My Favorite Quotes
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently"
                        Nietzsche
"Blessed is he who prefereth his brother before himself"
                        Baha'i Faith
"As to dwelling, live near the ground.
  As to thinking, hold to that which is simple.
  As to conflict, pursue fairness and generosity.
  As to governance, do not attempt to control.
  As to work, do that which you like doing.
  As to family life, be fully present"

                              Tao Te Ching
"My reason tells me that God exists, but it also tells me that I can never know what He is."
                                         Voltaire
"I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian"
                           
                           Mahatma Gandhi
"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
                               Jonathan Swift
"Remember, the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lillies for instance."
                                  John Ruskin
"A book is a mirror; if an ass peers iinto it you can't expect an apostle to peer out."

                 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
                                         Buddha
"We recieve three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmaster, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us."

                       Baron de Montesquieu
"Happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

                              Leo Tolstoy
"I can pardon everyone's mistakes but my own."
                    Marcus Porcius Cato
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

                    Walter Winchell
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
                               Aldous Huxley
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it."
                             Goerge Orwell
"Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action."
                     Johann von Goethe
"The more unintelligent a man is , the less mysterious existence seems to him."

                             Arthur Schopenhauer
"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them."

                           Willa Cather
"And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'Tis that I may not weep."
                                     Lord Byron
"A little learning is a dangerous thing. Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon"
                                Alexander Pope
"A radical thinks two and two make five. A liberal is more conservative. He knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it."
                               Herbert Prochnow
"Lonliness...is and always has been the central and inevitable  experience of every man."
                               Thomas Wolfe
"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
                             Anais Nin
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye; the more light you pour into it, the more it will contract."
                           Oliver Wendell Holmes
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