Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. Votes: 2
Nikos KazantzakisLet us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Votes: 2
Mother TeresaPeople who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. Votes: 2
Isaac AsimovNo one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Votes: 2
BuddhaWhat we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Votes: 2
Helen KellerLet us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Votes: 2
AusoniusGod gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Votes: 2
VoltaireWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Votes: 2
Joseph CampbellSelf-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. Votes: 4 Henri Frederic Amiel
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. Votes: 3 Orison Swett Marden
In America, we believe that competition strengthens us. Votes: 2 Sarah Palin
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. Votes: 4 Stendhal
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Votes: 1 Oprah Winfrey
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives. Votes: 1 Ben Kingsley
The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party. Votes: 1 Pat Robertson
How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go! Votes: 1 Charles Spurgeon
New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation. Votes: 3 Yayoi Kusama
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Votes: 3 Robert Louis Stevenson
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. Votes: 1 John Piper
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet. Votes: 1 Neale Donald Walsch
We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah. Votes: 4 Adoniram Judson
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. Votes: 1 Julie Harris
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace. Votes: 1 Malcolm X
Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us. Votes: 4 Robert Baer
It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people. Votes: 3 Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character. Votes: 3 Dallas Willard
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world. Votes: 2 A. Alfred Taubman
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. Votes: 3 Charlotte Bronte
It brings hope and peace of mind knowing that God gave His only begotten Son for us. I'm able to look back and know that on this day Jesus was born and gave us the opportunity to have eternal life. Votes: 1 Adrian Peterson
No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us. Votes: 3 Shane Claiborne
Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It opens us to a life that stretches us, enlightens us, and often springs surprises upon us. Such faith, like love, sees that which is invisible and lives by it. Votes: 1 Vincent Nichols
God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all. Votes: 2 George Carey
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. Votes: 2 Benjamin Franklin
Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves. Votes: 2 Billy Graham
If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection. Votes: 1 Bernie Siegel
If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Christ. Don't let it go. Votes: 2 Joyce Meyer
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them. Votes: 2 Vera Farmiga
But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain. Votes: 3 Clare Boothe Luce
Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi. Votes: 3 Bear Grylls
God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work. Votes: 1 Minnie Pearl
The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life. Votes: 2 Henry B. Eyring
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods. Votes: 1 Dallas Willard
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. Votes: 1 Woody Allen
In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do not know, however, that in order to grow, we need hard bread: the cross, humiliation, trials and denials. Votes: 3 Pio of Pietrelcina
Now, we can't stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time - if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him. Votes: 1 Joyce Meyer
We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons. Votes: 6 Terence McKenna
I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad. Votes: 3 Carmen Kass
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos. Votes: 3 Mick Jagger
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Votes: 2 Mother Teresa
The light within us gives power for good actions. Votes: 3 Lailah Gifty Akita
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Votes: 2 Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes, we must face our fears or our enemies on their ground, a place where they appear stronger but if we are well prepared, nothing can stop us. Their turf or not, success will be ours. Votes: 3 Idowu Koyenikan
Holy Angels, our advocates, our brothers, our counselors, our defenders, our enlighteners, our friends, our guides, our helpers, our intercessors - Pray for us. Votes: 3 Mother Teresa
The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone! Votes: 1 Pope Francis
We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party. Votes: 1 Malcolm X
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. Votes: 3 Peter Kreeft
Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us. Votes: 1 Chita Rivera
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. Votes: 5 Andrew Weil
Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet. Votes: 5 Gerald J. Popek
Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment. Votes: 1 John Amery
I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand. Votes: 1 Ulrich Walter
In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them. Votes: 4 Mother Teresa
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. Votes: 4 Thomas Friedman
The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history. Votes: 1 Mitchell Baker
I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way. Votes: 1 Loretta Lynn
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. Votes: 3 John Kasich
I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution Votes: 4 Ted Nugent
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. Votes: 3 Caroline Kennedy
I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes. Votes: 3 Barry O'Farrell
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. Votes: 1 John Lubbock
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Votes: 4 Michael Moore
I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs. Votes: 3 Vinnie Jones
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us. Votes: 5 John F. Kennedy
We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise. Votes: 3 Abdolkarim Soroush
I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody. Votes: 1 Max Baucus
In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes. Votes: 3 Rick Perlstein
From birds she learned how to sing; from cats she learned a form of dangerous independence. Votes: 3 Salman Rushdie
I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control. Votes: 1 Q'orianka Kilcher
And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican. Votes: 1 Alma Guillermoprieto
If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next. Votes: 6 Bruce Sterling
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. Votes: 1 Alexander Hamilton
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. Votes: 4 Chris Hedges
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address. Votes: 1 Marianne Williamson
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice. Votes: 1 Michael Kinsley
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life. Votes: 3 Carl Andre
Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans. Votes: 1 John M. McHugh
We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president. Votes: 6 William J. Clinton
Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon. Votes: 3 Joe Klein
We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security. Votes: 3 Yitzhak Rabin
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? Votes: 1 Will Rogers
We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds. Votes: 4 Jose Ramos-Horta
I'll look through 'Us Weekly' and I'll see a picture of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And I'm like, 'Wow, they just... they look so good. Even if they're like just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, they still look great.' Votes: 4 Moby