" Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. "

Jawaharlal Nehru Indian politician (1889 – 1964)

" The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. "

J. Martin Kohe

" The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. "

Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching Chinese philosopher (604 BC – 531 BC)

" Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. "

Pope John Paul II (aka: Karol Wojtyla)

" A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange…Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. "

Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" I have lost the half of myself

" The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. "

Walt Whitman US poet (1819 – 1892)

" Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. "

Lenny Bruce (1923 – 1966)

" If you were my husband, i would feed you poison.
“If you were my wife, madam, i would take it! "

Lady Astor and William Churchill

" To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. "

Jean-Paul Sartre French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 – 1980)

" We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed. "

Rosalind Sussman Yalow

" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. "

Anais Nin US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 – 1977)

" The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. "

VII Putnam

" Practice is the best of all instructors. "

Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

" If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. "

Marcus Garvey

" Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? "

H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

" Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded. "

Author Unknown

" Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again. "

Delmore Schwartz

" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. "

Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in New York, September 7, 1903 26th president of US (1858 – 1919)

" Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp. "

Ashley Dukes, The Man with a Load of Mischief (1924)

" From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own. "

Pubilius Syrus

" The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. "

H. P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, first line US horror & supernatural author (1890 – 1937)

" Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. "

Sophocles, Electra Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. "

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books – a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost…. "

Richard Bach

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