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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:57:52 GMT -5
"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly." - B.C. Forbes [1880-1954]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:58:31 GMT -5
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe [1811-1896]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:58:45 GMT -5
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov [1920-1992]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:58:56 GMT -5
"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid." - Franz Kafka [1883-1924]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:59:17 GMT -5
"Quality is everyone's responsibility." - W. Edwards Denning [1900-1993]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:59:57 GMT -5
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals." - Martin Luther King Jr. [1929-1968]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 21:00:07 GMT -5
"For my family, belief in God and in the resurrection of Jesus Christ brings such hope and promise to our lives. It strengthens our family and our marriage as we focus on Christ as our example of pure love, compassion and tolerance towards others. This positive message is one that helps us become better people each day." - Mercedes Schlapp [1972-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 21:00:18 GMT -5
"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one." - John Lennon [1940-1980]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 21:00:35 GMT -5
"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate." - Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 21:00:47 GMT -5
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence." - Edmond de Goncourt [1822-1896]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 21:00:58 GMT -5
"It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have." - Drew Barrymore [1975-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 21:01:16 GMT -5
"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'" - Harmon Killebrew [1936-2011]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 21:01:28 GMT -5
"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein [1918-1990]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 21:01:39 GMT -5
"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand." - William Butler Yeats [1865-1939]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 21:02:03 GMT -5
"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves." - Dietrich Bonhoffer [1906-1945]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 21:02:15 GMT -5
"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1756-1791]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 21:02:25 GMT -5
"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers." - Ed Sullivan [1901-1974]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:23:30 GMT -5
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can." - Neil Gaiman [1960-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:23:43 GMT -5
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." - Ogden Nash [1902-1971]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:24:00 GMT -5
"In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future." - Rudolf Steiner [1861-1925]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:24:14 GMT -5
"No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking." - J.P. Morgan [1837-1913]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:24:30 GMT -5
"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible." - Mother Teresa [1910-1997]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:24:46 GMT -5
"After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases." - Mickey Mantle [1931-1995]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:25:03 GMT -5
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." - Johnny Cash [1932-2003]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:25:16 GMT -5
"Tears are the silent language of grief." - Voltaire [1694-1778
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:25:27 GMT -5
"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other." - Sojourner Truth [1797-1883]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:25:39 GMT -5
"Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve." - Francis of Assisi [1182-1226]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:25:50 GMT -5
"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure." - Jane Austen [1775-1817]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:26:01 GMT -5
"We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living." - Davy Crockett [1786-1836]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 22:26:29 GMT -5
"You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime." - William C. Kirby [1950-present]
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