Tag: Rita Mae Brown

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. –Mahatma Gandhi

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. – Albert Camus

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future. –Bob Dylan

Happiness depends upon ourselves. –Aristotle

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. –Albert Einstein

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader –Aristotle

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. –Mahatma Gandhi

Nature does nothing uselessly. –Aristotle

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. –Benjamin Franklin

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. –Einstein

You must be the change you want to see in the world. –Ghandi

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. –Aristotle

We are disturbed not by events, but by the views that we take of them –Epictetus

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” –Ghandi

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. –Benjamin Franklin

Imagination is more important than knowledge. –Albert Einstein

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. –Aristotle

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. –Mahatma Gandhi

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales –Einstein

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. –Aristotle

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. –Isaac Asimov

The resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. –Friedrich Nietzsche

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. –George Bernard Shaw

We are what we repeatedly do. –Aristotle

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. –Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. –Benjamin Franklin

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. –Rita Mae Brown

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
We are a part of the earth and it is part of us. –Chief Seattle

The price of greatness is responsibility. –Churchill

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

Alice came to a fork in the road. “Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat.
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.” ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. –Ludwig Börne

I am a part of all that I have seen. –Alfred Lord Tennyson

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. –Friedrich Nietzsche

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.  –Friedrich Nietzsche

Peace is the diploma you get in the cemetery. – Peter Tosh

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. – Peter Tosh

I think it is better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should be maleable and progressive, working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas cannot generate. Life becomes stagnant. –George Carlin

Our outlook on life is a kind of paintbrush, and with it we paint our world. It can be bright and filled with hope and satisfaction, or it can be dark and gloomy. – Earl Nightingale

Our environment, the world in which we find ourselves living and working, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. – Earl Nightingale

Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then will you find you cannot eat money –Cree Prophecy