I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
Woodrow Wilson
28th president of US (1856 - 1924)
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao-tzu
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Allard Lowenstein, O Magazine, September 2002
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD)
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus, Discourses
Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD)
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
This has to be my most favorite of them all.. I quote this one a daily basis
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
Dance as though no one is watching you.
Love as though you have never been hurt before.
Sing as though no one can hear you.
Live as though heaven is on earth.
-- Father Alfred D'Souza
