Quote Of The Day

[shaheediyan]

As of late, one which is perfectly at home here :-)

“The secret of eternal youth is arrested development."

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, US author (1884-1980)

[HSD1]

“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”

Daisaku Ikeda

[HSD1]

“In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.”

Miyamoto Musashi

[HSD1]

“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”

Akira Kurosawa

[HSD1]

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

[HSD1]

A quote that sums up Britain:

'The pebble alone in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone.'

[laalsingh]

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

Akira Kurosawa

mad and sane, how do one differentiate? maybe this is a mad world. we being mad thinks we are only sane ones.

[laalsingh]

A quote that sums up Britain:

'The pebble alone in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone.'

most of us, not even alone in brook secretly think we are precious stones. maybe that is what keeps us going. maybe we are precious stones.

[HSD1]

Here's a simple quote if some of the above leave some of you a little confused:

'Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.'

Alexander Hamilton

[shaheediyan]

"One's personality can be understood from the people they mingle with"

- Kazi Shams

[chatanga1]

"One's personality can be understood from the people they mingle with"

or from the forums they debate in.

[shaheediyan]

"The subject tonight is Love

And for tomorrow night as well,

As a matter of fact

I know of no better topic

For us to discuss

Until we all Die!"

(Hafiz, Persian Poet, 1325 - 1389)

[HSD1]

'The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

[SURYADEV]

On the state of the world:

'Darr phatemoo!'

Suryadev

[dalsingh101]

Oh how wonderful is the creation of God that

above all worldly things, religion is the

supreme thing. With its corruption, the

corruption and degeneration of all things

generally happen, for, it is religion that

binds thousands in one cord of union.

Attar Singh Bhadour

[dalsingh101]

"Can we feel contrition for other people's crimes? Can we feel contrition for crimes we have not committed personally, but have subsequently profited from? How can we formulate the criteria for contrition to make them applicable to collective responsibility for historical crimes? Perhaps like this:

We freely admit that our predecessors have done wrong and that we are profiting from it.

We ask forgiveness of those who were wronged and of their descendants.

We promise to do our best to make amends to those who were wronged for the effects that still remain.

The larger the collective, the more diluted the personal responsibility.

The less intimate the contrition, the greater the risk that it will just be hollow ceremony."

Sven Lindqvist

Edited January 15, 2011 by dalsingh101

[amardeep]

Sultaan al awal wa al akhir, wa bazir al batin wa al zahir

- Nand Lal Goya

[shaheediyan]

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

- Eugene Oneill

[SURYADEV]

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape,

So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Marcus Aurelius

(the Roman Fauji)

[HSD1]

'He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.'

Jeremy Bentham

[laalsingh]

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Soren Kirkegaard

Another one.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Edited February 5, 2011 by laalsingh

[dalsingh101]

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Stanley Kubrick.

[laalsingh]

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

--Blaise Pascal

Edited February 6, 2011 by laalsingh

[ishvar2]

'To attack a task from the wrong end can do nothing but harm'

Confucius

[HSD1]

'Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.'

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe