Words worth keeping

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.