Quotes
"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
Helen Keller
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Carl Sagan
"Staying in one place is the best path to be taken over and surpassed by many."
Byron Pulsifer
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
John Updike
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
Mother Teresa
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."
Richard Bach
"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
Ben Sweetland
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
Edgar Allan Poe
"It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens."
Pema Chodron
"Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out."
Michael Burke
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Shaw
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity."
Voltaire
"Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift."
Harry Burchell Mathews
"One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him."
Lao Tzu
"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that ones life has meaning, that one is needed in this world."
Hannah Senesh
"Never mistake motion for action."
Ernest Hemingway
"If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow."