Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.
Better than a hundred hollow lines
Is one line of the law, bringing peace.
--Gautama Buddha
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Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.
Better than a hundred hollow lines
Is one line of the law, bringing peace.
--Gautama Buddha
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Whenever we can trace back a religion to its first beginnings, we find
it free from many of the blemishes that offend us in its later phases.
The founders of the ancient religions of the world, as far as we can
judge, were minds of a high stamp, full of noble aspirations, yearning
for truth, devoted to the welfare of their neighbors, examples of
purity and unselfishness. What they desired to found upon earth was but
seldom realized, and their sayings, if preserved in their original
form, offer often a strange contrast to the practice of those who
profess to be their disciples.
--Max Müller
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Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to
understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of
the word "understanding."
--Werner Heisenberg
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Standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realize that patriotism
is not enough.
I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
--Edith Cavell
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The changing wisdom of successive generations discards ideas, questions
facts, demolishes theories. But the artist appeals to that part of our
being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift
and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He
speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery
surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to
the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle
but invincible, conviction of solidarity that knits together the
loneliness of innumerable hearts: to the solidarity in dreams, in joy,
in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds
men to each other, which binds together all humanity — the dead to the
living and the living to the unborn.
--Joseph Conrad
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is not enough to have a beautiful voice. What does that mean? When
you interpret a role, you have to have a thousand colors to portray
happiness, joy, sorrow, fear. How can you do this with only a beautiful
voice? Even if you sing harshly sometimes, as I have frequently done,
it is a necessity of expression. You have to do it, even if people will
not understand. But in the long run they will, because you must
persuade them of what you're doing.
--Maria Callas
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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful
wishes.
--Mary Martin
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe
itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value;
rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
--C. S. Lewis
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I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I have got
hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to
arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my
pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks
and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought
His battles who will now be my rewarder. When the day that he must go
hence was come, many accompanied him to the river-side, into which as
he went, he said, "Death, where is thy sting?" And as he went down
deeper, he said, "Grave, where is thy victory?"
So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other
side.
--John Bunyan
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