I know that there are many boards about quotes and stuff but i would like to make one of my own so that it will be compiled into one board. I have called this board "Words of Truth" because many of the quotes are speak of the truth and they have inspired me as well as the things that i do everyday in my life.

So, anyone who has some words of truth, please feel free to post them here... Enjoy!!

Life & Love
ØA leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. -Rosalynn Carter
ØI love to think about chance-about how one overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe. -Anne Tyler
ØA simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one’s husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it - Anne Morrow Linbergh
ØTo rescue, to revenge, to instruct or to protect a woman, is the same as to love her - Jean Paul Richter
ØStolen kisses are always the sweetest - J.H Leigh Hunt
ØA kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous- Ingrid Bergman
ØA clear conscience is more valuable than wealth - Filipino proverb
ØPeace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence. Confidence, justice - Benedict de Spinoza
ØPolitics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed - Tse Tung Mao
ØWisdom doesn’t come automatically with old age. Nothing does except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place - Abigail Van Buren
ØLove is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real - Iris Murdoch
ØLove, love, love - that is the soul of a genius - Mozart
ØDarkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr
ØWhat is beautiful is good and who is good will soon be beautiful - Sappho
ØRarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together - Petrarch
ØThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart - Helen Keller
ØThe secret to a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values -Norman Thomas
ØLife is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity - Imelda Marcos
ØJoy is the serious business of heaven - C.S Lewis
ØHatred doesn’t cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule -Buddha
ØWhen I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. - Michel Montaigne

God, Religion and Values

ØEvery believer is God’s miracle - Gamaliel Bailey
ØA single prayer moves heaven - Japanese proverb
ØThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion - Matthew Arnold
ØMore things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of - Alfred Tennyson
ØChristianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ØAn agnostic is a man who doesn’t know whether there is a God or not, doesn’t know whether he has a soul or not, doesn’t know whether there is a future life or not, doesn’t believe that anyone else knows more about these matters than he does, and thinks it a waste of time to try to find out - James Dana
ØAn irreligious man, a speculative or a practical atheist, is as sovereign, who voluntarily takes off his crown and declares himself unworthy to reign- Josh Stuart Blackie
ØAtheists put on a false courage in the midst of their darkness and misapprehensions, like children who when they fear to go in the dark, will sing or whistle to keep up their courage - Alexander Pope
ØThe atheist is one of the most daring beings in creation, a condemner of God, who explodes his laws by denying his existence - John Foster
ØVirtue in distress and vice in triumph, make atheists of mankind- John Dryden
ØWhether acknowledged or not, the taste for established rules of behavior persists, along with a deeper hunger for order. Everybody who doubts this is left to explain why the same generation that e-mails wedding acceptances and dresses down for work has fallen in love with history’s most persuasive novelist of manners, Jane Austen. -Randy Wayne White
ØSaying No to something is actually more powerful than saying Yes - Tom Hanks
ØSin is, essentially, a departure from God - Martin Luther
ØAll sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation - Wystan Hugh Auden
ØIt is one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall - Shakespeare
ØPessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde
ØBetween two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both - Tryon Edwards
ØHe that cannot decidedly say “No”, when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs - Joel Hawes
ØAnyone who loves knowledge wants to be told when he is wrong. It is stupid to hate being corected - Proverbs 12:1
ØGood deeds are the best prayer - Serbian saying
ØIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. - Mark Twain

Birth, Childhood & Youth
ØEvery minute dies a man; every minute one is born - Alfred Tennyson
ØOf all the joys that brighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child? - Caroline Norton
ØHeaven lies about us in our infancy - William Wordsworth
ØD’you call life a bad job? Never! We’ve had our ups and downs, we’ve had our struggles, we’ve always been poor, but it’s been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children- William Somerset Maugham
ØMaturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty - John Huston Finley
ØIf I hadn’t had children, I probably would have had money and material things. I probably would have gone more places, gotten more sleep and pampered myself more. My life would have been much boring and predictable. As a result of being a parent, I have laughed harder, cried more often. I have worried more and hurried more. I’ve had less sleep, but somehow I’ve had more fun. I’ve learned more, grown more. My heart has ached harder and I’ve loved to a capacity beyond my imagination. I’ve given more of myself, but I’ve derived more meaning from life. -Marianne Neifert


Drinking, Smoking & Drugs
**Drinking a little is tipsiness, drinking ten times more inebriates one’s virtue - Chinese proverb
**Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life - Brooke Shields
**Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don’t they realize that it’s gross? I understand that it’s an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it - Kirsten Dunst
**Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death - Jean Cocteau

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Um. I admire what you're trying to do, but it's too long.

hahaha.. yeah, i did make that mistake depressedwavemaster... but anyway, i cant edit it anymore.... Oh well... i guess, there are just a lot of quotes i wanted to share, i coudln't resist posting all of it.

I tuned out after the first two colors!

"Let the golden age begin." ~Beck

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." ~Buddha

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule." ~Buddha

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." ~Winston Churchill

"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power." ~Charles de Gaulle

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." ~Frank Lloyd Wright

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." ~Robert Frost

"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all." ~William Goldman

"Time is what keeps things from happening all at once." ~Graffiti

"The more I see, the less I know for sure." ~John Lennon

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the '60s, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal." ~John Lennon

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." ~Michael Pritchard

"My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to the hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand." ~Barbra Streisand

"The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude." ~Voltaire

I will share some of my favorite quotes with you.

When you dream you get to the clouds. When you work you get to the stars.- Clifton Butt

Be and not seem.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his leger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. A man is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.- Henry Ward Beecher

Personality can open doors, but only charachter can keep them open.- Elmer G. Letterman

Learn to do. Do to learn. Earn to live. Live to serve.- FFA motto

Um. I admire what you're trying to do, but it's too long.