Some quotes to inspire

May 15, 2006

I've manage to spend the day wandering around the internet like a bumble bee. Going form place to place, zig zagging around. Started doing one thing, end up on a differnt venture, then suddenly __had the urgent need __to find quotations of Ghandi to post on here.

**My inner spirit was demanding it**

Bear with me as a place a few quote worth reading one at a time, and actually thinking about what they really mean. Let them roll around in your thoughts through out the day, till suddenly you reconize the other level of what he was really saying. It's not all black and white, at first some may seem in our times to be so simple minded, or will make you have a reaction. What is your reaction when you read it for the first time? Think about why you had that gut reaction, is it against what society tells us to do? Is it against what you were raised to believe? Is it a response programmed into us from ou backgrounds: family, schooling, church?

Just go hmmmmm.......you never know where the journey of life will bring you.
* ''To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. Mohandas K. Gandhi''
* ''A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Mohandas K. Gandhi''
* ''Hatred ever kills, love never dies; such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred. Mohandas K. Gandhi''
* ''The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mohandas K. Gandhi''
* ''Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. Mohandas K. Gandhi''
* ''It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say. Mohandas K. Gandhi ''


* ''"Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you" ...Analects 15:23...Confucianism''
* ''"This is the sum of duty: do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you."...Mahabharata 5:1517...Hinduism''
* ''"In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self"...Lord Mahavira, 24th Tirthankara...Jainism''

* ''"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive." Albert Einstein''
* ''"It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer ." Albert Einstein''
* ''"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein''
* ''"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." Albert Einstein''
* ''"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." Albert Einstein''

**Last but not least:**
* ''"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."....George Washington''