Quotations

Love is patient; love is kind.  Love is not envious or boastful  or arogant or rude.  It does not insist on getting its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 CORINTHIANS 13

For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and
more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with
extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by
voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not
underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net
of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of
the Earth.

HENRY BESTON

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

ROBERT BRESSON, French film director

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to insprie yourself to life.

ADELE BROOKMAN, psychotherapist

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints.  All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

You cannot mhave a good character today and at the the same time have a small mind and a little heart.  You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.  A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

A POWELL DAVIES

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.

BETTE DAVIS, actor

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.  Virtue is doing it.

GEORGE R. DODSON

"Man's main task is to give birth to himself.

ERIC FROMM, psychotherapist

I believe that hope is stronger than knowledge,

That myth is more potent than history,

That dreams are more powerful than facts,

That hope always triumphs over experience,

That laughter is the only cure for grief.

And I believe that love is stronger than death.

ROBERT FULGUM

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

VACLAV HAVEL

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or paintng a picture, by simply molding one's inner life.  And that too is a deed.

ETTY HILLESUM, author

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

You gain strength,  courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror.  I can take the next thing that comes along."

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, humanitarian, diplomat, US First Lady (1882-1945)

Every human is an artist.  The dream of your life is to make beautfiul art.

don MIGUEL RUIZ, author