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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy   James 3:17

"The kingdom of God is within you."   Luke 17:21

Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you   1 Corinthians 3:16

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. Whoever knows everything but lacks within, lacks everything."   Gospel Of Thomas

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.   Winston Churchill

"There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that[people] had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."   President Wilson

"Develop your spiritual self, achieve unity in your family; then run the nation well and thereby, pacify the world."   Ancient Quote

There is only one corner of the Universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own Self.   Aldus Huxley

"Give up the extremes, follow the Middle Path and everything will be clear"   BUDDHA

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.  The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Don't do to others what you would not want yourself. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.   Confucius

No legacy is so rich as honesty   William Shakespeare

The heart of a fool is in his mouth but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart   Benjamin Franklin

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard of it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. 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 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.   BUDDHA

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to Mankind   John F. Kennedy

"Heaven, when is about to place a great responsibility on a man, always first tests his resolution, wears out his sinews and bones with toil, exposes his body to starvation, subjects him to extreme poverty, frustrates his efforts so as to stimulate his mind, toughen his nature and make good his deficiencies. Men for the most part can mend their ways only after they made mistakes. Only when they are frustrated in mind and in their deliberations can they stand up anew. Only when their intentions become visible on their countenances and audible in their voices can they be understood by others. As a rule, a state without law-abiding families and trustworthy Gentlemen on the one hand, and, on the other, without the threat of external aggression, will perish. Only then do we realize that anxiety and distressed lead to life and that ease and comfort end indeath."   Mencius

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood   Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.   Helen Keller

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great   Mark Twain

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats   B.C.Forkes

If you cannot feed a hundred people, then feed just one.   Mother Teresa

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

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger, the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity   Winston Churchill

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless   Mother Teresa

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.   John F. Kennedy

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.   Socrates

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make believe   W.Somerset Maugham

Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some services or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large   Mahatma Gandhi

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in dying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man   George Bernard Shaw

Whatever races you are, be proud of your culture and heritages, your ancestors have taken many millenniums to preserve them.   Anonymous

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not conservative, has no brains.    Winston Churchill

People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace   Satya Sai Baba

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones    W.Somerset Maugham

"What our duty now is to reinforce that Buddha mind, or take away what is covering it. We need to take away the ruins, the stories of a thousand years. We have to be spiritual archaeologists. We have to dig out our Buddha mind from the burials of all our emotions."   Tulku Thubten Rinpoche

We think we are human beings who occasionally have spiritual experiences when actually we are spiritual beings who occasionally have human experiences.   Deepak Chopra

You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time   Abraham Lincoln

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself   Leo Tolstoy

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all   Jawaharlal Nehru

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music   Agnes De Mille

Death comes equally to us all and makes us all equal when it comes   John Donne

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.   Mahatma Gandhi

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.   Georg Wilhelm F. Hegel

"That government is best which governs least."   Henry David Thoreau

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.   Herman Melville

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.   Blaise Pascal

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.    Anwar El-Sadat

"Life's like a box of chocolate, you never know which one you'll get."   Forrest Gump

"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbour.... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting."   Mother Teresa

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."   John F. Kennedy

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."   Robert F. Kennedy

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity   Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Cosmic consciousness is our birthright. The means of attaining this are humility, compassion and meditation."   Anonymous

"Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense."   Thomas Huxley

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.   Indira Gandhi

God does not play dice with the universe.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 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, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.

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

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.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

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

"Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced, that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe -a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which, we with our modest powers must feel humble."

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 the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

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

The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.   Lily Tomlin

"We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow -worm."   Winston Churchill

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.   Oscar Wilde

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole whose body Nature is ... and God the soul."    Alexander Pope

No man is free who is not master of himself.   Epictetus

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.   Harvey Firestone

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to find it for himself.   Galileo Galilei

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without"   BUDDHA

"The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones."    Confucius

"The wise will always reflect on the quality, not the quantity of life."   Seneca

"Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it."   Virgil

"Humor is a universal language."   JoelGoodman

"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation...the other eight are unimportant."   Herny Miller

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent."   John Donne

"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."   Kahlil Gibran

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."   Frederick Douglas

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."   Neil Armstrong

"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."    Kahlil Gibran

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."   Matthew

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is a puzzling thing. The Truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the Truth' and so it goes away puzzling.   Robert M. Pirsig

"All the World's a Stage"    William Shakespeare

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim.   English Proverb

"The price of greatness is responsibility"   Churchill

"Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being."   Robert A. Heinlein

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."   John G. Riefenbaker

"Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth"   Matthew 5:5

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."   Mahatma Gandhi

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."   Matthew 5.9

"Some humans even kill in the name of God - and that is the highest blasphemy."   "Conversation with GOD"

"Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased and humbleth himself shall be exalted"   Luke 14:11

"It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God."   Luke 4:1-4

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."   Proverbs 1:7

"It isn't enough to talk about peace, one must believe it. And it isn't enough to to believe in it, one must work for it."   Eleanor Roosevelt

"Peace, like charity, begins at home"   Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself"    Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and it's only end."   Benjamin Israeli

"And be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another."   Ephesians 4:3

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.    Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We all in the same boat brother. You rock it too far to the right you fall in the waddah, rock it too far to the left you fall in the same waddah, and it's just as wet on both sides.   HuddieLedbetter

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, [a] Mighty God, Everlasting Father,   Prince of Peace Isaiah 9:6

"Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you shall glorify me."   Psalm 50:15

"You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God."   Leviticus 18:4

"Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins"    Proverbs 10:12

"If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgivenot men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses"   Matthew 6:14,15

"Put your sword back in its place, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword"   Matthew 26:52