| |
Pages: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6
|
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors;
Amid these earthly damps
What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
|
|
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long after, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroken;
And the song, from beginnning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
|
|
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Civil Rights Leader Dr. King Quotes Dr. King Books
|
|
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Other Books
|
|
If we could, at this time, shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:
There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans.
70 would be non-white; 30 white.
70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian.
50 percent of the entire world wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people.
All 6 would be citizens of the United States.
70 would be unable to read.
50 would suffer from malnutrition.
80 would live in sub-standard housing.
Only 1 would have a college education.
When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.
A Summary Of The World
By Forrest Felling
|
|
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
Phillips Brooks
American Episcopal Bishop Books by Mr. Brooks
|
|
|
GOSH I just love this website... thought provoking and mind refreshing!
Saira
Lahore, Pakistan
From our guestbook.
|
|
|
|
