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McGill's Booklet of Favorite Quotations
Zeitgeist: Famous Quotes Defining the Spirit of Timeless WisdomHonorable Dean Alfange: "I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon. I seek opportunity to develop whatever talents God gave me -- not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any earthly master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say -- ..This, with God's help, I have done.' All this is what it means to be an American." 1Edward Everett Hale: "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do." William Henry Channing: "To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony." Mother Teresa: "People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the end, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway." Theodore Roosevelt: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." 2 Calvin Coolidge: "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; he world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination re omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve he problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." Zen mantra: "great doubt: great awakening; little doubt: little awakening; no doubt: no awakening." Buddha: "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." Robertson Davies: "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." Robert F. Kennedy: "You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution." Ralph Waldo Emerson: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Success: To laugh often and much; -- To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; -- To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; -- To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; -- To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; -- To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived." Louis Farrakhan: "Something is WRONG! Wrong with the government in which we live, wrong with the leaders that lead us, wrong with us, and the way we respond, to our enemy and each other. This nation is not about poor people! Whether they're black, brown, red, yellow or white. This nation is about RICH people, and to hell with the weak, the poor, they must serve!" George Orwell: "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." Arthur Schopenhauer: "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident." Aristotle: "Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." Sophia Stewart: "The poor steal because they're needy; the rich steal because they're greedy." Antoine de Saint-Exupery: "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." Saint Augustine: "Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth." Albert Einstein: "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Jung: "He who looks outside dreams. He who looks within, awakens." Mahatma Gandhi: "Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love." Antoine de Saint-Exupery: "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." Albert Einstein: "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Lakota Proverb: "Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance." Albert Einstein: "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." Ben Franklin: "By improving... yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you." Ralph Waldo Emerson: "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Salvador Dali: "While we are asleep in this world we are awake in another one." Abraham-Hicks: "One who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful than a million who are not. And two who are harmoniously focused and connected to the Energy Stream brings about a co-creative endeavor that cannot be matched by anything else in all of the Universe." Ayn Rand: "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." Abraham Joshua Heschel: "When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people." Tom Robbins: "When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing." Jack Kerouac: "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn...." Tori Amos: "If you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, then maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore." Tori Amos: "When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?" Washington Irving: "Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes." Albert Einstein: "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed." Alonzo B. Bragdon: "Alas, how scant the sheaves for all the trouble, The toil, the pain and the resolve sublime-- A few full ears; the rest but weeds and stubble, / And withered wild-flowers plucked before their time." 3 Aristotle: "There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness." 4 Bible: "As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." 5 Thomas Hobbes: "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." 6 David N. Elkins: "When we touch this domain, we are filled with the cosmic force of life itself, we sink our roots deep into the black soil and draw power and being up into ourselves. We know the energy of the numen and are saturated with power and being. We feel grounded, centered, in touch with the ancient and eternal rhythms of life. Power and passion well up like an artesian spring and creativity dances in celebration of life." 7 William Blake: "To see a World in a Grain of Sand -- And a heaven in a Wild Flower, -- Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand -- And Eternity in an hour." 8 Charlene Spretnak: "There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on gross levels of perception." Albert Einstein: "Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." Black Elk: "Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss." Albert Einstein: "A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner security" Albert Einstein: "Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience." Albert Einstein: "The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism...." Henry Miller: "We invent nothing, truly. We borrow and re-create. We uncover and discover. All has been given, as the mystics say. We have only to open our eyes and hearts, to become one with that which is." Albert Einstein: "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." Jainism: "Have benevolence towards all living beings." 9 Dag Hammarskjold: "God does not die on that day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reasoning. ... When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism." Hinduism: "The mode of living which is founded upon a total harmlessness towards all creatures or [in case of actual necessity] upon a minimum of such harm, is the highest morality." 10 Alred Tennyson: "Flower in the crannied wall -- I pluck you out of the crannies -- I hold you here, root and all, in my hand. -- Little flower, but if I could understand, -- What you are, root and all, and all in all, -- I should know what God and man is." 11 Hildergard of Bingen: "I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars .... I awaken everything to life." Joseph Joubert: "How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die -but asleep!" Senator Robert F. Kennedy: "It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." 12 Albert Schweitzer: "The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe." Jane Harrington: "When you touch a body, you touch the whole person, the intellect, the spirit, and the emotions." Jainism: "I have acted, I have caused others to act, and I have approved of others' actions. One should first comprehend that all such actions taking place in the world are the cause of the influx of karma particles, and then should forswear them." 13 Lao Tzu: "One may know the world without going out of doors. -- The further one goes, the less one knows. -- Therefore the sage knows without going about, -- Understands without seeing, -- And accomplishes without any action." 14 Rumi: "I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun -- I am the mist of morning, the breath of evening -- I am the spark in the stone, the gleam of gold in the metal -- The rose and the nightingale drunk with its fragrance. -- I am the chain of being, the circle of the spheres, -- The scale of creation, the rise and the fall. -- I am what is and is not -- I am the soul in all." Pat Ogden: "In our bodies, in this moment, there live the seed impulses of the change and spiritual growth we seek, and to awaken them we must bring our awareness into the body, into the here and now." Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." Sun Myung Moon: "The spiritual world is connected with the physical world. The common factor connecting all things is true love." 15 William Shakespeare: "And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." Susan L. Taylor: "We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly ... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order." Vivian Elisabeth: "Follow the wisdom provided by nature. Everything in moderation - sunlight, water, nutrients. Too much of a good thing will topple your structure. You can't harvest what you don't sow. So plant your desires, gently nurture them, and they will be rewarded with abundance." 16 Charlene Spretnak: "There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on gross levels of perception." Albert Einstein: "One cannot but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity." Leo Buscaglia: "The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." Eileen Caddy: "Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed." Saint Francis de Sales : "Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew." Vince Lombardi: "The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." William George Jordan : "Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give. . . . If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is."  Zeitgeist: Quotes, Quips and Epigrams by my FriendsWawi Amasha: "WE ARE ALL THE SAME, if we like it or not, we all are a part of the same origin. Color, class, creed, country are all illusions. We are unique. We all want and need the same. LOVE, FOOD, SHELTER, PURPOSE, HAPPINESS. Realize this and be true to what life is supposed to be. We are all brothers and sisters in this journey called life. Let us make it count and cut the hatred and all the negativity. A beautiful life."Stella Vidal: "Perhaps those who chase money will come up empty handed and those who strengthen relationships will not contend with scarcity." Wawi Amasha: "Humanity has a lot to learn. The only way to heal is through love, compassion and forgiveness, otherwise we are doomed and the universe will find a way to force us to face our weaknesses and it's not going to be pretty." Stella Vidal: "How about you go through your journey believing that each day is your arrival, thus celebrating every small accomplishment? Knowing, that there is more to the journey, but not waiting to be happy until you have 'arrived' to the last destination? Many times we overlook the excitement and anticipation of what is yet to come without realizing that your destination IS where you are today." Stella Vidal: "Highly realized people think from the en - that is, they visualize what they wish for before it shows up in material form. Their visualizations can be magnified through meditation and PRAYER. What are you trying to manifest into YOUR life?"  Bibliography
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