Quotes to Live By

WORDS.. They mean things. 

• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.  -William Hutchison Murray  

• “The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science- Einstein  

• " Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire... Only when we have ceased to need things can a person be their own master and so really exist.” - Anwar al- Sadat 

• “We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. “   - T. S. Elliot  

• “ Great spirits have always found opposition from mediocre minds,the mediocre mind is incapable of  understanding the man who does not bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express their opinions courageously and honestly” - Albert Einstein

• “Death is only an incident, and not the most important which happens to us in this state of being... Look forward, feel free, rejoice in life, cherish the children, guard my memory. Good bye. “  - Winston Churchill

• “ The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one that will last forever. “  - Anatole France

• “ History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” - Winston Churchill 

• You have only to wish it and you can have a world without hunger,disease, cancer and toil - anything you wish, wish anything and it can be done. Or else we can exterminate ourselves... at present we are on the road to extermination. “   -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 

• “Evil takes root when one man starts to think that he is better than another.”    - Joseph Brodsky  

• “ We are nothing else but what we make of ourselves. Such is the first principle of existentialism. “  - JP Sarte

• “We do not know how to retreat, only how to advance.” - Yasser Arafat 

• “Only a life lived for others is a life well lived”  - Albert Einstein 

• “If you want others to be happy practice compassion, if you want to be happy, practice compassion.” -  Dalai Lama the 14th 

• “If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”   - Anatole France  

• “An unshared happiness, is not happiness.”  - Boris Pasternak  

• “Gratitude is a word I cherish, gratitude is what defines the humanity of the human being”        -Elie Wiesel 

• “The world did know and remained silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent when and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the form tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. Where ever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion or political views, that place must at that moment become the centre of the universe. “  - Elie Wiesel  

• “Without confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out ; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love ; ideas be quickened, intelligence widened, and men’s hearts may be enobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.                                - Klas Arnoldson 

• “In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued”  - Aung San Suu Kyi 

• “You don’t choose your family. They are the Universes gift to you, as you are to them.”                  - Desmond Tutu 

• “I live in that solitude, which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”                    - Albert Einstein 

• “One must think like a man of action, act like a man of thought”   - Henri Bergson 

• “There’s zero change in human intelligence in a million years and it won’t change in the next million.”   - Carleton Gajdusek 

• “ Without passion there is no genius”   - Theodor Mommsen 

• “ I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong”  - Richard Feynman 

• “When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we did not love enough” - Maurice Maeterlinck

• “ From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one’s journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. A man may feel as old as his years, yet as young as his dreams”   - Shimon Peress 

• " To announce that there must be no criticism of the President or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the public."    - T. Roosevelt  

• " Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but In the dialect between the two."                             - Octavio Paz  

• "You can tell whether a person is clever by his or her answers. You can tell whether they are wise by their questions."    - Naguib Mahfouz

• " When we spliced the profit gene into academic culture, we created a new organism - the recombinant university. We reprogrammed the incentives that guide science. The rule in academe used to be "publish or perish". Now bioscientists have an alternative- "patent and profit".   - Paul Berg

• “If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” - Carl Jung 

Some questions to ponder 

• What is a objective, universally acceptable definition of good and evil ?? 
• what is the is relationship between consciousness and matter ?? 

• “Lessons in life will be repeated until they’re learned.” - Abdel Khader Khan 

• “The limits of my language are also the limits of my world” - Ludwig Wittgenstein

• “We ignore the dead at our own peril” - Isaac Asimov

• “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” 
• Frank Herbert  

• “How much greater are the consequences of anger then the causes of it” -Marcus Aurielus  

• “ Never the let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to with the same weapons of reason that arm you against the present” -Marcus Aurelius  

• “The object of life is not be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself on the side of the insane”  -Marcus Aurelius 

• “In any situation in life, you always have three choices: you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it” -Naval Ravikant  

• “ Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step behind logic.” -Frank Herbert  

• “ The fool,with all his other thoughts, also has this, he is always getting ready to live”                       - Seneca  

• “ The acquisition of riches has been for many men,not an end, but a change of troubles”              - Epicurus  

• “I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph”  -Theodore Roosevelt  

• “A giant looks in the mirror and sees nothing” -Donda West  

• “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Life is a process of becoming. “               -Anaís Nin 

• “ You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easy, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been rubbed off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.  - Margery Williams 

• “Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.” - Bruce Lee