Quotes, Thoughts, and Random Things.

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Quotes, Thoughts, and Random Things.

"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
-Swedish Proverb

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."

Eddie Cantor

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."
-Leo Buscaglia

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
-Leo Rosten

"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. "

Bette Davis

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

Carl Jung

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."

Rabbi Julius Gordon

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
-Dalai Lama

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Hell would never exist because evil is ignorance, god is knowing, so god is good. God wouldn't help anyone by doing them harm (sending them to hell)." - Socrates and the Socratic Paradox

"When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it."

from A Jonquil For Mary Penn:

"It was wonderful what he could accomplish with those enormous hands of his. She could have put her hand into his and walked right off the edge of the world."

"At times she knew with a joyous ache that she completed him, just as she knew with the same joy that she needed him and he completed her. How beautiful a thing it was, she thought, to be a half, to be completed by such another half! When had there ever been such a yearning of halves toward each other, such a longing, even in quarrels, to be whole? Their wholeness came upon them as a rush of light, around them and within them, so that she felt they must be shining in the dark."

"He worked as a hungry dog ate, and yet he could play cards with the self-forgetful exuberance of a little boy. It was for his concentratedness, she supposed, that she loved him. That and her yen just to look at him, for it was wonderful to her the way he was himself in his slightest look or gesture."

"She had never seen anybody like him. He had a wild way of rejoicing, like a healthy child, singing songs, joking, driving his old car as if he were drunk and the road not wide enough. He could make her weak with laughing at him. And yet he was already a man as few men were."

"It was both a trouble and a comfort to her to know that he would always require the most of himself. And he was beautiful, the way he moved in his work."

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
-Gail Sheehy

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
-W. Edwards Deming

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten."

"To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself."

Sophy Burnham

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. "

George Bernard Shaw

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."

Gerry Spence

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. "

Ernest Hemingway

"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. "

Oscar Levant