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If you choose to meditate on it, please remember that the quotations published December range from the profound to the flippant. They are NOT offered as examples of eternal verities but merely as 'Food for Thought', and it is for you to judge for yourself whether and to what extent the words used accurately reflect your own beliefs and convictions. |
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863
Comfort, like health, may be impaired by being too anxiously cared for.
Henry Taylor, 1800-1886
Health is a gift, but you have to work to keep it.
Elbert Hubbard, 1859-1915
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
Mark well three things, and thou wilt not fall into the clutches of sin: Know what is above thee — an eye that sees, an ear that hears, and all thine actions recorded in the book.
The Talmud, c. 4th century BCE
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 CE
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887
When individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Haniel Long
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato, BCE 429-347
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Judge a tree from its fruit, not from the leaves.
Euripides, BCE 480-406
Try to enjoy the sleepless sleep wherein all the senses and mind remain in a state of quietude and the intellect ceases functioning. The sleepless sleep is a super-conscious state. It is perfect awareness wherein the individual soul has merged itself into the Supreme Soul. There is no wakening from this sleep.
Swami Sivananda, 1887-1963
The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Omar Khayyam, c. 1050-1122
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl: no superior alternative has yet been found.
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
It is best in the theatre to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman, 1907-84
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Bhagavad-Gita, c. 0 CE
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips, 1811-1884
It is not beyond the tomb, but in life itself, that we are to seek for the mysteries of death. Salvation or reprobation begins here below, and the terrestrial world too has its Heaven and its Hell. Always, even here below, virtue is rewarded; always, even here below, vice is punished...
Albert Pike, 1809-1891
When a man is asleep, his soul takes the consciousness of the several senses and goes to rest with them on the Supreme Spirit who is in the human heart. When all the senses are quiet, the man is said to be asleep. The soul holds the powers of life — breath, voice, eye, ear, and mind — and they rest in quietness.
Upanishads, c. BCE 800
He who owes least to fortune is in the strongest position.
Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527
What gift has Providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Cicero, BCE 106-43
The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
Duc De La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or disbelieve.
Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
Henri Frederic Amiel, 1821-1881
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence.
Cicero, BCE 106-43
The Soul is made of consciousness and mind; it is made of life and vision. It is made of the earth and the waters; it is made of air and space. It is made of light and darkness; it is made of desire and peace. It is made of anger and love; it is made of virtue and vice. It is made of all that is near; it is made of all that is afar. It is made of all.
Upanishads, c. BCE 800
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.
Alexander Pope, 1688-1744
Love seeketh not itself to please,
Epictetus, c. 55-135 CE
Confidence as an outgoing act is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life, trusting them to bring instruction and support to a developing self.
John Dewey, 1859-1952
The only faith that wears well and holds its colour in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction.
James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?