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levite · 06-30-2009, 01:13 AM

"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time." -George Orwell

"Never deny your own experience or convictions 'for the sake of peace and quiet.'" -Dag Hammarskjold

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." -Anais Nin

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." -Abraham Lincoln

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -JFK

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." -Thomas Jefferson

"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him." -Viktor Frankl

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." -Marcus Aurelius

"Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -Robert Heinlein

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." -Antoine de Saint-Euxpery

"Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be." -Don Quixote

"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The doors of Heaven and Hell are adjacent, and identical." -Nikos Kazantzakis

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." -Hannah Arendt

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." -Benjamin Disraeli

"It is not incumbent upon you to finish the work, but neither can you be excused from doing it." -Rabbi Tarfon

"Who is wise? He who learns from every man. Who is strong? He who masters his urges. Who is rich? He who is content with his lot in life. Who is honorable? He who honors others." -Rabbi Ben-Zoma

"Do not seek to appease a man at the height of his anger; do not seek to make him feel fully comforted him while his dead still lies before him; do not take him to task about his vow the moment he makes it; and do not endeavor to visit him unsolicited at the time of his degradation." Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar

"If one man tells you 'you're an ass,' pay him no heed. But if many tell you so, go buy yourself a saddle."" -Talmud

06-30-2009, 01:13 AM	#9 (permalink)
levite Minion of Joss Location: The Windy City	"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time." -George Orwell "Never deny your own experience or convictions 'for the sake of peace and quiet.'" -Dag Hammarskjold "The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." -Anais Nin "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." -Abraham Lincoln "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -JFK "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." -Thomas Jefferson "What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him." -Viktor Frankl "If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." -Marcus Aurelius "Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -Robert Heinlein "If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." -Antoine de Saint-Euxpery "Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be." -Don Quixote "Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "The doors of Heaven and Hell are adjacent, and identical." -Nikos Kazantzakis "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." -Hannah Arendt "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." -Benjamin Disraeli "It is not incumbent upon you to finish the work, but neither can you be excused from doing it." -Rabbi Tarfon "Who is wise? He who learns from every man. Who is strong? He who masters his urges. Who is rich? He who is content with his lot in life. Who is honorable? He who honors others." -Rabbi Ben-Zoma "Do not seek to appease a man at the height of his anger; do not seek to make him feel fully comforted him while his dead still lies before him; do not take him to task about his vow the moment he makes it; and do not endeavor to visit him unsolicited at the time of his degradation." Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar "If one man tells you 'you're an ass,' pay him no heed. But if many tell you so, go buy yourself a saddle."" -Talmud __________________ Dull sublunary lovers love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove That thing which elemented it. (From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)