Today Quotes
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.Confucius
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.Confucius
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.Pablo Picasso
The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963
Not going home is already like death.E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
So many Gods, so many creeds
So many ways that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
is all this sad world needs.Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.Thomas Edison
The envier praises me unknowingly.Khalil Gibran
There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela