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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King
“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” Mahatma Gandhi
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Mark Twain
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." John F Kennedy
"All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything." Swami Vivekananda
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead." James BaldwinJames Baldwin
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. " Catherine Ponder
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." George Bernard Shaw
“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.” Mohandas Gandhi
"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image." Charles W. Chesnutt
"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion." Mark Twain
"Ultimately, whatever is in your reality is your responsibility." Nisandeh Neta
"Let there be such oneness between us, that when one cries, the other tastes salt." - Unknown
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.” Oscar Wilde
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." John F Kennedy
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” Thomas S. Szasz
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.” Confucius
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.” Martin Luther King
"Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face." Carol Moseley-Braun
"Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." Ernest Hemingway
"Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivot of fear." Unknown
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Mahatma Gandhi
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." Booker T Washington
“Wisdom is a blessing only to those prepared to absorb it.” Unkown
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic." John F Kennedy
“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.” Gerald Jampolsky
"Freedom is from within." Frank Lloyd Wright
"The Universe is wider than our views of it." Henry Davie Thoreau
“Without forgiveness, there's no future” Desmond Tutu
“A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.” Marian Wright Edelman | |
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"That one is born every minute is a conservative estimate." Elbert Hubbard
"Golf is addictive. It replaces the drugs. It replaces the alcohol. I see it as a progression. I suppose that if you survive your drug days, you have golf ahead of you. That is, if you have any brain left at all." Dennis Hopper
"I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around." James Beard
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." Oscar Wilde
We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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"Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is." - Garry Shandling | |
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Not as cool as you. | |
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I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
-Dorothy Parker | |
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