FAVORITE QUOTES

Albert Einstein:

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”


Gandhi: "With non-violence, first they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then you win."



Goethe:

"Until one is committed, there is a hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth - the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manor of unforseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you cab, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."


Daniel Burnham (Chicago architect):

"Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir people's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that your work will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our children and grandchildren are going to do things that would stagger us. Think big."


Henry James: "Connect. Only Connect."



Gandhi: "Genuine laughter is more effective than speech."



Martin Luther King, Jr.: "The moral arc of the universe bends towards justice."




Breyton Breytonbach:: "Whether we win or whether we die, freedom will rise in Africa like the sun through the morning clouds."



Benjamin Franklin: "Energy and persistence conquer all."



Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Truth crushed to earth rises up."



Cornel West: "if you're going to be a long distance runner, you're going to have to have a blues mentality."



Anonymous: "It's all raw energy, including the resistance, ESPECIALLY the resistance. The trick is to calmly smile and use that furnace within you to alchemize that raw energy into gold. In that way, you don't just survive resistance. You thrive on it."



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Martin Luther King, Jr.:

"I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be and you can never be what you ought to be u til I am what I ought to be. We are, all of us, inextricably linked."


Mark Twain: "Patriotism is living your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."


Dostoevsky (paraphrasing from the Brothers Karamazov):

"Everywhere one can see people trying to live in isolation (moving away from the idea of community). And no matter how pervasive the selfish isolated mindstate becomes, it is still madness because the security of the individual can only be secured through the security of community. A man acquires goods and smiles thinking how mighty he's become but he's missing the point obviously because he's powerless without a calm heart, a calm mind, and a generous, humble and kind approach. An individual lives only half of life and does not fulfill him or herself as a human being by only following the path of individualism. One must also fulfill ones self in community with others. One must endeavor to keep the great idea of community, unity and love alive even if he is taken as one of god's fools."



Napoleon: "The whole art of war consists of a well-reasoned and extremely circumspect defense followed by rapid and audacious attack."


Anonymous: "The hardest enemy to fight is the one that you can't identify, let's be that enemy."



Richard Hofstadter, historian (1916-1970:)

"One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged." -


Susan B. Anthony:

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation."


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Select Buddha Quotations:

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.


All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.


To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.


All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?


You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.


In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

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Anonymous:

If you can observe your mind, you are not your mind. So what are you?


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Thomas Paine, Commonsense (1776):

"These are the times that try men's souls.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will,
in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country;
but he that stands it now,
deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered;
yet we have this consolation with us,
that the harder the conflict,
the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods;
and it would be strange indeed,
if so celestial an article as Freedom
should not be highly rated.”