A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David Bailey, In Face (London),
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake
Martin Luther King Jr.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.
Sir Theodore Martin, Said at rea
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
Ovid
My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
Samuel Hoffenstein
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Horace
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows;
Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.
Terry Pratchett
Good-morrow to thee; welcome: Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge: To business that we love we rise betime, And go to't with delight.
William Shakespeare, Antony and
At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity. I have my own differences with both of these savants, but is the Republican Party really prepared to disown such modern intellectuals as it can claim, in favor of a shallow, demagogic and above all sectarian religiosity?Perhaps one could phrase the same question in two further ways. At the last election, the GOP succeeded in increasing its vote among American Jews by an estimated five percentage points. Does it propose to welcome these new adherents or sympathizers by yelling in the tones of that great Democrat bigmouth William Jennings Bryan? By insisting that evolution is 'only a theory'? By demanding biblical literalism and by proclaiming that the Messiah has already shown himself? If so, it will deserve the punishment for hubris that is already coming its way. (The punishment, in other words, that Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson believed had struck America on Sept. 11, 2001. How can it be that such grotesque characters, calling down divine revenge on the workers in the World Trade Center, are allowed a respectful hearing, or a hearing at all, among patriotic Republicans?)
Christopher Hitchens
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warner
It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
Taraji P. Henson
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with others; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person.
Vi Putnam
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you
Socrates
There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.
Matthew McConaughey
Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,But rather a heart inflamed and a soul enchanted.It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a win attached to a claw,But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil.Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.
James Buchan
If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
Tori Amos
All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
Harry Millner
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
John MacNaughton
Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being interrupted, by intruding and disagreeable Visistors, as Augustus and Sophia had on their first Entrance in the Neighbourhood, taken due care to inform the surrounding Families, that as their happiness centered wholly in themselves, they wished for no other society.
Jane Austen
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
For I am more selves than Neville thinks. We are not simple as our friends would have us to meet their needs. Yet love is simple.
Virginia Woolf
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
William Makepeace Thackeray
All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
Martha Grimes
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Henry Ford
I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
William Howard Taft
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell
It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.
Steve Maraboli
Recognition is the greatest motivator.
Gerard C. Eakedale
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