Quotes For You

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute. - Abraham Lincoln

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. - Thomas Paine (1737-1809), American revolutionary

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. - Lao-Tzu

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. - George Bernard Shaw

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice. - John Adams

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. - Anais Nin

It is more important in these times than ever that people feel free to express themselves in their art, and that people have the ability to escape fear by immersing themselves in art, beauty and nature. Touching one's creative soul keeps us grounded in the now. This is a time when people want to escape the oppressive messages of the media and negative word of mouth. This can be overcome with a dip of a brush, throwing clay, playing a song – reaching one's center where their spirit lives. --Laura Hansen

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. - George Orwell

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment--as well as the prison. - Fyodor Dostoevsky, from Crime and Punishment

I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. - General Douglas MacArthur

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same. - Flavia Weedn, Inspirational author

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. - Aristotle

Beauty is not diminished by being shared. - Robert Heinlein

A government that can without trial destroy you by simply putting on a list your name or the name of an organization with which you are associated is a tyranny. A government that invades other countries and that feels free to murder people in any country it chooses is a tyranny. - Charley Reese, Journalist

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English writer, statesman

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. -Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. - Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightning. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. - Seneca, Roman statesman & philosopher (4 B.C.?-65 A.D.)

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher (1803-1882)

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. - Gerry Spence

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - Sir John Lubbock

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. - Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer & philosopher

Stuff your eyes with wonder...live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. - Ray Bradbury

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill

People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. - Mark Twain

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. - John F. Kennedy

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. - Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon

I shall grow old but never lose life's zest, Because the road's last turn will be the best. - Henry van Dyke (1852 - 1933)

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)

Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it. . . . What frustrates us and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning. . . Does our being alive matter? - Harold Kushner, "When All You Ever Wanted Isn't Enough"

No one lives on the top of the mountain. It’s fine to go there occasionally —for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That’s where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That’s where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks. - Arthur Gordon

A bird does not sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. - Chinese proverb

Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart - messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you’ll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along. - Martha Beck, "Finding Your Own North Star"

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? - Dr. Robert H. Schuller

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries, surely stands in a lonely place. - Gary Zukov

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. - E.R. Beadle

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. - Jean Cocteau

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. - Jean Cocteau

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the ILLUSION of knowledge. - Daniel Boorstin

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. - Carl Sagan

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. -Bertrand Russell