Interesting Quotes

by **RichardF** Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:33 am

I know, [there is] no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of society, but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

— Thomas Jefferson, in an 1820 letter to William C. Jarvis

by **Tigger34** Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:17 am

"Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human life". ~ Albert Schweitzer

by **RichardF** Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:34 am

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

— Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

by **RichardF** Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:17 am

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

— Walt Disney

by **RichardF** Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:51 pm

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

— Sigmund Freud, in an 1897 letter to Wilhelm Fliess

by **RichardF** Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:02 am

I would lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins.

— J. B. S. Haldane

by **Tigger34** Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:58 pm

“The Greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Ghandi

by **RichardF** Fri Apr 08, 2011 2:14 pm

Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.

— Albert Einstein

by **RichardF** Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:14 pm

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it A) extremely comforting that we're so close, and B) like Chinese water torture that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

— John Guare's play, Six Degrees of Separation

by **RichardF** Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:02 pm

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

— Leo Tolstoy

by **RichardF** Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:05 pm

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

— Henry David Thoreau, in Walden

by **iampaul** Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:00 pm

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Of course, it should be noted that one of the facts Thoreau learned from those woods was that forests are flammable. Shocked

To many of his neighbors in Concord, Thoreau was known not as the Sage of Walden but as "the fool who burned the woods down."

Maybe it was necessary for him to absorb the more basic lessons before advancing to the deeper topics?

Paul

by **RichardF** Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:17 pm

Maybe he was on the accelerated payment plan! Wink

by **iampaul** Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:05 pm

Every small adjustment we make to ourselves, choice, influence, random encounter, deliberate avoidance, etc. shifts our own centers of balance to a greater or lesser degree and affects where our next step may fall on the path. That step still may land squarely on the path and lead on to yet another step. Or, it may lead us to twist an ankle and fall before the rarest and most beautiful flower, which otherwise we would have passed by without noticing and being shaped by its wonder.
— iampaul

by **Tigger34** Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:37 pm

"Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life." -Ralph J. Bunche

by **RichardF** Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:55 am

There's always enough time to stop and eat the flowers!

— Jackson the Chocolate Lab

by **RichardF** Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:48 am

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
That we never even know we have the key

— The Eagles

by **RichardF** Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:39 pm

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

— Oscar Wilde

by **RichardF** Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:33 pm

For all your days be prepared,
and meet them ever alike.
When you are the anvil, bear.
When you are the hammer, strike.

— Edwin Markham

And when you are the horseshoe, bend.

— RichardF

by **Tigger34** Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:55 pm

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

by **iampaul** Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:26 am

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
— Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

by **RichardF** Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:08 am

Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

by **RichardF** Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:30 pm

The first thing to say is I’m sorry. We’re sorry for the massive disruption it’s caused their lives. There’s no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back.

— Tony Hayward

by **RichardF** Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:22 pm

We have not been given the lead in the cosmic drama. Perhaps someone else has, perhaps no one else has. In either case, we have good reason for humility.

— Carl Sagan

by **Tigger34** Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:49 pm

"Stand Up For What Is Right Even If You Are Standing Alone."

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