Quote for the day

[AquaAthena]

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.—Proverb

 

[AquaAthena]

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.— Aeschylus

 

[Mertex]

 

[AquaAthena]

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.— Chinese proverb

 

[AquaAthena]

“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”—
Dale Carnegie

 

[Mertex]

 

[WelfareQueen]

It is both evil and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than his own industry, honesty, and intelligence." - Theodore Roosevelt.

 

[boedicca]

“I owe it all to chocolate and young men.”

- Beatrice Wood

 

[Mertex]

 

[Mertex]

 

[AquaAthena]

True happiness in life is found always within.

 

[DriftingSand]

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that it won’t work.” ~~ Thomas Edison

 

[DriftingSand]

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.” Stuart Chase

 

[AquaAthena]

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”— Frederick Keonig

 

[Esmeralda]

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr

 

[Statistikhengst]

"He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones"

 

[Esmeralda]

Great minds discuss ideas.

Average minds discuss events.

Small minds discuss people.

Author: Unknown

The author is not unknown. The author is Eleanor Roosevelt.

 

[Esmeralda]

“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

[Verse 223]”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

 

[Esmeralda]

“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
― Marcus Aurelius

 

[Esmeralda]

“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. ”
― Daniel Webster, The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Diplomatic Papers and Miscellaneous Letters