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Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Not Enabled Word Wise: Enabled Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item Would you like to tell us about a lower price? Would you like to report this content as inappropriate? Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? Track your recent orders Use Your Account to view or change your orders. Visit the Help Desk. We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that all-enfolding sphere: Deep in every heart it lies With its untranscended skies; For what heaven should bend above Hearts that own the heaven of love?

If you believe in peace , act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid — but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world , change yourself.

There are three lessons I would write, — Three words — as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men. Though clouds environ now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, — No night but hath its morn.

Where'er thy bark is driven, — The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, — Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth. Not love alone for one, But men, as man, thy brothers call; And scatter, like the circling sun, Thy charities on all. Thus grave these lessons on thy soul, — Hope, Faith, and Love, — and thou shalt find Strength when life's surges rudest roll, Light when thou else wert blind. Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Before our lives divide for ever, While time is with us and hands are free , Time, swift to fasten and swift to sever Hand from hand, as we stand by the sea I will say no word that a man might say Whose whole life's love goes down in a day; For this could never have been; and never, Though the gods and the years relent, shall be.

Is it worth a tear, is it worth an hour, To think of things that are well outworn? Of fruitless husk and fugitive flower, The dream foregone and the deed forborne? Though joy be done with and grief be vain, Time shall not sever us wholly in twain; Earth is not spoilt for a single shower; But the rain has ruined the ungrown corn. I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew, You had grown strong as the sun or the sea.

But none shall triumph a whole life through: For death is one, and the fates are three. At the door of life, by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death; Death could not sever my soul and you, As these have severed your soul from me. You have chosen and clung to the chance they sent you, Life sweet as perfume and pure as prayer. But will it not one day in heaven repent you? Will they solace you wholly, the days that were?

Will you lift up your eyes between sadness and bliss, Meet mine, and see where the great love is, And tremble and turn and be changed? Content you; The gate is strait; I shall not be there. The pulse of war and passion of wonder, The heavens that murmur, the sounds that shine, The stars that sing and the loves that thunder, The music burning at heart like wine, An armed archangel whose hands raise up All senses mixed in the spirit's cup Till flesh and spirit are molten in sunder — These things are over, and no more mine.

These were a part of the playing I heard Once, ere my love and my heart were at strife; Love that sings and hath wings as a bird, Balm of the wound and heft of the knife. Fairer than earth is the sea, and sleep Than overwatching of eyes that weep, Now time has done with his one sweet word, The wine and leaven of lovely life.

Sweet is true love though given in vain , in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe What's another word for Thesaurus?

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It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. Never burn a penny candle looking for a halfpenny. Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. Our chiefs said 'Done,' and I did not deem it; Our seers said 'Peace,' and it was not peace; Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease. One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. Remember that time is money. I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. When smashing monuments, save the pedestals — they always come in handy. Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it. We have a firm commitment to Europe; we are a part of Europe. You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work. Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. That man is an Euclidian point: One of the basic tenets of Zen Buddhism is that there is no way to characterize what Zen is. No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion.

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately" - Benjamin Franklin Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. Sex is only dirty if it's done right. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. I really believe that if there's any kind of God, he wouldn't be in any one of us — not you, not me, but just this space in between.

If there's some magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone else, sharing something. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. The Enlightened take things Lightly. The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You', that would suffice. Security is mostly a superstition Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else. I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence. If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong.

I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they spoil the lives of better and simpler people. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Men are born ignorant, not stupid.

They are made stupid by education. That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. Jackie Biskupski is running for a seat in the Utah Legislature, and she's attracting a lot of attention because she's a lesbian. Her Republican opponent, Dan Alderson, is a staunch Mormon, and is running a negative ad campaign calling her lifestyle abnormal and deviant. His six wives agree. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly — right now. Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths.

Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them. There may be love without jealousy, but there is none without fear. Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.

When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

My years are not advancing as fast as you might think. The things to do are: If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.

At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in streight and narrow Enclosures. Careful the things you say, children will listen. Guide them along the way, children will see and learn. Children may not obey, but children will look to you for which way to turn; to learn what to be! Careful before you say "Listen to Me. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Ethics and Aesthetics are one. An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work. An interesting thing has happened since San Francisco started granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples: Even though there are thousands of gay and lesbian couples affirming their love for and commitment to each other, my marriage — my affirmation of love and commitment to my wife — isn't threatened at all.

As a matter of fact, the only people who can really "threaten" my marriage are the two of us. It must be so humiliating to have such a public break-up. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Just because it's old doesn't mean you have to read it. March Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair. The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. That can make life a garden. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day.

Try to feel lucky that this is not you. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices.

And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows. Overcome fear, behold wonder. You may quote me. Lewis There is no sincerer love than the love of food. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. Skinner The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Chesterton Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Take it and copy it. Hanlon May The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.

For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. Travers The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Mencken Love me for love's sake, that evermore thou may'st love on, through love's eternity. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

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Err and err and err again but less and less and less. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Well, new to me. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Gurdjieff The difference between a hooker and a ho ain't nothin' but a fee. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. Clement Stone We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Toynbee Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. Ingersoll Love loves to love love. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Chesterton I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for TV. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against it want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it Now we have some hope of making progress. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free.

It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. I could'a had class. I could'a been a contender.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Or else as if the world were wholly fair, but that these eyes of men are dense and dim, and have not power to see it as it is: I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing.

The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad. White in The Once and Future King You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.

Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children — not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women — not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. Kennedy Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. Chesterton Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.

For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken and that he only failed to see all sides. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool.

But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Spurgeon It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. I don't know when — but just saying it could even make it happen. It is also commonly translated as " Called or uncalled, God is present. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught.

Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking Watts A man should be upright, not kept upright. Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

September There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.

I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him. There is all the difference in the world.

It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

Wells At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good.

Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. It seems to be derived from this statement attributed to a specific author: Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. If you're alive, it isn't. There is no try. The Empire Strikes Back These children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through If that is granted, all else follows.

You've just got to keep the faith. The game is not over until the last out. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. I'm against the misuse of God. Huxley We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball.

The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. November The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. Bush The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax — Of cabbages — and Kings — And why the Sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute.

They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should entertain his guest generously.

And anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep quiet. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact. Krishnamurti Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men's souls to joy. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure and are awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

Each single angel is terrifying. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Chesterton From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring, Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

The Tree that was withered shall be renewed, and he shall plant it in the high places, and the City shall be blessed. Sing all ye people! Tolkien From The Lord of the Rings: In the winter season, for seven days of calm, Alcyone broods over her nest on the surface of the waters while the sea-waves are quiet. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. Dance, then, wherever you may be, I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, And I'll lead you all in the Dance, said he.

Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? Salinger Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight — always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? Barrie Wikiqoute Quote of the day for the th anniversary of the first public performance of Peter Pan. Physics isn't the most important thing. And down the wave and in the flame was borne A naked babe If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were.

I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

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