We Haven't Learned

“When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters...”

Dr Martin Luther King Jr

(1929-1968)

An Optimist

“I am optimistic up to the 59^th minute of the 11^th hour.”

Harry Edwards

1893-1976

Take the First Step

“Take the first step in faith.  You don’t have to see the whole staircase.  Just take the first step.”

Dr Martin Luther King Jr

(1929-1968)

The Smallest Things

“Sometimes, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

Winnie the Pooh

About an Ass

“An ass went looking for horns and lost his ears.”

Arab Proverb

Our Prime Purpose

 

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

Dalai Lama

(1935-)

Liars

“Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.”

Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Republic (1972)

The Wilderness

“What sets the wilderness apart in the modern way is not that it is dangerous (it’s almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it’s solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more in the zoo).  It’s that five miles out in the woods you can’t buy anything.”

Bill McKibben

Ecologist b 1960

The Happiness of Another

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert Anson Heinlein

(1907 – 1988)

ROOT OF ALL EVIL

“For the love of money is the root of all evil; and while some have coveted after it, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But as for you, O man of God, flee from all these things; aim at and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness and gentleness of heart."

1Timothy 6:10-11

LOVE

“Love of God: to know God is to love him and to trust in his direction.”

“God looks over us with love and compassion and also gives forgiveness when true contrition is seen to be done.”

“It is love that leads me into the light and allows me to let go and follow love.”

“The love that cannot comprehend darkness; it is a love beyond ourselves.”

23^rd July 2014 (ladylydialondon twitter)

HOPE

“HOPE          Sometimes that’s all you have, when you have nothing else. If you have it, you have everything!!!”

Inspirational Quotes

Tension or Relaxation

“Tension is who you think you should be.  Relaxation is who you are.”

Chinese Proverb

Don't Give Up!

“God has purpose for your pain, a cause for your struggle and a gift for your faithfulness. Don't give up!”

Christian Associates

Miserable or Strong

“We either make ourselves miserable or make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

Carlos Castañeda

(1925-1998)

Finding Peace

"Ego says: "Once everything falls into place I will find peace."

Spirit says: "Find peace and everything will fall into place.""

Lorane Gordon

It is Between You and God

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centred.  Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.  Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.  Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.  Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.  Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.  Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten.  Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.  Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Theresa

1910-1997

The Beauty of the Soul

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

Augustine of Hippo

(354-430)

Few are Those

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

Albert Einstein

(1879-1955)