Archives for June 2012

Education is a debt due from the present to the future generations.
—George Peabody (American Financier)

Life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)

The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
—Charles F. Kettering (American Inventor)

It is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny, but how we relate to what happens.
—Lama Surya Das

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.
—Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)

Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not easy to forget.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Irish-born British Playwright)

Between friends, differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
—W. H. Auden (British-born American Poet)

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.
—Harvey Fierstein (American Actor)

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (English Poet)

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
—Ray Bradbury (American Novelist)

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
—Natalie Goldberg (American Buddhist Author)

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
—Euripides (Ancient Greek Dramatist)

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.
—Jon Bon Jovi (American Musician)

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.
—Nisargadatta Maharaj (Indian Hindu Religious Leader)

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems,” they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.”
—Erich Fromm (German Psychologist)

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
—D. H. Lawrence (English Novelist)

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
—Charlie Chaplin (British Actor)

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with their freedom.
—Bob Dylan (American Singer)

Every new day begins with possibilities. It’s up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick (American Baptist Clergyman)

Knowledge that puffs up the possessor’s mind is ever more of a pernicious kind.
—William Mather (British Businessperson)

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
—William Safire (American Columnist)

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
—Adam Smith (Scottish Philosopher)

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
—Lawrence Durrell (British Biographer)

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
—Claude Monet (French Painter)

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

We have two lives – the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
—Bernard Malamud (American Novelist)

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
—W. H. Auden (British-born American Poet)

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
—Enoch Powell (British Politician)

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
—Kimberly Johnson (American Poet)

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
—Robert A. Heinlein (American Novelist)