Ideas

"When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they ...

"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves." - Frederick William Faber ...

“The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what men miss." - Thomas Carlyle ...

“The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.” - Criss Jami ...

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter."                     - Martin Luther King Jr ...

"What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven." - Migno McLaughlin ...

"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."         - Helen Hayes ...

"We are always the same age inside." - Gertrude Stein ...

“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.” ― ...

"What is going to happen, will happen.  A new day will come, and when the sun comes it will shine out a bit clearer" - The Lord of the Rings ...