Roynaldo The Tempes: word of wisdom By Roynaldo EP Siregar

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WORDS OF WISDOM

Albert Einstein Quotes

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
The difference between what the most and the least learned peopleknow is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
What is the meaning of human life, or of organiclifealtogether To answer this question at all implies areligion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of hisfellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the samelevel of thinking with which we created them.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
It is characteristic of the militarymentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts – in short, the psychological factors – are considered as unimportant and secondary…The individual is degraded…to “human materiel”.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germanywillclaim me as a German and Francewill declare that I am a citizen of the world.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Dost thou love life Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
It may well be doubted whether humaningenuity can construct an enigma… which humaningenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow–You are not wrong who deemThat my dayshave been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individualright to bear arms.
I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
We must become the change we want to see.
Live simply that others may simply live.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics withoutprinciple.
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

Mark Twain Quotes

I can live two months on a good compliment.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the otherperson.
I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened.
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be a christian.
Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Emily Dickinson Quotes

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we havepersonality and emotionknow what it means towant to escape from these things.
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stopsat all.
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul,And sings the tune without words

And never stops at all.

…the fog is rising.
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.
A littleMadness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons– That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes–
I dwell in possibility…
Anger as soon as fed is dead- ‘Tis starving makes it fat.
Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me — The carriage held but just ourselvesAndimmortality.

Winston Churchill Quotes

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equalsharing of miseries.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyagecan measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for thepoor browns.
In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?
You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhapsthere is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincerelove of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Aristotle Quotes

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
It is easy to fly into a passion–anybody can do that–but to be angry with the right person and at the right timeand with the right object and in the right way–that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.»
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
To love someone is to identify with them.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.»

George Washington Quotes

Differences in political opinion are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary.
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn alesson.
One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to theappellation.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearfulmaster.
Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Helen Keller Quotes

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and thegreat ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was withoutcompass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. ‘Light Give me light’ was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.
College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all–the apathyof human beings.
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
One’s life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Confucius Quotes

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men.
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
When a man’s knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue wouldesteem nothing above it.

Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.
If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
It requires morecourage to suffer than to die.
Religion is excellent stuff for keepingcommonpeoplequiet.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or evenmake believe.
The wordimpossible is not in my dictionary.
The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
In politicsstupidity is not a handicap.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?
I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.
Ever notice that ‘what the hell’ is always the right decision
“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.
I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Galileo Galilei Quotes

You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, whileon the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability themeasure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Sigmund Freud Quotes

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
One is very crazy when in love.
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised landof psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of theaverage adult.
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

William Shakespeare Quotes

If rough be love with you, be rough with love.
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
We burn daylight.
Beware the ides of March.
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me:And wherefore should they, since that I myself

Find in myself no pity to myself?

I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.

Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for thethings themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only awisp of smoke.
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into andunderstanding of many things.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Socrates Quotes

When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means muchinformation unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
He is richest who is content with the least.

Hippocrates Quotes

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
“Opposites are cures for opposites.
Walking is man’s best medicine.
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former-begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the stridentclamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstakingexcellence.
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written infuture generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for allhuman conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method islove.
A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much westill need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in thelife of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way toblind suspicions and emotions.
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a newgeneration of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyerhas superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one
Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redressof which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake ofexample they should be religiously observed.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Golda Meir Quotes

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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things thatnobody would have thought of doing.
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom inIsrael.
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.
What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)

“The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.”
― Criss Jami

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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: creativity, self, self-improvement, words-of-wisdom

“Love now, not later. Also, love later.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

tags: inner-voice, internal-dialogue, life, logic, love, philosophy, relationships, truth, wisdom, wise,words-of-wisdom

“I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.”
― Matt Smith

tags: comiccon, doctor-who, geeks, happiness, life, nerds, truth, words-of-wisdom

“Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

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“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...”
― Colette

tags: creativity, self-help-book, words-of-wisdom

“Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

tags: inspirational, love, words-of-wisdom

“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country?
Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.
Socrates: How so, Plato?
Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is a
sculptor.
Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they have
no need to be reminded.
Plato: That is correct.
Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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“Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.”
― Amit Ray

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“Healing is more about accepting the pain and finding a way to peacefully co-exist with it. In the sea of life, pain is a tide that will ebb and weave, continually.

We need to learn how to let it wash over us, without drowning in it. Our life doesn't have to end where the pain begins, but rather, it is where we start to mend.”
― Jaeda DeWalt

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“In a world of words, anything is possible...”
― Laura Wright LaRoche

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“The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Crimson Crown

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“Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want to kill them, or make you tremble with emotion, the words themselves you tend to forget in time. Words are just tools we use to express or communicate something.”
― Ryū Murakami, Popular Hits of the Showa Era

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“The trick to saying the word cock, is to do it like you have one in your mouth.”
― Geoffrey Knight

tags: life-skills, tasty-treats, words-of-wisdom

“If I disagree with you sometimes, it's because I have a mind of my own.”
― Emma Paul

tags: words-of-wisdom

“Do the things you want to do; if you don’t, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: words-of-wisdom

“Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above.”
― Diana Rose Morcilla

“Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.”
― Soupy Sales

tags: words-of-wisdom

“Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.”
― Elizabeth George, Believing the Lie

tags: barbara-havers, words-of-wisdom

“You don’t just rise to the top. There are times of preparation and many mountains to conquer for the ultimate triumph to the top.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“If you share everything with someone in hope that they will share everything with you, it is not friendship, its business.”
― Ram Mohan

“Life is a great mystery.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes

tags: christian, death, inspirational-life, life, miracle, mystery, wonder, words-of-wisdom

“Pursuit of excellence is the desire for divine fulfilment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes

“Explore the spirituality of your soul.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes

tags: belief, destiny, divine, explore, fate, gods-grace, life, mission, purpose, religion, seek, spiritual,words-of-wisdom

“Divine mission.
Divine strength.
Divine accomplishment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes

tags: abilities, accomplishment, christian-life, divine, education, great-work, inspirational, mission,passion, potential, purpose, shine-your-light, strength, success, words-of-wisdom

“The bond of love is sacred spirituality.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes

tags: compassion, daily-inspiration, forgiveness, inspiring, love, mercy, romance, sacred, self-love,spiritual, spiritual-sayings, words-of-wisdom, words-to-live-by

“The bond of two souls is divine.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes

“The sacred path leads to destiny destination.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes

“We held on to great memories. This sustains us in every moment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes

"The true test in life does not occur when all is going well. The true test takes place when we are faced with challenges." Catherine Pulsifer

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

"Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you." William de Witt Hyde

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it." Author Unknown

"Many people in today's society waste a lot of their time on social media and entertainment to stimulate themselves but spend little to no time at all trying to improve themselves or their life situation." Noel N, Daily Planner

"... we often learn the most from situations that demonstrate what not to replicate than we do from exemplary lessons in life and leadership." Kristina Diviny-MacBury, Principal Pro

"What we have to get straight in our heads is that owning the money doesn't mean ANYTHING. "It's the DOING with money that develops us - it's not in the having. And when you have more, you're enabled to DO more." Jack Canfield

"More importantly, the process of goal setting has helped me to focus not on what someone else thought I should do or be, but instead, on what I wanted to accomplish with my life. It can do the same for you." Catherine Pulsifer, Wings for Goals

"There's no way to know how many people your life will influence. You don't know who is watching, listening, or learning from you." Charles Stanley

"Many of the people who achieve the greatest successes, and who really feel fulfilled and satisfied with their lives, are those who have come from the most challenging circumstances or have faced the most adversity." Grant Andrews, The Life of Your Dreams

"It is a proven fact that what you see and hear constantly over time enters your heart, and what enters your heart enters your life, and will eventually determine the quality of your life."
Jide Adeniba, You Can Have It If You Really Want It

"The phrase 'personal growth' is tossed around all the time, but what exactly is it? It is the mental, spiritual, and emotional process by which we move from self-limitation, deterioration and failure to self-improvement and victorious living."
Vivian Eisenecher, Recovering Me, Discovering Joy

"Don't get carried away with the stuff happening in your life or believe in instant gratification and sell yourself short, look for suitable ways to engage with what happens in your life."
Scott Hinsborough, How To Increase Self Confidence

"The fact that you had previously failed doesn't mean that your end has come, for you still have life within. Only those that are motionless in their graves have reached their end, not you, not me."
Tony Narams, Top Secret: You Can Fly Like An Eagle

"Attitude and ability are complementary to each other for success in life."
M. K. Soni

"Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway."
Elbert Hubbard

"The fault that most people make is to live according to what society expects. Society is governed by men and women and the laws of the land are made by men and women who according to their nature and self interest only bid for self gain."
Fanuel Oweke, Before You Turn 35
"In Life We Can Have Results or Reasons."
Harald Anderson

"Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.
John McLeod

"Life is much more fun if you live it in the spirit of play and collaboration, working with instead of against others."
Wally Amos

"Life reflects your own thoughts back to you." Napoleon Hill

“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.” Jim Rohn

“Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.” —Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”—Christopher Columbus

“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 that has opened for us.” —Helen Keller

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.’ —Mark Twain

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” —J.K. Rowling

“I’m not afraid... I was BORN for this!” —Joan of Arc

“Whatever you are willing to put up with is exactly what you will have.” —Anonymous

“We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.” —N. Scott Momaday

“There is a fire inside. Sit down beside it. Watch the flames, the ancient, flickering dance of yourself.” —John MacEnulty

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” —William Jennings Bryan

“I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.” —Japanese Haiku

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Life is not discovery of fate; it is continuous creation of future, through choices of thoughts, feelings and actions in the present.” —Sanjay Sahay

“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” —John Mason

“Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?” —Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.” —John Farrar

“The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.” —Irene C. Kassorla

“Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.” —Alan Cohen

“Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.” —Eric Hoffer

“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” —Albert Einstein

“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.” —Albert Einstein

“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart.” —Pearl S. Buck

“How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life - and a commitment to action.” —Nathaniel Branden

“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” —Roger Babson

“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.” —Barbara Hall

“It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know to be true.” —Sara E. Anderson

“Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.” —Barbara Geraci

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all Mankind.” —Emily P. Bissell

“There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?” —The Peace Pilgrim

“There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.” —Kurt Hahn

“From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.” —Mark Helprin

“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.” —Konrad Adenauer

“If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.” —Oprah Winfrey

“The time is always right to do what is right.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” —Carl Sandburg

“The goal of childhood is to become an individual; the goal of adulthood is to give that individuality away. The task of childhood is to separate; the task of adulthood is to connect.” —James W. Jones

“The best career advice to give the young is, find out what you like doing best and get someone else to pay you for doing it.” —Katherine Whilehaen

“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.” —Confucius

“Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.” —Sai Baba

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.” —Jerry Gillies

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” —Jeremy Kitson

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” —Mohandas K. Gandhi

“The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.” —William F. Scolavino

“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” —Leo C. Rosten

“Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.” —Alexander the Great

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” —Donald A. Adams

“Dignity and respect has to do with ... your personal power to make a difference by being true to the best within you and letting that truth shine through your words and actions.” —Gail Pursell Elliott

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” —Patanjali

“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.” —Jerry Gillies

“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.” —William James

“When you see what you’re here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It’s almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.” —Betty Sue Flowers

“We seek purpose when we are not in touch with who we really are. When an apple tree discovers who it is, the question ‘what must I do?’ disappears. When you discover who you are (at the deepest place of your being) you will find your purpose.” —Colleen-Joy Page

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life and don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” —Steve Jobs

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” —Malcolm Forbes

“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” –Helen Keller

“People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.” —Stedman Graham

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” —Les Brown

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.” —Rumi

“Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.” —Deepak Chopra

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.” —Rumi

“Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.” —Stedman Graham

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.” —Kahlil Gibran

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” —Albert Schweitzer

“If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the past’s effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the cause of the future.” —Majjhima Nikaya

“All of life is a near-death experience.” —Alan Harris

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” —Cherokee Expression

“There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.”

“Life is what happens when you are making other plans.” —John Lennon

“Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.” —Emerson

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” —Henry Van Dyke

“Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood.” —Karen Casey

“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.” —Mother Teresa

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” —Dalai Lama

“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.” –William E. Gladstone

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” –George Bernard Shaw

“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” –Oprah Winfrey

“The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.” –Alan Cohen

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.” –John A. Shedd

“One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.

“Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time,
As we journey along through life,
Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.”
–Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“You often meet your destiny on the road you’ve taken to avoid it.”

“Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.” —Dan Millman

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you; and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.” —Martha Graham

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside awakes.” —Carl Gustav Jung

“Wisdom is knowing what path to take next... Integrity is taking it.”

“We can’t change the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” —Jim Rohn

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” —William Jennings Bryan

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” —Ken Hudgins

“Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.” —Deepak Chopra

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” —Carl Bard

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Elliot

“Life’s like a movie; write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending...” —Jim Henson

“Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.” —Alan Cohen

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” —Jeremy Kitson

“Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.” —Helen Keller

“There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity.” —Douglas MacArthur

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.” —Wendell Berry

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” —Michaelangelo

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” —Harold Whitman

“The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.” —Les Brown

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” —Pantanjali

“Nothing happens unless first a dream.” —Carl Sandburg

“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know - that man is here for the sake of other men.” —Albert Einstein

“Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.” —Rudolph Steiner

“The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.” —Thomas Carlyle

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” —Carl Jung

“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.” —Samuel Johnson

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Ghandi

“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.” —George Orwell

“It is never too late to become what you might have been.” —George Elliot

“I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn’t feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not —more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.” —Beverly Sills

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” —George Bernard Shaw

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” —Lao Tzu

“He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.”

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure - than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” —Theodore Roosevelt

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BY : Albert Einstein

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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

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"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."

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"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."

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"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

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"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
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"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler."

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"God always takes the simplest way. "

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"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

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"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

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"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. "========================================================

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

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"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

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"Love is a better teacher than duty"

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"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."

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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

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"The only source of knowledge is experience."
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Roynaldo The Tempes

Minggu, 13 Desember 2015

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