TIMELY WISDOM

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Random Thoughts c

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop



"Nothing is worth more than this day." Goethe"

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain." Kahlil Gibran
  
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you." 
- Dale Carnegie


"Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking." J. C. Watts


"Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all." G. K. Chesterton

"Dreams are essential to life." Anais Nin

"It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, than you are indeed a man of true wisdom." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." 
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"To revel in the wonders of life, to think, to remember, to dream - this is to know happiness." 
- Giancarlo Di Gratsi 


"This world is but a canvas to our imaginations." Henry David Thoreau

"I've dreamt dreams in my life that have stayed with me ever after." Emily Bronte

"Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe." - Elie Wiesel (holocaust survivor)



"The only thing I know, is that I know nothing." Socrates



"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" Robert Browning


"Life is a cycle, always in motion, if good times have moved on so will times of trouble!" 
- Indian Proverb




"The best things in life are not things." Author unknown



"When you've seen beyond yourself - then you may find peace of mind, is waiting there - And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you." Within You Without You' by George Harrison (The Beatles) 



"Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and stars; you have a right to be here, and whether or not it is clear to you; no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
- 'Desiderata', Max Ehrmann



"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." Mae West


"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." The Dalai Lama


"If you cannot be kind, at least have the decency to be vague." Unknown



"Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year." Unknown



"To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal than to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves." Lewis Carroll




"Life is like a finger, pointing to the Moon. If you look at the finger... you will miss all the heavenly glory." Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee tells his pupil


"Humility is not a punishment. It is a Virtue." Anon
 



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