Following your path Fate has to do with the end result not with the way leading to it. What is important is the completion of the learning process, not the amount of suffering that a person burdens himself with en route by continually refusing to learn. – Thorwald Dethlefsen The path of a human life … [Read more…]
# Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts. # Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that “the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance … [Read more…]
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ” — Theodore Roosevelt “In any moment of decision, the … [Read more…]
“I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more … [Read more…]
During the storm or in the darkness… follow me… to a safe harbor. ~~~ From far away… A friendly light. ~~~ Lighthouses: Guides to friendly harbors. ~~~ Lighting up the night so bright… For all those who sail by night. ~~~ Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine. (D.L. Moody) Lighthouse diets are a little … [Read more…]
John Quincy Adams Quotes, US President This is the last of earth! I am content” John Quincy Adams, “Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty Fear is the foundation … [Read more…]
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural … [Read more…]
“Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely” Hesketh Pearson A man”s character never changes radically from youth to old age What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious … [Read more…]