Quotes to inspire and reflect

I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul.

To love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a divine spark.

The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love.

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever. G. K.

This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly.

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.

That which is not just is not law.

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. Henri F.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

I am wealthy in my friends.

I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Success is never final.

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

Truth is a pathless land.

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3
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Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.