MEANINGFUL QUOTES

(Originally published Thursday, August 28, 2008)

He who flies over the road, knows what it looks like. He who walks it, knows what it feels like...He knows it.

-Eartha

What a wise man does in the beginning, a foolish man does in the end.

-An old saying; Author Unknown

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

-Henry David Thoreau

He is not a fool if he gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

-Jim Elliot

He whom God wishes to destroy,
He first makes mad.

-Euripides
c. 485-406 B.C.

The ticking time of a clock
precludes us from reasonable pause;
In haste before time is up,
we're prompted to diligently resolve.
We wanna do it all.
But if we live again, what's the rush?
...It'll be there in the end.

-Eartha
August 11, 2008

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

-Philosopher K. Gibran

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

-Anonymous

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

- Henry Ward Beecher

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if, in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere- although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

-Confucius

When you fall for a man with moonbeams in his hands it is prudent to recall that there is nothing there at all.

- Derivation of "Man of La Mancha"by Dale Wasserman

If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking.

- George Patton

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

-Confucius

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

- Jim Horning

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

-Blaise Pascal

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

-Confucius

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found in others.

-Blaise Pascal

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

-Maya Angelou

Do not fear death's decree for you; remember those who went before you and those will come after.

-Wisdom of Solomon - Apocrypha

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.

-Confucius