Zen Proverb Famous Quotes
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
"Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself."
Zen Proverb Quotations
One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
Chinese Proverb
"Surely God causes the seed and the stone to sprout He brings forth the living from the dead, and He is the bringer forth of the dead from the living."
Koran
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
Henry Havelock Ellis
"When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too."
Bayard Rustin
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness."
William Shakespeare
"Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to."
Josh Billings
"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
John 1335 Bible
"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
Hellen Keller
There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.
Sam James Ervin Jr