"When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money."
- Oscar Wilde |
| -A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never
remembers her age. --Robert Frost |
| -Every man I meet is in some way my superior. --Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| -A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| -Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable
happiness there is in our lives. --C. S. Lewis |
| -The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
--Meryl Streep |
| - The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed
by them. --Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| -Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. --Samuel
Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| -"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how
slow." -- Plato |
| -"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know."
-- Cicero |
| -There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible,
and wrong. --H. L. Mencken, |
| -"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless
manner, you have learne d how to live." - Lin Yutang |
| -One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a
tree. 'Which road do I t ake?' she asked. His response was a question: 'Where
do you want to go?' 'I don't know,' Alice an swered. 'Then,' said the cat,
'it doesn't matter.' " -- Lewis Carroll |
| -" Whether you think you can or think you can't....you're absolutely right
" -- Earl Nightingale |
| - "It's so much more friendly with two" -Winnie the Pooh -A wise man never
knows all, only fools know everything. ~ African Proverb |
| -The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. ~ Albert
Schweitzer |
| -It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ~
Confucius |
| -You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself. ~
Ethel Barrymore |
| -Anatomical nomenclature is an illogical, eponym-cluttered dog's breakfast
of Latin and Greek. ~ Kenneth R. Thornton |
| -The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but
wisdom must be sought. --Young (1683-1765) |
| -Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. ~
Norman Vincent Peale |
| -Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel
to look out. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer |
| -Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ~ Henry
Van Dyke |
| -Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild. ~ Alexis
Delp |
| -Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not
arrogant or rude. [I Cori nthians] ~ Bible |
| -When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.
But let him sit on a h ot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any
hour. That's a relativity. ~ Albert Einstein (physicist) |
| -Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. ~ Lisa Hoffman
|
| -The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| -Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~ Daniel
J. Boorstin |
| -Love is not a matter of counting the years - it's making the years count.
~ Wolfman Jack Smith |
| -Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the
pig. ~ unknown |
| -Originality is the art of concealing your source. ~ Thomas Edison |
| -One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief
that one's work is terribly important. ~ Bertrand Russell |
| -Music stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and
matter, a sort of nebulous mediator, like and unlike the things it mediates.
Spirit that requires manifestation in time and matter that can do without
space. ...We do not know what music is. ~ Heinrich Heine |
| -When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think
of how to solve the problem. But, when I have finished, if the solution
is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. ~ Buckminster Fuller |
| -A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home
to find it. ~ George Moore |
| -I can resist everything except temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde |
| -Feelings are everywhere - be gentle. ~ J. Masai |
| -Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because
I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything
is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle
of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. ~ Leo Tolstoy |
| -To give your care of a sheep, a large, spacious meadow is the best way
to control him. ~ Buddha |
| - The Four Reliances First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings,
not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality
of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation;
And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgemental
perceptions. ~ Traditional Buddhist teaching |
| - Be awake Love yourself and be awake ~ today, tomorrow, always. First
establish yourself in the way, then teach others, and so defeat sorrow.
To straighten the crooked you must first do a harder thing ~ straighten
yourself You are the only master. who else? Subdue yourself, and discover
your master. ~ The Dhammapada Words of the Buddha |
| -We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make
us love one another. --- Jonathan Swift - |