Here are a few of my favorite quotes.
Hope you enjoy them.
I'll be adding more over time.
"Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You are the Light of the World. A City that is set on a Hill cannot be hid. Neither do men Light a Candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth Light unto all that are in the House. Let your Light so shine among men, that they may see your good works, and Glorify your Father which is in Heaven.”
Matthew 5:14
"In a world filled with darkness, it is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
- Dale Carnegie
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly…who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat.”
- Teddy Roosevelt
"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
"You must first be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
- Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969)
- Founder of Aikido
- From "The Art of Peace"
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“If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.”
- Seneca
"Patriotism is the Virtue of the viscious."
- Oscar Wilde
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
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Buddha
"We have seen the enemy and they are us.”
- Pogo
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
- Edmund Burke
"If the world is a dangerous place to live, it is not because of the people who are evil, but because of the good people who don't do anything about it."
- Albert Einstein
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty," he said, in 1954. "We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. "We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular."
- Edward R. Murrow
"Whatever you have forgotten, you can remember. Whatever you have buried you can unearth. If you are willing to look deep into your own nature, if you are willing to peel away the layers of not-self you have adopted in making your way through the tribulations of life, you will find that your true self is not as far removed as you think."
- Meredith Jordan
"The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”
Pablo Casals
"In real existence there is only unity."
- Jelaluddin Rumi
"…you, your beingness, is so tremendous, actually, that the force and power of this small ‘you’ can actually burn down mountains. If it couldn’t, why do they go to so much trouble to fix you so you can’t?
…Put the ball and chain on him quick, because in the center of his beingness, he is. And don’t let him ever find it out, because then he will be.”
L. Ron Hubbard
From LRH lecture of 20 May 1952,
“Decision: Cause and Effect”
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Teresa
"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French priest and philospher
"As I do these things, so shall ye do them, and greater."
Jesus
John 14:12
"When the Power of Love overcomes the Love of Power, the World will know Peace."
Jimi Hendrix
"War is not the answer for only Love can conquer Hate."
Marvin Gaye
"Where there is love there life."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is started, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance."
Robert Collier
"We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us."
Samuel Pisar
Holocaust Survivor
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness or despair; they are manifestations of strength and resoution."
Khalil Gibran
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it."
Mark Twain
"Formal education will make you a living; self-
education will make you a fortune."
Jim Rohn
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself".
John Dewey
I'm a firm believer in this. Farhad.
"He that takes medicine and neglects diet wastes the skill of the physician."
Chinese Proverb
"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction. devised by the ingenuity of man."
"Strength does not come from a physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable spirit."
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not the attainment."
"Truth is God, and God is Truth."
"Where there is love, there is life; hatred leads to destruction."
"Truth, purity, self control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister."
"Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable."
"Cowards can never be moral."
"I remember that all through history the way of Truth and Love has always won."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."
Albert Einstein on Gandhi
"One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on my cheek the poem that hasn't been thought of."
Rumi
"Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."
-Jessamyn West
"...the problems we face will not be solved by the minds that created them..."
- Albert Einstein
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