Jeff's quotes

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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

tags: spirituality
29 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,282 people liked it

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: inspirational
92 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,631 people liked it

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
— Howard Thurman

tags: inspirational
51 people liked it

"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.

tags: challanges
476 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
10,974 people liked it

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
— William Shakespeare

tags: friendship
664 people liked it

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."
— Francis de Sales

12 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,785 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
6,692 people liked it

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

4,720 people liked it

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— e.e. cummings

tags: courage
2,202 people liked it

"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image."
— Charles W. Chesnutt

tags: divinity, humanity
1 person liked it

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
— Jackie Robinson

tags: impact, life
3 people liked it

"Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared."
— Barack Obama

tags: 2008, speech, victory
25 people liked it

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

98 people liked it

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
2,934 people liked it

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
— Henry David Thoreau

210 people liked it

"All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
is Change.

God
is Change.

EARTHSEED:THE BOOKS OF LIVING"
— Octavia E. Butler (Parable of the Sower)

tags: change, god
99 people liked it

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
— Booker T. Washington (Up from Slavery: An Autobiography)

tags: success
45 people liked it

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
1,960 people liked it

"Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts."
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

tags: friendship
229 people liked it

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library
3,093 people liked it

"In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed."
— Martha Cooley (The Archivist)

tags: books, library
11 people liked it

""More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward. . . . .

"Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.

"And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better. This is an enormous force for good."--President-elect Barack Obama in a speech at the American Library Association annual conference in June 2005."
— Barack Obama

17 people liked it

"I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words,
beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is
something to hold back the shadows."
— Roger Zelazny

8 people liked it

"A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need."
— Vicki Myron (Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World)

tags: libraries
10 people liked it

"There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. "
— Andrew Carnegie

6 people liked it

"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. "
— Ray Bradbury

4 people liked it

"Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST."
— Frank Zappa

tags: music
189 people liked it

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams
348 people liked it

"You are the music while the music lasts."
— T.S. Eliot

32 people liked it

"No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose."
— Marcus Aurelius

4 people liked it

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
— Jimi Hendrix

tags: but, feel, hippy, i, like, quote, this
6 people liked it

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: peace
67 people liked it

"War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate"
— Marvin Gaye

tags: inspirational, love, war
8 people liked it

"The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: war
85 people liked it

"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: love
30 people liked it

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain

tags: greatness
1,931 people liked it

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

tags: death, life
1,642 people liked it

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
— Mark Twain

tags: age
785 people liked it

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"
— Simone de Beauvoir

9 people liked it

"For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die."
— Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)

tags: books, reading
187 people liked it

"Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

12 people liked it

"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
— T.S. Eliot

20 people liked it

"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
— T.S. Eliot

4 people liked it

"Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things."
— T.S. Eliot

4 people liked it

"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man"
— T.S. Eliot

tags: hope, humanity, library
4 people liked it