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"Famous (and not so famous) Quotes"
A collection!

This page is under construction! Last updated on 7-18-98

Michael Pritchard Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Virgil Thompson Try a thing you haven't tried before three times-once to get over the fear, once to find out how to do it, and a third time to see if you like it or not.

Jawaharlal Nehru There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru was a politic al leader in India, and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi in the Indian struggle for independence during the 1930's and 40's, becoming the country's first prime minister. He died in 1964.

Chogyam Trungpa In order to experience fearlessness, it is necessary to experience fear.

"The essence of cowardice is not acknowledging the reality of fear. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your rare and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance of shyness, and face the would. You are willing to share your heart with others."
Tungpa was a Tibetan-born mediation master, teacher, and artist who founded the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado and was the author of several books on Buddhism and the path of mediation, including "Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior." He died on Jan. 12, 1980

Edmund Burke The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing.

This is probably the most famous sentence of many spoken by the Irish philosopher and orator Edmund Burke, who was born in Dublin, Ireland, on Jan. 12, 1729.

Hellen Keller I can see, and that is why I can be so happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God made world, not a man made world.

Hellen Keller is probably the best known modern example of someone who triumphed over apparent disability. At the age of 19 months she was stricken with an illness that left her blind, deaf and dumb.

She was examined by Alexander Graham Bell when she was six years old and through him found a woman named Anne Sullivan to teach her. Ms. Sullivan remained with Helen Keller for the rest of her life - a life of extraordinary achievement, testifying to the transforming power of courage and will power.
"Self pity is our worst enemy," Keller wrote, "and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world."

Confucius When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him, When you see a unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius is the English rendering of the name Kong Zi or K'ung-fu-tzu, a Chinese philosopher (. 551-479B.C. ) whose works, especially "The Analects," became a foundation of Chinese culture and society.

Albert Schweitzer When people have light within themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness.

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now, always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances."
Albert Schweitzer was a theologian and a gifted classical musician, who dedicated his life to helping those suffering from leprosy in Africa. He was a true humanitarian who practiced what he preached, and his writings are full of inspiring words. He was born on Jan. 14, 1875.

Plotinus "Withdraw into yourself and look...
...and if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive., straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast , labor to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine."

Plotinus was a Greek philosopher (205 - 270AD) founder of Neoplatonism.

Francis Bacon Money is like muck; not good except spread.
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), First Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, was a key figure in the development of the scientific world view of empiricism - which states that the real basis of knowledge is direct experience of the natural world and deductive reasoning. He has also been proposed as a possible author of the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.

Francis Bacon Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.

Like many influential men of his day, he was active in many spheres of life; he was a lawyer, a statesman and a philosopher, and one of the first to argue that knowledge can only be derived from experience.

Carl Jung "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens."

Everything that irritates us in others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
This advice from the pioneer psychotherapist is typical of his emphasis on the importance of self reflection.Tungpa was a Tibetan-born mediation master, teacher, and artist who founded the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado and was the author of several books on Buddhism and the path of mediation, including "Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior." He died on Jan. 12, 1980

Anonymous "When one door closes, another opens."

Robert Burns Gie me ae spark
O' Nature's fire,
That's all the
learning I desire.

...and something to say next Thanksgiving.

Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.
Robert Burns, born Jan. 25, 1759, is a beloved of Scotland. He is also known to a larger audience. The song "Auld Lang Syne" is an example of his work. The traditional Burns Supper celebrated on January 25th includes haggis and is usually preceded by the Selkirk Grace;

Chinese proverb A good horse moves at the shadow of the whip.

Better to ride a good horse for a year than an ass all your life. - Holland
The horse of hope gallops, the ass of experience walks. - Russia
A horse has four legs and even he stumbles. - Russia
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
This well know saying was parodied by Dorothy Parker when asked to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence and replied: "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."

Eleanor Roosevelt Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Winston S. Churchill Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Not known by many, Winston Churchill (1874-1965) wrote extensively, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.

Epicurus Nothing is enough for whom enough is too little.

341-270 BC This Greek philosopher, Samos, who taught that pleasure was the chief good, but only within a life of temperance and simplicity.

Mahatma Gandhi All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family; each of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others.

I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30,1948.

Abe Lincoln If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very bests I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right; what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
A conversation at the White House

George Burns "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

Mayor Marion Barry "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."

Marion Barry is the "Honorable" Mayor or Washington, DC.

Louis Armstrong "If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."

Mark Twain "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

William Jennings Bryan "Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain."

Theodore Roosevelt "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause. Who at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."

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