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* "It is the soul of man which first has to be fed."
Rabbani, Shoghi Effendi* "Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either."
Raddall, Thomas H.* "A person must first govern themself ere they be fit to govern a family, and his family ere they be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth."
Raleigh, Sir Walter
* "Even such is Time, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust."
Raleigh, Sir Walter* "In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to
those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do
not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the
mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your
knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent
mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out,
spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in our soul
perish, in the lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have
never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your
battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it
impossible, it's yours."
Rand, Ayn , from John Galt's speech in Atlas Shrugged,* "Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle-class are its future."
Rand, Ayn* "Nature composes some of its loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope."
Raszak, Theodore, US cultural thinker and writer.* "An economic system is not only an institutional device for satisfying existing wants and needs but a way of fashioning wants in the future."
Rawls, John
* "Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character, Sow a character and you reap a destiny."
Reade, Charles,* "A people can never rise from low estate as long as the engrossed in the painful struggle for daily bread. On the other hand leisure alone is not sufficient to effect the self-promotion of man."
Reade, Winwood, The Martyrdom of Man, 1872* "The history of morals is the extension of the reciprocal or selfish virtues from the clan to the tribe, from the tribe to the nation, from the nation to all communities living under the same government, civil or religious, then people of the same colour, and finally to all mankind."
Reade, Winwood, The Martyrdom of Man, 1872* "All men cannot be poets or philanthropists; but all men can join in that gigantic and god-like work the progress of creation. Whoever improves their own nature improves the universe of which they are a part." (*)
Reade Winwood, The Martyrdom of Man, 1872* "Art is ... pattern informed by sensibility."
Reed, Herbert* "Sins become more subtle as you grow older. You commit sins of despair rather than lust."
Read, Piers Paul
* "'Knowledge is power' is the finest idea ever put into words."
Renan, Ernest J.* "Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others."
Renard, Jules* "A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternatively absorbs and expresses ideas."
Repplier, Agnes* " Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
Rickenbacker, Eddie*"To say that the truth is simple does not mean that it is easy or simplistic."
Rindle, E.* "To find joy in your work is the greatest thing for a human being."
Roberts, Harry* Everyone likes to think that they have done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen."
Rockefeller 3rd, John D.* " It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it."
Rockefeller, Nelson* "Most people think the future is the ends and the present is the means. In fact, the present is the ends and the future the means."
Roethlisberger, Fritz* "If you're not playing
a big enough game,
you'll screw up
the game you're playing
just to give yourself
something to do."
Roger, John and Williams, Peter, DO IT! A guide to living your dreams, Thorsons (1992)* " Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
Rogers, Will* "No one is so old that they cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today."
Rojas, Fernando De* Life has to be lived, that's all there is to it.
Roosevelt, Eleanor* "Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Roosevelt, Eleanor* "First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself --- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Roosevelt, Franklin D.* "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
Roosevelt, Franklin D.* " We have the men -- the skill -- the wealth -- and above all, the will ... We must be the greatest arsenal of democracy."
Roosevelt, Franklin D.* "We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in their own way everywhere in the world. The third freedom from want .... everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear .... everywhere in the world.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.* "No prosperity and glory can save a nation that is rotten at heart."
Roosevelt, Theodore* "Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."
Roosevelt Theodore (1858-1919). U.S. President 1901-09, Speech 1917.
("Timing is everything")* "No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause."
Roosevelt, Theodore* "The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
Roosevelt, Theodore* "This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."
Roosevelt, Theodore* "Seek above all for a game worth playing. Play as if your life and sanity depend on it, because they do."
De Ropp, Robert
* "The successful person is one who is able to take their talents
and invest them in the business of living in a manner that leads to the accomplishment of a full life of service." (*)
Roth, Sol* " Nature composes some of its loveliest poems for the microscope and telescope."
Roszak, Theodore* "Everything is good when it leaves the Creator's hands; everything degenerates in the hands of people." (*)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques* "I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques* "People was born free, and everywhere they are in shackles." (*)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques* "Let the civilize world go to the devil. 'Long live nature, forests and ancient poetry.'
Rousseau, Theodore* "Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know."
Roux, Joseph* " The follies which a person regrets most, in their life, are those which they didn't commit when they had the opportunity." (*)
Rowland, Helen* "Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life."
Rudolph, Wilma* "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
Rumi* The Guest House
This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival.A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.Welcome and entain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.The dark thought, the shame the malice,
meet them at the door laughing
and invite them in.Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
Rumi* "If tomorrow were never to come it would not be worth living today."
Runes, Dagobert* "Work is man's most natural form of relaxation."
Runes, Dagobert* "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
Rushdie, Salman* "Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
Ruskin, John* "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it"
Ruskin, John* "There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy and of admiration. That country is richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
Ruskin, John* "When a person is wrapped up in themself they make a pretty small package."
Ruskin, John* "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
Ruskin, John* Boredom is ... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
Russell, Bertrand* " 'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy."
Russell, Bertrand* "Envy is the basis of democracy."
Russell, Bertrand* "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life."
Russell, Bertrand Unpopular Essays (1950)* "Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism."
Russell, Bertrand* "It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit: divorced from it, they remain barren."
Russell, Bertrand* "It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else, that prevents people from living freely and nobly." (*)
Russell, Bertrand* "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."
Russell, Bertrand* "One must care about a world one will not see."
Russell, Bertrand* "The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty."
Russell, Bertrand* "The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."
Russell, Bertrand* "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
Russell, Bertrand* "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
Russell, Bertrand* "To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization." (or "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.")
Russell, Bertrand* "The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
Russell, David
* "We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."
Russell, Dora* "The future belongs to those who know how to wait."
Russian Proverb
('Patience is a virtue.')* "Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value -- and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes."
Ryan, Ayn
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* " Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de* "The mark of the immature person is that they want to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature person is that they want to live humbly for one."(*)
Salinger J.D. quoting a psychiatrist (Allison Pearson, Evening Standard, 8 October 1997)* "One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness - simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial top a point, love of work, and above all a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain."
Sand, George (Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, 1804-1876)* "I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way."
Sandburg, Carl* "It isn't the thing you do;
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you a bit of heartache
At the setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent
Are your haunting ghosts at night."
Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth* "Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
Santanya, George* "Every person in the world is better than someone else. And not as good as some one else."
Santanya, George
* "Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
Santanya, George* "Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."
Santanya, George* "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it."
Santanya, George* "The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."
Santanya, George* "The problem is how to get experience out of education."
Santanya, George* " The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, make it alike impressive. If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is that spirit, so prolific, inexorable, grammatical and dull."
Santanya, George* "If you have a finite point and it has no infinite reference point, then that finite point is absurd"
Sartre, Jean-Paul* "We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us."
Sartre, Jean-Paul* "We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form a team we would be reorganized ... we tend to meet every situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be from creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization."
Satyrion, Petronius Arbiter.* "All organisms with complex nervous systems are faced with the moment-by-moment question that is posed by life: What shall I do next?"
Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue and Lewin, Roger 1994.* "The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results."
Schiller, Friedrich von* "We learn by thinking and the quality of the learning outcome is determined by the quality of our thoughts."
Schmeck, Ronald R. Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University.
* "Thus the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."
Schopenhauer.* "The image of the world around us that science provides is highly deficient. It supplies a lot of factual information, and puts all our experience in magnificently coherent order, but keeps terribly silent about everything close to our hearts, everything that really counts for us."
Schrodinger, Erwin, Nobel Prize winner in physics, 1933,* "Someone once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled,' I replied, 'I hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive."
Schuller, Robert* "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Schultz, Charles M.* "Capitalism, while economically stable and even gaining in stability, creates by rationalizing the human mind, a mentality and a style of life incompatible with its own fundamental conditions, motives and social institutions."
Schumpeter, Joseph, 'The Instability of Capitalism'* "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong to be set right."
Schurz, Carl* "A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm."
Schwab, Charles M.* "Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it is the only thing."
Schweitzer, Albert* "One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
Schweitzer, Albert* "The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others."
Schweitzer, Albert* "Integrity is not a 90% thing, not a 95% thing; either you have it or you don't."
Scotese, Peter* "Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive!"
Scott, Sir Walter* "We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart."
Scott, Sir Walter* "All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach."
Scott Peck, M.* "As soon as we think with integrity we will realize that we are all properly stewards and that we cannot with integrity deny our responsibility for stewardship of every part of the whole."
Scott Peck, M.* "By attempting to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we are giving away our power to some other individual or organization. In this way, millions daily attempt to escape from freedom."
Scott Peck, M.* "By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear."
Scott Peck, M.* "Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom."
Scott Peck, M.* "Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures."
Scott Peck, M.* "If we overcome laziness, all the other impediments to spiritual growth will be overcome. If we do not, none of the others will be hurdled."
Scott Peck, M.* "It is not so much what our parents say that determines our world view as it is the unique world they create for us by their behavior."
Scott Peck, M.* "Learning from their children is the best opportunity most people have to assure themselves of meaningful old age."
Scott Peck, M.* "Most of us believe that the freedom and power of adulthood is our due, but we have little taste for adult responsibility and self-discipline."
Scott Peck, M.* "Once we truly know that life is difficult -- once we truly understand and accept it -- then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, it no longer matters."
Scott Peck, M.* "Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom."
Scott Peck, M.* "Simply seek happiness, and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create and love without regard to your happiness, and you will likely be happy much of the time."
Scott Peck, M.* "The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth."
Scott Peck, M.* "The degree to which we can develop world community and thereby save our skins is going to depend primarily on the degree to which we human beings can learn to empty ourselves."
Scott Peck, M.* "The entirety of one's adult life is a series of personal choices, decisions. If we can accept this totally, then we become free people. To the extent that we do not accept this we will forever feel ourselves victims."
Scott Peck, M.* The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself -- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring."
Scott Peck, M.* "The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action."
Scott Peck, M.* "The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity."
Scott Peck, M.* "There can be no vulnerability without risk; and there can be no community without vulnerability; and there can be no peace -- ultimately no life -- without community."
Scott Peck, M.* "There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are son often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings."
Scott Peck, M.* "To be organized and efficiently, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously."
Scott Peck, M.* "When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity."
Scott Peck, M.* The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents."
Scott Peck, M.* To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so we must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours."
Scott Peck, M.* " Wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems because it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning."
Scott Peck, M.* "Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others."
Seabury, David* "All things are bound together. All things connect. Whatever happens to the Earth happens to the children of the Earth." (* "Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.")
America Chief Seattle* "Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation."
Seldon, William H.* "A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery."
Seneca* "Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
Seneca* "There is no favorable wind without direction."
Seneca* "There is nothing in the world so much admired as a person who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
Seneca* "The reward of a good deed is to have done it."
Seneca* "It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out -- it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
Service, Robert* "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones."
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), Julius Caesar* "If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favours not your hate."
Shakespeare, William Macbeth* "Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken."
Shakespeare, William Sonnet 116."Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be."
Shakespeare, William Hamlet* "Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
Shakespeare, William, Cassius Julius Caesar* "Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own try self be true,
And it must follow as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
Shakespeare, William Hamlet* "Some are born great,
some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Shakespeare, William Twelfth Night* "The quality of mercy is not strained,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than its crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptered sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself,
And earthy power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy."
Shakespeare, William The Merchant of Venice* "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Shakespeare, William Hamlet* "There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune:
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries."
Shakespeare, William Julius Caesar* "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."
Shakespeare, William Troilus and Cressida* "To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them?
Shakespeare, William Hamlet* "To be wise, and love
Exceeds man's might."
Shakespeare, William Troilus and Cressida* " What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief."
Shakespeare, William The Winter's Tale* "All the joy the world contains
Has come through wishing happiness for others.
All the misery the world contains
Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.
Is there need for lengthy explanation?
Childish beings look out for themselves,
While Buddhas labour for the good of others:
See the differences that divides them!"
Shantideva, eighth century Buddhist teacher
* "Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)* "It is not enough to know what is good; you must be able to do it."
Shaw, George Bernard, Back to Methuslah, Act IV, scene1, AD 1921.* "It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."
Shaw, George Bernard* "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most people dread it." (*)
Shaw, George Bernard* "Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of bright torch which I have got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handling it on to future generations."
Shaw, George Bernard* "Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention."
Shaw, George Bernard Back to Methuselah, (1921)* "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
Shaw, George Bernard* "Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure for freedom than unconventionality does."
Shaw, George Bernard* "Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reason."
Shaw, George Bernard* "People are always blaming
their circumstances
for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances
The people who get on
in this world are the people
who get up and look for the
circumstances they want,
and, if they can't find them,
make them."
Shaw, George Bernard* "People never tell you anything until you contact them." (*)
Shaw, George Bernard* "Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?" I dream of things that never were and ask "Why Not?"
Shaw, George Bernard (see Robert Kennedy?)* "The Golden Rule is that there are no golden rules."
Shaw, George Bernard* "The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by
holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.'
Shaw, George Bernard* "The reasonable person adapts themself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to them. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable person."
Shaw, George Bernard* "The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them."
Shaw, George Bernard* "The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel."
Shaw, George Bernard* "The two things that worthless people sacrifice everything for are happiness and freedom, and their punishment is that they get both only to find that they have no capacity for the happiness and no use for the freedom."
Shaw, George Bernard* "This is the true joy in life: The being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. The being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die - for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
Shaw, George Bernard* "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
Shaw, George Bernard Candida (1898)* "We learn from experience that people never learn anything from experience." (*)
Shaw, George Bernard* "When a stupid person is doing something they are ashamed of, they always declares that it is their duty." (*)
Shaw, George Bernard* "You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
Shaw, George Bernard* "Youth is a wonderful thing; what a crime to waste it on children.
Shaw, George Bernard* "Death is the veil which those who live call life:
They sleep, and it is lifted."
Sheely, Percy-Bysshe* "The good want power, but to weep barren tears
The powerful goodness want: worse need for them.
The wise want love, and those who love want wisdom."
Sheely, Percy-Bysshe (1792-1822), Prometheus Unbound, (1820) act 1, 1. 625.* "These are our times and our responsibilities. Every human being has a sacred duty to protect the welfare of our Mother Earth, from whom all life comes. In order to do this we must recognize the enemy -- the one within us. We must begin with ourselves...."
Shenandoah, Leon, of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy.* "The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings,
Scepture and crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made]
With the poor crooked scythe and spade."
Shirley, James* "The price of awareness is enormous but it is not necessarily a sacrifice. Much is demanded of you, because you have the capacity to contribute and because you are a leader in business. This will be especially true in the next ten to twenty years. For paying the price, you will receive in return the priceless gift of your own growth and evolution, your own greater consciousness and connectedness.
Shipka, Barbara Leadership in a Challenging World: A Sacred Journey,, Butterworth-Heinemann (1997), p198.* "Liars ought to have good memories."
Sidney, Algernon
* "If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T-cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same change happens automatically. The truth is 'Love heals.'"
Siegel, Bernie* "Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation"
Sigourney, Lydia H.* "Treat others as thou would'st be treated thyself."
Sikhism: (15th century A.D.)* "We have to believe in free will. We have no choice."
Isaac Bashevis Singer*"A scientist had a bird in his hand. He saw that it had life and, wanting to find out in what part of the bird's body its life lay, he began dissecting the bird. The result was that the very life he was in search of disappeared. Those who try to understand the mysteries of the inner life intellectually will meet with similar failure. The life they are looking for will vanish in the analysis." (An analogy to show how the 'secret and reality of blissful life' cannot be discovered through intellectual or forensic probing)
Singh, Sadhu Sundar, Indian Christian mystic* "Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."
Sitting Bull* "Put your heart, mind and intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
Sivananda* "Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."
Smiles, Samuel* " ... the most important results in daily life are to be obtained, not through the exercise of extraordinary powers, such as genius and intellect, but through the energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities, with which nearly all human individuals have been more or less endowed ..."
Smiles, Samuel* "The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual."
Smiles, Samuel* "To be worth anything, character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation, and trial."
Smiles, Samuel* "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
Smith, Adam* "The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right."
Smith, Hannah Whitall* "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
Smith, Logan Pearsall* "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
Smith, Logan Pearsall* "Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors."
Smith, W. Eugene* "The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the person." (*)
Smith, Roy L.* "Never try to reason the prejudice out of a person. It was not reasoned into them and cannot be reasoned out." (*)
Smith, Stevie* Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due."
Smith, Sydney* "It is the calling of great men, not so much to preach new truths, as to rescue from oblivion those old truths which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget."
Smith, Sydney* "Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness."
Smith, Sydney* "The only true way to make the mass of mankind see the beauty of justice is by showing to them in pretty plain terms the consequences of injustice."
Smith, Sydney* "In the high art of serving others,
workers sustain their morale,
management keeps its customers,
and the nation prospers.
One of the indisputable lessons of life
is that we cannot get or keep anything
for ourselves alone
unless we also get it for others."
Sneed, J Richard* "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
Sockman, Ralph W.* "Grant to me that I may be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possessions be in harmony with my inner man. May I consider the wise man rich and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure."
Socrates, Prayer of.* "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
Socrates* "Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death."
Socrates* "One who permits malice is not a person of wisdom" (*)
Socrates* "Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods."
Socrates* "But I grow old always learning many things."
Solon* "The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart."
Solzhenltsyn, Alexander, The Gulag Archipelago* "The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."
Solzhenltsyn, Alexander* "Trust is the fabric that binds us together, creating an orderly civilized society from chaos and anarchy .... Trust must be carefully constructed, vigorously nurtured, and constantly reinforced."
Sonnenberg, Frank K.* "One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it you have no certainty, until you try."
Sophocles, Trachiniae, 415 BC* "The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities." ("The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.") Sophocles
* "There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than people." (*)
Sophocles
* "If there be any truer measure of a person
than by what they do
it must be by what they give."
South, Robert* "Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life."
Spalding, John Lancaster* "Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedoms."
Spencer, Herbert* "No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy."
Spencer, Herbert* "Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings and not by the intellect."
Spencer, Herbert* "Science is organized knowledge."
Spencer, Herbert* "The ultimate result of shielding people from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."
Spencer, Herbert* "Time: That which people are always trying to kill, but which ends in killing them." (*)
Spencer, Herbert* "For myself, I am certain that the good of human life cannot lie in the possession of things which, for one person to possess, is for the rest to lose, but rather in things which all can possess alike, and where one person's wealth promotes their neighbour's."(*)
Spinoza* "It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
Lord Stamp* "Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so."
Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl Chesterfield, 1694-1773, letter to his son 19 November, 1745.* "Femine wisdom is a continual affirmation of life, through its eternal readiness to respond to the quick of the moment; it is not communicated by the word or rite, but through presence and being."
Stein, Robert Incest and Human Love.
* "The life of the creative person is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. It is also one of the most difficult ... in the end working is good because it is the last refuge of the person who wants to be amused."
Steinberg, Saul* "Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his works, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."
Steinbeck, John* "The mark of the immature person is that they want to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature person is that they want to live humbly for one."
Stekel, William* "Women are stronger than men -they so not die of wisdom.
They are better than men because they do not seek wisdom.
They are wiser than men because they know less and understand more."
Stephens, James (1882-1950) The Crook of Gold (1912), bk1, ch2.* "The question of wealth is like chasing a rainbow. I have hunted a rainbow in an aeroplane, but always in the end it was just grey mist. It seems to me that the pursuit of riches is such an exacting task that they who strives for them must soon forget what it was they originally hoped to acquire. Even if they remember, they are so old, and so weary, or both, that the star they strove to reach turns out to be merely mist, grey mist, and nothing more. What we thought was happiness is so seldom what we thought it was."
Stephens, Theo My Garden's Good-Night.* "Every age needs people who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be." (*)
Stevenson, Adlai* "It is often easier to fight for a principle than to live up to it."
Stevenson, Adlai* "It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts."
Stevenson, Adlai* "It is said that a wise person who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish person who stands form is a catastrophe." (*)
Stevenson, Adlai* "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
Stevenson, Adlai* "Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."
Stevenson, Adlai* "It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. People should stand around where they can hear the call."
Stevenson, Robert Louis* "Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy."
Stevenson, Robert Louis* "Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."
Stevenson, Robert Louis* "To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life."
Stevenson, Robert Louis* " To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour."
Stevenson, Robert Louis* "Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?"
Stoppard, Tom* "It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to a person's extra-ordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy them."
Storr, Anthony* "Growing old -- it's not nice, but it's interesting."
Strindberg, Johan August* "People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway."
Strunsky, Simeon* "As long as you can find someone else to blame for anything you are doing, you cannot be held accountable or responsible for your growth or the lack of it."
Sun Bear* No one can give you wisdom. You must discover it for yourself, on the journey through life, which no one can take for you.
Sun Bear* "When an old person dies, a library is lost."
Swann, Tommy* "The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."
Swedish proverb
* "It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)* "May you live all the days of your life."
Swift, Jonathan* "No wise person ever wished to be younger." (*)
Swift, Jonathan* "Whosoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."
Swift., Jonathan Gulliver's Travels.* "It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others."
Syrus, Publius* "The stupid neither forgive nor forget, the naive forgive & forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
Szasz, Thomas 1920, The Second Sin (1973), Personal Conduct.* "Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."
Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert
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