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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 31-05-2025
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, & poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Leonardo da Vinci
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 01-06-2025
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Everyone talks about peace, but no one teaches peace. In this world, you are educated for competition, & competition is the beginning of every war.When he will educate himself for cooperation & to offer each other solidarity,that day he will be educating himself for peace.”
Maria Montessori
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 02-06-2025
“Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education. Knowledge, & through humane ways.”
Dalai Lama
“Teach this simple truth to all: a generous heart, kind speech & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.”
Buddha
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 03-06-2025
“We weren't designed to process global tragedy at breakfast, respond to work emergencies at dinner & fall asleep doomscrolling at night. Ournervous systems never consented to this arrangement.”
Michell C. Clark
“if you're in trouble or hurt or need , go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help, the only ones.”
John Steinbeck
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 04-06-2025
“The planet doesn't need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers,healers, restorers, storytellers & lovers of all kinds.”
Dalai Lama
“The concept of war is outdated, but we do need to fight. Countries think about their own national interests rather than global interests & that needs to change because the environment is a global issue.”
Dalai Lama
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 05-06-2025
“Most of us have been conditioned.
Since armies are legal, we feel that war is acceptable;
in general nobody feels that war is criminal or that accepting it is a criminal attitude.
In fact, we have been brainwashed.”
Dalai Lama
“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
Andrew Carnegie
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 06-06-2025
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin
“When humans act with cruelty, we characterise them as 'animals'. Yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.”
Anthony Douglas Williams
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 07-06-2025
“Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. I think they are all wrong. Anger is a sign of weakness, while patience is a sign of great strength.”
Dalai Lama
“I don't agree when people say “You don't owe anyone anything” I think as a minimum, we owe each other basic human kindness & respect.”
Hazel Satisa
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 08-06-2025
“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so”
Diane Setterfield
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthuriasm.”
Aldous Huxley
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 09-06-2025
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe & I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognising this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
“Don't compare yourself to others. There is no comparison between the sun & moon. They both shine when it's their time.”
Buddha
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 10-06-2025
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist & that there are as few as there are any other great artists.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind & spirit.”
John Steinbeck
“The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.”
Leo Tolstoy
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 11-06-2025
“There were two classes of charitable peopl: one, the people who did a little & made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal & made no noise at all.”
Charles Dickens, Bleak house
Buddha was not a Buddhist.
Jesus was not a Christian.
Mohammed was not a Muslim.
They were teachers who taught love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 12-06-2025
I love people who read. I think it screams humility. When someone reads,they're essentially admitting that they want more, that the world is not enough for them, they want more knowledge, more experience. Whatever this life is, they want more of it.
Nicholas Browne
“Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it.Right is right, even if no one is doing it.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 13-06-2025
“The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
Che Guevara
“The greatest priviledge which comes with free speech is the right to use your voice for those who don't have one.”
Ricky Gervais
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 14-06-2025
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
Terry Pratchett
“Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate,religious or non believing,man or woman,black,white or brown, we are all the same.Physically, emotionally, & mentally we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food,shelter,safety & love. We all apire to happiness & we all shun suffering.. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears & dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family & loved ones.We all experience pain when we suffer loss & joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level,religion,ethnicity, culture & language make no difference.”
Dalai Lama
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 15-06-2025
Seneca: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful"
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 15-06-2025
“Working class people around the world have no innate desire to go to war with each other. They have to be conned into it by the sociopaths who will profit from it.”
John Lennon
“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference to this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.”
Jim Henson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 16-06-2025
“The most sophisticated people I know – inside,they're all children.”
Jim Henson
“Its into the same bag as ET & Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but its not so much a symbol of the thing but you're trying to do the thing itself.”
Jim Henson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 17-06-2025
“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home late & told his wife that he was three days late because he'd been swallowed by a whale.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Second hand books are wild books; homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, & have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
Virginia Woolf
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 18-06-2025
“Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau