May 2009
31 posts
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew...
– George Bernard Shaw
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things...
– Zen proverb
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The...
– Albert Einstein
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson...
– Unknown
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
– Tennyson
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
– Dave Gardner
We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.
– Talmud
He is most powerful who has power over himself.
– Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner:
...
– Unknown
Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most...
– Mike Mason, The Mystery of Marriage
I am convinced that the species humanity embraces the double species man and...
– St. Edith Stein
He sang the brightness of morning and green rivers,
He sang of smoking water in...
– Orpheus and Euridice by Czeslaw Milosz
Notice two steps in the relation of knowing and loving. At the beginning we can...
– Fulton Sheen, p. 64 of Life Is Worth Living
The novitiate of marriage must necessarily embrace two elements: the...
– Fulton Sheen, Three to Get Married, p. 215
True love. Is it normal
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world...
– True Love, by Wislawa Szymborska
The only ones who are truly beautiful are those who look beautiful when they...
– Fulton Sheen, Three to Get Married, p. 103
In western lands beneath the Sun
the flowers may rise in Spring,
the trees may...
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
For each of us the time is surely coming when we shall have nothing but God....
– A. W. Tozer
He who thinks without speaking is just as bad as the person who speaks without...
– Unknown
You know, in life you’re gonna get tempted to do anything and everything. I...
– Jaci Velasquez
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are...
– Nelson Mandela, Inaugural Speech, 1994
Try not to be a person of success but a person of value.
– Albert Einstein
[T]ension between the “desire for greatness” and the “small way of fidelity”...
– Mother Adela Galindo, Spiritual Discernment
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though...
– President Theodore Roosevelt
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
– Chinese Proverb
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
– Senator Robert F. Kennedy
When a distinguished but elderly statesman states that something is possible, he...
– Arthur C. Clarke
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
– English Proverb
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
– Confucius
If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z, where X is “work,”...
– Albert Einstein
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
– Dr. Henry Kissinger