The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao TzuBe at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin FranklinHowever weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.
Charles SpurgeonOf the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Joan of ArcThe thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
Maya AngelouAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Jean-Paul SartreIt seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.
Joyce MeyerLove is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert FrostIn our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George OrwellPick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey HepburnI am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert EinsteinJust as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert SchweitzerTrue humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas CarlyleIf to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.
William ShakespeareLove is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Gilbert K. ChestertonYour children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil GibranAn ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mahatma GandhiCharacter is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe 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 ShawThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand RussellIf you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank ZappaIt is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.
Joel OsteenWe’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.
Jerry SeinfeldLove is too young to know what conscience is.
William ShakespeareI am rather inclined to silence.
Abraham LincolnAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Khalil GibranIgnorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMan gives you the award but God gives you the reward.
Denzel WashingtonBut who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark TwainWhen you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark TwainStrong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.
Wayne DyerI love being a dad. I just love it.
Jerry SeinfeldSometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.
DJ KhaledYou may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
John RuskinWithin all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
Wayne DyerThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus AureliusWhat old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David ThoreauTo conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellThere never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert FrostKnowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George EliotThe most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark TwainWe can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.
Greta ThunbergPeople like to hear the word ‚love.‘
Kevin HartAnger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark TwainToday I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
Colin PowellGod has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
Joyce MeyerThere is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar WildeWe become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.
Angelina JolieAll difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao TzuConstant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert SchweitzerThe robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William ShakespeareTime heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Blaise PascalThere is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.
DiogenesSomeday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin