KABIR

Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
- KABIR

Pietro Aretino

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
- Pietro Aretino

Maltbie D. Babcock

"Life is what we are alive to. It is not length but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness, kindness, purity, love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hope is to be all but dead."
- Maltbie D. Babcock

John Kenneth Galbraith

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Richard Holloway

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
- Richard Holloway

Terry Pratchett

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. ”
- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (1948 -)

Mother Teresa

"It is not how much you do but how much love you put into what you are doing."
- Mother Teresa

Reinhold Niebuhr

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Leonard E. Read

"'The road,' wrote Cervantes, 'is always better than the inn.' Those who settle on fame or fortune, and having arrived, call it quits, miss the whole point of life. Realistically, there is no inn, no ultimate point of arrival. It is the road now and forever, finite man probing infinity, finding his way, endlessly. All that matters are the lessons learned along the way."
- Leonard E. Read

Mitch Hedberg

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
- Mitch Hedberg

Winston Churchill

Before we proceed further let us get one thing clear. Are we talking about the brown Indians in India, who have multiplied alarmingly under the benevolent British rule? Or are we speaking of the red Indians in America who, I understand, are almost extinct?
- Winston Churchill

Homer Simpson

Oh, they have the Internet on computers now.
- Homer Simpson

Regina Nadelson

“Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.”
- Regina Nadelson

Tom Stoppard

“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
- Tom Stoppard (1937)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Blaise Pascal

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
- Blaise Pascal

Yogi Berra

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
- Yogi Berra

Richard Bach

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
- Richard Bach

Jim Wallis

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
- Jim Wallis

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Greg Anderson

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
- Greg Anderson

William Somerset Maugham

Commonsense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
- William Somerset Maugham

Cesare Pavese

Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
- Cesare Pavese

Winifred Holtby

"The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. These are the moments of revelation which compensate for the chaos, the discomfort, the toil of living....These are the moments in which all the disorder of life assumes a pattern. We see; we understand; and immediately the intolerable burden becomes tolerable; we stand for a moment on the slopes of a great mountain from the summit of which we can see the truth, and thus enjoy the greatest felicity of which we are capable."
- Winifred Holtby

Pearl S. Buck

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
- Pearl S. Buck

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)

Leo Tolstoy

"We only live for ourselves when we live for others."
- Leo Tolstoy

Ingrid Bengis

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.
- Ingrid Bengis

Bertrand Russell

Remember your humanity and forget the rest.
- Bertrand Russell

Mark Twain

Forty years ago I was not so good-looking. A looking glass then lasted me three months. Now I can wear it out in two days.
- Mark Twain