Quotes By Famous People

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place
by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.
Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life."
-Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

"Peace cannot be kept by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Meditation is not a means to an end.
It is both the means and the end."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
-Henry Vandyke (1852-1933)

"Faith furnishes prayer with wings,
without which it cannot soar to Heaven."
-St. John Climacus (525-600)

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

"It is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects
of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the ‘knowing,’
the peace, and the direction to go through the windstorms of life,
not shattered but whole, joining in love and understanding."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 -)

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)

"You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe,
so no thought or action is without its effects,
present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."
-Norman Cousins (1912-1990)