Quotes For You

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter. -Eileen Caddy, Spiritual guide and author

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always. -Mahatma Gandhi

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. -Marie Curie, scientist, Nobel laureate, (1867-1934)

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love. -Vince Lombardi

Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. - Eugene V.Debs

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping. -Minna Thomas Antrim

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -Wystan Hugh Auden

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter. -James J. Walsh

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. -Virginia Woolf

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. -Bob Newhart

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world. -Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. -Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -Joseph Addison

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world any more. There is always something to make you wonder, in the shape of a leaf, the trembling of a tree. - Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965)

I came to say a word, and I shall say it now. If death prevents me, it will be said by tomorrow, because tomorrow never keeps a secret in the book of eternity. What I say now with one heart, will be said tomorrow by the multitudes. -Khalil Gibran

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. -Eileen Caddy, Spiritual guide and author

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's our problem. -Howard Zinn