Friday, January 7, 2011

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
-T.E. Lawrence-

Thursday, January 6, 2011

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
~Mark Twain-

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
-James Matthew Barrie-

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
~Elizabeth Bowen

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abashed.”
~John Milton

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Saturday, January 1, 2011

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-Abraham Lincoln-

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
-Friedrich Nietzsche-

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
-Solon-

Friday, December 31, 2010

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
-Mohammed-


Adversity it sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
-
Thomas Carlyle-


Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
-Afghan Proverb-

Thursday, December 30, 2010

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.
-Swami Rama-

It's not the tragedies that kill us. It's the messes.
-Dorothy Parker-

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
-Lord Chesterfield-

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

-Jack London-
American Author

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
-Dr. Martin Luther King-

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
American Poet