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Tejvan Pettinger — Sat, 19 May 2007 09:12:42

New Year Quotes

Tejvan Pettinger — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:45:22

# Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. * Brooks Atkinson The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. P.J. O'Roruke

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution. Jay Leno

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. Anonymous

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. - Thomas Mann

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, With never a thought of sorrow; The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes merrily in tomorrow. Emily Miller

Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. -Sir Walter Scott

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. - Lord Tennyson

Top 20 Quotes

Tejvan Pettinger — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:38:16

20. If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. -- Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973)

19. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

18. To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. -- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

17. When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. -- Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536)

16. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. -- Epictetus (c.55-c.135)

15. He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

14. As I would not be a slave, so I will not be a master. Abraham Lincoln

13. No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. -- John Donne (1572-1631), Meditation XVII

12. If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. -- Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

11. This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man. -- Shakespeare.

Quote - on our souls

Tejvan Pettinger — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:36:56

"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried abut our own souls, and other people's bellies."

-- Rabbi Israel Salanter 1810-1883

Quote Mandela humility

Tejvan Pettinger — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:51:47

"That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed, but never the less, sometimes he fails to live up to expectations."

Nelson Mandela

Quote - Mandela Nobel Prize

Tejvan Pettinger — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:48:46

"I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards, but when I was notified that I had won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Mr de Klerk, I was deeply moved. The Nobel Peace Prize had a special meaning to me because of its involvement with South African history.... The award was a tribute to all South Africans and especially to those who fought in the struggle; I would accept it on their behalf."

Nelson Mandela

Quote - The Struggle for Justice

Tejvan Pettinger — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:45:10

"Whatever the sentence Your Worship sees fit to impose upon me for the crime for which I have been convicted before this court may it rest assured that when my sentence has been completed, I will still be moved as men are always moved, by their conscience. I will still be moved by my dislike of the race discrimination against my people. When I come out from serving my sentence, I will take up again, as best I can, the struggle for the removal of those injustices until they are finally abolished."

Nelson Mandela

Quote on hate and love

Tejvan Pettinger — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:34:31

"Hate is often an obverse form of love. You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. Hate is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone that you have the capacity to love because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up enough energy to hate him. Hatred is the frustration or blockage of normal, free-flowing love."

Sri Chinmoy

Quote "in the name of freedom"

Tejvan Pettinger — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:31:17

" I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all! I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands."

Nelson Mandela

Quote "Our deepest Fear"

Tejvan Pettinger — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:27:51

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

NELSON MANDELA, inaugural speech, 1994

Quote Justice and Peace for all

Tejvan Pettinger — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:23:34

"Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfil themselves."

NELSON MANDELA, speech, May 10, 1994

Quote on Love and Hate

Tejvan Pettinger — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:18:13

"No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

NELSON MANDELA

Quote freedom is not worth having..

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:58:04

" Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quote on violence

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:49:58

"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quote of Gandhi on Christianity and religion

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:39:17

"It was impossible for me to believe that I could go to Heaven or attain salvation only by becoming a Christian. When I frankly said this to some of the good Christian friends, they were shocked. But there was no help for it."

"After long study and experience I have come to the conclusion that

all religions are true;
all religions have some error in them;
all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quote on Gandhi by Nehru

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:36:02

"In India there came a man in our own generation who inspired us to great endeavour, ever reminding us that thought and action should never be divorced from moral principle, that the true path of man is the path of truth and peace. Under his guidance we laboured for the freedom of our country, with ill will to none, and achieved that freedom. We called him reverently and affectionately the Father of our Nation. Yet he was too great for the circumscribed borders of any one country, and the message he gave may well help us in considering the wider problems of the world."

Prime Minister Nehru on Mahatma Gandhi

Quote on Celibacy by Gandhi

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:33:50

"I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. The world depends for its existence on the act of generation, and as the world is the playground of God and a reflection of His Glory, the act of generation should be controlled for the ordered growth of the world. He who realises this will control his lust at any cost, equip himself with the knowledge necessary for the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of his progeny, and give the benefit of that knowledge to posterity."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quote about Untouchables

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:29:47

"I do not want to be reborn, but if I have to be reborn I should be reborn an untouchable so that I may share their sorrows, sufferings, and the affronts leveled against them in order that I may endeavour to free myself and them from their miserable condition."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quote - India shall be free

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:27:20

"We shall feel happy and free like a bird even behind the prison walls. We shall never weary of jail-going. When the whole of India has learned this lesson, India shall be free. For, if the alien power turns the whole of India into a vast prison, it will not be able to imprison her soul."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quote Non Violence

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:04:21

"The votary of non-violence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life. He who has not overcome all fear cannot practice non-violence to perfection."

Mahatma Gandhi