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* "Trouble is only opportunity in working clothes."
Henry J. Kaiser* "Two things fill the mind ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me."
Immanuel Kant* "So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only."
Immanuel Kant* "Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination."
Immanuel Kant* "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
Alphonse Karr* "The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence." ("Necessity is the mother of invention.")
Lajos Kassak* "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."
John Keats* "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
John Keats* "'If I should die,' said I to my self, 'I have left no immortal work behind me--nothing to make my friends proud of my memory--but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.'"
John Keats* "I am only one; but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
Helen Keller* "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitute true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
Helen Keller* "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
Helen Keller* "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
Helen Keller* "Convictions are the mainstrings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions."
Bishop Francis Kelly* "Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together."
Vesta M. Kelly* "Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed."
Thomas Ken* "Awake, my soul, and with the sun
Thy daily stage of duty run.
Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise
To pay thy morning sacrifice."
Thomas Ken* "Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past,
And live this day as if thy last."
Thomas Ken* "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
John F. Kennedy* "If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."
John F. Kennedy* "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
John F. Kennedy* "When power leads people towards arrogance, poetry reminds them of their limitations. When power narrows the areas of people's concern, poetry reminds them of the richness and diversity of their existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanes. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment." (*)
John F. Kennedy* "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."
John F. Kennedy* "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
John F. Kennedy* "Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'"
Robert F. Kennedy* "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
Charles F. Kettering* "In my early childhood, I always wondered why we only learn from the past. . . . Couldn't teachers teach something of the future? . . . Holistic anticipation of the future through the use of Ethnographic Futures Research by many informants with varying backgrounds can provide useful frameworks for policy makers."
S. Ketudat, former minister for education of Thailand (The Middle Path for the Future of Thailand, Mastering the Infinite Game, edited by R.B. Textor, Charles Hampden-Turner, and Fons Trompenaars, Capestone, 1997, p203)* "Words should be a little wild because they are the assult of thoughts upon the unthinking."
John Maynard Keynes* "In the long run we are all dead."
John Maynard Keynes* "One should not think slightly of the paradoxical; for the paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity."
Soren Kierkegaard* "Life is not a problem to be solved but reality to be experienced."
Soren Kierkegaard* "The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future."
Soren Kierkegaard* "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Soren Kierkegaard* "That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself."
Soren Kierkegaard* "Things have a terrible permanence when people die."
Joyce Kilmer* "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
Martin Luther King Jr.* "The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
Martin Luther King Jr.* "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.* "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King Jr.* "Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it." (*)
Charles Kingsley* "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiatic about."
Charles Kingsley* "I keep six honest serving men
They taught me all I know;
Their names are WHAT and WHY and WHEN
And HOW and WHERE and WHO."
Rudyard Kipling* "Power without responsibility: the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages."
Rudyard Kipling* "If
If you keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, not talk too wise:If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings--nor lose the ccommon touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!"
Rudyard Kipling* "Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either."
Henry Kissinger* "Those who can take advice are sometimes superior to those who can give it."
Karl von Knebel* "Creative activity described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."
Arthur Koestler* "The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."
Arthur Koestler* "They deserve paradise who make their companions laugh."
The Koran* "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
The Koran* "Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious, of which you are not aware. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy. . . . You want to be consciously happy; the moment you are consciously happy, happiness is gone."
Jiddu Krishnamurti* "Listen ...
I do not know if you have ever examined how you listen,
it doesn't matter to what,
Whether to a bird, to the wind in the leaves, to the rushing waters,
or how you listen in a dialogue with yourself,
to your conversation in various relationships
with your intimate friends, your wife or husband. . . .If we try to listen we find it extraordinary difficult,
because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas,
our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses;
when they dominate we hardly listen at all to what is being said. . . .In that state there is no value at all.
One listens and therefore learns,
only in a state of attention, a state of silence,
in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quiet;
then, it seems to me,Real communication can only take place where there is
Silence."
Krishnamurti* "Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do do much, cannot decide what ought to do."
Joseph Wood Krutch* "Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery."
Joseph Wood Krutch* "Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross* "Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth.
Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust.
Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace.
Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe."
Satish Kumar
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* "Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late."
Jean de La Bruyere* "Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live."
Jean de La Bruyere* "Death never takes the wise person by surprise; they are always ready to go." (*)
Jean de La Fontaine* "A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment."
R.D. Laing* "We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."
R.D. Laing* "Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."
Thomas La Mance* "Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less."
Charles Lamb* "The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend."
Charles Lamb* "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Bert Lance* "Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work so most people don't recognize them."
Ann Landers* "In this world the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong, they are positive, and they is the way of achievement, correction, improvement and success."
David Landes* "As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear, and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'"
Lao-tzu* "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
Lao-tzu* "Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small."
Lao-tzu* "Many Worlds--Many Times
Look, it cannot be seen--it is beyond form.
Listen, it cannot be heard--it is beyond sound.
Grasp, it cannot be held--it is intangible.
These three are indefinable;
Therefore they are joined in one.
From above it is not bright;
From below it is not dark;
An unbroken thread beyond description.
It returns to nothingness.
The form of the formless.
The image of the imageless.
It is called indefinable and beyond imagination.
Strad before it and there is no beginning.
Follow it and there is no end.
stay with the ancient Tao,
Move with the present.
Knowing the ancient beginning is the essence of Tao."
Lao-tzu (Tao-te Ching, A New Translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English, Random House, 1972, in The Unseen Universe of Mind and Matter, Daniel Weiss Miller, Beyond the Realm Publishing, 1993, p204)* "Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing."
Lao-tzu (The Way of Power)* "No occurances are so unfortunate that the shrewd cannot turn them to some advantage, nor so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn them to their own disadvantage."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld* "If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noticing them in others."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld* "We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld* "The future is not a gift--it is an achievement."
Sir Harry Lauder* "Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."
D.H. Lawrence* "Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour."
Stephen Leacock* "Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy."
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret)* "While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State."
Lenin* "Poor is the pupil who does not surpass their Master." (*)
Leonardo da Vinci* "Human subtlety--will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous." Leonardo da Vinci
* "I have heard tell of a Professor of Economics who has a sign on the wall of their study, reading 'the future is not what it was.' The sentiment was admirable; unfortunately, the past is not getting any better either."
Bernard Levin* "To govern is to choose."
Francois-Gaston de Levis* "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it." Kurt Lewin
* "We have trained them [men] to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain--not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
C.S. Lewis* "You only live once--but if you work it right, once is enough."
Joe E. Lewis* "Out of the best and most productive years of each person's life, they should carve a segment in which they put their private career aside to serve their community and their country, and thereby serve their children, their neighbours, their fellow men, and the cause of freedom." (*)
David Lilienthal* "Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do."
Lin Yutang* "There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy wise old man."
Lin Yutang* "The legitimate objects of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their seperate and individual capacities."
Abraham Lincoln* "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormey present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disentrall ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln* "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln* "Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past."
Walter Lippmann* "While the right to talk mnay be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important."
Walter Lippmann* "Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
David Lloyd George* "The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have."
John Locke* "Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round."
David Lodge* "Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."
George Lois* "Let us then be up and doing
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow* "Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act--act in the living present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow* "O what a glory doth this world put on,
For him who with fervent heart goes forth,
Under the bright and glorious sky and looks
On duties well performed, and days well spent."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* "Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow* "Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not the goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest.
Was not spoken of the soul."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow* "There is only one thing that will really train the human mind and that is the voluntary use of the mind by the person themself. You may guide them, you may suggest to them, and, above all else, you may inspire them. But the only thing worth having is that which they get their own exertions, and what they get is in direct proportion to what they put into it."
Albert L. Lowell* "How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying."
Malcolm Lowry* "Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind."
Charles L. Lucas* "Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealings with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight."
Henry R. Luce* "And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all."
Lucretius* "For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it."
St. Luke (Bible)* "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required."
St. Luke 12:48 (Bible)* "Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."
Martin Luther* "One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
Robert Lynd
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* "The measure of a person's real character is what they would do if they knew they would never tbey found out." (*)
Lord Macaulay* "Knowledge advances by steps, and not be leaps."
Lord Macaulay* "Life, for all its agonies of dispair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and love, at times a poem and a high adventure, at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is to come after it--we shall not have this life again."
Rose Macaulay* "Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
Niccolo Machiavelli* "A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible."
Niccolo Machiavelli* "A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice."
Niccolo Machiavelli* "There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the older order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favour; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it."
Niccolo Machiavelli* "There is no such thing as death,
in nature, nothing dies:
From each sad moment of decay
Some forms of life arise.
Charles Mackay* "If it is something feasible, obtainable,
Let us dream it now
And pray for a possible land . . .
Where the altars of sheer power
and more profit
Have fallen to disuse,
Where nobody sees the use
of buying money and blood
at the cost of blood and money,
Where the individual, no longer squandered
in self-assertion, works with the rest. . . ."
Louis MacNeice* "In the solitude of your mind are the answers to all your questions about life. You must take the time to ask and listen."
Bawa Mahaiyadden* "Education is your passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
Malcolm X* "A person who stands for nothing will fall for anything." (*)
Malcolm X* "O grant me heav'n, a middle state
Neither too humble or too great:
More than enough for nature's ends,
With something left to treat my friends."
Mallet* "I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me."
Dudley Field Malone* "Our civilization . . . is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it."
Andre Malraux* "Of Paradise can I not speak properly, for I have not been there."
John Mandevile* "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."
O.G. Manding* "There is nothing so costly as ignorance."
Horace Mann* "The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason."
Marya Mannes* "Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land."
Mao Tse-tung* "Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."
Marcus Aurelius* "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
Marcus Aurelius* "And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand."
St. Mark 3:24.25 (Bible)* "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul! Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
St. Mark 8:36.37 (Bible)* "I will not die an unlived life,
I will not live to fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me
to make me less afraid,
more accessable,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
To live
so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came
to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit."
Dawna Markova
* "An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."
Johnny Marks* "Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it."
Don Marquis* "We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
Judith Martin* "The philosphers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
Karl Marx* "I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."
Abraham Maslow* "To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation."
Abraham Maslow* "The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists."
Marcel Masse* "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."
St. Matthew (Bible)* "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."
St. Matthew (Bible)* "Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
W. Somerset Maugham* "It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future."
W. Somerset Maugham* "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self complacent is erroneous--on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel."
W. Somerset Maugham* "Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one."
W. Somerset Maugham* "You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
W. Somerset Maugham* "Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality."
Andre Maurois* "Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence."
Rollo May* "Depression is the inability to construct a future."
Rollo May* "I touch the future: I teach."
Christa McAuliffe* "The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool."
William McFee* "The best way to teach our young people the meaning of our democratic freedoms is to demonstrate, by our own example, that we have mastered the 'three R's of citizenship'--Rights, Respects, and Responsibilities."
Earl James McGrath* "Man is a wanting animal--as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death."
Douglas McGregor* "We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap."
Mignon McLaughlin* "Every society is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show."
Mignon McLaughlin* "Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse."
Marshall McLuhan* "Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
Marshall McLuhan
* "The great person is someone who does not lose their child's-heart." (*)
Mencius (Meng-tzu)* "What's done to children, they will do to society."
Karl Menninger* "Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
Karl Menninger* "Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can."
Owen Meredith* "The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."
Thomas Merton* "The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order."
Prince Metternich* When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."
Michelangelo* "Start doing things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely."
Adam Michnik, an architect of Poland's Solidarity Movement.* "No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought."
John Stuart Mill* "Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so."
John Stuart Mill* "The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one."
John Stuart Mill* "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against their will is to prevent harm to others. Their own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."
John Stuart Mill* "And all the loveliest things there be
Come simply, so it seems to me."
Edna St. Vincent Millay* "It is not true that life is one damn thing after another--it's one damn thing over and over."
Edna St. Vincent Millay* "My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and ol, my friends--
It gives a lovely light."
Edna St. Vincent Millay* "People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer."
Alice Duer Miller* "The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love."
Henry Miller* "Wherever one goes in this civilized world, one always finds the same set-up. The little man, the man who does the dirty work, the producer is of no importance, receives no consideration, and is always being asked to make the greatest sacrifice. Yet everything depends on this forgotten man. Not a wheel could turn without his support and co-operation. It is this man, whose number is legion, who has no voice in world affairs . . . he knows that he has been robbed and cheated from time immemorial. He is suffocated with all this bitter knowledge. He waits and waits hoping that time will alter things. And slowly he realizes that time alters nothing. That with time things only grow worse. One day, he will decide to act. 'Wait!' he will be told. 'Wait just a little longer.' But he will refuse to wait another second."
Henry Miller* "Ideas are the real substance of human life. Ideas guide our actions and even control our movements. It is just as well to put them in order first and then to display their anatomy."
Jonathan Miller* "Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making."
John Milton* "Exploring the question brings more wisdom than having the answer."
A Course in Miracles* "Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."
Wilson Mizner* "The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."
Ashley Montagu* "The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them; they have lived for a long time who has little lived. Whether you have lived enough depends not on the number of your years but on your will." (*)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne* "It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne* "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne* "The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world."
Eugenio Montale* "Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tradedy a man may have."
Arthur E. Morgan* "Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead."
Julia Morgan* "There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way."
Christopher Morley* "In extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too."
Suzanne Mornay* "A person travels the world over in search of what they need and returns home to find it." (*)
George Moore* "Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death."
Desmond Morris* "Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell: fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death: and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them."
William Morris* "The reward of labour is life."
William Morris* "The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition."
Dwight Morrow* "I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral."
Lord Mountbatten* "The clearest way into the Universe is through a wilderness."
John Muir* "To say, for example, that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer."
H.J. Muller* "Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."
Lewis Mumford* "Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell."
Clint Murchison* "Love is the extemely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality."
Dame Iris Murdoch* "Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves."
Dame Iris Murdoch
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