Category: Thought for the week

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

P.J. O’Rourke
If we take man as he is, we make him worse. But if we take man as he shoould be, we make him capable of what he can be.

Goethe
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama
Inertia (the idea that an object will maintain its speed and direction or remain stationary until a force operates on it to change) is one of the most powerful forces in the Universe. Sadly, it also applies to thoughts, ideas, perspectives and beliefs as well as objects.
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

Steve Marabol
In the end, all conflict can only end with conversation.

William Sieghart
There’s something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you’re still alive.

Margaet Atwood
The kindest person in the room is often the smartestJ.

B. Pritzker
The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Pierre de Courbertin
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway