Thursday, January 2, 2014

Dec., 2013

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. -Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)

All teaching is but a finger pointing to the moon; and if you keep looking at the finger you will never see the moon - Zen Koan

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius


Little things comfort us because little things distress us - Pascal, Pensées

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”Paulo Coelho

There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win - Gandhiji

"A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones." Nelson Mandela

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out - Churchill