- Samuel Johnson
“ Gentleness is able to accomplish what violence cannot. ”
- Claudian
“ A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished. ”
- The Talmud
“ Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield but to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to
win my freedom. ”
- Rabindirath Tagore
“ With all thy faults, I love thee still. ”
- William Cowper
“ It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead
“ As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. ”
- Carl Jung
“ If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ”
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“ An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“ Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ”
- Aldous Huxley
“ The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. ”
- Amos Bronson Alcott
“ Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. ”
- Mother Teresa
“ I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ”
- Jimmy Dean
“ If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. ”
- Orson Welles
“ Luck is the excuse of a lazy man for not wanting to do the work. ”
- Howard Davis, from the short film “Room 10”
“ If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be. ”
- William Allen White
“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ”
- Anne Frank
“ It’s not enough to marry goodness, you have to find it in yourself. ”
- Mr. Ho, from the film “My Life”
“ Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ”
- Jean Paul Richter
“ Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give
something back. ”
- Princess Diana
“ It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. ”
- Mark Twain
“ In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ”
- Albert Schweitzer
“ Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. ”
- Mohammed
“ Anyone is guilty who watches this happen and pretends it isn’t. ”
- Agent Alan Ward
from the film “Mississippi Burning”
“ Forgive them, for they know not what they do. ”
- Jesus Christ
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