Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is more important than the facts.
William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few.
Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.
George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Francis David
We need not think alike to love alike.
Doris Day
Classic Quotes by Carson McCullers (1917-1967) American novelist I live with
the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from
the experiences of the senses, and
Classic Quotes by Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American Abolitionist A
little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is
a calamity to any people.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact
measure of the
Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Jean Anouilh
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Toni Morrison
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
Blaise Pascal
The
Motivational and InspirationalLife Quotes
FriedricRoosevelt:
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward
step in faith.
Theodore Roosevelt:
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the
next best thing is the wrong
Classic Quotes by Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American Statesman A beauty is
a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and
alcohol.
A free society is one where it
Victor Hugo
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Baudelaire
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
James Thurber
I hate women because they always know where things are.
Dick Cavett
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
G. K. Chesterton
Classic Quotes by Langston Hughes (1902-1967) American poet Beauty for some
provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the
ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that
Classic Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) American President A
conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never
learned how to walk forward.
A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our
land,
Classic Quotes by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) American painter It doesn't
make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been
said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
How do you know when you're finished making love?
Classic Quotes by William McKinley (1843-1901) American President In the time
of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a badge of honor. It is a symbol of
despair. Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap
Classic Quotes by George Balanchine (1904-1983) US choreographer and ballet
dancer First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty - if you're very lucky
and have said your prayers.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from
what I
Classic Quotes by Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863) US Confederate General The
hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle.
Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be
furnished.
Classic Quotes by Daniel Webster (1782-1852) American Statesman, January 18 A
country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Failure is more
Classic Quotes by Susan Sontag (1933-2004) US writer and critic, January 16 A
family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is
all that remains of it.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases
that are
Classic Quotes by Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Alsatian Medical Missionary,
January 14 A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never
gets used up.
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at
night and
Classic Quotes by Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) American statesman A
national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting
nervous.
Today's Quote
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would
change.
-Buddha
MistyLeaf,Elisi Eli,SunniD ..aka ELLY
Classic Quotes by Lady Bird Johnson (1912- ) Businessperson, Wife of Lyndon
Johnson Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined
and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
Become so wrapped up in something that you
Classic Quotes by Sir Noel Coward (1899-1973) English playwright, December 16
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest
it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it
cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell
~~
INTENSITY: Quotes
~~
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she
has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw
puzzle.
~ Deepak Chopra (b.1947) Indian Ayurvedic Physician
Classic Quotes by e. e. cummings (1894-1962) u. s. poet A wind has blown the
rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand.
I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults,
Classic Quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) US writer Ah, March! we know
thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art
nursing April's violets!
All summer she scattered the daisy leaves; They only mocked her as they fell.
She
lassic Quotes by Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) US comic A lot of people say to me,
Why did you kill Christ? I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of
hand, you know. We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor,
that's why we killed him.
All my humor
Classic Quotes by Alice Childress (1920-1994) US writer Some feminists feel
that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and
marvelously intricate in thought and action,
Classic Quotes by Linda Eastman McCartney (1942-1998) US photographer I don't
like being told what to do.
I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.
I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana
Classic Quotes by William Faulkner (1897-1962) US writer A gentleman can live
through anything.
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order
to gain from them the right to dream.
A mule will labor ten
Passions are the only advocates that always persuade. A
simple man with passion will be more persuasive than the
most eloquent without.
--Rene Descartes
--
Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest
HEALTH: QUOTE Of The DAY
Doctors say that about 80% of all illnesses in hospitals are either due to
the mind or that the mind is affecting the recovery of the patient. They know
that the way you think determines whether or not you get well quickly. There
have been many recorded
Classic Quotes by Michael Faraday (1791-1867) English scientist The important
thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration,
discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
Classic Quotes by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer Even
a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
You will stay young as long as you learn, form new habits and don't mind
Classic Quotes by Dame Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) English writer Each wrong
act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it
against further light, and sometimes for years.
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking
Classic Quotes by Beatrix Potter (18566-1943) English writer All outward
forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave
yourself and never mind the rest.
It is
Classic Quotes by John Clare (1793-1864) English writer And all the charms of
face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I
feel for thee.
---
He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.
---
I long for
A nation of well informed men who
have been taught to know and prize
the rights which God has given them
cannot be enslaved.
It is in the region of ignorance
that tyranny begins.
--Benjamin Franklin
You can have anything you want if you want it
Classic Quotes by John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) Sixth US President All men
profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly.
To believe none so is something worse.
---
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the
Classic Quotes by Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) German artist I do not want to
die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the
seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
---
I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work
Classic Quotes by Hermann Hesse (1887-1962) German writer All men are
prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
---
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
---
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is
Classic Quotes by George Sand (1804-1876) French writer Charity degrades
those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
---
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not
lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
~~
INTUITION: QUOTES OF THE DAY
~~
Like everything else important, ones spirituality has levels and levels of
meaning. At one level you could emphasize inner meditative experiences. But
there is another stage in which one
What is life? It is the flash of the firefly in the night.
It is the breath of the buffalo in the winter time.
It is the little shadow which runs across the
grass and loses itself in the sunset.
~Blackfoot~
(On his death bed, 1890)
Trace your walk...Feel satisfaction in knowing
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress But
then I repeat myself. -Mark Twain
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a
man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -Winston
Churchill
A government
Classic Quotes by Helen Keller (1880-1968) U.S. writer A child must feel the
flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a
will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a
dull routine of textbooks.
---
All the
Classic Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) US writer
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness
in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to
establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
---
Classic Quotes by Martha Graham (1894-1991) U.S. choreographer, dancer 'Age'
is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
---
America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved
philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be
Classic Quotes by Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) English nurse How very
little can be done under the spirit of fear.
---
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian
farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Classic Quotes by Daphne Du Maurier (1907-1989) English writer Writers should
be read, but neither seen nor heard.
---
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state
of mind.
---
All autobiography is self-indulgent.
Genius
'Genius is nothing but a great
apptitude for patience.'
- George-Louis De Buffon -
'Genius does what it must,
and talent does what it can.'
- Owen Meredith -
'Genius is one
QUOTATIONS
'Peace starts with a smile'
-Mother Theresa-
'If you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain'
-Dolly Parton-
'It is no use doing just what we like;
we have got to like what we do'
-Sir Winston Churchill-
'Who seeks a friend
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the
fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
~ Albert Einstein: Living Philosophies, 1931
Our entire point of view can be altered by making one change to align with
the principles of
Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release
your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it
up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-
messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next
you must take the daring, risky step of
Classic Quotes by Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) U.S. president A bureaucrat is
a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
---
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a
leader.
---
A pessimist is one who makes
Native American Quotes
With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is
stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to
portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives
of Indians, perhaps people
Classic Quotes by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian psychiatrist A
belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of
violence, as would disgrace the individual.
---
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to
Classic Quotes by Eva Duarte de Peron (1919-1952) Argentine political leader
Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall
tomorrow.
---
Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on
the same level
Famous Quotes
A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect,
and the other is a horse still.
- Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Abuse Quotes
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when
the bread they have cast on the
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see
others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Love and Skill When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John
There are some kind of men who are so busy worrying about
the next life, they've never learned to live in this one.
--From To Kill a Mockingbird
--
You are not the momentary whim of a careless creator
experimenting in
Classic Quotes by Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer As long as the
world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man
rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
---
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even
Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
--Confucius (551 - 497 BC) Chinese philosopher
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your
Edgar Allan Poe introduced mystery fiction's first
fictional detective, Auguste C. Dupin, in his 1841 story,
The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
***
Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind between 1926
and 1929. In her early drafts, the main character
I was a mistake. My mother didn't want to have me. I was never used to being
happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. You see, I was brought
up differently from the average American child because the average child is
brought up expecting to be happy. I won't be satisfied
Quotes to Recharge Your Spirit The battle of the sexes is as old as the hills.
In patriarchal societies, women are conditioned to accept men as the superior
sex. But, awareness, education, and life's struggles have forced women to shed
their inhibitions. Great women leaders, artists,
QUOTE: The only daughter of a solitary and irascible old
gentleman.
--William Black, A Princess of Thule
Mistyleaf,Elisi Eli, SunniD
May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage
to action.
~ Brendan Francis
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his
resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards:
they will be
Classic Quotes by Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) Danish writer Difficult times have
helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful
life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are
of no importance whatsoever.
---
God made
So we are connected to the moon. That gives us power, a connection to
the earth and the moon, men don't know about.
--Cecilia Mitchell, MOHAWK
To me, if you're Indian, you're Indian. You don't have to put on
your buckskin, beads, and feathers, and stuff like that.
To prophesy is extremely difficult - especially with regard to the future.
- Chinese proverb
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- Shakespeare
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
- Henry Kissinger
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
-
Classic Quotes by Mary Pickford (1893-1979) American Actress Adding sound to
movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
---
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have
a fresh start any moment you choose, for
Marriage - a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the
remaining chapters in prose.
-- Beverly Nichols
The trouble with some woman is that they get all excited about nothing, and
then marry him -
-- Cher
The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.
-- Polish
QUOTE: She liked to perambulate the room with a duster in
her hand, with which she stopped to polish the backs of
already lustrous books, musing and romancing as she did so.
--Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
Elisi Eli,SunniD...AKA...ELLY
Classic Quotes by Gloria Swanson (1899-1983) American movie actress
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able
to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is
too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
Quotes by Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) English theologian and scientist
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one
more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...
---
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in
Classic Quotes by Marcel Marceau (1923- ) French mime Do not the most moving
moments of our lives find us without words?
---
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds,
so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and
wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
Abbie Hoffman
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had
better get out of their way and let them have it.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government
and I'm here to help.
- Ronald Reagan
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned
that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan
No arsenal, or no weapon in
Quotes
Have a vision not clouded by fear.
--Cherokee Proverb
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
--Chinese Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it, because that's
when I really need it
--Swedish Proverb
Instead of allowing yourself to be so unhappy, just let your life grow as God
wants it to grow; seek goodness in others, love more persons more; love them
more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return,
never fear, will take care of itself.
Henry Drummond
Spiritual Quotation
Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your
spirit would be delighted to partake in a feast of spiritual food? How about a
plate full of prayer? Or maybe a few hours of succulent self-reflection.
Perhaps a piping-hot selection of spiritual
If joy were the only emotion God intended us to feel, he could just zap us
and take us to heaven right now. Instead, we are left facing a dead end. At
such moments God offers strength so that we wont give in to despair, but be
salt in the world, ministering to those around us who are
Mark Twain
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody
save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug
resolutions.
Brooks Atkinson
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was
imperfect, and thank God
Classic Quotes by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) British Author A man's mind is
wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves.
-Carl Jung
Hugszz,MistyLeaf,Elisi Eli,SunniD...AKA...ELLY
May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away
Gratitude is the heart of our religion. We pray on rising in the morning for a
new day, for the beauty of the gift of life. We have regular prayer meetings,
sweat lodgeswe call them the little brotherand Sun Dances, the big brother.
The whole adds up to a cycle of praise. What else should
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself
constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you
like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside
because you're close in
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer
and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. ~Carol
Nelson
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~Roy L.
Smith
like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides
homework. -- Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin]
You teach best what you most need to learn. -- Richard David Bach
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
- Anonymous
A professor
Classic Quotes by John Milton (1608-1674) English Poet . . . and now
expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search Of foreign words.
-
Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant,
herb, and flower.
Classic Quotes by Ira Gershwin, US lyricist Deep, unspeakable suffering may
well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state
-
A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
-
One can be very happy
Since the beginning of time, Indian people have been blessed with the ability
and knowledge of the vision. The vision determines our future. The concept is,
we move toward and become that which we think about.
~ Don Coyhis, Mohawk
We have known that all visions are about the Great
Classic Quotes by Franklin Pierce (1804- 1869) 14th US president A Republic
without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments
show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
-
Frequently the more trifling the
Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you
beyond your borders.
--Marquis de Sade
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to
that person's commitment to excellence, regardless of the
chosen field of endeavor.
--Vince Lombardi
May
"Behold this little Bane -- "The Boon of all alive -- "As common as it is known "The name of it is Love."Emily DickinsonMay the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away your tears, And, above all, may silence
We tend to live up to our expectations. --Earl Nightingale Your attitude is an _expression_ of your values, beliefs and expectations. --Brian Tracy May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away your tears, And, above
One can choose to go back toward safety or forwardtoward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again;fear must be overcome again and again."Abraham Maslow1908-1970, Psychologist May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away
"...nature never did betray the heart that loved her." --Wm. Wordsworth "Humankind did not weave the web of life: we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves." -Chief Seattle, 1854Greatspirits have always encountered violent opposition from
Sidney LittlewoodThe Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get itAndrew GreeleyWell, the Irish aren't much into showing affection. There was crisis when we were wiped out in the Depression and my father went into the gloom. But surely in the years when I was
The Quote: Vice President Lyndon Johnson received the following message from an Indian (Native American) on a reservation: 'Be careful with your immigration laws. We were careless with ours.'baz May the stars carry your sadness away,May the flowers fill your heart with
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.- Geri Weitzman Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.- Winston Churchill The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Elder's Meditation of the Day - June 28 "Whenever you take anything from the earth, remember to leave an offering." --Joe Coyhis, STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE We need to look at nature and its inhabitants as our brothers and sisters. Whenever we pick plants or herbs, we should leave an
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