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Quotes from Kira's Desk...to Yours
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent
of your own ignorance.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Education is not something which the teacher does...
it is a natural process which develops spontaneously
in the human being.
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what
you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by
dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs
expressing, then we truly live life.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know
and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,
faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
Set your expectations high; find men and women whose
integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on
a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to
make the other bastard die for his.
He who prays for his neighbors, will be heard for himself.
The things that count most in life are usually the things
that cannot be counted.
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn
from soft touches.
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are
doing.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly
and without law, and must be plucked where it is found,
and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced...
Live your life so that when you die, the world cries
and you rejoice.
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker
is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others
whenever they go.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions
as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Anywhere is walking distance if you've got the time.
I got an "A" in philosophy because I proved my professor
didn't exist.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going
to be a butterfly.
Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!
No man should judge unless he asks himself in
absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he
might not have done the same.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few
who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Ships are safe in the harbor, but ships are not meant
to stay in the harbor.
To dream of the person we'd like to be is a waste of
the person we are.
Worry does not prevent disaster, it prevents joy.
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all ourexploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the
first time.
Every night, whatever the weather, I step outside and look at the
sky. It helps me feel connected to a larger world beyond my city streets;
to my people, scattered across a thousand lands, working, struggling,
breathing under the light of the sky.
Sometimes half-asleep I think of some reform or improvement and say
to myself, ' I must tell the Pope about that.' And then I start up
suddenly as I realize 'But I am the Pope'. Even if I knew the world was coming to an end anyway, I'd still keep fighting. I think if I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. »Abraham Maslow
Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it
was.
As I struggle for acceptance, I gladly embrace tolerance.
I remember thinking to myself as I woke up in the hospital room,
'Hey, it's just like "ER"! Only.no one's quite as cute. Or as
witty.'
If you live to be one hundred, I want to live to be one hundred
minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
A champion is someone who has no legs, but runs the extra mile.
God, please grant me the desire to want more than I can
accomplish. Light travels faster than sound. That's why people appear bright until they start to speak.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to
love and something to hope for.
Even muddy water settles into clear.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the
causes of it.
It takes minutes to have a crush on someone, hours to like someone,
and days to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown/ to knock their fairy
castles down?
I don't advocate drug use...I don't advocate anything. People
should think for themselves, but they should definitely think.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone
with.
An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A
pessimist fears that this is true.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because
you stopped laughing.
Romance is falling, falling, falling...love is being caught.
If you are experiencing resistance, you must exert some persistence
in order to improve your existence.
The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
Whoever fights monsters should see that in the process he does not
become a monster himself. And when you look into an abyss the abyss also
looks at you.
You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a
real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that
there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if
those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make
those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the
world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We
want to make the world work.
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
incomprehensible.
What a waste it would be after 4 billion tortuous years of
evolution if the dominant organism contrived its own
self-destruction.
When you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of
yourself. What isn't in us doesn't disturb us.
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the
times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where
troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into
windows.
If you don't try, then there is no experience.
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you
claim for yourself.
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute, he who doesn't is a
fool forever.
You can burn a candle at both ends and get twice the light, but
only for half the time.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
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.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the
end.
If you think rolling in the mud will help you look like a small
black cloud, you are wrong. You'll still look like you--only
dirtier.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each
other's eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world
in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages.
Good teachers are costly. Bad teachers cost more.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the
creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you
love.
There is only work and love in life.... If we are fortunate, we
love our work. If we are wise, we are willing to work at love.
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate
tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible
task.
Being empathic is a complex, demanding, and strong--yet also, a
subtle and gentle--way of being.
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super
sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of
listeners.
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she
had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the
shell. In their very shell.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to
another mind.
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
The more you love, the more you'll find that life is sweet and
friends are kind.
In order to succeed we must first believe that we can.
When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a
half.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from
you.
Every exit is an entry somewhere.
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before
presenting the lesson.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish
we didn't.
The best career advice given to the young is 'Find out what you
like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a
boy.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history
of the past.
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different.
Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy
in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to
pursue other ways to get it.
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon
themselves as a do it yourself project.
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you
has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you
cannot soar as you otherwise might.
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
Love is not blind - it sees more and not less, but because
it sees more it is willing to see less.
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody
else.
The easiest way for your children to learn about money
is for you not to have any. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. »Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool
or he is getting ready to skin you.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main
sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Love has reasons that reason knows not.
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn
are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the
child's delight added to your own, this is happiness.
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new
audacity of imagination.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain
new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Even very young children need to be informed about
dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to
your child. This will make threatening him with it much
more effective.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who
cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn, and relearn.
If the automobile had followed the same development as
the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get
a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing
everyone inside.
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