Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history come to life.”
Norman Cousins

“All men make msitakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong & repairs the evil.The only crime is pride.”
Sophocles

[zqwerty]

poem by Jacobowski

1899 “bright days”

Ah, our brilliant days Shine like eternal stars, They glow past as consolation For future sorrow.

Don’t cry because it is over! Smile because they have been!

And if the days get cloudier, Our stars redeem!

[Lilith7]

“History will judge societies & governments - & the instutions - not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich & powerful but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor & the helpless.”
Cesar Chavez


“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
Hannah Arendt

[Lilith7]

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple. The philosophy is kindness.”
Dalai Lama

“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, & how hard it is to undo that work again.”
Mark Twain

[Lilith7]

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip involuntarily,often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
Joyce Carol Oates

“A cat's got his own opinion of human beings. He don't say much but he's heard it all.
Mark Twain

[Lilith7]

“The more you are motivated by love,the more fearless & free your action will be.”
Dalai Lama

“If every 8 year old in the world was taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.”
Dalai Lama

[Lilith7]

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.”
Neil Gaiman

“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life & dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”
Anna Quindlen

[Lilith7]

“History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance or lust for power, have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all.We must not let that happen again.”
Carl Sagan

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Lilith7]

“Patience acts as a counterforce to anger. For every negative state, we can identify one which opposes it. Humility opposes pride; contentment opposes greed; perservance opposes indolence.If we wish to overcome the unwholesome states which arise when negative thoughts & emotions are allowed to develop, cultivating virtue should not be seen as separate from restraining our response to afflicitve emotion.”
Dalai Lama

“Sadness is caused by intelligence. The nore you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them.”
Charles Bukowski

[zqwerty]

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart.[d] Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias", 1819 edition

[Lilith7]

“When I speak of love & compassion, I do so not as a Buddhist,nor as a Tibetan,nor as the Dalai Lama. I do so as one human being speaking with another. I hope that you at this moment will think of yourself as a human being rather than an American, Asian, European, African, ir member of any particular country.
Dalai Lama


“There must be something rotten in the very core of a system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery.”
Karl Marx

[Lilith7]

“Love is the capacity to take care, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy towards yourself -of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yuourself, of protecting yourself - it is very difficult to take care of another person.”
Thich Nhat Hanh


“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; & I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”
Khalil Gibran

[Lilith7]

“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”
Noam Chomsky

“Whether you believe in god or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist , whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. And a good life does not mean just good food, good clothes, good shelter. These are not sufficient. A good motivation is what is needed; without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers & sisters & respecting their rights & human dignity.”
Dalai Lama

[Lilith7]

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation”
Walter Cronkite

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it.”
Eeanor Roosevelt

[zqwerty]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams

[Lilith7]

“Not until the creation & maintenance of decent conditions of life for all humans are recognised & accepted as a common obligation of all humans & all countries - not until then shall we,with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilised.
Albert Einstein

“And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in.”
Haruki Murakami

[Lilith7]

“There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears & upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus & you've got to make it stop. And youv'e got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”
Mario Savio


“ I can't think of anything more vile & small & pathetic than terrorising the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you exceot the right to exist.”
Pedro Pascal

[Lilith7]

“That things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”
Haruki Murakami

“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward any more. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
Haruki Murakami

[zqwerty]

Napolean: "Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."

Sun Tzu: "If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by."

[Lilith7]

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
Haruki Murakami

“Death exists, not as the opposite of life but as a part of it.”
Haruki Murakami