meditations

Thoughts and Meditations

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself,
is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do to another.
Benjamin Jowett

Independence is for the very few; it is a priviledge of the strong.
Friedrich Nietzche

If you wish to understand others you must intensify your own individualism.
Oscar Wilde

Happiness is a form of courage.
Holbrook Jackson

When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

There is joy in the possiblities of any actual life, and a deeper joy that comes with a sense of sharing the whole and endless adventure of mankind.
Irwin Edman

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others,
and comforting those that are sad.
Olive Schreiner

One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Proverb

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know
and the less a man knows, the more sure his that he knows everything.
Joyce Cary

If only men could be induced to laugh more they might hate less,
and find more serenity here on earth.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
D. H. Lawrence

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it.
You have to have confidence in your ability,
and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter

I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle;
but today it means getting along with people.
Indira Gandhi

... if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer,
but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle

Fear not that life shall come to an end,
but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses

If you must love your neighbor as yourself,
it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Nicholas de Chamfort

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger
he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
Germaine Greer

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What "love" is I don't know
if it is not the response of our deepest natures to one another..
William Carlos Williams

The story of a love is not important --
what is imiportant is that one is capable of love.
It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes

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