"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue." ~David Hume~
"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer." ~Edward R. Murrow "We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it." ~Albert Szent-Györgyi "The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?" ~Chuang Tzu
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Joseph Goebbels
"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf." -- Bob Hope
"I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman." -Manning Marable
"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them." -- Charles Caleb Colton
They say the mind bends and twists in order to deal with the horrors of life. Sometimes the mind bends so much it snaps in two
"Or maybe modern society was a cave of noise and frantic motion, in which primitives congratulated themselves on their knowledge and reason, when in fact they had forgotten more truth than they learned, had abandoned true sophistication for the lighter burden of studied ignorance, trading reason for the cold comfort of ideology, for the promise that the sound and fury signified nothing." -Dean Koontz, What the Night Knows
"The most secret, sacred wish that lies deep down at the bottom of your heart, the wonderful thing that you hardly dare to look at, or to think about--the thing that you would rather die than have anyone else know of, because it seems so far beyond anything you are, or have at the present time, that you fear that you would be cruelly ridiculed if the mere thought of it were known--that is just the very thing that God is wishing you to do or to be for Him. And the birth of that marvelous wish in your soul--the dawning of that secret dream--was the Voice of God Himself telling you to arise and come up higher because He has need of you." From Your Heart's Desire by Emmet Fox
"Is it not written in your law I said ye are gods" - Jesus "To master oneself is greater than mastering others" - Buddha "Be the change you want to see in the world" - Gandhi "Mine your mind for the jewels of your soul" - Dr. M.Z. York "Prayer is the art of talking to god while meditation is the art of listening to god" - Dr. M.Z. York "It's nice to be important but it's more important to just be nice" "Ascension is the goal" "as above so below" I love this! When I can remember more I will post them!!!
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." -Oprah Winfrey
