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'Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.'

Ramona C. Carroll

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"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."

Sydney J. Harris

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'If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living - I have made my mark.'

Thomas L. Odem, Jr

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"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."

Albert Camus

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'The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."

Roger Caras

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'Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.'

Buddha

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"A child miseducated is a child lost."

John F. Kennedy

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"Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature."

Zhuangzi

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“When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”


Albert Einstein

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"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more."

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."

Mark Twain

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'The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.'

Stephen King

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“Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people”

Anwar el-Sadat

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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

George S. Patton

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"There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice."

Winston Churchill

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"Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service."

Julian Bond

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'Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.'

William Arthur Ward

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A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)

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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Marcus Aurelius

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“I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love”

Robert Tizon

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'I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.'

Colin Raye

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"When you are happy you can forgive a great deal."

Princess Diana

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"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary".

- Kahlil Gibran

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"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."

Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”


~Plato

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“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.”

- Christopher Morley

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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.


Yehudi Menuhin

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“Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines”.

- Claude McKay

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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.


Emily Bronte

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“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

- George Orwell

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“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.”

Oscar Wilde

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“It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet one he is likely to be a fascinating monster”

- Robertson Davies

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So many good choices with 'monster' in them...

"Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?"

Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”

- Bette Davis

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.


C. S. Lewis

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“The only cure for grief is action.”

- G. H. Lewes

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"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

Theodore Bikel

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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

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“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”

Douglas Adams