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If you choose to meditate on it, please remember that the quotations published October 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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Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
The law of cause and effect is inexorable and unrelenting. You reap a harvest of suffering, poverty, pain and sorrow because you have sown the seed of evil in the past. You reap a harvest of plenty and bliss owing to your sowing seeds of good.
Swami Sivananda, 1887-1963
The Way of Heaven does not compete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation. It is not anxious about things, and yet it plans well. Heaven's net is indeed vast. Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing.
Lao-Tzu, fl. BCE 600
The sleep of the body is the sobre watchfulness of the mind and the shutting of my eyes reveals the true Light.
Hermetic Philosophy, BCE ?2500 — 200 CE?
It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.
Jean de La Bruyere, 1645-1696
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President, 1809-1865
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, and not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha, BCE 568-488
A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
As the touchstone which tries gold, but is not itelf tried by the gold: such is he who has the standard of judgment.
Epictetus, c. 55-135 CE
There is a Spirit who is awake in our sleep and creates the wonder of dreams. He is the Spirit of Light, who in truth is called the Immortal. All the worlds rest on that Spirit, and beyond It no one can go.
Upanishads, c. BCE 800
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like a potato — the only good belonging to him is underground.
Thomas Overbury, 1581-1613
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges.
Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832
To wish to be well is part of becoming well.
Seneca, BCE ?1-65 CE
Knowledge is convertible into power, and axioms into rules of utility and duty. But knowledge itself is not Power. Wisdom is Power; and her Prime Minister is Justice, which is the perfected law of Truth.
Albert Pike, 1809-1891
A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?
When the soul is in the land of dreams, then all the worlds belong to the soul. A man can be a great king or even a wise man, and live in conditions high or low. Even as a great king takes his attendants as he goes about his dominions, so the soul of man takes the powers of life with him as he wanders in the land of dreams.
Upanishads, c. BCE 800
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Jean-Baptiste Moliere, 1622-1673
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
So few men have the courage to question themselves in order to ascertain what they are really capable of becoming. And so few have the will to become it.
Cardinal Desire Joseph Mercier
Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.
Leonardo Da Vinci, 1482-1519
Stand with anybody that stands right when he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President, 1809-1865
The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1741-1801
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet.
Ecclesiastes, c. BCE 300
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo, 1802-1885
The man who is so painstakingly cautious about doing his own body no harm seldom does anything for anyone else.
Edward Verrall Lucas, 1868-1938
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation of what he finds good and of what he finds hurt is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon, 1561-1626?
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948.
And where two raging fires meet together,
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.