Sunday, May 18, 2008

Quotes to Live By

Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.
- Helen Keller

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
--e.e Cummings

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but rising each time we fall.
--Confucius

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
-- Plato

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
-- Abigail Van Buren

May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.
--Sara June Parker

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'There is no commandment greater than these."

-Jesus

Gene said...

Amen, I should have not missed that opportunity. Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Many 'quotes to live by' come from Shakespeare,and yet many of his come from the Bible. e.g., "give every man thine ear, but few thy voice" (in Hamlet) is the same as James 1:19, "Let every man be quick to hear slow to speak". Or, "we know what we are, but know not what we may be" (Hamlet) reminds one of 1 Jo. 3:2. And his picture of aging in "As You Like It", "all the world's a stage...etc....", where he speaks of 'seven ages', and the last one where there are "spectacles on nose..turning again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. Last scene of all. That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion. Sans teeth,sans eyes,sans taste,sans everything." Reminds one of Ecclesiastes 12:2-6.