I got hands on this book as a pass on from someone who was moving countries and knew I love books. It is one of those books, that I would have never picked it up myself. Yet, I must admit, that book have had huge impact on my bookshelf and to my literature life.
The book is collection of spiritual and provoking quotes from known people gathered over centuries. The whole thing has been put together by Des MacHale. As much as it is rather open to all sorts of life path, you can sense out from the book, how dedicated he is to his religion and Christianity. For me, it is little triggering, and not because I have had bad experience with Christianity, but rather because I have been raised to be more spiritual aka earthly, than going to church and follow rules. Yep! I am rebellious Estonian, very much as the small nationality have always been.
But still there was some great quotes that i circled out and use it weekly. May I bring out some of them.
Quotes about life and death
You are here only for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell flowers along the way.
Walter Hagen
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you do hold.
Josh Billing
Death is certain – life is not!
Junior Blair
Quotes about God & Satan
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven
John Milton
No paradise is complete without its snake.
Edith Howie
You’ll never get to be saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.
Ellis Peter
Every man is his own law court and punishes himsef enough.
Patricia Highsmith
Quotes about Human Behaviour
If you had only six month to live, what would you do, and if you are not doing it now, why not?
Stephen Thomas
In grave difficulties and where there is little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
Livy
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.
Herbert B. Swope
Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
Alexander Graham Bell
The world is for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however ‘normal’ his facade, is faking sanity.
John Astin
Kindness is a language which deaf can hear and the blind can read.
Mark Twain
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James A. Froude
The Mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry D. Thoreau
Take a rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Ovid
Four hugs a day are necessary for survival, eight for maintenance and twelve for growth.
Virginia Satir
I don’t know anyone who wished on his deathbed that he spent more time at the office.
Peter Lynch
Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
Woody Allen
Everyone is a moon and has his dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
I can Pardon everyone’s mistakes but my own.
Marcus Cato
Most people sell their souls and live with good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan P. Smith
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
The best preparation for tomorrow is to today’s work superbly well.
William Ostler
I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
Quotes about Men and Women
A Happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers
Robert Qullen
The Most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore M. Hesburgh
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood tere himself
Henri Dubois
Where Love is concerned, too much is never enough.
Pierre-Augustin de Beaumachis
A Fellow who waits to get married until he has enough money, isn’t really in love.
Kin Hubbard
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker
Quotes about Good and Evil
Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.
Blaise Pascal
It’s easy to have principles when you are rich. The important thing is to have principles when you are poor.
Ray Kroc
Never do anything against Conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there is light nearby.
Ruth E. Renkel
If we could all confess our sins to each other we would all laugh at one for lack of originality.
Kahil Gibhran
Do always in health what you have often promised to do when you are sick.
Sigmund Freud
Quotes about Mothers and Fathers
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
H. H. Munro
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to its parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy Graham
Children and grandparents are natural allies.
H.J. Brown
There is no such thing as non-working mother
Hester Mundis
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful creature to love, get a puppy.
Barbara Walters
Quotes about Education and Learning
I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading did not improve.
Montesquieu
What we learn with pleasure, we never forget.
Bob Phillips
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
Charles D. McIver
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Quotes about Faith and Belief
We can believe what we choose. But we are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry Newman
People Believe only what they want to Believe.
Julius Caesar
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
krishnamurti
A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on.
James Callaghan
Nothing lasts forever: not even your troubles.
Arnold Glasow
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Voltaire
A Ship is safe in harbour, but that is not what ships are for.
Albert J. Nimeth
So these are it; As you can see, some of them are very suitable for our current environment, regardless that people have quoted them were live decades or centuries ago. There was quite a few more in the book, what I left out from this blog, as I think we have quite a few golden nuggets here.
What are your favorite quotes? Let me know in comments.
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