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The best quotations


-Every person you meet is changed by the meeting.

-You alone have the power to determine how.

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.
--His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
- Orson Scott Card - Xenocide

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.--Henry Miller, novelist (1891-1980)

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.--Henry Miller, novelist (1891-1980)

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
--Carl Sagan2 years of my life.



Man's life does not commence in the womb and never ends in the grave.--Charan Singh, mystic (1916-1990)


I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child-it takes a parent with the guts to stand up to the kid and spank his butt and say "NO!" when it's necessary to do so.
--Ted Nugent


All knowledge comes from experience. All the rest is just information.
--Albert Einstein



For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we will find something new.
--Voltaire, Candide

The story the oversoul tells me fits all the facts that I see. Your story, in which I'm endlessly deceived, can also explain all those
facts. I have no way of knowing that your story is not true-but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will choose the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life,and the life that disgusts me-your life, your view of life-is the lie."
--Orson Scott Card - The Call of Earth

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
--Orson Scott Card - Xenocide

A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living. --Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
-- Richard P. Feynman

Si tu fais des images, ne parle pas, n'écris pas ne t'analyse pas, ne réponds à aucune question. [if you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.]
--Robert Doisneau

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.--Alan Ashley-Pitt

Fears over tomorrow and regrets over yesterday are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.--Anonymous

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.--Albert von Szent-Gyorgy

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.--Colin Wilson

Without the rocks, the stream would lose its song.--Proverb

A problem, at its core, is really just an opportunity to learn and explore.--Stephen Coleman
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Each of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.
--Suzuki Roshi

A child on the farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and thinks of home.
--Carl Burns

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.--Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.--Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
--Mark Twain, U.S. Author (1835-1910)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.--William J Bryan

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
--Ralph Waldo Emmerson

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.--Douglas Adams

Life consists of problems, living is solving those problems. You should live life to its fullest and never look back on the past.--Unknown

Do not be dismayed at good-byes. A good-bye is necessary before meeting again and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who arefriends.--Richard Bach

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.--Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.--Mahatma Gandhi

We are none of us truly isolated; we are connected to one another by a web of regularities and by a host of shared, deep-seated certainties.--Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox, Anthropologists

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.--David Lloyd George

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one thatheralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'--Isaac Asimov

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.--Helen Keller

The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory.--Old Chinese Proverb

Things should be made as simple as possible -- no simpler.
--Albert Einstein

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
--Rene Descartes

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
--General George Patton

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.--Douglas MacArthur
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.--Antoine de Saint Exupery

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.--Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
--Confucius

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.--P.T. Barnum

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.--Thomas Jefferson

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
--Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974)

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
--Chuang-tzu (B.C. 350)

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
--Aldous Leonard Huxley, British writer (1894-1963)

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
--Joubert (1754-1824)

To talk goodness is not good... Only to do it is.
--Chinese Proverb

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.--Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer (1899-1986)

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.
--Goethe (1749-1832)

Integrity has no need of rules.
--Albert Camus (1913-1960)



Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.--Albert Camus

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.--A. France

I wish they would only take me as I am.--Van Gogh

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." -C. G. Jung

"Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written." -Anonymous

"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it." -James Bryce

"Some people are working backstage, some are playing in the orchestra, some are on-stage singing, some are in the audience as critics and some are there to applaud. Know who and where you are." -Unknown

"Work is good but it's not that important." -Anonymous

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." -Anna Freud

"Millions of opinions are given every single day. Usually, about 5 of them are actually ASKED for! 3 of THOSE are either invalid or complete lies, and the other two are disregarded by the person asking. Funny, isn't it?" -Annonymous

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions, small people always do that. But the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -Mark Twain

"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow, instead of your voice." -Unknown

"Remember that people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard boiled egg." -Annonymous




"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."




Continue to be yourself because in the end that's what people will remember about you. --unknown

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
--Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)



Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
--Edwin Way Teale, naturalist and author (1899-1980)

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca, writer and philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."--Eric Hoffer

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
--Chinese Proverb

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
--Ursula Le Guin.

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
--Catherine


Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
--Anais Nin, author


The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
--Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
--Paulo Freire, educator (1921-1997)

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.--Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and director (1921- )

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
--Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

The opposite. I love only life. But life can only continue in the face of death.
--Orson Scott Card - The Worthing Saga

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
--Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
--George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things -- he didn't just command them to believe.
-- the Dalai Lama

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.
--R.K. Narayan, novelist (1906-2001)



The only gift is giving to the poor;
All else is exchange.--Thiruvalluvar, poet (c. 30 BCE)

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You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange.
--A.K. Ramanujan, poet (1929-1993)

Easy reading is damned hard writing.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864)

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while apessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person iscolor-blind.
--Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.--Lily Tomlin

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.--Arthur C Clarke, science fiction writer (1917- )

There must be more to life than having everything.--Maurice Sendak

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of discussion.
--Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; oroffer your own version in return.
--Salman Rushdie, writer (1947-he still lives on.... :) )