He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend. —George Shelley More about this quote Tags: promises Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He that promises most will perform least. —Gaelic Proverb More about this quote Tags: promises Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. —Francis Marion More about this quote Tags: promises Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: promises Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again. —Bill Clinton More about this quote Tags: promises Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is said that if you take only one step toward Him, He advances ten steps toward you. But the complete truth is that God is always with you. —Mohammed More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything. You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you. —Ken Kesey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He was sitting at the table in the kitchen, all by himself, drinking a glass of ginger ale and eating saltines and reading Dombey and Son, and all of a sudden Jesus sat down in the other chair and asked if he could have a small glass of ginger ale. A small glass mind you. —J. D. Salinger More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In India, I was living in a little hut, about six feet by seven feet. It had a canvas flap instead of a door. I was sitting on my bed meditating, and a cat wandered in and plopped down on my lap. I took the cat and tossed it out the door. Ten seconds later it was back on my lap. We got into a sort of dance, this cat and I. . . . I tossed it out because I was trying to meditate, to get enlightened. But the cat kept returning. I was getting more and more irritated, more and more annoyed with the persistence of the cat. Finally, after about a half-hour of this coming in and tossing out, I had to surrender. There was nothing else to do. There was no way to block off the door. I sat there, the cat came back in, and it got on my lap. But I did not do anything. I just let go. Thirty seconds later the cat got up and walked out. So you see, our teachers come in many forms. —Joseph Goldstein More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the divine . . . have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them: the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward; you are going backward toward the brutes. —Swami Vivekananda More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. —Walter Pater More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I remember sitting parked by the roadside once, terribly depressed and afraid about my daughter's illness and what was going on in our family, when out of nowhere a car came along down the highway with a license plate that bore on it the one word out of all the words in the dictionary that I needed most to see exactly then. The word was trust. What do you call a moment like that? Something to laugh off as the kind of joke life plays on us every once in a while? The word of God? . . . The owner of the car turned out to be, as I'd suspected, a trust officer in a bank, and not long ago, having read an account I wrote of the incident somewhere, he found out where I lived and one afternoon brought me the license plate itself, which sits propped up on a bookshelf in my house to this day. It is rusty around the edges and a little battered, and it is also as holy a relic as I have ever seen. —Frederick Buechner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit, and simply never leave. —Susan B. Anthony More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email