Thursday, July 20, 2006

Blaise Pascal

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

The Talmud

"Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'"

Monday, July 17, 2006

Golda Meir

"Don't be humble; you're not that great."

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Emily Dickinson

"Life is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Francis Bacon

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."

Friday, July 14, 2006

Albert Camus

"Freedom is not a reward or decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh, no! It's a long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting."

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Henry Miller

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unprece-
dented act without the benefit of experience."

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Anais Nin

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to our courage."

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Simone Weil

"Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light, that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul."

Monday, July 10, 2006

Albert Einstein

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Sunday, July 09, 2006

e. e. cummings

"Be of love a little more careful than of anything."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose ~ a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Padre Pio

"Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering."

Monday, July 03, 2006

Theodore Roosevelt

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Friday, June 30, 2006

Henry David Thoreau

"Things do not change; we change."

Bertrand Russell

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Amelia Earhart

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Albert Camus

"It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning."

Monday, June 26, 2006

Epictetus

"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Martin Luther King,, Jr.

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."

Friday, June 23, 2006

Cesar Chavez

"There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence."

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Saint Teresa of Avila

"Be gentle with others and stern with yourself."

Sir Isaac Newton

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

The Talmud

"Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."

Monday, June 19, 2006

Michelangelo

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Francis Bacon

"It is impossible to love and be wise."

Friday, June 16, 2006

William Shakespeare

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Joseph Addison

"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants."

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A useless life is an early death."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing on a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."

Monday, June 12, 2006

St. Thomas Aquinas

"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Thomas Merton

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?"

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Abraham Maslow

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

Friday, June 09, 2006

Vaclev Havel

"Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times."

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Robert Burns

"Oh would some power the gift give us to see ourselves as others see us."

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Robert Byrne

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Blaise Pascal

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."

Monday, June 05, 2006

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

Sunday, June 04, 2006

William Wordsworth

"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Meister Eckhart

"God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtrac-
tion."

Friday, June 02, 2006

Robert Browning

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Barbara Jordan

"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse ~ what I am is beyond my control ~ for the philosophy of responsi-
bility."

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

William James

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self."

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Marc Chagall

"Great art picks up where nature ends."

Immanuel Kant

"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."

Monday, May 29, 2006

St. Augustine

"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even from him in whom it is?"

Saturday, May 27, 2006

James Boswell

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."

Friday, May 26, 2006

Henry Ford

"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Erica Jong

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn't."