The purpose of life is a life with a purpose.
he word ‘crisis’ in Chinese is made of two words: danger + opportunity!
That which you cannot reform, it is best to endure. (Seneca)
You cannot discover oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore.
We are richer than we think; each one of us. (Montaige)
He whose heart is unperturbed in the midst of calamities and free from longing in the midst of pleasures, from whom attachment, fear and rage have departed, is called a sage of steady reason. (The Bhagavadgita)
A man whose senses are not under control cannot acquire knowledge; nor can he meditate. A man who cannot meditate cannot acquire tranquillity and, for the man who lacks tranquillity, how can there be happiness? (The Bhagavadgita)
The self is the Ultimate Reality. That which was before creation, And from which creation was born. Yet who sees this Self, sees it resting in the hearts of all. (Katha Upanisad)
A human being is part of the whole called by us ‘the universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening the circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. (Albert Einstein)
What matters is not what we seem to a random group, but what we know we are. (Schopenhauer’s)
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy and of admiration. (Ruskin)
Man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can do without. (Henry Thoreau)
While one is consciously afraid of not being loved, the real, tough, usually unconscious fear is that of loving. To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. (Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving)
Modern man thinks he loses something – time – when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains – except kill it. (Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving)
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others. (Nelson Mandela quoting Miriam Williamson)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. (Mother Teresa)
Knowing others is wisdom; knowing the self is enlightenment. (Tao Te Ching)
We can try many ways to get rid of darkness, but none is as effective as simply increasing the light.
All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be -- don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. (Osho)
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. (Nietzche) The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. (Gandhi) The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. (Laurens Van du Post)
Nothing is constant but change. (Confucious)
I believe in God but, not as one thing, not as some old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. (John Lennon)
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. (Thich Nhat Hanh)
BUDDHA:
We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind.
To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go what is in between, transcending the things of time. With your mind free in every direction, you will not return to birth and aging.
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
. . . give up pride. . . .
The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods.
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, give yourself to it.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering. When a wise man has realized this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.
Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.
When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others of our body of bliss'.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then blase them to be true.
Good thoughts will produce good actions and bad thoughts will produce bad actions. Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Better than a thousand useless words is one word that gives peace.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. (Buddha) You create what you defend against.
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.
To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
What we are today comes from our thougths of yesterday. Our present thougths build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind. (Buddha) He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes our suffering.
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
THE DALI LAMA
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Compassion gives you inner strength.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
MAHATMA GANDHI
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
“God has no religion.”
"Where love is, there God is also.”
“Where there is fear there is no religion.”
“Where there is love there is life.”
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
“The future depends on what you do today.”
“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. ”
“I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.”
“Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?”
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
“it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone”
“If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.”
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home”
“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”
“The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?”
"WHAT DOES LOVE MEAN?" BY THE WISEST - CHILDREN (CUTE...)
When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love. (Rebecca - age 8)
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. (Billy - age 4)
Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other. (Karl - age 5)
Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs. (Chrissy - age 6)
Love is what makes you smile when you're tired. (Terri - age 4)
Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK. (Danny - age 7)
Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. (Bobby - age 7)
If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate. (Nikka - age 6)
Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday. (Noelle - age 7)
Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well. (Tommy - age 6)
My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night. (Clare - age 6)
Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken. (Elaine-age 5)
Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford. (Chris - age 7)
Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day. (Mary Ann - age 4)
When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you. (Karen - age 7)
You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. (Jessica - age 8)
he word ‘crisis’ in Chinese is made of two words: danger + opportunity!
That which you cannot reform, it is best to endure. (Seneca)
You cannot discover oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore.
We are richer than we think; each one of us. (Montaige)
He whose heart is unperturbed in the midst of calamities and free from longing in the midst of pleasures, from whom attachment, fear and rage have departed, is called a sage of steady reason. (The Bhagavadgita)
A man whose senses are not under control cannot acquire knowledge; nor can he meditate. A man who cannot meditate cannot acquire tranquillity and, for the man who lacks tranquillity, how can there be happiness? (The Bhagavadgita)
The self is the Ultimate Reality. That which was before creation, And from which creation was born. Yet who sees this Self, sees it resting in the hearts of all. (Katha Upanisad)
A human being is part of the whole called by us ‘the universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening the circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. (Albert Einstein)
What matters is not what we seem to a random group, but what we know we are. (Schopenhauer’s)
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy and of admiration. (Ruskin)
Man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can do without. (Henry Thoreau)
While one is consciously afraid of not being loved, the real, tough, usually unconscious fear is that of loving. To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. (Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving)
Modern man thinks he loses something – time – when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains – except kill it. (Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving)
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others. (Nelson Mandela quoting Miriam Williamson)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. (Mother Teresa)
Knowing others is wisdom; knowing the self is enlightenment. (Tao Te Ching)
We can try many ways to get rid of darkness, but none is as effective as simply increasing the light.
All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be -- don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. (Osho)
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. (Nietzche) The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. (Gandhi) The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. (Laurens Van du Post)
Nothing is constant but change. (Confucious)
I believe in God but, not as one thing, not as some old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. (John Lennon)
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. (Thich Nhat Hanh)
BUDDHA:
We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind.
To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go what is in between, transcending the things of time. With your mind free in every direction, you will not return to birth and aging.
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
. . . give up pride. . . .
The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods.
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, give yourself to it.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering. When a wise man has realized this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.
Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.
When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others of our body of bliss'.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then blase them to be true.
Good thoughts will produce good actions and bad thoughts will produce bad actions. Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Better than a thousand useless words is one word that gives peace.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. (Buddha) You create what you defend against.
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.
To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
What we are today comes from our thougths of yesterday. Our present thougths build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind. (Buddha) He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes our suffering.
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
THE DALI LAMA
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Compassion gives you inner strength.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
MAHATMA GANDHI
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
“God has no religion.”
"Where love is, there God is also.”
“Where there is fear there is no religion.”
“Where there is love there is life.”
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
“The future depends on what you do today.”
“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. ”
“I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.”
“Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?”
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
“it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone”
“If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.”
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home”
“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”
“The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?”
"WHAT DOES LOVE MEAN?" BY THE WISEST - CHILDREN (CUTE...)
When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love. (Rebecca - age 8)
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. (Billy - age 4)
Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other. (Karl - age 5)
Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs. (Chrissy - age 6)
Love is what makes you smile when you're tired. (Terri - age 4)
Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK. (Danny - age 7)
Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. (Bobby - age 7)
If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate. (Nikka - age 6)
Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday. (Noelle - age 7)
Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well. (Tommy - age 6)
My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night. (Clare - age 6)
Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken. (Elaine-age 5)
Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford. (Chris - age 7)
Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day. (Mary Ann - age 4)
When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you. (Karen - age 7)
You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. (Jessica - age 8)