Today Quotes
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.Helen Keller
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.Mother Theresa
We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.Henri F. Amiel
To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.Ralph Emerson
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.H. H. Munro, (Saki)
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.Aeschylus
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).