List of Quotations

Here is a huge list of all the quotations used on this site, by author.

• “Millions of unconscious people are not taking responsibility for their inner peace.” -- Eckhart Tolle
  
  
• “Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.” -- Eddie Rickenbacker
  
  
• “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.” -- Edward Everett Hale
  
  
• “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
  In every rill a sweet instruction flows.” -- Edward Young
  
  
• “My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.” -- Elaine Maxwell
  
  
• “There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.” -- Elbert Hubbard
  
  
• “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” -- Elbert Hubbard
  
  
• “To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” -- Elbert Hubbard
  
  
• “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  
  
• “Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.” -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  
  
• “Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.” -- Epictetus
  
  
• “You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.” -- Epictetus
  
  
• “People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them.” -- Epictetus, c 200 AD
  
  
• “We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.” -- Epictetus, c 200 AD
  
  
• “Vain is the word of a philosopher, by which no mortal suffering is healed. Just as medicine confers no benefit if it does not drive away bodily, disease, so is philosophy useless if it does not drive away the suffering of the mind.” -- Epicurus
  
  
• “Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.” -- Eric Hoffer
  
  
• “Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.” -- Erwin Schrodinger
  
  
• “To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.” -- Euripides
  
  
• “A man with wisdom is better off than a stupid man with any amount of charms and superstition.” -- Feras Yaghmour
  
  
• “Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.” -- Forrest Church
  
  
• “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” -- Francis Bacon
  
  
• “Nothing is terrible except fear itself.” -- Francis Bacon
  
  
• “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.” -- Francis Bacon
  
  
• “Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.” -- Francis Hutcheson
  
   Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, I. v.
  
  
• “If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.” -- François de la Rochefoucauld
  
  
• “We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.” -- Frank Tibolt
  
  
• “The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror.” -- Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg
  
  
• “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.” -- Frederick Douglass
  
  
• “A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.” -- Frequently attributed to Plato, but not apparently found in his work.
  
  
• “Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  
  
• “The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.” -- Friedrich Schleiermacher
  
  
• “We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.” -- G.K. Chesterton
  
  
• “Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.” -- Gail Sheehy
  
  
• “I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” -- Galileo Galilei
  
  
• “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.” -- Gandalf
  
   J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in The fellowship of the Rings, Bk. II, Ch 2
  
  
• “Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.” -- Gary Crowley
  
  
• “One's first step in wisdom is to question everything— and one's last is to come to terms with everything.” -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  
  
• “With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.” -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-99)
  
  
• “Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.” -- George Arliss
  
  
• “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.” -- George Bernard Shaw
  
  
• “Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.” -- George Orwell
  
  
• “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” -- George Orwell
  
  
• “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -- George Orwell
  
  
• “The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.” -- George Santayana
  
   American philosopher, essayist. Reason in Religion, Ch. 2 (1945)
  
  
• “The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” -- George Santayana
  
  
• “It is 01:20, Friday morning, it's still dark outside but a new day has dawned in my life. That which I have been searching for, for the last 30 odd years has finally hit me with the force of ultimate, abundant joy!! I want to shout it out and wake everybody up, but the further realization that nobody outside will understand this immeasurable joy in my heart, saddens me so much, that should I have the power, I would shake this whole world into realizing what the real and true love of our Creator means.
  
  I finished How Life Really Works and realized why my path had to cross your site. I prayed for wisdom a long time ago and when the truth hits you in the face , the mind explodes and as one well-known hymn says: "the things of this earth will glow strangely dim in His glory and love".” -- Giel Swiegers, Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• “You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.” -- Gottfried Müller
  
  
• “We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” -- H.L. Mencken
  
  
• “The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.” -- H.L. Mencken
  
  
• “I am a pastor of a church in the US. I have been studying along the same lines of your web site for years. I am looking for ideas to help me bring to light these issues to my congregation. Your site has helped tremendously - thank you.” -- Hal Nichols, USA
  
  
• “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” -- Harold Whitman
  
  
• “What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” -- Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy, 1963
  
  
• “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” -- Helen Keller
  
  
• “Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” -- Helen Keller
  
  
• “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” -- Helen Keller
  
  
• “The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.” -- Helen Keller
  
  
• “Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.” -- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  
  
• “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil, to one who is striking at the root.” -- Henry D. Thoreau
  
  
• “Our life is frittered away by detail.... Simplify, simplify.” -- Henry David Thoreau
  
  
• “It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” -- Henry David Thoreau
  
  
• “It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” -- Henry David Thoreau
  
  
• “There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” -- Henry Ford
  
  
• “Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” -- Henry Ford
  
  
• “I took your offer up a few months ago and got half way through and unsubscribed when we got to the bit about religion.
  
  As a third generation Roman Catholic I had a few hang-ups and felt uncomfortable and disconcerted.
  
  However since then, I have been researching, in particular about the Jesuits, the "Black Pope" etc. and MK ULTRA, Monarch, Project Paperclip AND some stuff from other websites and correlated certain events.
  
  I now have to agree with your train of thought, the Indefensible can no longer be Defended. I cannot rebut your findings!
  
  I feel a righteous anger at some of my earlier beliefs.” -- Henry Mc Donald
  
  
• “Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.” -- Henry W. Longfellow
  
  
• “The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.” -- Henry Ward Beecher
  
  
• “But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.” -- Herbert Butterfield
  
  
• “Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder.” -- Homer Simpson
  
  
• “Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” -- Howard W. Newton
  
  
• “There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.” -- Hugh Prather
  
  
• “If thou knowest thine own self, thou knowest God.” -- Ibn-Al-Arabi
  
  
• “What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.” -- Immanuel Kant
  
  
• “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” -- Immanuel Kant
  
  
• “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” -- Isaac Asimov
  
   Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
  
  
• “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.” -- Ivan Turgenev
  
  
• “There is no good or evil, there is only power.” -- J. K. Rowling
  
  
• “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” -- J. Krishnamurti
  
  
• “Thank you so very much for responding so quickly. I value the unconventional advice from your site and I'm sure it will help me through my crisis.” -- J.C. - Real name withheld by request
  
  
• “One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.” -- Jack Canfield
  
  
• “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” -- Jack London
  
  
• “A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.” -- James Allen
  
  
• “If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.” -- James Baldwin
  
  
• “Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” -- James Boswell
  
  
• “There are numerous valuable ideas and concepts that I believe will be useful for me on a personal and perhaps business level. The material is clearly well thought out and well written. Thank you all for such a great resource.” -- James Lavine
  
  
• “All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.” -- James Thurber
  
  
• “I just want to say thanks very much for the 'I knew that' moments I received while reading How Life Really Works :-) So nice to know I am not the only one feeling the way I do about the world and how to live a life. But I have to keep clinging to the belief that all I can do is pass on what I believe to those I meet, one person at a time. I work in the esoteric field and luckily most of the people I meet are open minded! I do pass on your website information. Well anyway, thanks sooooooo much, keep up the great work!” -- Janice Coetzee, Heidelburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  
  
• “Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.” -- Jawaharial Nehru
  
  
• “Whenever a book doesn't endorse the doom and gloom paradigm now pervading our world, but offers some alternative strategies to global subjugation and other forms of tyranny, I tend to pay more attention to what the authors say. In How Life Really Works, there is an abundance of optional choices at hand which make this a rather beneficial read above and beyond the usual spate of future oriented books promising spiritual upliftment, financial prosperity and immunity to the forces of the New World Order....” -- Jaye Beldo writes for Dream Network, Mystic Pop, Paranoia Magazine and other publications
  
  
• “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” -- Jim Rohn
  
  
• “When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” -- Jimi Hendrix
  
  
• “We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.” -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
  
• “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1749-1832
  
  
• “Many thanks for How Life Really Works! The weird thing is, I knew much of it before but thought I was crazy! Keep it up!” -- John Carass, Bedford, UK
  
  
• “Not to know at large of things remote
  From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
  That which before us lies in daily life,
  Is the prime wisdom.” -- John Milton
  
  
• “The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.” -- John Milton
  
  
• “The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.” -- John Mortimer
  
  
• “The easiest job in the world is to be that of a critic. This world owes you nothing. But we owe it to each other and to ourselves to make this world a better place. Too many people stand by the sidelines and say... somebody should fix this or that... but you be different. You be the one to fix it. Make the conscious choice to improve the world in which you live. This is not always the easiest path... but it is the most rewarding one.” -- John Philp Thompson, Sr.
  
  
• “Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” -- John Tillotson
  
  
• “Just wanted to say your last message was exact to my own sentiments and understandings developed over the past 30 years. I couldn't agree more!
  
  I also look forward to 12/21/2012. I journeyed to Guatemala some 15 years ago to study the Maya w/out knowing the full measure of why I felt so compelled.
  
  Spiritually, economically, and synergistically with the aid and comfort of like minded people, I have also begun the necessary steps to build to that date.
  
  I'm certain you have connected with many others who 'see' the veils parting and clear consciousness coming into focus.
  
  Together we will each do our respective parts and join our forces to help humanity. It is a great journey we have begun.
  
  Please let me know what I can do for you so we may grow a relationship and perhaps one day soon meet. I love to travel and already know others in Europe who ascribe to all of this as well.” -- John Warnhoff, Bowling Green, KY, USA
  
  
• “Nothing will work unless you do.” -- John Wooden
  
  
• “Though I still have to get direct and quantifiable benefits of your seminar, I find your material very edifying. I am sure with time I will start practising what you are propagating and tap into the enormous power of the metaphysical. Please keep up the good work you are doing of enlightening the world and changing lives in the most profound ways. Always yours truly...” -- Johnstone Mulary, Nairobi- Kenya
  
  
• “For as it is the chief concern of wise men to retrench the evils of life by the reasonings of philosophy; it is the employment of fools to multiply them by the sentiments of superstition.” -- Joseph Addison
  
  
• “Men with sight, see things as they are.
  Men with "insight", see things as they could be.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “In the grand game and art called life, it is wise of one to cultivate an environment of: understanding, knowledge and purpose of heart to reach and attain all your noble and lofty goals in life, unlike others who pursue and chase vague,shallow and other meaningless trivial pursuits.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “There is no such thing as boredom for the person who cultivates, trains and develops his mind, to act and serve, as his own personal playground.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Happiness and contentment in life reside less in the transient mansions, spa's and international playgrounds of the rich, but more in the permanent residence of the heart and mind.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “One never stands taller or more firmly grounded than when they stand on their principles.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Moral and spiritual decay have brought about the demise of more great nations (empires) than any invading enemy force, plague, famine and natural disasters combined.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “True love cannot be measured or evaluated by any standard or conventional methods. Not by weight, percentage or any other yardstick. One knows they reached the limit and capacity of their love when they feel their heart overflowing with it.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Truth and the knowledge of the ages are often the hardest and most intangible thing to learn in life. But, once comprehended and fully understood, they will provide the possessor with a wealth of wisdom and insight more valuable than both gold and diamonds combined.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Your conscience teaches your mind how to 'think' your heart how to 'feel' your soul how to 'obey' and most importantly your body how to 'perform' extraordinary 'acts' of charity and human kindness toward your fellow man.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Don't attempt to attain success at any and all costs, the price may prove to high.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “If you aspire to become a "giant" of industry you first must learn to "grow" from all your past mistakes and failures.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “The difference between the successful person and the unsuccessful person is the unsuccessful person stops short of his goals; the successful person surpasses his goals.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “The successful person goes the extra mile; the failure never reaches the half-way point.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “The high price of success is bought, paid and purchased with blood, sweat and tears.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “You can learn more from your competitors than your friends, they will be among the very first to expose all your flaws and shortcomings.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Even the most ignorant speak at least two languages: their native tongue and profane.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “The tongue cuts sharper than any tooth.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “What you sometimes think of as failure is often success in disguise.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Some doors are positioned to swing both ways, while others open in one direction and return closed to their original position, still others are positioned to revolve in a circle.
  So learn from the door, to place yourself in the proper position in life where all the doors to success will always remain open to you.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Through hard work, the successful person can expect to attain their every goal in life. The unsuccessful person, because they hardly work, can only expect to obtain a cheap, pale imitation of success in their life.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “You would be surprised how luck, success and opportunity are never very far "behind" for the individuals who position themselves far "ahead" of the pack.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Temptation is giving in when you should be holding out.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Learn from the past. Live in the present. Prepare for the future.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “You cannot turn back time, but time can turn its back on you.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “The best way to determine the success of a man is not by wealth alone, but more importantly if he is alone in his wealth.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Wisdom.
  That soft and gentle voice.
  It will always guide you faithfully
  To make the wisest choice.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “The wise man relies on his two most trusted and loyal companions. Their names are moderation and common sense.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “A wise man knows his limitations but never sets limits on himself. A fool does not recognize his limitations, thus limiting himself.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “It is a wise man indeed who well in advance, offers God all his thankfulness and praise, in anticipation of life's unavoidable trials, tribulations and pitfalls.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “The true genius possesses the wisdom and judgment to know and stay 'within' his parameters and boundaries while still thinking 'outside' the box.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Quotes are poems less the rhyming, containing thoughts and observations, beat and timing. Poems are very lyrical, quotes mostly empirical, both combining for a miracle.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “The naked truth and bald faced lies sometimes conflict with the bare faced facts.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Allow truth, honesty and compassion to become your faithful travel guides on life's uncertain journey to fame and fortune.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “It's not what you think of the 'World' that makes a 'world' of difference but what the 'World' thinks of you.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “I have traveled to all of the world's continents but none less 'explored' or 'understood' than the human mind.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Life is priceless, treasure it.
  Love is precious, cherish it.
  Mankind's condition is perilous,
  nurture and protect it.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “False humility is as shallow as a pond without water.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “The only true limitation in life is one's own lack of imagination.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Our body, like a camera, is similar in the fact that it allows our eyes to act as the lens and shutter, that snaps the subject that our mind instantly conceptualizes into an image, (like a roll of film) that our brain is later left to develop.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “A genius without balance is like a wise man devoid of common sense.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “True genius obeys no protocol.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “He who drinks from the fountain of life and quenches his thirst for knowledge never comes up dry.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Truth and the knowledge of the ages are often the hardest and most intangible thing to learn in life. But, once comprehended and fully understood, they will provide the possessor with a wealth of wisdom and insight more valuable than both gold and diamonds combined.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Try to avoid the most natural of all human tendencies. The nonchalant habit of resisting and rejecting out of hand, what we fail to appreciate or comprehend.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “'Free nations' are ruled by canon law. 'Dictators' govern by the barrel of a gun.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Life is an ever revolving door; you can be 'in' one minute and 'out' the next.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Figure out the meaning of life and you have conquered the universe.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “On Life's long, hard journey, it would be wise to pack light any ego, false pride, and deceit, and take away and make well of your faithful travelling companions - integrity, truth, and honesty of character.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Life can sometimes turn into one big 3 ring circus. When we attempt to climb upward on the ladder of success we sometimes are required to juggle while performing a precarious balancing act on a taught tight-rope like a trapeze artist left to hang without a net.
  We are also constantly confronted with assorted clowns and court jesters. Like the ringmaster, our boss may sometimes expect us to jump though hoops. If not, they’re eager and ready to feed us to the lions.
  Like the elephant, we sometimes are expected to work a full day for just peanuts, while also trying to make a monkey out of us. So, if you become disillusioned with you job and decide to seek greener pastures and a change of scenery, remember the old adage:
  "It may be a jungle out there."” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “If you want to see the brighter side of life, you first must remove your blinders.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Judge all things by their content and not by the beauty of its wrapping.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “If one attempts to walk the straight and narrow path in life, it may be advisable to remain thin and sober.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “More people are imprisoned by the self-imposed limitations of their mind, than by the limitations of any prison cell.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Great is the character and integrity of the person who stands their ground while the whole world is tumbling from under them.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “A calendar is the most useless of things to the unambitious who have neither desire or have never set a timetable to attain and achieve any goal in life.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “A child, like the most beautiful, precious and perfect of orchids must first receive a tender hand, nourishing care in an atmosphere and environment of love, if expected to fully blossom and bloom to reach and attain their full growth, maturity and potential in life.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “To unlock the door to the future, you must first posses the key to the past.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “The greatest legacy and inheritance an individual can leave to others is a life lived and remembered by fond memories of unselfish love, devotion and service to god, family and mankind.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
   Dedicated to Ronald Reagan
  
  
• “Never submit to love,
  Only commit to love.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Marriage is the only union where you’re unable to take your complaints to a delegate.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “All religions contain, like an apple, the same common core beliefs.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “The common man, you can count in the billions.
  The successful man, you can count in the millions.
  The great man, you can count in the thousands.
  The wise man, you can on your fingers.
  The truly Godly man, you can always count on.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Some folks are wise and some otherwise.” -- Josh Billings
  
  
• “The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.” -- Kahil Gibran
  
  
• “Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth’.” -- Kahlil Gibran
  
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• “The final obstacle is the belief that there is an obstacle.” -- Kai Ski
  
  
• “I have one major rule: everybody is right. More specifically, everybody— including me— has some important pieces of the truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.” -- Ken Wilber
  
  
• “In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.” -- Ken Wilber
  
  
• “I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.” -- Ken Wilber
  
  
• “Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.” -- Kenneth Hildebrand
  
  
• “Once you master yourself there is no need to master anything else.” -- Ketan Patel
  
  
• “I am flying out to Thailand on the 8th of February for 4 weeks to celebrate this feeling of a homecoming. No more holding back! Your message is crystal clear and confirming steadily that I have always been operating at another level than most people around me but was never able to put it all in place. It just feels soooooo good knowing that I am actually not alone in most thoughts that have been discussed. I also enjoy absorbing all the additional facts that are contained in your message. All this to enjoy a happy and free life, its simply brilliant. Good on you to share this with anyone who is willing to hear!” -- Klaas Vos, Cork, Ireland
  
  
• “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.” -- Lao-Tzu
  
  
• “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” -- Latin Proverb
  
  
• “The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business–or almost anywhere else for that matter.” -- Lee Iacocca
  
  
• “I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.” -- Leo Rosten
  
  
• “Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?” -- Leo Tolstoy
  
  
• “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” -- Leonardo da Vinci
  
  
• “If we don’t like what’s happening to us in this world, all we have to do is change our consciousness -- and the world out there changes for us.” -- Lester Levenson
  
  
• “Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” -- Lin Yutang
  
  
• “There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.” -- Logan Pearsall Smith
  
  
• “For the last ten years I have been in an intense research and group study concerning the roots of Christianity, Judaism, ancient religion and current government conspiracies. It was through these studies that has brought me out of the indoctrination of the orthodoxy of religion.
  
  There were many heart stopping moments of disbelief, sleepless nights, weeping and incredible sense of sadness mixed with anger.
  It was all good for what came out of it all is such a sense of freedom: freedom to know God for myself and freedom to be able to think independently for the first time in my life. I believe life is an on going journey of self discovery that never gets done because it is eternal and that the pursuit of knowing God takes us deep within ourselves in the still waters of our soul where the deep calls to the deep.
  
  Your information runs parallel to much of my studies. Thank you and blessings,” -- LT Bray
  
  
• “We are each of us angels, with only one wing. We can only fly by embracing each other.” -- Lutiano
  
  
• “I was afraid the site was shut down. That would be such a shame because I've been telling everyone that if you ever wanted to know the truth about anything, then you have to visit How Life Really Works.” -- Lydia Kabatoff, Canada
  
  
• “Be the change you want to see in the world.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• “The greatest of man's spiritual needs is the need to be delivered from the evil and falsity that are in himself and in his society.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• “In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• “The only devils in this world are those running around inside our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• “Truth is by nature self-evident, as soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” -- Mahatma Ghandi
  
  
• “Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.” -- Mahatma Ghandi
  
  
• “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” -- Marcel Proust
  
  
• “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” -- Marcus Aurelius
  
  
• “Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.” -- Marianne Williamson
  
  
• “Always tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember anything.” -- Mark Twain
  
   Roughin' it
  
  
• “In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.” -- Mark Twain
  
  
• “Patriotism is to love ones country all the time, and the government when they deserve it.” -- Mark Twain
  
  
• “We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it— and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again— and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.” -- Mark Twain
  
  
• “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” -- Mark Twain
  
  

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