Quotes....

Jan 29, 2004 19:15

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"

Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970),

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The Dalai Lama (1935 - )

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 5

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

I'd rather sit alone on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

A great flame follows a little spark.
Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake (1757 - 1827)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)

"If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace, but we would be hollow; Empty rooms, shuddered and dark... Without passion, we'd be truly dead."
Angel
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