Particular Hearts [Away Quote]

Love allows us to walk in the sweet music of our particular heart.

--Jack Gilbert

Prevent Misery

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

--Eleanor Roosevelt

Humanity, Advanced ?

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

--Tom Robbins

What Difference Does It Make

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?

--Mahatma Gandhi

The Bridge Is Love

We ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

--Thornton Wilder

Agrees With Reason

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

--Gautama Buddha

A Birthday

i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday...

--e. e. cummings

Coming to the End

I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

--Jack Gilbert

The Race

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

--H. G. Wells

Things Have Feelings

Ascribing feelings to things is a way of protecting your own right to have feelings.

--Adam Gopnick

Pure in Heart

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

--Iris Murdoch

One Look at History

History is a slaughterhouse.

--Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Life and Death

The Lord gives everything and charges by taking it back.

--Jack Gilbert

Life Is Totally...

I'm a peasant. At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything.

--Mike Tyson

The Time...Now

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

--Robert G. Ingersoll

Somewhere, Something

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

--Carl Sagan