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“'Think as I think,' said a man, 'or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad.' And after I had thought of it, I said, 'I will then, be a toad.'” --Stephen Crane
“Long must you suffer, knowing not what, until suddenly, out of spitefully chewed fruit, your suffering's taste comes forth in you. Then you will love almost instantly what's tasted. No one will ever talk you out of it.” --Rainer Maria Rilke
“Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal, and yet if a melody has not reached its end, it has not reached its goal. A parable.” --Friedrich Nietszche
“But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart so that you can do it.” --Deuteronomy 30:14
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” --Saint Augustine
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.” --David Starr Jordan
“I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.” --Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?” --Friedrich Nietzsche
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” --Mother Teresa
“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”
--Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.” --Jessamyn West
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.” --Ellen DeGeneres
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.” --Bernard Meltzer
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” --Shirley MacLaine
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire Universe, deserve your love and affection.”
--Buddha
“Adults are obsolete children.” --Dr. Seuss, humorist, illustrator, and author (1904-1991)
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” --Wayne Dyer
“Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” --Robert F. Kennedy
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” --Norman Cousins
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” --Carl Sandburg
"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." --W.B. Prescott
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." --Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.” --Margaret Thatcher
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." --e e cummings (1894-1962)
"Dancing is silent poetry." --Simonides (556-468bc)
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” --T. S. Eliot
“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” --John Keats
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” --James A. Baldwin
“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.” --Margaret Lee Runbeck
"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost." --Helen Keller (1880-1968)
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” --Alfred Lord Tennyson
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.” --Amos Bronson Alcott
“A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.” --Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.” --Carl Sandburg
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." --Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. --B. C. Forbes
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." --H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great.” --Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." --Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
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