Archives
March 2005 Quotes

Humility does not mean thinking less of
yourself than of other people, nor does it
mean having a low opinion of your
own gifts. It means freedom from
thinking about yourself at all.
William Temple

Arguments only confirm people
in their own opinions.
Booth Tarkington

The most destructive element in the human
mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
Aggressiveness engenders hostility. Hostility
engenders fear - a disastrous circle.
Dorothy Thompson

Those whom we can
love, we can hate; to others
we are indifferent.
Henry David Thoreau

Let us not look back in
anger, nor forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
James Thurber

During times of war, hatred
becomes quite respectable, even
though it has to masquerade often
under the guise of patriotism.
Howard Thurman

Language... has created the word
"loneliness" to express the pain of
being alone. And it has created
the word "solitude" to express
the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained
not by its growth, but by washing away
from it all that is not gold.
Count Leo Tolstoy

If we wait for the moment when
everything, absolutely everything is
ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, 
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
If  an elephant has its foot on the tail of a
mouse and you say that you are neutral,
the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Bishop Desmond Tutu

Man will do many things to
get himself loved; he will do all
things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain

It is easier to betray than to remain
loyal. It takes far less courage to kill
yourself than it takes to make yourself
wake up one more time. It's harder
to stay where you are than to get out.
(For everyone but you, that is.)
Judith Rossner

The happiest is the person who
suffers the least pain; most
miserable the ones who
enjoy the least pleasure
Henri Rousseau

Algebra is the metaphysics
of arithmetic.
John Ray

Anyone who proposes to do good must
not expect people to roll stones out of
his way, but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
Albert Schweitzer

Ambition breaks the ties of blood,
and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sir Walter Scott

Politics is perhaps the only profession for
which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness consumes itself like a
flame. It cannot burn for ever, it
must go out, and the presentiment of
its end destroys it at its very peak.
J August Strindberg

Going to church doesn't make you a
Christian any more than going to
a garage makes you an automobile.
Billy Sunday

. . . love from one being to another can only
be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize
and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin

We cannot change our past. We
can not change the fact that people
act in a certain way. We can not
change the inevitable. The only
thing we can do is play on the
one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
Charles Swindoll