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Quote Library Laughter A home in which there is no laughter is only a house. -- G. H. Knight Humor has a tremendous place in a sordid world. It’s more than just a laughing matter. If you can see things out of whack, then you can certainly see how things can be in whack." -- Dr. Seuss Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." -- Victor Borge Laws Slick's
Three Laws of the Universe: Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty. --Henry M. Robert Let's just say I was testing the bounds of society. I was just curious. --Jim Morrison Laziness "You can't teach people to be lazy - either they have it, or they don't." -- Dagwood Bumstead Leaders A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his head. -- Vance Havner The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe. -- Bill Murray My responsibility is to be a supervisor, not a superworker. -- Fred Smith Leadership is both something you are and something you do. A mentor is not a person who can do the work better than his followers; he is a person who can get his followers to do the work better than he can. -- Fred Smith The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way. – Henry Miller A leader is always alone in times of doom. – Charles de Gaulle, 1955 Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. --George Patton Leadership that Lasts To be somebody you must last." -- Ruth Gordon Leadership The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. --Casey Stengal My responsibility is to be a supervisor, not a superworker. -- Fred Smith The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. – Walter Lippmann, 1945 in response to the death of FDR
"We need people who are pathological learners, people who have no fear." -Christopher Lochhead, futurist at Scient Corp. Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. – Edmund Spenser, 1596 All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. -- Harry S. Truman Being president is like a running a cemetery: you’ve got a lot of people under you, and nobody’s listening. -- Bill Clinton The first task of a leader is to help define reality. The last is to say ‘thank you.’ In between, the leader is a servant. -- Max DePree Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Leadership is to be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. – Homer, Iliad, 700 B.C. A leader is best when people barely know he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, the people will say, "We did it ourselves. -- Lao Tzu If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will say, "I like what that person is doing. I’m going to follow him." -- J. Richard Chase, Leaders, 1987, p. 23 As a leader you provide for people only what they can’t provide for themselves. -- Ken Blanchard The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. -- Max DePree We lead by being human. We do not lead by being corporate, by being professional or by being institutional. -- Paul Hawken, founder, Smith & Hawken Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best. -- J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership, 1967 Leadership is both something you are and something you do. A mentor is not a person who can do the work better than his followers; he is a person who can get his followers to do the work better than he can. -- Fred Smith To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men. – Havelock Ellis, 1884 If you want to be an effective leader you must have the wisdom to understand the times... the ability to communicate a vision that is relevant to the times...the humility to listen to your community...and the skills to enlighten, motivate, and mobilize your people in the context of harmonious, communal, and transparent relationships." -- Dann Pantoja The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower Leaders -- Servant The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. -- Max DePree Learning
"We need people who are pathological learners, people who have no fear." -Christopher Lochhead, futurist at Scient Corp. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! --Peter Drucker A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. --Bob Edwards The average mind can comprehend 500 words per minute. The average person speaks at 150 words per minute. That leaves a 350 words per minute boredom factor. - Cluetrain Manifesto but authorship is unknown. Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. --W. Edwards Deming If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. --Larry Leissner Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. --Plato (427-347 B. C.), The Republic Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. -Sir Winston Churchill Lies The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself. -- Nietzsche The cruelest lies are often told in silence. --Robert Louis Stevenson Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939 It has been said that there are three kinds of lies: white lies, black lies, and sermon illustrations. -- Dennis Atwood, (Christian Ministry, Nov.-Dec., 1996, p. 37) Life Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. --Mary Ellen Kelly Life is what happens while you are making other plans. -- John Lennon Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do. -- John Steinbeck It's life, Jim... but not as we know it. --Spock Limits Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they’re yours -- Richard Bach, Illusions It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. – Homer, Iliad, 700 B.C. Listening Everyone, when they are young, has a little bit of genius; that is, they really do listen... Then they grow a little older and many of them get tired and listen less and less. But some, a very few, continue to listen. And finally they get very old and they do not listen anymore. That is very sad; let us not talk about it. -- Gertrude Stein, as reported by Thornton Wilder A desert is a dangerous place from which to view the world. -- John Le Carre My first message is: Listen, listen, listen to the people do the work. -- H. Ross Perot Engrave this upon my heart: There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’ve heard their story. -- Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB Obedience -- obaudire -- audiere -- "to listen" It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau Don’t interrupt me when I’m interrupting. -- Winston Churchill It seems rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communications, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. -- Erma Bombeck The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich The worst thing about a bore is not that he won’t stop talking, but that he won’t let you stop listening. -- Unknown Literature After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Longevity As I look at pastors who have finished well, almost all are theological thinkers. Without a strong grounding in theology, pastors tend to have a short life. -- Dennis Baker, Director, Conservative Baptist Association If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions. -- Hans Selye When a man knows he is to be hanged, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. -- Samuel Johnson, in Boswell’s Life, Sept. 19, 1777 Loss Love We can do no great things; only small things with great love. --Mother Teresa We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. -- Goethe To love a person means to see him as God intended him to be. -- Dostoevsky When
love is gone, there's always justice. The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. -- Charles Dickens Source: Gilbert Keith Chesterton in Pickwick Papers The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love. -- John Calvin If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. -- Emmett Fox Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. -- G. K. Chesterton What’s
the difference between infatuation and love? If you miss love, you miss life. -- Leo Buscaglia We are not made for law, but for love." -- George MacDonald Life
in Christ by Tony Salerno, Bethany House c1983 We must love one another, or die. -- W. H. Auden To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to be sure to keep it in tact, you must give your heart to no one. Lock it up, safe in the coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless it will change. It will not be broken, but it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The only place outside of heaven where you can be safe from all the dangers of love is hell. -- C. S. Lewis Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit ~ Guy Debord You are what you love, not what loves you ~ Adaptation (movie) The only victory over love is flight. ~ Napoléon Bonaparte Once a tear fell off my cheek and into the ocean, the day I find it will be the day I stop loving you. - Anonymous Love is a word, what matters is the connection that word implies ~ Matrix Revolutions A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ~ Mohandas Gandhi A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. ~ Woodrow Wyatt A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. ~ Eleanor Farjeon All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. ~ Leo Tolstoy Amoris vulnus idem sanat, qui facit. Translation: The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them. ~ Syrus Publilius An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. ~ John Wesley And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught. ~ The Prophet by Khalil Gibran And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. ~ Professor Marvel, Wizard of Oz And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. ~ Khalil Gibran As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. ~ Aphorism At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. ~ Bertrand Russell Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it for a while. ~ The Princess Bride Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground. ~ Meister Eckhart Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ~ Albert Einstein Hate the sin and love the sinner. ~ Mohandas Gandhi Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He is not a lover who does not love forever. ~ Euripides I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~ Mother Teresa I hold
it true, whate'er befall; I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ~ Henry Ward Beecher I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. ~ John Nash, in A Beautiful Mind If I know what love is, it is because of you. ~ Hermann Hesse If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible. ~ Osho If you love the children of others, you will love your own even better. ~ Anonymous In love we often doubt what we most believe. ~ La Rochefoucauld It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. ~ Agnes Repplier It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. ~ Thomas Mann It is not whether the person is perfect, nobody is, it is if the person is perfect for you that you must figure out. ~ Good Will Hunting It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. ~ Richard Braunstein Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy— in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. ~ Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land Love demands all, and has a right to all. ~ Beethoven Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ~ Goethe Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Franklin Jones Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil. ~ Goethe Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must. ~ Mother Teresa Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest. ~ Eleanor Farjeon Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. ~ Mother Teresa Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast. ~ Mark Twain Love
is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. ~ Matt Groening Love is an art like music. ~ Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925) Love is as unproblematic as a vehicle. The only problems are the drivers, the passengers and the road. ~ Franz Kafka Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ~ Alexander Smith Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. ~ Helen Keller Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. ~ T.S. Eliot Love is much like a wild rose; beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~ Mark A. Overby Love
is not love Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. ~ C.S. Lewis Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." ~ Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land Love is the only rational act. ~ Stephen Levine Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. ~ Johnny Rotten Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday. ~ Noelle, Age 7 (participant in a survey of 4-8 year olds asked to define love) Love me for love's sake, that evermore thou may'st love on, through love's eternity'. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again. ~ Edwin Robinson Love not what you are, but what you may become. ~ Miguel de Cervantes Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. ~ Mark Twain Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence. ~ Carl Sandburg Love your neighbor as yourself. ~ Jesus Christ Love's
not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Love's very pain is sweet. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. ~ The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce Love: A term which has no meaning if defined. ~ John Ralston Saul, The Doubter's Companion Love: the condition in which the welfare and happiness of another becomes essential to your own. - Robert Heinlein Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. ~ Song of Songs 8:7 May you love as long as you live and live as long as you love. ~ Robert Heinlein Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance. ~ Oscar Wilde My
love is as boundless as the sea, My Mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it. I never felt my Mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment— upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses. ~ John Keats (Letters to Fanny) No act of love is ever wasted. ~ Geneen Roth Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori. Translation: Love conquers all; and let us submit to love. ~ Virgil One does not love another if one does not accept anything from him. ~ Anonymous One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love. ~ Sophocles Only through love can we obtain communion with God. ~ Albert Schweitzer Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. ~ Alexandre Dumas Raising a child is the highest form of love a human being can experience. ~ Marsha Rock Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. ~ Anita Brookner Self-love seems so often unrequited. ~ Anthony Powell Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are. ~ Houssaye Tell
me why the stars do shine Nuclear
fusion makes stars to shine The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller The course of true love never did run smooth. ~ William Shakespeare The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. ~ Victor Hugo The greatest pleasure is love. ~ William Temple The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ Eden Ahbez The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing. ~ Pascal The laws of love are written in the heart of every human being by the hand of God. ~ Anonymous The love we give away is the only love we keep. ~ Elbert Hubbard The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. ~ Vincent van Gogh The more you judge, the less you love. ~ Honore de Balzac The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ~ Anais Nin The success of love is in the loving— it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done." ~ Mother Teresa The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness. ~ Kabir There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love. ~ Lytton Strachey to Carrington, 23.3.1917 There is nothing more painful than seeing someone you love loving someone else. But there is nothing more rewarding than seeing two people you love loving each other. ~ J.H. Li This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love. ~ Gerald Massey To be loved, be lovable. ~ Ovid To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez (from Love in the Time of Cholera) To love and be loved, is to feel the Sun from both sides. ~ David Viscott To love another person is to see the face of God. ~ Victor Hugo True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths... ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley True love is the only heart disease that is best left to run on. ~ Mark Twain Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church. ~ William Phelps We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ~ Goethe We must love one another or die. ~ W.H. Auden We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ~ Tom Robbins What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche When the evening of this life comes, we shall be judged on Love. ~ St. John of the Cross When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace. ~ Jimi Hendrix When two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, their words are sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids. ~ I Ching When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. ~ Mark Twain Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles. ~ Willa Cather With love and patience, nothing is impossible. ~ Daisaku Ikeda "Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun." ~ Matt Groening "Love— a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker" ~ Anonymous "Love itself is a belief." ~ Ray H Wall "True love is rare, so when you find it don't let it go just because of a barrier you can't cross." ~ Ray H Wall "True love is giving all you have to someone you know you're going to lose" ~ Ray H Wall "True love is the Devil's crowbar" ~ X How come we don't always know when love begins, but we always know when it ends?" ~ L. A. Story True love always involves a choice" ~ Ray H Wall If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever." ~ Doug Horton Love -- Human No, the heart that truly loved never forgets, but truly loves on to the close. -- Thomas Moore "To love another person is to help them love God." - Søren Kierkegaard
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