Life
August 16, 2008
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.” :: (1869...Posted by Toni at 4:04 PM
June 4, 2008
Margaret Mead
“We’ve been living through a period in which the old have been recklessly discarded and disallowed … Given an opportunity to participate meaningfully in new knowledge and new skills, and new styles of life, the elderly can embody the changing...Posted by Toni at 9:37 PM
February 19, 2007
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes." :: (1803 - 1882) American Poet, Essayist...Posted by Toni at 6:17 PM
October 15, 2006
Mario Andretti
"Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it...Posted by Toni at 11:39 AM
October 6, 2006
Lao-Tzu
"Quarrel with a friend and you are both wrong." :: (604-531BC) Chinese Philosopher, Co-founder of Taoism...Posted by Toni at 10:59 AM
September 2, 2006
Saint Augustine of Hippo
"He that is jealous is not in love." :: (354-430AD) Numidian-born Theologian...Posted by Toni at 12:53 PM
September 1, 2006
Og Mandino
"The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore...Posted by Toni at 8:21 PM
August 30, 2006
Alexander Graham Bell
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." :: (1847-1922) Scottish-born American Inventor, Educator, Telephone Pioneer...Posted by Toni at 10:12 AM
August 25, 2006
Maurice Chevalier
"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved." :: (1888 - 1972) Actor and singer...Posted by Toni at 11:48 PM
August 9, 2006
Jean Rostand
"To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few." :: (1894-1977)...Posted by Toni at 11:55 PM
August 6, 2006
ABC's of Friendship
A- accepts you for who you are B- believes in 'you' C- calls you just to say 'HI' D- doesnt give up on you E- envisions the whole of you (even the unfinished partz) F- forgives your mistakes G- gives...Posted by Toni at 9:45 PM
June 12, 2006
Lawrence George Durrell
"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time." :: (1912-1990) Indian-born English Novelist, Poet, Travel Writer...Posted by Toni at 11:59 PM
May 28, 2006
Aristotle
"No great genius is without an admixture of madness." :: (384-322BC) Greek Philosopher...Posted by Toni at 12:57 AM
May 27, 2006
Theodore Roosevelt
"It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,...Posted by Toni at 12:07 AM
May 17, 2006
W. Somerset Maugham
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." :: (1874-1965) British Novelist, Playwright...Posted by Toni at 7:04 PM
April 16, 2006
Carl Gustav Jung
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism." :: 1875-1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist...Posted by Toni at 11:30 AM
March 31, 2006
Plato
"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any." :: (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher...Posted by Toni at 3:29 PM
February 18, 2006
Aristotle
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit." :: (384-322BC) Greek Philosopher...Posted by Toni at 9:49 AM
January 29, 2006
Tacitus
"The hatred of relatives is the most violent." :: (55-117AD) [Cornelius Tacitus] Roman Historian, Orator, Politician...Posted by Toni at 11:18 AM
January 23, 2006
William Shakespeare
"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired." :: (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor...Posted by Toni at 8:28 PM
January 13, 2006
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable." :: (1749-1832) German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist...Posted by Toni at 10:15 PM
December 30, 2005
Audrey Hepburn
"A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their...Posted by Toni at 9:32 AM
December 18, 2005
Napoleon Hill
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." :: (1883-1970) American Speaker, Motivational Writer...Posted by Toni at 7:56 PM
December 9, 2005
Akhenaton
"If thou would'st preserve understanding and health to old age, avoid the allurements of Voluptuousness, and fly from her temptations - For if thou hearkenest unto the words of the Adversary, thou art deceived and betrayed. The joy which she...Posted by Toni at 8:41 PM
November 28, 2005
Robert F. Kennedy
"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth...Posted by Toni at 9:09 PM
November 21, 2005
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." :: (1929-1968) American Clergyman, Reformer...Posted by Toni at 3:40 PM
October 16, 2005
Lin Yutang
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." :: (1895-1976) Chinese-born American Author...Posted by Toni at 12:14 PM
September 21, 2005
Phillip James Bailey
"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." :: (1816-1902) English Poet...Posted by Toni at 10:21 PM
September 18, 2005
Christopher Dawson
"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy." :: (1889-1970) English Historian...Posted by Toni at 11:50 AM
September 13, 2005
Dr. Joyce Brothers
"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life." :: (1927~) American Psychologist, TV, Radio Personality...Posted by Toni at 11:06 PM
September 6, 2005
Isaac Asimov
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." :: (1920-1992) Russian-born American Biochemist, Science Fiction Writer...Posted by Toni at 5:45 PM
August 24, 2005
John Berger
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently,...Posted by Toni at 5:11 PM
August 22, 2005
Francis Thompson
"For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own." :: (1859-1907) English Poet...Posted by Toni at 9:24 PM
August 5, 2005
George Allen
"For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit." :: (1922-1990) American Football Coach...Posted by Toni at 10:37 AM
June 12, 2005
Victor Hugo
"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody." :: (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist...Posted by Toni at 2:59 PM
Jean Paul Richter
"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity." :: (1763-1825) German Novelist, Writer,...Posted by Toni at 2:58 PM
June 6, 2005
Robert A. Heinlein
"Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing, with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place." :: (1907-1988) American Science Fiction Writer...Posted by Toni at 9:06 AM
May 29, 2005
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"For a contented life: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some...Posted by Toni at 10:45 PM
May 19, 2005
Giacomo Casanova
"As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to...Posted by Toni at 10:11 PM
May 12, 2005
Jean Rostand
"It is just as hard to live with the person we love as to love the person we live with." :: (1894-1977) French Biologist, Writer...Posted by Toni at 12:15 AM
George Sand
"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure." :: (1804-1876) [Madame Dudevant] French Novelist...Posted by Toni at 12:14 AM
May 6, 2005
Leo Tolstoy
"In this life we are like stubborn horses put into harnesses and shafts. At first, we kick. We want to live according to our will. We break the shafts, snap the harness, do not go anywhere, and become exhausted. Finally...Posted by Toni at 9:47 AM
May 3, 2005
Jean Vanier
"We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they...Posted by Toni at 5:56 PM
April 30, 2005
Dhammapada
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy." :: (300BC) Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism...Posted by Toni at 12:34 PM
April 28, 2005
Aristotle
"A man who is angry on the right grounds, against the right persons, in the right manner, at the right moment, and for the right length of time deserves great praise." :: (384-322BC) Greek Philosopher...Posted by Toni at 11:24 AM
April 27, 2005
Albert Schweitzer
"The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today." :: (1875-1965) German Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, Philosopher...Posted by Toni at 10:44 AM
April 13, 2005
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Hunger cannot, of course, be fed merely by a feeling of indispensability. Even purposeful giving must have some source that refills it. The milk in the breast must be replenished by food taken into the body. If it is woman's...Posted by Toni at 10:37 PM
April 4, 2005
Mother Teresa
"Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and see if there is any unforgiven hurt - any unforgotten bitterness! It is easy to love those who...Posted by Toni at 6:09 PM
April 3, 2005
Benjamin Disraeli
"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius." :: (1804-1881) British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author...Posted by Toni at 10:39 PM
April 1, 2005
Confucius
"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people." :: (551-479BC) Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher...Posted by Toni at 10:35 PM
March 21, 2005
Rev. Jesse Jackson
"You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable."...Posted by Toni at 10:32 PM
March 3, 2005
Thomas Bray
"Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow." :: (1656-1730)...Posted by Toni at 10:29 PM
February 15, 2005
Friedrich Froebel
"Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Let...Posted by Toni at 10:17 PM
December 25, 2004
Christoph Blumhardt
"Children often bother us grownups, especially those of us who care about the rules of good behavior. Even Christ's disciples became upset when children were brought to him. When children come, things happen. They want to get their hands on...Posted by Toni at 5:20 PM
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