WoRds FrOm MuCh WiSer SoULs

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.  ~ Mohandas Gandhi

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.  ~Mother Teresa

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.  ~Baruch Spinoza

All war is deception. ~Sun Tzu

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.  ~Ulysses S. Grant

If we don't end war, war will end us. ~H. G. Wells

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.  ~Herodotus

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.  ~Ernest Hemingway

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.  ~George Santayana

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.  ~William Westmoreland

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
~ Thomas A. Edison

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ~Thomas Carlyle

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. ~Boethius

Do all things with love.  ~ Og Mandino

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ~ Daphne Rae

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ~ Victor Hugo

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ~ Khalil Gibran

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. ~ James A Baldwin

Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~ Eva Gabor

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~ Aristotle

Love is the beauty of the soul. ~ Saint Augustine

Love is the flower you've got to let grow. ~ John Lennon

Love is the poetry of the senses. ~ Honore de Balzac

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~ Mother Teresa

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~ Pedro Calderon de la

Where there is love there is life. ~ Mohandas Gandhi

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ~ Albert Einstein

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. ~ Mark Twain

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. ~ Ovid

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~ Buddha

When anger rises, think of the consequences. ~ Confucius

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~ Mark Twain

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~ Sholom Aleichem

Life is never easy for those who dream. ~Robert James Waller

Life must be lived as play. ~Plato

Life well spent is long. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ~Socrates

What we play is life. ~ Louis Armstrong

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~Mark Twain

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ~ Confucius

Cleverness is not wisdom. ~Euripides

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. ~Lord Chesterfield

Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~Saint Augustine

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ~Socrates

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. ~Charles Dickens

Wisdom begins at the end. ~Daniel Webster

Wisdom begins in wonder. ~ Socrates

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~ Davis Starr Jordan

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ~ Confucius

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. ~Indira Gandhi

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. ~Garrison Keillor

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. ~William Blake

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mohandas Gandhi

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. ~ Bryant H. McGill

Without forgiveness, there's no future. ~Desmond Tutu

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. ~ David Allan Coe

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.  ~Bob Dylan

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.  ~ Khalil Gibran

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. ~ Frances Wright

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ~ Aristotle

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. ~Marlo Thomas

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. ~ Woodrow Wilson

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.  ~ William Faulkner

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.  ~ William Faulkner

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~ Dion Boucicault

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~ C. S. Lewis

Time is the wisest counselor of all. ~ Pericles

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. ~ C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.  ~ C. S. Lewis

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ~ George Orwell

 Dreams are necessary to life. ~ Anais Nin

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.  ~ Tupac Shakur

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

A man of courage is also full of faith. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ~ Mother Teresa

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.  ~ Voltaire

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.  ~ Blaise Pascal

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~ Blaise Pascal

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God. ~ Edwin Louis Cole