"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there" -The Cheshire Cat
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.~The Duchess
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it~The Duchess
'I could tell you
my adventures — beginning from this morning,' said Alice a little timidly: 'but
it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.'
"Thinking again?" the Duchess asked, with another
dig of her sharp little chin.
"I've a right to think," said Alice sharply, for she was
beginning to feel a little worried.
"Just about as much right," said the Duchess, "as pigs have to
fly...."
They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the
great wonder is, that there's any one left alive!
Alice: And how many hours a day did you do lessons?
The Mock Turtle: Ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on.
Alice: What a curious plan!
The Gryphon: That's the reason they're called lessons, because they
lessen from day to day.
'It's very good jam,' said the Queen.
'Well, I don't want any TO-DAY, at any rate.'
'You couldn't have it if you DID want it,' the Queen said. 'The rule is, jam
to-morrow and jam yesterday--but never jam to-day.'
'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to-day,"' Alice objected.
'No, it can't,' said the Queen. 'It's jam every OTHER day: to-day isn't any
OTHER day, you know.'
'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing!'
'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always
makes one a little giddy at first--'
'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of
such a thing!'
'--but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.'
'I'm sure MINE only works one way,' Alice remarked. 'I can't remember things
before they happen.'
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.~Aldous Huxley
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. ~Schopenhauer
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.~Buddha
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.~ Balzac
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ~David Friedman
"To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence."
~Sun Tzu- The Art of War
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. ~John F. Kennedy, 1961
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. ~Albert Einstein
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~Napoleon
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ~Gandhi
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.~A. J. P. Taylor
We are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.~ Charley Reese
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ~John Lennon
when the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace~ jimi hendrix
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.~Baruch Spinoza
If you don’t like the way to the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. ~Marian Wright Edelman
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail~
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet~
Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self- respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old~
Democracy becomes a government tempered by editors~
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself~
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us~
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore~
Society
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
~Thomas Jefferson
“Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide."
~Emerson
"Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable."
~Simone de Beauvoir.
While on their way (to work), the slaves would make the dense old woods, for miles around, reverberate with their wild songs, revealing at once the highest joy and the deepest sadness. They would compose and sing as they went along, consulting neither time nor tune. The thought that came up, came out, if not in the word, in the sound; and as frequently in the one as in the other. They would sometimes sing the most pathetic sentiment in the most rapturous tone, and the most rapturous sentiment in the most pathetic tone. This they would sing, as a chorus, to words which to many would seem unmeaning jargon, but which, nevertheless, were full of meaning to themselves. I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.
~Frederick Douglass~ Submitted by Laura
they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we
call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and
they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice.
Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been
made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His
opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
~Stephen King in "The Stand"
their terrors were so tame and domestic: the job, the money, what the
teacher will think if I can't get Jennie nicer clothes, does my wife still
love me, who are my friends. They were pallid compared to the fears every
child lies cheek and jowl with in his dark bed, with no one to confess to in
hope of perfect understanding but another child. There is no group therapy
or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with
the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers
and capers and threatens just beyond the point where vision will reach. The
same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the
eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called
adulthood."
~Stephen King in "Salem's Lot"
~Drew Carey. Submitted by Hermit.
The earth swarms with people who are not worth talking to.
~Voltaire
I hate people. People make me pro-nuclear.
~ Margaret Smith
The soul
ontological.the study of existence.
monotheism.the belief in one god.
the idea that god and man and nature are indivisibly one.
"our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
the soul that rises with us,our life's star,
hath had elsewhere its setting,
and cometh from afar:
not in entire forgetfulness,
and not in utter nakedness,
but trailing clouds of glory do we come
from god,who is our home"
William Wordsworth. ode: Intimations of Immortality.
~Submitted by Bob,my dad
"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside,thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him"
Kierkegaard~Submitted by Lisa
"We dance round in a ring and suppose..but the Secret sits in the middle and knows"
~Robert Frost. Submitted by Lisa
"I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got."
~Freddie Mercury. Submitted by Laura
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
~Anais Nin. Submitted by Betty
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
~Nietzsche. Submitted by Frankie
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
~Janis Joplin
A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
~Schopenhauer
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
~Einstein
Knowledge and Meaning
"What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a
kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass, and a walk around a pond as
mosquitoes droned in the darkening air. There is still that singular
perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so
clearly to promise more. Now she knows: That was the moment, right then.
There has been no other."
~Michael Cunningham in "The Hours". Submitted by Morte
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
~Robert Funghum
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
~Anais Nin
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