| Philosophy Short quotes A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. Henry Ward Beecher (16) A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower (15) A tree is known by its fruit, a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Basil (329-379AD) (33) All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.(11) America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln (24) Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Picasso (12) At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato (10) Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know if the new one holds water. Swedish proverb (17) Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. (12) Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett (13) Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey (12) Enjoying the journey is even better than arriving at the destination. (11) Experience is something we get looking for something else. (9) Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. (12) Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. - Proverb (13) For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. - Alfred Hitchcock (17) Goals are dreams with deadlines. (5) Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent Van Gough (19) Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (24) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants rather than to create it herself. Anais Nin (25) I think the day of selfishness is over; the day of really working together has come, and we must learn to work together, all of us, regardless of race or creed or color…We go ahead together or we go down together. Eleanor Roosevelt (43) I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, then to be crowded on velvet cushion. - Henry David Thoreau (23) If you don't learn from your mistake, there's no sense making them. - - (12) I’ll be back in a minute. I’ve gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, have me wait/hold on to me until I get there. (29) In life, as in golf, it's the follow through that makes the difference. (13) It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein (14) It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb (14) It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle (19) Knowledge comes from without - wisdom comes from within. (8) Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon (5) Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix (7) Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart. (12) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Kierkegaard (13) Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. Charlie Chaplin (15) Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. - Jack London (18) Life is what happens when you are making other plans. John Lennon (12) Life isn’t made up of every breath you take, but of moments that take your breath away. George Carlin. (19) Live in a way that leaves no regrets. (8) Love to live…and live to love. - Irish Proverb (9) Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy (17) May you always walk in beauty. - Hopi (7) May your troubles be less and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door. - Irish Blessing (20) Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. - Goethe (9) Music is the universal language of mankind - poetry their universal pastime and nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer you carry a problem, the heavier it gets. (28) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (19) Peace is a choice. Choosing peace takes practice. Scott Shaw (10) People in life who are the happiest don’t have the best of everything – they make the best of everything they have. (21) Remember, when the going seems all uphill, think of the view from the top! (14) Success is getting what you want, Happiness is wanting what you get. (12) Talking is sharing. Listening is caring. (6) Teaching is a work of heart. (6) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt (15) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. - Jefferson (18) The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune. - Irish Proverb (10) The purest and most thoughtful minds are those who love color the most. - John Ruskin (15) The teacher, if indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the house of their wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind. Kahlil Gibran (28) There are always flowers for those who want to see them. Henri Matisse (13) There can only be one queen, and I’m it. (9) ‘Tis a gift to be simple. ‘Tis a gift to be free. ‘Tis a gift to come down to where we ought to be. And when we find ourselves in the place that is right, ‘twil be in the valley of love and delight. 19th Century Shaker Hymn (48) Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s little acorn that held its ground. (12) True success is learning what to do with failure. (9) We can try many ways to get rid of the darkness, but none is as effective as simply increasing the light. (21) We live in a rainbow of chaos. - Paul Cezanne (9) We live in a web of ideas;. a fabric of our own making. Joseph Chilton Pearce (16) We make ourselves rich by making our wants few. Thoreau (10) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Emerson (19) When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir (21) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will commend the attention of the world. George Washington Carver (23) Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right. Henry Ford (16) Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art. - Leonardo da Vinci (16) While we are postponing, life speeds by. Seneca (8) Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that’s why they call it “the present.” (18) You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. (12) You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind. (12)
Medium Quotes
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime.And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. (24) Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead (25) The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - - Helen Keller (24) To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (22) You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. The Prophet Kahil Gibran (22) "We can talk," said the Tiger-lily, "when there's anybody worth talking to."- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass (19) May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a road downhill all the way to your door. - Irish Toast (28)
Long Quotes
A Prayer for the World: Let the rain come and wash away the ancient grudges, the bitter hatred held and nurtured over generations. Let the rain wash away the memory of the hurt, the neglect. Then let the sun come out and fill the sky with rainbows. Let the warmth of the sun heal us wherever we are broken. Let it burn away the fog so that we can see each other clearly. So that we can see beyond labels, beyond accents, gender or skin color. Let the warmth and brightness of the sun melt ourselfishness. So that we can share the joys and feel the sorrows of our neighbors. And let the light of the sun be so strong that we will see all people as our neighbors. Let the earth, nourished by rain, bring forth flowers to surround us with beauty. And let the mountainsteach our hearts to reach upward to heaven. Amen - Rabbi Harold S. Kushner (161) 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 off like autumn leaves. John Muir (43) Effort is its own reward. We are here to do and through doing to learn; And through learning to know; And through knowing to experience wonder; And through wonder to attain wisdom; And through wisdom to find simplicity;And through simplicity to give attention; And through attention; And to see what needs to be done. - Wisdom of the Jewish Sages Ben Hei (62) If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau (36) In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. - Eleanor Roosevelt (31) It is only when we look within ourselves and begin to put our own house in order that we discover that somewhere within every person lies the realm – the only realm – that anyone can ever rule. If we can find that realm and come to know the man or woman who lives there, then we shall come to cherish the golden moments of life, and relish with gusto the adversities. (70) On your Bar/Bat Mitzvah Today you are a man/woman Mazel Tov Chai May you always feel the joy, pride and love that surrounds you on this day. (27) We who are clay blended by the Master Potter, come from the kiln of Creation in many hues. How can people say one skin is colored, when each has its own coloration? What should it matter that one bowl is dark and the other pale, if each is of good design and serves its purpose well? - Polingayai Qkoyawayma, Hopi (59) When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen – there will be something solid on which to stand, or you will be taught to fly. (49) You have been chosen at this time, in this place,
to be among the living.
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