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"We
owe a lot to Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no
worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
"A
friend is one who has the same enemies as you have." By Abraham
Lincoln
I
want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details.
An
eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Whatever
the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
You
can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough
other people what they want.
Great
works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
Imagination
is more important than knowledge.
If
music be the food of love, play on.
Our
doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by
fearing to attempt.
Live
as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
forever.
By
Gandhi
You
can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people
some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the
time.
Early
to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
By
Benjamin Franklin
Sell
not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power."
By
Benjamin Franklin
"The
prime virtue in life is courage, because it makes all the other
virtues possible."
By
Winston Churchill
"Every
beauty which is seen here below by persons
of perception resemble more than anything else that celestial
source from which we all are come...."
-Michelangelo (1475-1564)
"I
celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
-Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"Heaven
will be inherited by every man
who has heaven in his soul."
-Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
"Imagination
is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Learn
to get in touch with the silence within yourself
and know that everything in life has a purpose."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 -)
"Beauty
in things exist in the mind which contemplates them."
-David Hume (1711-1776)
"The
whole of life, from the moment you are born
to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
"The
mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one."
-Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"My
heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky."
-William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
"The
clearest way into the universe
is through a forest wilderness."
-John Muir (1838-1914)
"What
else is nature but God?"
-Seneca (4? B.C.-65 A.D.)
"A
faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-The Apocrypha, 6:16
"They
are alive and well somewhere,
the smallest sprout shows there is really no death..."
-George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
"The
superior reasoning power...revealed in the
incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Patience
is the companion of wisdom."
-Saint Augustine (354-430)
"Most
folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"In
my Father's house are many mansions."
-The Bible, John 14:2
"Sit
in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
"People
are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only
if there is light from within."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 -)
"Life
is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
-Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
"The
best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart."
-Helen Keller (1880-1968)
"Fourscore
and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Because
man and woman are the complement of one another,
we need woman's thought in national affairs to make
a safe and stable government."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
"You
are the people who are shaping a better world.
One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of
compassion."
-Dalai Lama (1935 -)
"It
is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn
again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties
to know of wonder and humility."
-Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
"Those things that nature denied to human sight,
she revealed to the eyes of the soul."
-Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.)
"Change
your thoughts, and you change your world."
-Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)
"To
me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle."
-Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"For
what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God,
not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition?
Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'?
Heaven is neither a place nor a time."
-Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
"Those
who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves,
and, under a just God, cannot retain it."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"We
all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same."
-Anne Frank (1929-1945)
"Believe
nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it,
no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own
reason and your own common sense."
-Buddha (536 B.C.-483 B.C.)
"Sometime
they'll give a war and nobody will come."
-Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
"If
the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn
the world upside down all alone, these women together ought
to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!
And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them."
-Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
"The
true republic: men, their rights and nothing more:
women, their rights and nothing less."
-Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
"The
soul should always stand ajar.
Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"Where'er
a noble deed is wrought,
Where'er is spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts in glad surprise
To higher levels rise."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
"Intuition
will tell the thinking mind where to look next."
-Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"Live
Large!"
Don Pendleton (1927-1995)
"So
many gods, so many creeds;
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs."
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
"You
cannot play the game of life with sweaty palms."
-"Dr. Phil," Phillip C. McGraw (1950 -)
"If
something comes to life in others because of you,
then you have made an approach to immortality."
-Norman Cousins (1912-1990)
"Surround
yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."
-Oprah Winfrey (1954 -)
"Freedom
is the last, best hope of earth."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Woman
will always be dependant until she holds a purse of her own."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
"Follow
your bliss."
-Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)
"What
befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the
earth.
All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
-Chief Seattle (1786-1866)
"I
found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut
they will give up their secrets..."
-George Washington Carver
"Science
may have found a cure for most evils,
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-
the apathy of human beings."
-Helen Keller
"Follow
your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
-Oprah Winfrey
"Time
is
Too slow for those who Wait,
Too swift for those who Fear,
Too long for those who Grieve,
Too short for those who Rejoice,
But for those who Love
Time is not."
-Henry Vandyke
"God
is the friend of silence.
See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls."
-Mother Teresa
"When
one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that we do
not see the one which has been opened for us."
-Helen Keller
"Hope
is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul;
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all."
-Emily Dickinson
"I
could not, at any age, be content to take my place
by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.
Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Peace
cannot be kept by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding."
-Albert Einstein
"Leave
nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Meditation
is not a means to an end.
It is both the means and the end."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Some
people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
-Henry Vandyke
"Faith
furnishes prayer with wings,
without which it cannot soar to Heaven."
-St. John Climacus
"No
one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"It
is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects
of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the 'knowing,'
the peace, and the direction to go through the windstorms of life,
not shattered but whole, joining in love and understanding."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"We
are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"You
give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
"Just
as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe,
so no thought or action is without its effects,
present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."
-Norman Cousins
"It
is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
-"Sister" Elizabeth Kenny
"Nature
is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God
speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in."
-George Washington Carver
"The
future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their
dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Our
birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But railing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home."
-William Wordsworth
"When
you see your brother, you see God."
-St. Clement of Alexandria (
"As
a tale, so is life; not how long
it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
-Seneca
"God
will not look your over for medals,
degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
-Elbert Hubbard
"The
soul is not where it lives but where it loves."
-Thomas Fuller
"There
is another reality enfolding ours-as close as our breath!"
-Don Pendleton
"Hush,
my dear, lie still and slumber
Holy Angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head."
-Isaac Watts
"I
long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief
duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and
noble."
-Helen Keller
"Love
is doing small things with great love."
-Mother Teresa
"Conscience
is God's presence in man."
-Emanuel Swedenborg
"Love
is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go,
and it makes the end so easy."
-Louisa May Alcott
"The
veil that clouds your eyes shall
be lifted by the hands that wove it."
-Kahlil Gibran
"The
universe is but one vast Symbol of God."
-Thomas Carlyle
"All
the kindness which a man puts out into the world
works on the heart and thoughts of mankind."
-Albert Schweitzer
"I
leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty
will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer
be a doubt that all men are created free and equal."
-Abraham Lincoln
"If
there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of
living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man
began the dream of existence, it is India."
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