Quotes from Famous People

[Jase]

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances they want, and, they find them, make them."
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, critic

 

[Jase]

"Anything that gives you moral peace and strength is religion."
--Willard L. Sperry, (1882-1954) Dean of Harvard Divinity School

 

[mindfulzen]

Two pops to mind, both from confirmed atheists.

Arne Næss sr, philosopher

"There is no meaning to life, but there is sufficent meaning to fill your life with, to make it meaningful". Or something like that, paraphrased perhaps, from memory, from the 1998.

John Mcafee, programmer and philosopher.

" There is only one ism people, individualism". Think he then went on to say this. "if you are not (true to) you, you are nobody". And perhaps went on with, "you did not live people". And told people to quit boring jobs and do what they love.

Both are very true for faith.

 

[Jase]

"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and
wiser than the one that comes after it."
-- George Orwell (1903-1950) English Author and critic

 

[Jase]

"It is easy to get everything you want,

provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get."
--Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American Writer, publisher, artist, philosopher
( Died on the sinking of the Lusitania)

 

[Jase]

"The greatest pleasure in life is to do good by stealth and be found out by accident."
--Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English Essayist, poet and antiquarian

 

[crossnote]

CS Lewis ‘on the reading of old books’. (Too long to quote).

https://reasonabletheology.org/cs-lewis-on-reading-old-books/

 

[SigP226]

Nobody cares - work harder. - Ray Care

 

[crossnote]

"God helps those who help themselves". -C.Mee Phoolya

 

[tanakh]

People are strange when your a stranger

Jim Morrison of the doors

 

[Natasha91]

"The greatest pleasure in life is to do good by stealth and be found out by accident."
--Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English Essayist, poet and antiquarian

Charles Lamb is one of my favorites!

 

[Mission21]

"To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions."

Hugh Jackman

 

[Gojira]

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. (Mark Twain)

 

[Gojira]

The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. (Jack London)

 

[Gojira]

And [a policed censorship] would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil. (Winston Churchill, on socialism)

 

[Gardenias]

 

[Jase]

Sone folks think religion, like aspirin, should be taken only to relieve pain.
-Frank A. Clark (1860-1936) politician

 

[Jase]

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...is the greatest accomplishment!
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1883)
American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, poet

 

[Gardenias]

 

[crossnote]

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I'm sure glad the only 'good' man did something about evil.