Saturday, April 19, 2008

Some quotes for today

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
- Anonymous

Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
- Afghan Proverb

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Anonymous

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
- Chinese Proverb

May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
- The Reverend Jesse Jackson, American civil rights leader

Never live in the past but always learn from it.
- Anonymous

Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
–Plato

The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde, author

*We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
-Nelson Mandela * We share a birthday!!

Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy.
-Aristotle

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
-Confucius

1 comment:

bp said...

I love reading quotes like this.