Quotes that speak my mind....
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely
to be normal.
-- Albert Camus
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
-- Harriet Martineau
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is a coward's revenge
for being intimidated.
-- Hosea Ballou
"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its
best night and day to make you everybody else - means to
fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and
never stop fighting."
-- E.E. Cummings
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes
in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness
and compassion.
Foolish people are always thinking of themselves, and the
result is negative. Wise selfish people think of others, and help others as
much as they can, and the result is that they too receive benefit.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need
for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our
temple; the philosophy is kindness.
--Dalai Lama
"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
-- Anonymous.
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."
-- Albert Camus.
When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glory of love. Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."
-- Adlai Stevenson
"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it."
-- Mark Twain
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising each time we fall."
-- Confucious
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
-- Albert Einstein
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"
-- Mother Tereasa
Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
-- Samuel Beckett
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
-- Lydia Maria Child
to be normal.
-- Albert Camus
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
-- Harriet Martineau
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is a coward's revenge
for being intimidated.
-- Hosea Ballou
"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its
best night and day to make you everybody else - means to
fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and
never stop fighting."
-- E.E. Cummings
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes
in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness
and compassion.
Foolish people are always thinking of themselves, and the
result is negative. Wise selfish people think of others, and help others as
much as they can, and the result is that they too receive benefit.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need
for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our
temple; the philosophy is kindness.
--Dalai Lama
"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
-- Anonymous.
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."
-- Albert Camus.
When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glory of love. Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."
-- Adlai Stevenson
"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it."
-- Mark Twain
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising each time we fall."
-- Confucious
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
-- Albert Einstein
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"
-- Mother Tereasa
Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
-- Samuel Beckett
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
-- Lydia Maria Child