If you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.
Josh Billings
1869 - 1948. Indian leader, pioneer of nonviolence.
1. "You should be the change that you want to see in the world."
Categories: Various
2. "You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result."
Categories: Various
3. "Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all."
Categories: Love -:- Truth and Falsity
4. "To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend."
Categories: Forgiveness -:- Anger
5. "There is no way to peace; peace is the way."
Categories: Peace and War
6. "There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."
Categories: Life and Death -:- Various
7. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Categories: Forgiveness -:- Power and Weakness
8. "The Rich must live more simply so that the Poor may simply live."
Categories: Richness and Money
9. "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
Categories: Nature and Animals
10. "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."
Categories: Work and Laziness -:- Question and Problem
11. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Categories: Work and Laziness
12. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
Categories: Power and Weakness
13. "Speak only if it improves upon the silence."
Categories: Oration and Silence
14. "Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice."
Categories: Sin and Conscience
15. "My life is my message."
Categories: Life and Death
16. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Categories: Life and Death -:- Education
17. "Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is a punishment."
Categories: Justice -:- Law and Crime -:- Love
18. "I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all."
Categories: Human -:- Good and Evil
19. "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Categories: Happiness
20. "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
Categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Freedom and Servitude
21. "Find purpose, the means will follow."
Categories: Dreams and Desires
22. "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not any man's greed."
Categories: Egoism -:- Nature and Animals
23. "Don't let anybody walk trough your mind with dirty feet."
Categories: Good and Evil
24. "Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."
25. "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained."
Categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Truth and Falsity
26. "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
Categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Love
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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