Some Quotations

These are some of my favorite quotations and I hope you like them too!

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

-Kahlil Gibran-

Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart

-Charles Dickens-

Love is too strong a word to say it too early,

but it has too beautiful a meaning to say it too late.

-Kurt Spiteri Cornish-

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

-Philip K. Dick-

Some things are so simple and so obvious, but unless they're stated, they aren't necessarily obvious.

The obvious can be so simple.

-Carol Lynn Nute-

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it -

unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

-Buddha-

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home...

-Eleanor Roosevelt-

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

-Jack Dempsey-

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 a light from within.

-Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

The Miser

A Miser sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an old wall and went to look at daily. One of his workmen observed his frequent visits to the spot and decided to watch his movements. He soon discovered the secret of the hidden treasure, and digging down, came to the lump of gold, and stole it. The Miser, on his next visit, found the hole empty and began to tear his hair and to make loud lamentations. A neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, said, "Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it."

-Aesop-

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

-Washington Irving-

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

- Erich Fromm-

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

- Honore' de Balzac-

A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved.

- Kate Samperi-

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

- Irish Proverb-

Seven times have I despised my soul:

The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height.

The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled.

The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy.

The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself that others also commit wrong.

The fifth time when she forbore for weakness, and attributed her patience to strength.

The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

And the seventh time when she sang a song of praise, and deemed it a virtue.

-Kahlil Gibran-

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

-Richard C. Trench-

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are there, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible...

-Friedrich Nietzsche-

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

-William Lyon Phelps-

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

-Bertrand Russell-

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

-Kahlil Gibran-

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good and how he treats people who can't fight back.

- Abigail Van Buren -

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm...you cannot buy loyalty. You cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

- Clarence Francis -

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were Seekers after the Truth.

They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

-Mark Twain-

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

-Melody Beattie-

There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings in us; it melts us to tears; we know not how; - it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed.

-Charles Kingsley-

And I have felt. . . .

A presence that disturbs me wih the joy

Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime

Of something far more deeply interfused,

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,

And the round ocean and the living air,

And the blue sky, and in the mind of man. . . .

-Wiliam Wordsworth-

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

-Ernest Hemingway-

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