More Quotes

"Here are some more quotes I have found on my way from one place to another.

"Weapons, however highly decorated, are instruments of destruction. The wise man will have nothing to do with them."
~Mencius

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
~Helen Keller

"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself."
~Hitoadesa

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
~George Bernard Shaw

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"
~ Anais Nin ~

"Grace is that invisible numinous assistance that takes us a step beyond the limits of our intellect and will. It is in us but has a life of its own, ruled by forces that we cannot comprehend and that we are not in charge of. Something, we know not what, is always at work doing, we know not how, just what it takes to follow the trajectory of our destiny of wholeness."
~David Richo

"The Utility of Non-Existence
Though thirty spokes may form the wheel,
it is the hole within the hub
which gives the wheel utility.
It is not the clay the potter throws,
which gives the pot its usefulness,
but the space within the shape,
from which the pot is made.
Without a door,
the room cannot be entered,
and without windows it is dark.
Such is the utility of non-existence."
~Lao Tzu


"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
~Eleanor Roosevelt

"We shape clay into a pot.
But it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want."
~Tao Te Ching

"Fate shuffles the cards and we play."
~Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860); German Philosopher


"People should not fear there Governments, Governments should fear their people-Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories."
~Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails."
Explore. Dream. Discover."
~Mark Twain

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
~Albert Einstein

"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."
~Dorothy Sayers

And my very favourite quote is:


"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. "
~Arundhati Roy, Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 27, 2003

Hope you enjoy these" I whisper.

Are you listening?