A belief is not true because it is useful."
-Henri Amiel
"Lying can never save us from another lie."
-Vaclav Havel
"Flattery makes friends, truth enemies."
-Spanish proverb
"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in."
-A.E. Housman
"If you add to the truth, you subtract from it."
-The Talmud
"When all else fails, tell the truth."
-Donald T. Regan
"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."
-Edgar A. Shoaff
-Abraham Lincoln
"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision."
-Pope John Paul II
"Honesty is not a policy, it is a state of mind."
-Eugene L’Hote
"Frankness invites frankness."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready to call it falsehood tomorrow."
-William James
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
-Elvis Presley
"A belief is not true because it is useful."
-Henri Amiel
"Lying can never save us from another lie."
-Vaclav Havel
"Flattery makes friends, truth enemies."
-Spanish proverb
"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in."
-A.E. Housman
"If you add to the truth, you subtract from it."
-The Talmud
"When all else fails, tell the truth."
-Donald T. Regan
"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."
-Edgar A. Shoaff
Monday, October 22, 2007
Wisdom
“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” -Henri Bergson
"Never kick a man when he’s up." -Thomas "Tip" O’Neill
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise." -Cato the Elder
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." -Francis Bacon
"The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete." -Lao-Tzu
“A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody." -Unknown
"All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it." -Publilius Syrus
“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning." -John W. Gardner,
"Never kick a man when he’s up." -Thomas "Tip" O’Neill
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise." -Cato the Elder
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." -Francis Bacon
"The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete." -Lao-Tzu
“A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody." -Unknown
"All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it." -Publilius Syrus
“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning." -John W. Gardner,
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Character
“Character is the only secure foundation of the state.” -Calvin Coolidge
“All leaders must face some crisis where their own strength of character is the enemy.” -Richard Reeves
"Character is power." -Booker T. Washington
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." -Benjamin Franklin
"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen." -Dr. Robert Jarvik
"Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right." -Thomas Jefferson
“You can only govern men by serving them.” -Victor Cousin
"Politics is the art of controlling the environment." -Hunter S. Thomson
“Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.” -Charles-Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.” -Charles de Gaulle
“An election is a moral horror, as bad as battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned.” -George Bernard Shaw
“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” -Henry Adams
“All leaders must face some crisis where their own strength of character is the enemy.” -Richard Reeves
"Character is power." -Booker T. Washington
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." -Benjamin Franklin
"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen." -Dr. Robert Jarvik
"Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right." -Thomas Jefferson
“You can only govern men by serving them.” -Victor Cousin
"Politics is the art of controlling the environment." -Hunter S. Thomson
“Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.” -Charles-Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.” -Charles de Gaulle
“An election is a moral horror, as bad as battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned.” -George Bernard Shaw
“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” -Henry Adams
Caring
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
"You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive."
-James Stephens
"The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm."
"One must care about a world one will never see."
-Bertrand Russell
"If one man dies, it is a tragedy; if a thousand men die, it is a statistic."
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
-Mohandas Gandhi
"The more he cast away, the more he had."
-John Bunyan
"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out."
-Frank A. Clark
"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
-Lucy Larcom
"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
-Lucy Larcom
"Men are only great as they are kind."
-Elbert Hubbard
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"A kind word is like a spring day."
-Russian proverb
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
-Aesop, Greek fabulist
"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
-Albert Schweitze
-Arthur Schopenhauer
"You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive."
-James Stephens
"The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm."
"One must care about a world one will never see."
-Bertrand Russell
"If one man dies, it is a tragedy; if a thousand men die, it is a statistic."
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
-Mohandas Gandhi
"The more he cast away, the more he had."
-John Bunyan
"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out."
-Frank A. Clark
"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
-Lucy Larcom
"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
-Lucy Larcom
"Men are only great as they are kind."
-Elbert Hubbard
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"A kind word is like a spring day."
-Russian proverb
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
-Aesop, Greek fabulist
"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
-Albert Schweitze
Morality & Life Ethics
Morality & Life Ethics
"A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance”
-Tom Flores
"There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.”
- Michael Josephson
“The essence of morality is the subjugation of nature in obedience of social needs.”
- John Morley
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike."
- Oscar Wilde
Morality begins at the point of a gun."
- Mao Zedong
"There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.”
- Michael Josephson
"Morality is stronger than tyrants."
- Louis-Antoine
"The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying."
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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