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Shards of Truth |
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The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow. - Shannon L. Alder Posted December 30, 2018
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. - Mary Anne Radmacher Posted December 23, 2018
In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature. - Edna O’Brien Posted December 16, 2018
Everything leads us to believe that there exists a certain point of the intelligence at which life and death, the real and the imagery, the past and the future … cease to be perceived as opposites. - André Brenton Posted December 9, 2018
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four: If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting. - Zen Saying Posted December 2, 2018
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott Posted November 25, 2018
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher November 21, 2018
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do. - Naomi Shihab Nye November 11, 2018
The ballot is stronger than the bullet. - Abraham Lincoln November 4, 2018
My commandment is “Thou shall not stand idly by”. Which means, when you witness an injustice: Don’t stand idly by. When you hear of a person or a group being persecuted: Do not stand idly by. When there is something wrong with the community around you or far away: Do not stand idly by. You must intervene. You must interfere. And that is actually the motto of human rights. - Elie Wiesel October 28, 2018
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sydney J. Harris Posted October 21, 2018
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. - Pamela Vaull Starr Posted October 14, 2018
Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it. - Amit Ray Posted October 7, 2018
We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us. - William J. Brennan, Jr. Posted September 30, 2018
Man’s heart is like a printing block. If the block does not err, then even if one copies ten million papers, there will not be errors. If the block errs, then if one repeatedly copies them on paper there will be none without errors. - Wang Hsun Posted September 22, 2018
The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change. - E. B. White Posted September 16, 2018
What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met. - David Levithan Posted September 9, 2018
If suddenly the whole workers of the whole world disappear then the whole world will stop! Let us all realize this and let us celebrate the workers — these great people who make our world move! - Mehmet Murat İldan Posted September 2, 2018
The golden rule of conduct, therefore, is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never think alike and we shall see the Truth in fragments and from different angles of visions. - Mahatma Gandhi Posted August 26, 2018
That man alone is wise who remains master of himself. - Confucius Posted August 17, 2018
Now, when the fight begins with himself, A man’s worth something. - Robert Browning Posted August 12, 2018
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut Posted August 5, 2018
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch Posted July 29, 2018
Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes. - QuotesDaddy.com Posted July 22, 2018
Jia feng li qiu sheng cun. (Seeking life through the crack.) - Chinese saying Posted July 15, 2018
We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Be aware of your contact between your feet and the Earth. Walk as is you are kissing the Earth with your feet. - Thich Nhat Hanh Posted July 8, 2018
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. - Harry S. Truman Posted July 1, 2018
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. - Elie Wiesel Posted June 24, 2018
Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. - Roman Payne Posted June 17, 2018
Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it. - Salvador Dali Posted June 10, 2018
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. - Confucius Posted June 3, 2018
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. - Joseph Campbell Posted May 27, 2018
If you befriend another person but lack the mercy to correct him, you are in fact his enemy. - Chang-an Posted May 20, 2018
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. - E. M. Forster Posted May 13, 2018
The first half of life is learning to be an adult — the second half is learning to be a child. - Pablo Picasso Posted May 6, 2018
The unexamined life is the wasted life. - St. Augustine Posted April 29, 2018
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth, we are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan Posted April 22, 2018
All of us are watchers – of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway – but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing. - Peter M. Leschak Posted April 8, 2018
Develop interest in life as you see it; people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. - Henry Miller Posted April 1, 2018
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. - E. B. White Posted March 25, 2018
Come with me into the woods. Where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible. - Mary Oliver Posted March 18, 2018
Time is the coin of your life. It’s 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 Posted March 11, 2018
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Posted February 28, 2018
Why are we so frightened of what is? What is the good of running away if whatever we are is always there? - Krishnamurti Posted February 25, 2018
Still I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles) the character of an honest man. - George Washington Posted February 18, 2018
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - St. Francis of Assisi Posted February 11, 2018
Better than the one who knows what is right is he who loves what is right. - Confucius Posted February 4, 2018
Later never exists. - Anonymous Posted January 28, 2018
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barack Obama Posted January 25, 2018
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance. We’ve learned to fly the air like birds, we’ve learned to swim the seas like fish – and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Posted January 14, 2018
Let go, or be dragged. - Zen Proverb Posted January 7, 2018 |
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