Quotes For You

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. -Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. -Plato, Dialogues

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. -Jean Genet

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings. -Mohandas Gandhi

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honor or a fatality. -Mathieu Kerekou

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. -Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), Spanish philosopher

Not all those who wonder are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government...There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be non- violent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press... - Martin Luther King, Jr.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you're a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. -James G. Sinclair

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves. -Aesop (620-560 BC)

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. -Aristotle (384-322 BC)

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other than we are. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done! -Henry Drummond (1851-1897)

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. - Rainer Maria Rilke

You should always learn, with life comes wisdom and with wisdom comes the courage to live your life selflessly. The more you learn about yourself and the experiences surrounding your life the more opportunities you have to make your life better and more fulfilling. -Amy Candy

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. - Khalil Gibran

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. -Steven Jobs, Founder of Apple Computer

You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. -Steven Jobs, Founder of Apple Computer

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. -Steven Jobs, Founder of Apple Computer

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. -Steven Jobs, Founder of Apple Computer

For those that believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice. -Joseph Dunninger, Master magician

War is a defeat for humanity. -Pope John Paul II

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. - Andrew Carnegie

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. - George Bernard Shaw

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. - Henry Ward Beecher