I use a Random Quote plugin to generate the Smart Thoughts you see in the sidebar on this blog. Below is the entire list of those:?
Each place has its own advantages – heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring…Choose the way of goodness. It’s up to you. It’s your choice.
Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of other; it is in yourself alone.
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love’. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
IMAGINATION – Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there….We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
The price of success is perseverance. The price of failure comes cheaper.
We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving; To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it–but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons 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 to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
After the verb ‘to love’, the verb ‘to help’ is the most beautiful verb in the world.
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
A person who seeks help for a friend, while needy himself, will be answered first.
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
None of us is a smart as all of us.
The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it.
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost.
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
Shared joy is joy doubled. Shared sorrow is sorrow halved.
Life is too short to be little.
Being a true friend is an art…having one, a gift.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Dignity does not consist of possessing honors but, in deserving them.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, tolerant of the weak and strong. Because sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to him, his own.
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.
Everything has its wonders, even the darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the mpossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
pride is a virus