Favourite quotes

"How many existentialists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two. One to change the lightbulb, and one to observe how it symbolizes an incandescent beacon of subjectivity in a netherworld of cosmic nothingness."

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.

I awoke and saw that life was service.

I acted and behold, service was joy.

- Rabindranath Tagore

God grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

Courage to change the things I can;

And wisdom to know the difference.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." [Donna Roberts]

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man...the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.- Chief Seattle (attributed)

No one knows what he can do until he tries.- Publilius Syrus

A life without love is like a year without summer. [swedish Proverb]

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. - Dag Hammarskjold

"Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call destiny."

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

W.C.FIELDS