Some Favorite Quotes

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein

"There is only one success...to be able to spend your life in your own way."
Christopher Morley

"A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight and walks beside you in the shadows."
Anon

"Life is too important to take seriously"
Anon

"Take the light things seriously and the serious things lightly"
LR Holland

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
Albert Einstein

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Confucious

"The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming."
James Arthur Ray

"Breath from that space inside your body first"
Kara Smith

"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly."
Barbara J. Winter

"You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be"
James Arthur Ray (paraphrase)

"Go beyond reason to love - it is safe. It is the only safety. Love all you can, and when you are ready all will be shown to you."
Thaddeus Golas

"There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; my philosophy is kindness."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama

"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference."
Virginia Satir

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance."
Sharon

"By logic and reason, we die hourly. By imagination, we live."
William Butler Yeats

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
Mark Twain

"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
Richard Feynman

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
Plato

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia"
Charles M. Schulz

Last amended February 11, 2015. © Alan McAllister.