Quote Of The Day

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Martin Luther King, Jr

At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance. It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

Mahatma Gandhi

Please let me go. Anna. He lowered his brow to hers. Dont ask me to do that, because I dont think I can live without you. Take a chance, roll the dice. Come with me.

Nora Roberts

If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause

Jim Rohn

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

David Lynch

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - its evidence of wisdom.

Andy Stanley

There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you wont be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.

Marianne Williamson

We must learn to separate need from greedWe must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings.

Thomas S Monson

There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.

Henri Nouwen

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing.

Carl Jung

It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.

George Orwell

Control is the source of strategic power.

Noam Chomsky

To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment.

Isaac Asimov

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He raised an eyebrow. You claim not to know me? Of course Im Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called-- I Sadie stifled a laugh. Ja-hooty? Thoth looked offended. In Ancient Egyptian, its a perfectly fine name. The Greeks called me Thoth. Then later they confused me with their god Hermes. Even had the nerve to rename my sacred city Hermopolis, though were nothing alike. Believe me, if youve ever met Hermes--

Rick Riordan

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

Thomas Jefferson

Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An armys beautiful. But thats not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.

Aldous Huxley

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy

Joyce Meyer

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

Henry David Thoreau