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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“The concept of war is outdated, but we do need to fight.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