Faith and Love

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. -Henry Ford

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -William James

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. -Sydney J. Harris

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. -Galbraith's Law

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. -Friedrich Nietzsche

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. -Luciano de Crescenzo

Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. -Roy R. Gilson

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. - E.M. Forster, 1921: Howards End.

The only thing we know of love is that love is the only thing. - Emily Dickinson

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -Helen Keller

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows nothing of. -Blaise Pascal

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. -William Somerset Maugham

He preaches well that lives well. -Miguel de Cervantes

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. -Sarah Bernhardt

Now I see the garden that I've grown is just the same as those outside. The fences that, erected to protect, simply divide. -Peter Hammill

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. -Italian Proverb

He is happiest, be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs. -Karl Kraus

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. -Arthur Ashe

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. -Mahatma Gandhi

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain. -Mary Catherine Bateson

Faites que le re^ve devore votre vie a fin que la vie ne devore pas votre re^ve. - Liasons, 4th & Ivy, San Diego (Make your dream devour your life so that life does not devour your dream.)

I do not read to think. I do not read to learn. I do not read to search for truth. I know the truth. The truth is hardly what I need. I read to dream. - Stephen Sondheim, "PASSION"

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. -John Stuart Mill

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. - D.H. Lawrence

I believe a man is born first unto himself--for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers. - D.H. Lawrence

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. - Mahatma (Mohandas Karamchand) Gandhi

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. - Hungarian proverb

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! - Miguel de Cervantes

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. - G. K. Chesterton

Donde hay fe hay amor, donde hay amor hay paz, donde hay paz está Dios y donde está Dios no falta nada.
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