MY QUOTES TO LIVE BY…
“I reckon Jeeter done right,” Lov contended. “He was a man who liked to grow things in the ground. The mills ain’t no place for a human who’s got that in his bones. The mills is sort of like automobiles – they’re all right to fool around in and have a good time in, but they don’t offer no love like the ground does. The ground sort of looks out after the people who keeps their feet on it. When people stand on planks in buildings all the time, and walk around on hard streets, the ground sort of loses interest in humans.” Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell. p. 239
“Coffee is a good power in my life… it chases away sleep and gives us the capacity to engage a little longer in the exercise of our intellects.” Honoré de Balzac, 1830.
Q. How do I start writing again?
A. How longer will you go on letting your energy sleep?
How much longer are you going to stay oblivious to the immensity of yourself?
Don’t lose time in conflict; lose no time in doubt – time can never be recovered and if you miss an opportunity it may take many lives before another one comes your way again.
Bhagwan Shree Ranneesh, “A Cup Of Tea.”
“Our goal must be to enable the pupil to participate and share in the spiritual experience of Jewish living; to explain to him what it means to live as a likeness to God.” Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1953.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead.
“If you want people to have faith and belief in your God, you must portray your God believably – and you must act credibly yourself.” –Viktor E. Frankl, “The Unconscious God.” p. 14-15.
“A person should live so that at the close of every day they can say: ‘I have not wasted my day.’“
– Zohar, “High Holiday Prayer Book,” p. 403.
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor E. Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning.” p. 75.
“The Scripture can never be divorced from its plain meaning,” – The Sages.
“Though the text is expounded in it homiletic sense it never completely loses its literal significance.” – Rashi.
“The Law cannot prevent us from considering to be true that which are our reason urges us to believe.” – Ralbag, The Wars of the Lord, p. 6, Leipzid edition.
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it is has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” The Bene Gesserit Litany against Fear.
“I can say with perfect honesty that I have never knowingly catered to anyone’s ideas, and I have expressed what was within me, regardless of consequences.” Clarence Darrow’s credo as expressed to Abram Adelman. Clarence Darrow for the Defense, p. 171.
“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.” Admiral Hyman G. Rickover.
“Insist on yourself, for nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. What you must do should be your concern and not what other people think. Therefore, hold fast to your convictions when you know in your own heart that you are right.” From “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“When what you do is in congruity with what you believe, and what you believe is the highest of truths, you achieve the most gratifying form of personal productivity and experience the most satisfying form of self-esteem.” From “Time Power” by Charles Hobbs.
“I don’t worry whether something is cheap or expensive. I only worry if it is good. If it is good, the public will pay you back for it.” Walt Disney, quoted in “Walt Disney: An American Original.”
“This day and every day for the rest of my life, I will have a period of solitude for planning with the purpose of applying positive affirmations of faith to the attainment of worthy goals.” From page 67 of Time Power by Charles Hobbs.
“Do not hesitate, seize the earliest opportunity to act on each new resolution. Set about accomplishing your goal with the strongest possible initiative. Pursue your goals daily, and never suffer an exception to occur.” William James.
“The quality and quantity of information comprehended per unit of time may now determine who wins or loses a sales order or a war.” Mel Phelps, Upside, June 1991.
“Do justice… love goodness, and… walk modestly with your God.” Micah 6:8.
“A Satyagrahi [one who finds a firmness to resist in Truth] obeys the laws of society intelligently and of his own free will, because he considers it to be his sacred duty to do so. It is only when a person has thus obeyed the laws of society scrupulously that he is in position to judge as to which particular rules are good and just and which are unjust and iniquitous. Only then does the right accrue to him of the civil disobedience of certain laws in well-defined circumstances. My error lay in my failure to observe this necessary limitation. I had called on the people to launch upon civil disobedience before they had thus qualified themselves for it, and this mistake seemed to me of Himalayan magnitude.” Mohandas K. Gandhi, “An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth.”
“Everybody has a rock.” John Douglas, “Mind Hunter.”
“The best part of you and me is I feel great about me when I’m with you. And likewise.” Unknown.
“A story is told of a holy man who radiated an unusual aura of inner peace and joy. An unearthly, almost celestial glow shone from his body, and attracted vast crowds who pursued him from everywhere. “Blessed one,” they cried out to him, “are you a God?” “No,” he answered. “Are you an angel?” “No.” “Are you a prophet?” “No, I am simply awake.” Yitta Halberstan and Judith Leventah, “Small Miracles.”
“Every moment think as a Roman and as a man to do what you have in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and kindliness, and freedom, and justice; and give yourself relief from all other thoughts. And you will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last, renouncing all carelessness and passionate resistance to the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given you. You see how few the things are which a man needs to lay hold of in order to live a life which flows in quiet, and is like the life of the gods; for the gods on their part will require nothing more from him who observes these things.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations.” II.5
