May 2013
46 posts
“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the...”
– Herbert Spencer
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried...”
– George Washington
“Above all things, reverence yourself.”
– Pythagoras
“Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Civilization is the lamb’s skin in which barbarism masquerades.”
– Thomas B. Aldrich
“If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.”
– Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
“I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been...”
– Frances Moore Lappe
“Success is the child of audacity.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.”
– Willa Cather
“Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and...”
– William M. Kelly
“I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully...”
– Hugh Elliott
“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.”
– Amelia Burr
“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to...”
– Adele Brookman
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great...”
– Dag Hammarskjold
“If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other...”
– Madeleine L’Engle
“When you strike at a king, you must kill him.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To succeed is nothing, it’s an accident. but to feel no doubts about...”
– Marie Leneru
“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“The best index to a person’s character is/ (a) how he treats people who...”
– Abigail van Buren
“Live always in the best company when you read.”
– Sydney Smith
“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”
– Matthew Arnold
“Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness;...”
– James A. Froude
“One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and...”
– D. H. Lawrence
“It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone...”
– L’Sir Roger Estrange
“If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to...”
– Edgar Watson Howe
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Self conquest is the greatest of victories.”
– Plato
“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility...”
– Indian Proverb
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of...”
– Chinese Proverb
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.”
– Akhtar, Hoshang N.
“It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.”
– Latin Proverb
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
– Seneca
“Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.”
– David McCullough
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Perseverance does not equal worthiness.”
– Lawrence Kaplow
“…the safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With...”
– Voltaire
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal...”
– Phillips Brooks
“A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.”
– Sallust
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
“Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is...”
– Madame Neckar
“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of...”
– James Madison
“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”
– Sally Kempton
April 2013
33 posts
“Stoop and you’ll be stepped on; stand tall and you’ll be shot at.”
– Carlos A. Urbizo
“Call home at least once a week. It’s a proven fact that we call home less...”
– Randy Pausch
“Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.”
– Bertrand Russell
“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson 