Quotes For You

This is much worse than apartheid. The Israeli measures, the brutality, make apartheid look like a picnic. We never had jets attacking our townships. We never had sieges that lasted month after month. We never had tanks destroying houses. We had armoured vehicles and police using small arms to shoot people but not on this scale. -Ronnie Kasrils, Jewish South African anti-Apartheid Activist

If, finally, violence meets with violence, we have confirmation of the age old adage that war though it kills many men, makes many more men evil. -Fritz Medicus

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for. --Scott Ritter

Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still. -Japanese Proverb

If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything. -Allyson Jones

Youth is a gift of nature, Age is a work of art. -Helen M. Carrall

I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. -Edward Everett Hale

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. -Khalil Gibran

Our strength grows out of our weakness. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. -Helen Keller

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. -Willa Cather

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. -Norman Vincent Peale

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. -John Taylor

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. -Robert Ingersoll

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. -Khalil Gibran