Echoes

Echoes

Thought provoking words from the past resounding time and time again....


1) There are two ways of spreading light,
To be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
                               Edith Wharton
2) The meanings of things are not in the things
themselves,but in Our attitudes towards them.
                         Antoine deSaint Exspery
3) Beauty is its own excuse for being
                             Ralph Waldo Emerson
4) To appreciate beauty,to find the best in others...
to leave this world a bit better...This is to
have succeeded.
                            Ralph Waldo Emerson
5) It's always sunrise somewhere.
                    John Muir
6) To be what we are and to become what we are 
capable of becoming is the only end of Life.
                          R.L. Stevenson
7) Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
But in rising every time we fall.
                           Confucius
8) Peace comes within the souls of men when they
realize their relationship,their oneness with the
universe and all its powers and when they realize
that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka
and that this center is everywhere,it is within
each of us.
                            Black Elk (Oglala Lakota)
9) Reality is merely an illusion,
Albeit, a very persistent one.
                        Albert Einstein
10) There is only one success,
To spend your life in your own way.
                           Christopher Morley
11) What lies behind us and what lies before us
are small matter compared to what lies within us.
                           Ralph Waldo Emerson
12) To betray you must first belong,
I never belonged.
                          Kim Philby
13) The true man is he who hath not lost the heart
of a child.
                              Mencius,Chinese sage
14) The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
stands in  moments of comfort and convenience,but where
he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
              
                                   Martin Luther King,Jr.
15) The greatest experience one can have is the 
mysterious.It is the source of all true Art and Science.
                                       Albert Einstein
16) I know that I know nothing,and barely that.
                                        Socrates
17) What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday,
and our present thoughts build our life of Tomorrow: Our Life
is the creation of our mind.
                                           Buddha
18) We could never learn to be brave and patient if there
were joy in the world.
            
                                     Helen Keller

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