Meaningful Quotes

“whatever you can do, or dream you can..begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”


he who hears not the music, thinks the dancer mad.
(quote found at burning man, written on a stuffed armless, headless shirt, sitting in a bucket of flowers)

“i also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of.”
--by Frances Moore Lappe ( www.cleu.org )

‘K, get out there and party!’ by My Mom 3:09pm Dec 31st 1999

Whether you think you can or think you can’t. You’re right.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung

“Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops. “
-- H.L. Mencken

“There is no use trying," Alice laughed, " one can't believe impossible things." " I daresay you haven't had much practice", said the (White) Queen. "When I was your age I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ---Gandhi

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. ---Albert Einstein

"Science and religion are not at odds, science is simply too young to understand."

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. By Ambrose Bierce

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

The only zen you find at the top of mountains is the zen you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so. Mark Twain

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. William Newton Clark

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Henry David Thoreau

Human kind has not woven the web of life, we are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different. Rabbi Harold Kushner

We are what we eat.

We all carry it within us; supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. Huston Smith

As ye think, so shall be. JC

What we think, we become. Buddha

Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius

Our beliefs are what we hold dearest. They are the spiritual and moral fiber that eave us into the tapestry of life. We may think that our beliefs are unique, that our identities are tied to our religions, our cultures, our races, and our creeds. But we are all human, and if you look closely at our scriptures and stories, you’ll find that we are all much more alike than different.

Listen to the mustn't s, child, listen to the don't s. Listen to the shouldn't s, the impossibles, the won't s. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child, anything can be. ---Shel Silverstein

The attempt to eliminate evil in others is the very impulse of evil itself. – James Carse

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Director of US Patent Office, 1899

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." - Robert Miliham, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923

"The horse is here today, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad." - President of Michigan Savings Bank advising against investing in the Ford Motor Company

"Video won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." - Daryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, commenting on television in 1946

"Space travel is utter bilge." - Sir Richard van der Riet Wooley, The Astronomer Royal (1956)

"Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia." - Dionysius Lardner, English scientist (1793-1859)

"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility." - Lee DeForest, American inventor (1873-1961)

"Guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Records turning down the Beatles, 1962.

"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." - Spencer Silver, originator of Post-It Notepads.

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." - Western Union internal memo, 1876.

"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote." - Grover Cleveland, 1905

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." - Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." - Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981

"Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievous to its true progress." - Sir William Siemens, electrical engineer, upon hearing Edison's announcement of a successful light bulb.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who errs and comes short again and again . . . who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the least knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
(Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt)


"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that
you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
--Mark Twain