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Quotes on War .....

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:47:00 GMT

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.(Agatha Christie)

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.(Georges Clemenceau)

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.(Jimmy Carter)

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?(Mahatma Gandhi)

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.(Will Rogers)

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? (Blaise Pascal)

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. (Croesus)

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. (David Friedman)

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. (Dwight Eisenhower)

Quotes on hope

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:23:00 GMT

I just totally LOVE quotes! They summarize people's life experiences. They touch my heart and brain in a unique way.

I have recently resigned from my job and hoping to get a better one :)

Here are some quotes on Hope in life :)

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit

Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear.

We live by admiration, hope and love

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed

He who does not hope to win has already lost

When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Quotes on KINDNESS!

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:03:00 GMT

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness; thrice blessed is he who repeats it.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away

Isn't it amazing how often we can touch someone's life, and enrich our own, by a very simple act? Kindness, pass it on...what a wonderful way in which to pattern our lives!

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

'Wherever there's a human being, there's an opportunity for kindness.' You don't have to plan some big event. You can be strolling the hall in school and say 'hi' to a stranger. Simplicity is the way, you know?

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.

Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it!

It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you.!!!!!!

Love,

Best quotes on Beauty

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 14:17:00 GMT

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart ( Gebran Khalil Gebran)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.

Beauty pleases the eyes only; Sweetness of disposition charms the soul- ~Voltaire

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.
~ D. H. Lawrence~

Let the beauty we love be what we do. ~Rumi ~

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. ~ George Sand~

Personal beauty is a better introduction than any letter Diogenes Laertius.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart Helen Keller:

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?

Youth happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see Beauty never grows old.