July 2010
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s...
– George Bernard Shaw
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also...
– C.S. Lewis
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see.
– Mark Twain
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and...
– Buddha
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and...
– Mark Twain
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you’re...
– Mark Twain
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can...
– Albert Einstein
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can...
– Albert Einstein
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
– Oscar Wilde
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I’m not afraid of falling into...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream Deferred
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes
You can’t expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet.
– Chinese proverb
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in...
– Pablo Picasso
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
– Euripides
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the...
– Paul Gauguin
Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience....
– John Keats
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or...
– Erich Fromm
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you...
– Og Mandino
…to crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
– J.R.R. Tolkien
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to...
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to...
– Friedrich Nietzsche