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Lao Tzu
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Kahlil Gibran
Psalms 33
3 Sing ye to Him a new song, Play skilfully with shouting.
The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau
Abraham Lincoln
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln
Don't fight forces, use them.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
R. Buckminster Fuller
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Mother Teresa
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
Claude Debussy
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Claude Debussy
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Buddha
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
Buddha
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Buddha
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha
He is able who thinks he is able.
Buddha
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
John Lennon
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
William Shakespeare
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
William Shakespeare
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
William Shakespeare
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Franklin
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Lao Tzu
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu
Be the chief but never the lord.
Lao Tzu
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.
Lao Tzu
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Lao Tzu
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.
Sitting Bull
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
Sitting Bull
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
Sitting Bull
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.
Mary Baker Eddy
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
Mary Baker Eddy
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Kahlil Gibran
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
Kahlil Gibran
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Kahlil Gibran
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil Gibran
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Kahlil Gibran
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
Kahlil Gibran
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Kahlil Gibran
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
Kahlil Gibran
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran
Paramahansa Yogananda
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama
Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama
Spend some time alone every day.
Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil Gibran
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Kahlil Gibran
For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Kahlil Gibran
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
Kahlil Gibran
I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Kahlil Gibran
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Kahlil Gibran
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Kahlil Gibran
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Kahlil Gibran
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Kahlil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Kahlil Gibran
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Kahlil Gibran
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Kahlil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran
Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Kahlil Gibran
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Kahlil Gibran
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Kahlil Gibran
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Kahlil Gibran
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Kahlil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Kahlil Gibran
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Kahlil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Kahlil Gibran
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Kahlil Gibran
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Kahlil Gibran
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Kahlil Gibran
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Kahlil Gibran
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
Kahlil Gibran
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil Gibran
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil Gibran
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Kahlil Gibran
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
Kahlil Gibran
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Kahlil Gibran
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Kahlil Gibran
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Kahlil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
Kahlil Gibran
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Kahlil Gibran
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
Kahlil Gibran
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Kahlil Gibran
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
Kahlil Gibran
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Kahlil Gibran
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer?
Kahlil Gibran
Where is the justice of political power if it... marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Kahlil Gibran
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Kahlil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
You have your ideology and I have mine.
Kahlil Gibran
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Kahlil Gibran