mi1: Kedah School- Sports selection on Thaipusam Day

Kedah School- Sports selection on Thaipusam Day

I am parent of Form 1 student of Sek Men Taman Hi-Tech in Kulim.

I attended the school Sports Day yesterday (Feb. 4) and I am just shocked at what I saw.
The Malaysian government started the National Service Program, with the objective of racial integration, my foot.

That 3-month stint is just a show to make money when the situation in schools are totally different.

This is what I saw yesterday.

Very few Indians participated in the sports event.
Indians are supposed to be good in running, but there were very few, I asked the boys.

And they said the reason is because the final selection was done on Thaipusam Day.

Although it was not a public holiday, Indians took leave and went to temples that day.

The school purposely chose that day to select the final participants. That was purposely done.

March Past
It was racially divided. The army/police cadet was 100% Malays whereas Cadet Bomba was 100% non-Malays.

The army cadet uniform was perfect, 100% given, whereas the Bomba was crazy, some wore T-Shirts, different kinds of shoes because all the cost need to be borne by the parents. Why?

I really felt very saddened at what happened.

It is a rubbish to say the Education Ministry is looks into ways to integrate the races, but in fact they are purposely segregating them.

Is this what the government say ‘We care for all races, we are fair to all’????

Letters by A Parent
Lim Kit Siang Blog

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Singapore Free Air TV - What does RTM and monopolist Media Prima provides to Indian community?

BOYCOTT MALAYSIAN TV STATIONS CAMPAIGN!!!

BOYCOTT ALL ADVERTISEMENTS SHOWN IN THESE STATIONS - TV1, TV2, TV3, NTV7, TV8 & TV9

WE SHOULD TEACH THESE MORONS A LESSON.

WHY SHOULD YOU VOTE FOR THE GOVERNMENT THAT PRACTICES DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES?

Every Mondays to Fridays Singapore TV station (Vasantham) provides free programmes to Indian communities from 3.00 pm to 12.00 midnight

Every Saturdays and Sundays the programmes starts at 1.00 pm to 12.00 midnight.

Look at the contribution of Malaysian government TV (RTM), TV1 & TV2 serving Indian community in Malaysia.

Malaysian Monopolist Media Prima (TV3, NTV7, TV8 & TV9) serves "0" programmes for Indian community.

How Malaysians watch their pathetic and idiotic programmes?

How shall we deal with these racists?

They are not bothered of the existence of Indian communities in Malaysia.

How does MIC deals with this problem? As usual no issue for them.

It is high time for Indians to demand for a FREE AIR TV station for their own community as they have been deprived by their own government to serve minority community.

If Singapore government is very concerned of minority community, why not Malaysian govt. Why Malaysian govt has to practice discriminatory policies?

Vasantham: Singapore Channel E24 (Tamil)

All Indians in Malaysia should unite to overcome the discrimination towards Indians in Malaysia.

mi1 is going to highlight this issue until 13th General Election and till Indians in Malaysia been awarded a new Free air TV station from Malaysian government.

Mahatma Gandhi"s Quotations

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
Mahatma Gandhi

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mahatma Gandhi, 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed)

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Mahatma Gandhi, 1931

I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

Famous Proverbs

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Ancient Proverb

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
Arab Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb

The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb

Ask advice only of your equals.
Danish Proverb

He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

Use soft words and hard arguments.
English Proverb

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
English Proverb

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

Charity sees the need not the cause.
German Proverb

Never give advice unless asked.
German Proverb

Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Indian Proverb

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
Indian Proverb

Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb

Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
Jewish Proverb

Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
Jewish Proverb

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Jewish Proverb

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
Jewish Proverb

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb

Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb

Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
Persian Proverb

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Scottish Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Spanish Proverb

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Welsh Proverb

Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
Yugoslav Proverb

Friendship Quotes

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Amicitia

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.
Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 11-09-07

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage (1934 - )

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington (1732 - 1799)

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)

All people want is someone to listen.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Jay Leno (1950 - )

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pierre Charron

Friends have all things in common.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedrus

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06

There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi (1184 - 1291)

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), Peloponnesian War

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Unknown, (often attributed to Albert Camus)

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Kahlil Gibran Quotes (1883 - 1931)

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.
Kahlil Gibran

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Kahlil Gibran

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
Kahlil Gibran

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Kahlil Gibran

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran

In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Kahlil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil Gibran

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Kahlil Gibran

The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
Kahlil Gibran

The optomist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Kahlil Gibran

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.
Kahlil Gibran, 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives,' Thoughts and Meditations, 1960

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Kahlil Gibran, 'On Giving,' The Prophet, 1923

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow men.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Broken Wings

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prohpet, 1923

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;For love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.But you are life and you are the veil.Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the final hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

Quotations by Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein

Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein, "Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein, 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
Albert Einstein, 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
Albert Einstein, (attriibuted)

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.
Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), speaking of Albert Einstein

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Autobiographical Notes"

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.It is the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Physics and Reality [1936]

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Out of My Later Years

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), On Education

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (referring to America)

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio

I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Results from Internet Collections: alt.quotations Archives:
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 1929

"I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Albert Einstein.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 1879-1955

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Never underestimate your own ignorance.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), speech

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

When all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel".
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)

If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Gary Young M.D.'s lecture on chaos theory and Buddhism in Oregon State University on 04/17/03 (SGI-USA)

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I’m a German, and Germany will say that I’m a jew.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

So long as there are men there will be wars.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Dilip Kumar Roy, (famous Indian classical singer), had cited the above quotation of Einstein in one of his letters to his disciple M.S.Subbalakshmi, another famous Indian singer and Magsayee Award

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Sc

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69

So long as there are men there will be wars.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Associated Press, April 15, 2005, "100 Years Ago, Einstein Changed Everything,"

Buddha"s Quotations (563 BC - 483 BC)

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
Buddha

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
Buddha, The Dhammapada

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
The Buddha

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), The Dharmapada

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), The Dharmapada

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
The Buddha

As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

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 (563 BC - 483 BC)

He is able who thinks he is able.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

All created things are impermanent. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), Last words before his death

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?
Buddha (563 - 483 B.C.)

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 (563 BC - 483 BC)

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Abraham Lincoln Quotes (1809 - 1865)

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln

Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.
Abraham Lincoln

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Abraham Lincoln, in a book review

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Own Stories

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), on meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

How many legs does a dog have if you count his tail as a leg? Four. You can call a tail a leg if you want to, but that doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Gettysburg Address

I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), A House Divided

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

I'm not concerned that you have fallen,I'm concerned that you arise.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), On Marriage

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

John F. Kennedy Quotes (1917 - 1963)

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy

So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.
John F. Kennedy

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
John F. Kennedy

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
John F. Kennedy

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
John F. Kennedy

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy

We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.
John F. Kennedy

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.

...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
John F. Kennedy, Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy, Speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy, speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963

All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy, Speech given at Newport at the dinner before the America's Cup Races, September 1962

We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
John F. Kennedy, Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy, Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Address, 1961

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

When I became President, what surprised me most was that things were just as bad as I'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), as given in A. Schlesinger Jr's, "A Thousand Days"

The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Amherst College, Honoring Robert Frost

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), inaugural address, 1961

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), in a speech on May 25, 1961

Too often we...enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

It's easy, they sank my boat.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), When asked how he became a war hero

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy - but because they are hard! Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win!
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Rice University speech on September 12, 1962

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered.

We don’t see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don’t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech in 1962

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

They are a bunch of bastards - and I'm saying this on my own now, not just because my father told it to me. -- [Comment about businessmen in general, made a few days after the newspaperas printed his statement of 10 April 1962 that his father always told him that businessmen were "sons of bitches."]
President John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me.
-- John F. Kennedy (to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.), 1962.
John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]

If I do the right kind of a job, I don't know whether I am going to be here four years from now.
John F. Kennedy (to Richard M. Nixon, right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961).
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]

If I am to die, this is the week for it.
John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]

Who can tell who will be the President a year from now?
John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]., p289. Comment made by JFK in the aftermath of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961.

This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), 28 October 1962, after receiving word from Khrushchev that he agreed on a plan to end the Cuban Missile Crisis

I think there is a law of equity in these disputes. When one party is clearly wrong, it will eventually give way... They had no business putting those missiles in and lying to me about it. They were in the wrong and knew it. So, when we stood firm, they had to back down. But this doesn't mean at all that they would back down when they felt they were in the right and had vital interests involved.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), 29 October 1962, reflecting on the Cuban Missile Crisis to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

The trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]

Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1960.

What a joy, that literacy is no longer prima facie evidence of treason.
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), Reply upon learning that he and 49 other eminent artists had been invited to John F. Kennedy's inaugural, 1961

We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Introducing Pablo Casals at a
White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first time since the Spanish Civil War

Overwhelming nuclear strength cannot stop a guerrilla war.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), From the speech President Kennedy was to deliver at the Dallas Trade Mart, 22 Nov 1963; he was assassinated on his way to the Trade Mart

I think there is a law of equity in these disputes. When one party is clearly wrong, it will eventually give way... They had no business putting those missiles in and lying to me about it. They were in the wrong and knew it. So, when we stood firm, they had to back down. But this doesn't mean at all that they would back down when they felt they were in the right and had vital interests involved.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), 29 October 1962, reflecting on the Cuban Missile Crisis to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

The trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]

Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1960.

What a joy, that literacy is no longer prima facie evidence of treason.
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), Reply upon learning that he and 49 other eminent artists had been invited to John F. Kennedy's inaugural, 1961

We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first time since the Spanish Civil War

Overwhelming nuclear strength cannot stop a guerrilla war.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), From the speech President Kennedy was to deliver at the Dallas Trade Mart, 22 Nov 1963; he was assassinated on his way to the Trade Mart

Confucius Quotations (551 BC - 479 BC)

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Confucius

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confucius

He who will not economize will have to agonize.
Confucius

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
Confucius

Respect yourself and others will respect you.
Confucius

Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
Confucius

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Confucius

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
Confucius

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
Confucius

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The cautious seldom err.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
Confucius Analects

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

I hear and I forget.I see and I believe.I do and I understand.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

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 (551 BC - 479 BC)

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
Confucius Analects

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects

Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), nalects, IV.11

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects, XIV.12

It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects, IV.3

In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects, IV.7

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects, XV.24

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Roots of Wisdom 4th edition

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Quotations by Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao-tzu

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

He who knows does not speak.He who speaks does not know.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

He who knows others is wise;He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

The best [man] is like water.Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.This is why it is so near to Tao.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

To be worn out is to be renewed.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

To know that you do not know is the best.To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

To produce things and to rear them,To produce, but not to take possession of them,To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,To lead them, but not to master them -This is called profound and secret virtue.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

When the highest type of men hear Tao,They diligently practice it.When the average type of men hear Tao,They half believe in it.When the lowest type of men hear Tao,They laugh heartily at it.Without the laugh, there is no Tao.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,There arises the recognition of ugliness.When they all know the good as good,There arises the recognition of evil.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), Tao Te Ching

The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

The good man is the teacher of the bad,And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.He who does not value the teacher,Or greatly care for the material,Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.Such is the essential mystery.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
Tao te Ching, 48. Lao-Tzu

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

Osho Quotes

Life as such has to be taken as a cosmic joke - and then suddenly yourelax because there is nothing to be tense about.And in that very relaxation something starts changing in you- a radical change, a transformation - and the small things of lifestarts having new meaning, new significance.One learns only one thing, how to rejoice in life.
Osho

The whole existence is a temple…the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.
Osho

The real seeker of truth never seeks truth. On the contrary, he tries to clean himself of all that is untrue, inauthentic, insincere - and when his heart is ready, purified, the guest comes. You cannot find the guest, you cannot go after him. He comes to you; you just have to be prepared. You have to be in a right attitude.
Osho

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light
Osho

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.
Osho

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
Osho

Meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to your action. Walking can be a meditation if you walk alertly. Sitting can be a meditation if you sit alertly. Listening to the birds can be a meditation if you listen with awareness. Just listening to the inner noise of your mind can be a meditation if you remain alert and watchful. The whole point is: one should not move in sleep. Then whatsoever you do is meditation.
Osho

When you feel expansion of your consciousness, that is the most ecstatic experience possible, because suddenly you are the whole universe. Stars are within you. The sun rises within you and sets within you. The earth moves within you. The flowers blossom within you.
Osho

Existence has no personality.No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is.To experience existence as it is, is to know the truth.
Osho

Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You'll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival.
Osho

All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be -- don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
Osho

Life in itself is an empty canvas, it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. The freedom is your glory.
Osho

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.
Osho

Die – you will have to die. But die gracefully. I am not saying die like a stoic, I am not saying die like a very controlled man. No, I'm saying die gracefully, beautifully, as if a friend is coming, knocks at your door, and you are happy. And you embrace the friend and invite him in, and you have been waiting for him so long....
Osho

There is no need to postpone celebration. Immediately, right this moment you can celebrate. Nothing else is needed. To celebrate, life is needed and life you have. To celebrate, being is needed and being you have. To celebrate, trees and birds and stars are needed, and they are there. What else do you need?
Osho

It is very human because we have been made in such a way by the society that jealousy is the outcome of it. The whole life's conditioning is to be jealous. The school, the college, the university, the parents, the society – everybody wants you to be jealous, because only out of jealousy can ambition be created, only out of jealousy can possessiveness be created, and only out of jealousy can you be made to become powerful, rich. If jealousy disappears this whole edifice of the society will fall. It is founded on jealousy; jealousy is the cornerstone of this society. It pervades everything, permeates everything.
Osho

Enemies Quotes

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Eagle and the Arrow

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Antisthenes (445 BC - 365 BC)

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964)

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
Jewish Proverb

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), in Christian Science

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

We can learn even from our enemies.
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Metamorphoses

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
Persian Proverb

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi (1184 - 1291)

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake (1757 - 1827)

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

Peoples Review Forums

The Racist Malay Teacher Will Still Be Teaching Your Kids!
I am confident that if this we're to happen in any other developed country, the racist teacher in question will not be allowed to teach again... would be made to give a public apology, sent for counseling, the school would be made to take responsibility & receive punishment, a public apology given to the students from those in the education ministry, some sort of counseling for the students affected, etc. But I can bet you that many here in the government & even some members of the public, do not see how serious this is.How confident are you that this teacher would receive the appropriate punishment. Some UMNOputra ministers would probably be giving her an Ang Pow & congratulating her behind closed doors for the divide & conquer values & what the ripple effects of her actions might be. Probably making her a Head Mistress in the years to come & once the heat has died down. Oh yes, this goes down as a "strength" in her CV, with certain people.Justice has not been served!
Surind
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06/08/08

Are Chinese and Indian Merely Hedging?
I would very much like to express my view over the issues of Social Contract and unhappiness among Chinese and Indian over the implementation of New Economic Policy.

I believe most of Chinese and Indian will agree with me that they do resent at all the monarchy system in this nation and in fact, we pledge our loyalty to Yang Dipertuan Agong, being the head and most respected leader of Malaysia. We feel nothing wrong with the Social Contract. And, off course, with aim of eliminating poverty among the rural Malays, we were also supportive of New Economic Policy at the very initial stage, which, according to general opinions, would sustain peaceful environment in this country since it has been widely accepted that poor, helpless and jobless groups would cause social illness.

However, the implementation of New Economic Policy has unhealthily transformed into the following:-
Chinese and Indian are both exploited from education opportunities at tertiary level at public universities, and, private universities are too few to absorb those intending to study;
Public sector is almost totally dominated by only Malays, leaving only private sector, and, worse still, Ministry came out with guideline to restrict recruitment of Chinese and Indian at executive level in multinational corporations;
Whilst, in business sector, there are so many fields that Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs are totally barred from. Not to mention to many, logistic - freight and forwarding service, petrol kiosks etc.;
In professional fields, foreign medical degrees which are recognized worldwide, particularly British Medical Council, are disrecognized and treated as substandard to local universities' certificates. Holders of law degrees from non-local universities are asked to sit for over-tough CLP exams which carry extremely low passing rate. And, to operate an audit firm, you need a Bumiputra partner, or else, audit license will not be granted;
There is no transparency in Government awarding infrastructure contracts, resulting in that political cronies without capability and technical background earn mega projects, and, at a later stage, subcontract to Chinese and Indian at much much lower price at very slim margin, and, worse still, these political cronies at most occasions dishonour settlements, leading to backrupcies among the Chinese and Indian.
As a mankind, we admit that there is tendency to safeguard own race's interests. But, should it be to the extent of breaking the rice bowls of others and forcing them to die? We do not resend policies to upbring the Malay community, but we really cannot stand being bullied, exploited, denied of rights to pursue education and career, and, cleansed up!
Singaram via email
23 Apr 2008

Its about time The Barisan Rakyat take necessary steps to abolish road tax for private register cars. The previous discount given by the ruling party is tailored towards the national cars.One of the reason they need to seriously look into this is due to the high cost of owning a vehicle in Malaysia combined with the high toll and fuel price increasing tremendously. The oil producing countries such as Brunei, Arab, Bahrain and etc do not impose road tax due or toll to the benefits derived from exporting their oil.Why not let the people enjoy part of this benefit??????
Ragu -KL via email
19/03/2008

It is easy to provide housing for these squatters. Just do a check on all low cost flats that were built for the poor over the years. A lot of them aren't being occupied by the poor or even the original purchasers. The corrupt BN government has long been giving these units to their underlings as rewards for services rendered. That is why you will even find units in Johor belonging to MIC party members in Selangor, although they have double storey houses and have never even set foot in Johor!
Peter Doss via e-mail
17/03/2008

I am commenting the remark made by MIBA President Sivakumar in comparing MIC loss to Sept 11th 2001 yesterday or a day before. (http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/79529) I can sense he’s lurking to get the top position MIC! This guy is so insensitive, trying to compare Sept 11th 2001 to MIC. It’s an outrage trying to compare Sept 11th 2001 to MIC. If I read his statement correctly- he is trying to refer HINDRAF Group as a terrorist organization – TALIBAN. What a s$#%bag !! Can you ask him if he experienced the actual event on September 11th 2001. Where were him during that time? New York ?? ? Did he try to reach out to the victims?? Ask him if he knows anyone from Malaysia perished in the tragedy!!! I lived through September 11th 2001!!against the people trying to exploit the event for their gains.
I admire the guts of HINDRAF – fighting against injustice. I am ashamed of the Chinese community especially the MCA a.k.a running Dog and snake with 2 head. Tell the MCA & Gerakan – if HINDRAF doesn’t need MIC, then they should jump to DAP. (They should not sell their rights like Tan Siew Sin including my old man –worked for MCA!) I still have families in Malaysia. I agree with Indian #1 , that M.Mahatir was spitting out rubbish over his successor. He has no rights, unless he unloads the skeletons from his closet of 20 years!!! I branded him as a communist & dictator like CASTRO!!
LONG LIVE HINDRAF!!! Let’s not forget the words of Wisdom form M.Gandhi :
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Last but not least:
Congrats to the oppositions parties of Malaysia PKR, DAP, PAS – the new dawn have just begins, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel for all!!! Handle with CARE, please!!!! FRAGILE!! My appreciation to all bloggers, esp R.P.K/ Jeff Ooi in keeping Malaysians throughout the world in touch about the motherland!!!
Cheers.
Kenny, New York via email
10/03/2008

It's time to focus on how to release Hindraf leaders detained under ISA. I think, with DAP and ADIL growing strongers and new Indian leaders' emergence, such as Prof. Ramasamy, we should now continue our quest by working closely with them to put more pressure on BN government.
Invoke the issue: why Khairy who violated laws in ECM-Libra case can walk away freely whilst Hindraf leaders who walked peacefully to submit memorandum are detained under ISA? We should not let go.
Singaram via email
13/03/2008

Indeed indeed. That’s the thing that I will and always do (referring to the subject). For all this while, we the most marginalized race in mighty Malaysia, had been deemed as nonsense and does not reflect any value in any political decision. Even our so call leaders had thought so by taking us for granted. But yesterday, all the “dark skinned, low class, noisy, drunkards and all the negative nicks given by the people inferior to us” had shown all of them the power of Indians, most importantly Tamillians in deciding the ruling authority. Let us all rejoice for the start and dawning of the new era in our Thai Nadu (Jaihind Malaysia), just to tell all the ignorant human beings that we are also Bumiputeras in our mind and not like the silent apartheid that had been practiced by them all this while. Vanthe Mathaaram, Vanthe Mathaaram, Vanthe Maatharam!!!!
p.s. Just thought that how would it be if my late mother (an ex-weed sprayer in an estate in Teluk Intan and working for a mere RM6 dollars a day) would be happy to see the changes that we all made.
Yoganantha Arumugam via email
09/03/2008

During Dr Mahatir's tenure, MP Kok Lanas Abdullah Arshad made a degratory ststement that Indians came out from the faeces of Muslims and Dr. Mahathir stated that we cannot take action against him as the statement was made in singapore and not in Malaysia. The number so called converts to muslims are not known to the spouse except on funeral day. Is not the perogative of the Syariah court to inform the spouse as to when and how the husband became a convert? The number of Indians that have died in police custody. The number of excelled students disappointed for not getting admission to the Universities. That explains why the brain drain occurs.
ehambaranathan via email
23/02/2008

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