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Shards of Truth |
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2021 |
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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. - Edith Lovejoy Pierce Posted December 27, 2021
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’” - Lewis Carroll Posted December 21, 2021
The superior man does not think himself so. His humility is what sets him apart. - Chinese Proverb Posted December 12, 2021
More demands on oneself and few demands on others will keep resentment at bay. - Chinese Proverb Posted December 5, 2021
Virtue never lives alone. It always finds good company. - Chinese Proverb Posted November 28, 2021
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. - Marcus Tullius Cicero Posted November 21, 2021
Modesty is a way to enhance charm by pretending to be unaware of it. - George Herford Posted November 14, 2021
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. - G. K. Chesterton Posted November 7, 2021
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. - Herbert Spencer Posted October 31, 2021
I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. - Samuel Johnson Posted October 24, 2021
Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies. - Mahatma Gandhi Posted October 17, 2021
Modesty is the foundation of all the virtues. Let your neighbors find you before you make yourself known to them. - Nyogen Senzaki Posted October 10, 2021
By the very fact of their being human, one is asked a question by life: how to overcome the split between themselves and the world outside of them in order to arrive at the experience of unity and oneness with their fellow humans and with nature. One has to answer this question every minute of their life. No only – or even primarily – with thoughts and words, but by their mode of being and acting. - Erich Fromm Posted October 3, 2021
First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on the real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; and Fourth, rely on the essence of your pure wisdom Mind, no on judgmental perceptions. - Traditional Buddhist Teaching Posted September 26, 2021
And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened. - Raquel Franco Posted September 19, 2021
No day shall erase you from the memory of time. - Virgil Posted September 12, 2021
All that serves labor serves the Nation. All that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other. - Abraham Lincoln Posted September 5, 2021
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances. - Martha Washington Posted August 29, 2021
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, as a shadow that never leaves him. - The Dhammapada Posted August 20, 2021
Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies. - Mahatma Gandhi Posted August 15, 2021
the blindest people think they can see the most - Dahi Tamara Koch Posted August 8, 2021
Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell. - Raheel Farooq Posted August 1, 2021
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions — the hero and the sidekick. - Laurence Shames Posted July 25, 2021
Read, every day, something no else is reading. Think, every day, 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 Marlowe Posted July 18, 2021
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out. - Anton Chekhov Posted July 11, 2021
Liberty is the breath of life to nations. - George Bernard Shaw Posted July 2, 2021
Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings. - W. Lee Grant Posted June 27, 2021
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. - John Lubbock Posted June 20, 2021
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. - Maya Angelou Posted June 13, 2021
My greatest happiness consists precisely in doing nothing whatsoever that is calculated to obtain happiness. - Chuang-tzu Posted June 6, 2021
Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well. - Governor Jennifer M. Granholm (Michigan, 2003-2011) Posted May 30, 2021
There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart. - Lao-tzu Posted May 23, 2021
This is a world of action, and not for moping and groaning in. - Charles Dickens Posted May 16, 2021
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. - Chinese Proverb Posted May 9, 2021
A man may possess the tools to build a house, yet allow them to rust on the ground he sleeps on. - Andrew Vachss, Haiku Posted May 2, 2021
You cannot walk the path before you become the path yourself. - Zen Saying Posted April 25, 2021
Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are intimately related. May we never even pretend that we are not. - Mr. Rogers Posted April 18, 2021
He to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are open from dawn to dawn. - Kahil Gibran Posted April 11, 2021
When there’s no way out, you find a deeper way in. - The International Posted April 4, 2021
Character is easier kept than recovered. - The International Posted March 28, 2021
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. - Jack London Posted March 14 2021
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. - The International Posted March 7, 2021
When you doubt, abstain. - Zoroaster Posted February 28, 2021
Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting. - Bernard Meltzer Posted February 21, 2021
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham Lincoln Posted February 14, 2021
Only by learning do we discover how ignorant we are. - Chinese Proverb Posted February 7, 2021
Who gossips with you will gossip about you. - Spanish Proverb Posted January 31, 2021
The new dawn blooms as we free it For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it If only we're brave enough to be it. - Amanda Gorman Posted January 24,2021
[O]ur goal is freedom and I believe that we’re going to get there. It’s going to be more difficult from here on in, but I believe we’re going to get there, because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom and our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “The Other America” (Grosse Pointe, Michigan) Posted January 17, 2021
In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity. - Abraham Lincoln Posted January 10, 2021
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank god that it can go. - Brooks Atkinson Posted January 3, 2021 |
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