My Favorite Quotes

2011-02-01T14:42:00.000-05:00

There will always be people, who love their own cause more than they love their people;
who will find fault in someone's earnest effort to heal wounds, heal our nation, heal our world; only because their own cause is to find fault in someone that they have already predetermined is only worthy of fault. -- Lickerpoet

Our Children

2010-03-02T15:11:00.000-05:00

Our children outgrow our laps, but never our hearts...♥ Put ♥ this ♥ on ♥ your ♥ status ♥ if ♥ you ♥ have ♥ the ♥ most ♥ Awesome ♥ Children ♥ in the ♥ world !!!!!!!!!!! -- Rita

Where do you find your source of information?

2009-12-24T12:44:00.001-05:00

"There is a quote that has always remained very close to my heart made by an American Indian Medicine Woman and it goes like this:" - Asha

"If you take a copy of the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and the rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone. Our bible IS the wind and the rain."

A wiser and more mystical view Henry Beston

2009-12-12T09:46:00.000-05:00

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."

Henry Beston-Author and Naturalist

The man whispered God Speak to me

2006-07-02T22:56:00.000-04:00

The man whispered, "God, speak to meand a meadowlark sang. But, the man did not hear. So the man yelled "God, speak to me!"And, the thunder rolled across the sky. But, the man did not listen.The man looked around and said, "God let me see you." And a star shined brightly. But the man did not notice. And, the man shouted, "God show me a miracle!" And, a life was born. But, the man did not know.So, the man cried out in despair,"Touch me God,and let me know you are here!" Whereupon, God reacheddown and touched the man. But, the man brushedthe butterfly away and walked on. Don't miss out on a blessing because it isn't packaged as you expect.Author unknown

Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, & Buddha

2006-06-25T18:37:00.000-04:00

"If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions." -- Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787

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"In the general course of human nature, a power over man's substance amounts to a power over his will." -- Alexander Hamilton

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"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." -- Buddha [Gautama Siddharta] (563 - 483 BC),

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2005-12-17T08:50:00.000-05:00

Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517

Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Matthew 7:12

Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what which he desires for himself. Sunnah

Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.: Udana Varga 5:18

Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.: Talmud, Shabbat 31:a

Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.: Analects 15:23

Taoism: Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.: T’ai Shag Kan Ying P’ien

Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good: for itself. : Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5

Thanks to Georgianne for the quotes above.

And my Thanks to, Information Clearing House and the efforts of this man...

Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley
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Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams

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Peace and Blessings

GOD Bless ALL, ALL Bless GOD

Sincerely,

Gary

This is my favorite quote: An Earlier View

2005-11-02T17:51:00.000-05:00

"We did not think of the Great Open Plains, the rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth, as ‘Wild.’ Only to the white man was nature a ‘Wilderness’ and only to him was the land ‘Infested’ with ‘Wild’ animals and ‘Savage’ people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the Blessings of the Great Mystery." – Chief Standing Bear of the Lakota

This quote is mounted on a plaque at a scenic site of natural history preserved in Pennsylvania.