I thought it would be great to post some words of our favorite poets, writers or philosophers.

In order to achieve genuine, lasting world peace based on compassion, we need a sense of universal responsibility. First we have to try inner disarmament----- reducing our own anger and hatred while increassing mutual trust and human affection.

-The Dalai Lama--Tenzin Gyastso

On the question of racial discrimination, to those who will learn, this further lesson: That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained; And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will; Until all stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven; Until that day, we will not know peace. We will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil. -Haile Selassie

What does not kill me, makes me stronger. -- Conan the Barbarian

Speaking of good, and evil......The war between good, and evil in which evil is destined to lose. The moment when the greatest of good drives a dagger deep into the heart of the purest of evil, and although we know that the good in this world will conquer the evil....we still have an obligation to the fight. The good fight.

Thank you both fro perticapating.

errm....okay

The concept of violence is out of date. The destruction of your own neighborhood is actually the destruction of yourself.

-The Dalai Lama--Tenzin Gyastso

a wise bee is only as smart as he is fat and fuzzy.

Courage doesnt always roar, sometimes its just the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will get up tomorrow and try again."

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. Its much sexier than any body part.

If you cant be a great example, then be a horrible warning.

If we are on the right path and facing the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking....

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter, hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without even a crack in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split into two. I know then it was not that one blow that did it, but all that had gone on before.

Very nice words Kim. well said and to the point.
Thank you for sharing.

Freedom is not given, but earned. Hard work is just the first step to the ones self indepedence.

- Me

Because I'm the Mama, that makes me the boss..
Only house rule I ever had..

My Grandfather used to tell me, "Boy! When you think things are tough....just remember that you are still alive, and as long as you're still alive..... well then everything's alright!"

That works randy beleve me. That works.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Lazarus Long, aka Robert Heinlein

No one must pass by without my knowing where he's going, what she's doing....
For my life, give me all lives,
Give me all sorrow of all the world and I will transform it into hope.

-Chaldean Neruda Pablo Neruda

Chance favors the prepared mind..........

-Louis Pasteur

Listen to the salutation to the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence;
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And Tomorrow is only a Vision;
But Today well lived makes every
Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, and every
Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn.

--ancient Hindu prayer

Very nice Tracy. I was wondering when you where going to add your little touch of grace to the post.

Calling on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. Robert Benchley

Advice I can't seem to take

7/5ths of all people don't understand fractions. -Anonymous

Down in the human heart, crushed by the tempter,
Feelings lie buried that grace can restore.
Touched by a loving heart, wakend by kindness,
Chords thet are broken will vibrat once more.

- Fanny Crosby (1869)

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first and yet you have taken. Now you must give back.

"Anger and agitation make us more suseptable to illness"

-The Dalai Lama--Tenzin Gyastso

If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualityies will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.

-The Dalai Lama--Tenzin Gyastso

I never was guilty of wrong action, but on my account, lives have been lost, trains have been wrecked, ships have gone down at sea, cities have burned, battles have been lost, and governments have failed.
I never struck a blow or spoke an unkind word, but because of me, homes have been broken up, friends have grown cold, the laughter of children has ceased, wives have shed bitter tears, brothers and sisters have forgotten, and fathers and mothers have gone broken hearted to their graves.
I have intended no evil, but because of me, talent and genius have come to naught, courtesy and kindness have failed, and the promise of success and happiness has yielded sorrow and disaster.
I have no color except black; no sound but just my silence; no cause for being myself; no progeny except grief and disaster.
You may not on the instant call me by name, but surely you are personally aquainted with me....I am NEGLECT. (Tom Olson)

Never bite off more than you can chew..

He who knows others is clever
He who knows himself has discernment
He who overcomes others has force
He who overcomes himself is strong

Tao Te Ching

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail for the rest.

Love is stronger than hate. Good is more powerful than evil and hope is more potent than suicide.

We like someone because...we love someone although.

Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them so much.

The longer you keep your temper, the more it will improve.

Nothing is all wrong...even a clock that has stopped running is right twice a day.

When you're through changing...you're through.

To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.

What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more.

I like the words Mesmorized.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of hurting someone else. You are usually the one that gets burned. Buddha

If your heart is a volcano, how can you expect flowers to bloom?

As one goes through life, you learn that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you dont move.

Beauty is often more important to men because they see better than some of them think.

We are not on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

The more mental coping skill syou have, the more resilient you will be.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a puzzle to solve.

Everytime I get the urge to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

The trouble with people who talk too fast is they often say things they haven't even thought of yet.

I tend to be accident pr__e. OW! I bit my tongue again!

Ideas are funny little things...they won't work unless you do.

I married my husband because we have so many faults in common.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

To quit smoking is easy...I ought to know...I've done it a thousand times.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't respond to encores.

I drink to your health when I'm with you. I drink to you when I'm alone.
I drink to your health so often, I've pretty well ruined my own!

The force is strong with this one....

We will not be intimidated by thugs and killers!

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

One reason a dog is so lovable is that his tail wags instead of his tongue.

A skeptic is one who won't take 'know' for an answer.

Friends are made by many acts and can be lost by only one.

Whoever has resigned himself to fate will find that fate accepts his resignation.

He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

All people smile in the same language.

" If you have nothing to hide, You hide nothing "

The road of life is full of bumps in the road... some are just bigger than others....

Who says worry doesn't help; I know better; the things I worry about never happen.

Character is what you are in the dark.

Self conquest is the greatest of all victories.

Here's to me and here's to you and here's to love and laughter. I'll be true as long as you...but not a minute after!

You can't change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future.

Happiness is the only commodity that multiplies by division.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.

There is very little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference.
The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Pessimist are either constantly proven right or pleasantly surprised, how can one lose as a pessimist

One of my favs ...

"May the blessing of the great rains be on you,
may they beat upon your spirit
and wash it fair and clean,
and leave there many a shining pool
where the blue of heaven shines,
and sometimes a star."

A more, hmm, optimistic perspective ... rooted in reality.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams.

Sitting here reading this when I should be working somehow made me think of that one... :-)

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
Arthur C. Clarke, 1983 (Amen)!

"Wandering Star for whom it is reserved the darkness the blackness forever."
The book of Jude

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
- Jerome K. Jerome

"Day is night in new york city Smoke, like water, runs inside Steel idle trees to pity Every living thing that's died"

Life is like a box of chocolates. The more you eat, the shorter it lasts.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand. -Oprah

See sig:

When you start something big or small
do it well or not at all.
- unknown

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

Sicillian proverb

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

- Native American - Chief Seattle:::: Dwight.

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. --Arthur Schopenhauer::::: Dwight.

If I want your opinion I'll beat it out of you! Any Questions?

Chuck Norris

When comitting revenge make sure you dig 2 graves.

Chinese proverb.

The deeper the grave the less chance you have of getting out of what you started

Your only as complicated as the life you make for yourself.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
- Hada Bejar

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power."
-- Abraham Lincoln

Nice one that.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

I don't know whether the world is run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.
--hypatia

"Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place". Nicolaus Copernicus.

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-- Albert Einstein

The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number one, 'Cover for me'. Number two, 'Oh, good idea boss'. Number three, 'It was like that when I got here'."
-Homer Simpson! =)

Freedom is only a state of mind.

"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. "
-- John F. Kennedy

The old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

What goes around comes around (mantra and shakra allignment) ;-)

What about front-end?

The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe.
-Peter Ustinov

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

"Sometimes there are no answers" -Unknown.

When you really want to say something and your bursting @ the seams to do so that is the best time to shut up. Nick 18.17pm 29/09/2005

"It takes an arrogant mouse to hurt and betray, but a courageous lion to forgive and live"
-Me (2003)

Mmm. Good point Ria.

"Dont go faster then your angel can fly" Who wrote that? Dont know. But i like it.

Dont worry about the world ending today it's already tomorrow in Australia.

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

See below. Thanks Noam.

Nobody ever said life was fair

I heard that all the time when i was younger. And find myself saying it to my sister all the time too. lol

"Don't ask me why pain is the only way to happieness" -Unknown

Into this wild abyss,
The womb of nature and perhaps her grave,
Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,
but all these in their pregnant causes mixed.
Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless the almighty maker them ordain,
His Dark Materials to create more worlds,
Into this wild abyss the wary feind,
stood on the brink of hell and looked awhile,
pondering his voyage.

-John Milton, Paradise Lost Book 2

I don't know who said it but...
"Sometimes you bite the bear, sometimes the bear bites you."

I think the bear bit me today! ...=P

We all fall off the horse sometimes. The trick is getting back on.- Dont know who said that....

"Success requires no explanations, failure permits no alibies."
--Napoleon Hill

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
-- Robert F. Kennedy

"If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered".
Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005

"The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out."
-- Carl Sagan

"Dont waive your rights with your flags" - Sage Francis

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky

"The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish."
Virgil Thompson

Well there are going to be a few here noted below.

1.Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going. Jim Ryun.

2. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale.

3.Men take only their needs into concideration, never their abilities. Napoleon Bonaparte.

4.The creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. Orison Swett Marden.

5.They are able becuase they think they are able. Virgil.

6. If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. Johann Wolgang Von Goethe.

7. Ideas without action are worthless. Harvey Mackay.

8. Do or do not there is no try. YODA amen.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.-Indira Gandhi

Keep your words soft and sweet. Just in case you have to eat them..

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
- Goethe