The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
William Shakespeare Quote – “Our life exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees…”
And this, our life exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Lao Tzu Quote – “By the accident of good fortune a man may rule the world for a time…”
By the accident of good fortune a man may rule the world for a time. But by virtue of love he may rule the world forever. Lao Tzu (570 – 490 B.C.E.)
Lao Tzu Quote – “Kindness in words creates confidence…”
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu (570 – 490 B.C.E.)
Lao Tzu Quote – “How does the ocean become the king of all rivers and streams…?”
How does the ocean become the king of all rivers and streams? Because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. Lao Tzu (570 – 490 B.C.E.)
Lao Tzu Quote – “Silence is a source of Great Strength.”
Silence is a source of Great Strength. Lao Tzu (570 – 490 B.C.E.)
A. W. Tozer Quote – “Everyone of us has had experiences which we have not been able to explain…”
Everyone of us has had experiences which we have not been able to explain: A sudden sense of loneliness, or a feeling of wonder or awe in the face of the universal vastness. Or we have had a fleeting visitation of light like an illumination from some other sun, giving us in a quick flash an assurance that we are […]
William James Quote – “I am done with great institutions and big success…”
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which, if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments […]
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quote – “A kind of waking trance I have frequently had…”
A kind of waking trance I have frequently had, quite up from boyhood, when I have been all alone. This has generally come upon me through repeating my own name two or three times to myself, silently, till all at once, as it were, out of the intensity of the consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to fade away […]
Chief Joseph Quote – “The earth is the mother of all people…”
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Chief Jospeh, Nez Perce (1840 – 1904)
