To keep the numbering consistent I am now adding new quotes at the bottom...so here's a link to the latest quote
"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
- Thomas Merton
"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system."
- William James
"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground."
- Thomas Overbury
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
-Leonardo da Vinci
"The secret of eternal youth is arrested development."
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
-Henry David Thoreau
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
- Victor Hugo
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love. The only survival, the only meaning"
- Thornton Wilder
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
-Bertrand Russell
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."
- John Muir
"The first bowl moistens my lips and throat;
The second bowl banishes all loneliness;
The third bowl clears my mind of words and books.
At the fourth cup, I begin to perspire -
life’s troubles evaporate through my pores.
The fifth cup cleanses my entire being.
Six cups and I am in the realm of the Divine.
Seven cups - ah, but I can drink no more:
I can only feel the gentle breeze blowing through my sleeves,
wafting me away to the Isle of immortality!"
- Lu Tong, eighth century Chinese poet, from In gratitude for a gift of fresh tea
"Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity."
- Albert Schweitzer
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
- Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
"The death of an elderly man is like a burning library.
-(Ivorian proverb) From Life in africa foundation
"Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similies (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time)."
- Ernest Hemingway, letter to Bernard Berenson
"When I am dead,
I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet,
but his books were read.' " -Hilaire Belloc
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
"Ahh, the soothing o' the Pipes... Whenever I find myself missing its melodious sounds, I just toss the cat in the dryer on low heat" - Jordan MontgomeryFrom Graham Weeks' quotes pages.
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven." - Thomas Fullerthe 17th century clergyman Fuller, I assume, not the 18th century afro-american mathematician.
"It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable."
- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
"How can they know all this about Napoleon? He's been dead more than a hundred years."
Alistair Cooke's grandmother in Letter from America for 3 March 2003.
"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."
- Edward Everett Hale
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices,"
-Voltaire
"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."
Clementine Paddleford
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