Words of Wisdom on Your Journey
- The effect of sustained hard work is unbeatable. You can overcome all faults through hard work. I've seen that happen both personally and to people all around me. (Philip Glass)
- A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. (Priorities)
- Lives are like rivers, eventually they go where they must, not where we want them to.
- If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. That is, people who wait for all conditions to be perfect before acting, never act.
- We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein)
- Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food. (Hippocrates)
- There's no substitute for the human touch by caring hands. (Gordy)
- Where there is desperation, may I bring hope.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
Allow me to console, rather than be consoled.
To understand, rather than be understood.
To love, rather than be loved.
Because giving is receiving.
Because it is in forgiving that we are forgiven.
It is in dying that we are born into eternal life. (Mother Teresa)
"Mr. President...Economy is old-fashioned. It reminds me of the sweet young mother who called the doctor to come and attend her baby. Finally the doctor said, "Well, my dear, just give the baby some Castor oil." She was a very arty person, and she said, "Doctor, Castor oil is so old-fashioned." The kindly doctor said, "I know, my dear, but babies are old-fashioned things, too."
Quote by the late Honorable Senator Everett Dirksen. Congressional Record, March 15, 1951, p.2480.
"What I have lived for.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy -- ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness -- that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what -- at last -- I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upwards toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by opressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me." (Bertrand Russell)
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