Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.ÔÇØ

Gandhi

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£See the good in people and help them.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The future depends on what we do in the present.ÔÇØ
Gandhi

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£ItÔÇÖs easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves.ÔÇØ
Gandhi

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.ÔÇØ

Gandhi

[Lilith7]

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.ÔÇØ

Gandhi

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.ÔÇØ

Gandhi

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£There is a sufficiency in the world for manÔÇÖs need but not for manÔÇÖs greed.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.ÔÇØ

Gandhi

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Those who know how to think need no teachers.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£What barrier is there that love cannot break?ÔÇØ

Gandhi

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.ÔÇØ

┬áÔÇ£Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Gentleness, self-sacrifice, and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.ÔÇØ
Gandhi

[zqwerty]

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel - Maya Angelou

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Sometimes, you get what you want. Other times,you get a lesson in patience,timing, alignment, empathy,compassion,faith, perserverance, resilience,humility, trust,meaning,awareness,resistance,purpose,clarity,grief,beauty & life.
Either way, you win.
Brianna West

ÔÇ£I don't know what word in the English language ÔÇô I can't find one ÔÇô applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organised human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets; the word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it.ÔÇØ
Noam Chomsky

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (& hence clamourous to be led to safety) by menacing it with a series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.ÔÇØ
H L Mencken

ÔÇ£I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.ÔÇØ
George McGovern

[Lilith7]

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.ÔÇØ
Stephen Hawking

ÔÇ£Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.ÔÇØ
Joyce Carol Oates

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£This disposition to admire, & almost worship, the rich & the powerful, & to despise or at least , to neglect, persons of poor & mean condition, is the greatest & most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.ÔÇØ
Adam Smith

ÔÇ£I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.ÔÇØ
Richard Feynman

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£A cult is a religion with no political power.ÔÇØ

Tom Wolfe

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Everybody, everybody everywhere has their own movie going on, their own scenario, & everybody is acting his movie like mad, only most people don't know that is what they're trapped by, their own little script.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth; you're weak.ÔÇØ

Tom Wolfe

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£War is a game played by maniacs who kill each other. Locate the man who profits by war & strip him of his profits ÔÇô war will end.ÔÇØ
Woody Guthrie

ÔÇ£Evangelicals are NOT Christians ÔÇô they're a politicial movement that has sold its souls to the highest bidder.ÔÇØ
Anon

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, & the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.
Neil Gaiman

ÔÇ£We swallow any lie that flatters us but sip only little by little a truth we find bitter.ÔÇØ
Denis Diderot

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.
Investing in new fossil fuels is moral & economic madness.ÔÇØ
Antonio Guterres. UN chief.

Everyone always tells introverts to speak up more, yet no one tells extroverts to quieten down.ÔÇØ
Anon

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no god. No one created the universe & no one directs our fate.
We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe & for that, I am extremely grateful.ÔÇØ
Stephen Hawking

ÔÇ£The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.ÔÇØ
Thomas Wolfe