Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. - John F. Kennedy, April 7, 1960
If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.
As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.
We need not wait to see what others do. - Gandhi
Do not commit any unwholesome actions,
Accumulate virtuous deeds,
Tame and train your own mind.
- Shakyamuni Buddha
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I want a world where people are respected for the ease and warmth of their melting... rather than the strength of their walls.
- Clint Weyand
The reasonable man adapts to the world around him. The unreasonable man expects the world to adapt to him. Therefore, all progress is made by the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
Choose empathy over logic.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
- Aristotle
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
- William Saroyan
He who cannot howl will not find his pack.
- Charles Simic
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Buddha
I know nothing except the fact of my own ignorance.
- Socrates
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
While there's life, there's hope.
- Cicero
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
- Plato
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons,
heaven or hell.
- Buddha
Two roads diverged in a wood and I --- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Careful the things you say
Children will listen.
Careful the things you do
Children will see
And learn.
Children may not obey
But children will listen
Children will look to you
For which way to turn
To learn what to be.
Careful before you say
"Listen to me"
Children will listen...
Careful the spell you cast
Not just on children
Sometimes the spell may last
Past what you can see
And turn against you.
Careful the tale you tell
That is the spell
Children will listen.
- Lyrics from "Into the Woods", Stephen Sondheim
Fortune favors the brave.
- Virgil
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Arun Gandhi
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry,
"The Little Prince" © 1943 (et al)
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- Buddha
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
- Goethe
Everybody screws up... that's what happens. It's what you DO with the screw-ups, it's how you handle the experience. That's what you should judge yourself by.
- the WB's "Gilmore Girls"
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
- Paramount's "Vanilla Sky"
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop, "The Lion and the Mouse"
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- Buddha
He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have
already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
- Buddha
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
- Confucius
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
- Aesop, "The Old Man and Death"
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
The universe is vast and we are so small.
There is really only one thing we can ever truly control... whether we are good or evil.
- MGM's "Stargate SG-1"
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr.,
Accepting Nobel Peace Prize,
Dec. 10, 1964
Don't use your head right now... your head is confused; and don't listen to your heart... your heart is fearful. Listen to God. Be still and know that He is near. Let God tell you what to do.
- "Touched By An Angel"
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
- Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me
To make me less afraid, more accessable.
I choose to risk my significance
To live so that that which comes to me as seed
Goes to the next as blossom
And that which comes to me as blossom
Goes on as fruit.
- poem written in response to 9/11
CBS's "Without a Trace"
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." ... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Actions have consequences, and to be in denial of that is to be disengaged from the laws of the universe...which renders you powerless and vulnerable to an inordinate amount of pain
- CBS's "Joan of Arcadia"
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
- Unknown Author
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- Buddha
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground
- Unknown
