Wisdom For The Day

[Knight of Albion]

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution.
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages
- Thomas Edison

[muddled]

He who can keep his head when all around him are losing theirs.....

clearly doesn't know the whole story

[Knight of Albion]

Do not educate your child to be rich. Educate him to be happy, so that when he grows up , he knows the value of things, not the price
- Unknown

[Knight of Albion]

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things
- Robert Brault

[Knight of Albion]

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham
- Anna Sewell

[mothhawk]

Take the good with the bad, smile with the sad.
Love what you've got, remember what you had.
Always forgive, but never forget.
Learn from mistakes, but never regret.

[mothhawk]

A careless word may kindle strife.
A cruel word may wreck a life.
A timely word may level stress.
But a loving word may heal and bless.

[Knight of Albion]

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words
- Anna Sewell

[Knight of Albion]

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt
-Anna Sewell

[Knight of Albion]

You did right my boy, wheter the fellow gets a summons or not. Many folks would have ridden by and said 'twas not their business to interfere. Now I say, that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it
- Anna Sewell

[Knight of Albion]

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful
- Marie Curie

[Knight of Albion]

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

[mothhawk]

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, and that another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

[Knight of Albion]

Correction does much, but encouragement does more
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Knight of Albion]

Our chief want is for someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be
- Ralph Waldo Emerson