Reflections
July 18, 2008
Washington Irving
"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather." :: (1783-1859) American author, essayist, biographer...Posted by Toni at 12:29 AM
April 18, 2008
Martin Luther King, Jr
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best...Posted by Toni at 10:40 PM
February 16, 2007
Martin Luther King, Jr
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for...Posted by Toni at 11:10 PM
February 11, 2007
Denis Johnston
"Men do not invent myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose." :: (1901 - 1984) Irish dramatist, playwright, reporter, writer...Posted by Toni at 7:57 PM
January 16, 2007
Maya Angelou
In April, Maya Angelou was interviewed by Oprah on her 70+ birthday. View the video clip of Oprah Winfrey's interview. Oprah asked her what she thought of growing older. And, there on television, she said it was "exciting." Regarding body...Posted by Toni at 10:42 AM
October 6, 2006
Pablo Picasso
"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought." :: (1881-1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor...Posted by Toni at 11:00 AM
August 19, 2006
James Kern Feibleman
"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes." :: Author, philosopher...Posted by Toni at 11:40 AM
August 16, 2006
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and realistic." :: (1917 - 1963) 35th US President...Posted by Toni at 11:40 AM
August 7, 2006
Albert Einstein
"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals which have lighted my way and time and time have given me new courage...Posted by Toni at 9:33 PM
July 13, 2006
George Jean Nathan
"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy." :: (1882-1958) American Editor, Critic...Posted by Toni at 10:47 PM
June 13, 2006
Plato
"He whom love touches not, walks in darkness." :: (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher...Posted by Toni at 10:59 PM
January 13, 2006
W. Somerset Maugham
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits." :: (1874-1965) English Novelist, Playwright...Posted by Toni at 10:14 PM
Saint Basil
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." :: (329-379AD) Bishop of Caesarea...Posted by Toni at 10:12 PM
November 25, 2005
Confucius
"Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing." :: (551-479BC) Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher...Posted by Toni at 7:23 PM
November 15, 2005
Chuang-Tzu
"While they were asleep, they did not realize they were dreaming - but when they awoke, they knew. Some day will come a great awakening, when we will know this life was like a dream." :: (369-286BC) [Zhuangzi] Chinese Philosopher,...Posted by Toni at 7:25 PM
November 10, 2005
Thomas L. Clancy Jr.
"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."...Posted by Toni at 9:07 PM
October 31, 2005
Edward White Benson
"How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people." :: (1829-1896) Archbishop of Canterbury...Posted by Toni at 6:19 PM
October 11, 2005
Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi
"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." :: (1869-1948) Indian Political, Spiritual Leader...Posted by Toni at 6:05 PM
September 18, 2005
If I Knew
If I knew it would be the last time That I'd see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep. If I knew it would be the last time that...Posted by Toni at 11:48 AM
September 13, 2005
Tacitus
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace." :: (55-117AD) [Cornelius Tacitus] Roman Historian, Orator, Politician...Posted by Toni at 11:09 PM
August 22, 2005
Henry Van Dyke
"Time is - Too Slow for those who Wait; Too Swift for those who Fear; Too Long for those who Grieve; Too Short for those who Rejoice; But for those who Love; - Time is not." :: (1852-1933) American Clergyman,...Posted by Toni at 9:19 PM
August 4, 2005
Albert Einstein
"The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them." :: (1879-1955) German-born American Physicist...Posted by Toni at 9:29 AM
August 2, 2005
Sun-Tzu
"The wise win without a fight, while the ignorant fight so that they can win." :: (500BC) Chinese Military Strategist, Philosopher...Posted by Toni at 6:24 PM
June 25, 2005
Albert Einstein
"The only source of knowledge is experience." :: (1879-1955) German-born American Physicist...Posted by Toni at 1:08 PM
June 10, 2005
Saint Augustine of Hippo
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page." :: (354-430AD) Numidian-born Theologian...Posted by Toni at 1:59 PM
May 24, 2005
Lao-Tzu
"A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine storeys high rises from handfuls of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet." :: (604-531BC) Chinese...Posted by Toni at 2:57 PM
May 10, 2005
Laertius Diogenes
"To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one, or the admonitions of the other." ::...Posted by Toni at 9:21 AM
May 8, 2005
Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,...Posted by Toni at 10:58 PM
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith...Posted by Toni at 10:17 PM
May 5, 2005
Quintus Horacius Flaccus
"You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all." :: Horace (65-8BC) Italian Poet, Satirist...Posted by Toni at 1:19 PM
May 3, 2005
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 8:45 AM
May 1, 2005
Augustine
"Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if...Posted by Toni at 10:43 AM
April 25, 2005
Sigmund Freud
"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."...Posted by Toni at 11:28 AM
April 20, 2005
George MacDonald
"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels must give." :: (1824-1905) Scottish Novelist, Poet...Posted by Toni at 9:38 AM
April 17, 2005
Paul Johannes Tillich
"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone." :: (1886-1965) American Theologian, Philosopher...Posted by Toni at 9:20 AM
April 10, 2005
Albert Schweitzer
"His [Johann Sebastian Bach] skill is no longer simply a technique, but an interpretation of the world, an image of Being; and his music is a phenomenon of the reality of the inconceivable as the cosmos itself." :: (1875-1965) German...Posted by Toni at 10:23 PM
April 2, 2005
Bhagavad Gita
"When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you live in the wisdom of the Self." :: (400BC) Sanskrit Poem incorporated into the Mahabharata...Posted by Toni at 10:37 PM
March 26, 2005
Sigmund Freud
"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." :: (1856-1939)...Posted by Toni at 11:27 AM
March 25, 2005
Confucius
"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability." :: (551-479BC) Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher...Posted by Toni at 10:34 PM
March 15, 2005
Aldous Huxley
"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie." :: (1894-1963) British Novelist, Essayist, Critic...Posted by Toni at 10:31 PM
February 28, 2005
Marie Curie
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." :: (1867-1934) Polish-born French Chemist, Physicist...Posted by Toni at 10:27 PM
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