Post by Zhang Huang on Jun 9, 2007 15:31:20 GMT -5
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
–Henry David Thoreau
It is not "history" which uses men as a means of achieving -- as if it were an individual person -- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
–Karl Marx
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
–Marian Wright Edelman
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience [dreams]: this is the ideal life.
–Mark Twain
Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
–Plato
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
–William Shedd
Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
–Henry David Thoreau
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
-Hermann Hesse
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
-Thomas Kempis
Be the change you want to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
–Henry David Thoreau
It is not "history" which uses men as a means of achieving -- as if it were an individual person -- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
–Karl Marx
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
–Marian Wright Edelman
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience [dreams]: this is the ideal life.
–Mark Twain
Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
–Plato
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
–William Shedd
Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
–Henry David Thoreau
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
-Hermann Hesse
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
-Thomas Kempis
Be the change you want to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi