#Gratitude Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Evil Quotes
“It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.”
“That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.”
“Godfulness is simply recognizing the primacy of a presence of love, spaciousness, grace, generativity, caring, and creativity in the world and in myself. How can a mere financial crisis compare to that? The Generative Mystery cannot go bankrupt. It is not subject to scarcity. We never run out of God.”
“How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!”
Source : Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956.
“Only by first acknowledging that we are living beings together here on this planet before labeling ourselves as anything else can we hope for peace on Earth.”
“My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.”
“If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.”
Source : Alvin Toffler (1972). “The futurists”, Random House (NY)
“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.”
Andre Maurois Author
Antoine Rivarol Writer
E. W. Howe Novelist
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Author
François-René de Chateaubriand Writer
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Jean de la Bruyere
Nicolas Chamfort Writer
Paul Auster Author
