1. Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
2. Love means loving the unlovable – or it is no virtue at all.
3. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
————————————— Excerpt from Wikipedia: Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, biography, Christian apologetic, fantasy and detective fiction.
Chesterton has been called the “prince of paradox“. Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.” For example, Chesterton wrote the following:
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Chesterton is well known for his reasoned apologetic and even some of those who disagree with him have recognized the universal appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both liberalism and conservatism, saying:
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an “orthodox” Christian, and came to identify such a position with Catholicism more and more, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton’s “friendly enemy” according to Time, said of him, “He was a man of colossal genius”
1. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
2. A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
3. A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
4. A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
5. A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
6. And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
7. Being “contented” ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
8. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
9. Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
10. How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
11. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
12. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
13. If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
14. It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
15. Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
16. The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
17. The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
18. When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
19. Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
1. Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.
———————————————— Excerpt from Wikipedia: George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and served as the first President of the United States of America (1789–1797). For his central role in the formation of the United States, he is often referred to as the father of his country.
The Continental Congress appointed Washington commander-in-chief of the American revolutionary forces in 1775. The following year, he forced the British out of Boston, lost New York City, and crossed the Delaware River in New Jersey, defeating the surprised enemy units later that year. As a result of his strategy, Revolutionary forces captured the two main British combat armies at Saratoga and Yorktown. Negotiating with Congress, the colonial states, and French allies, he held together a tenuous army and a fragile nation amid the threats of disintegration and failure. Following the end of the war in 1783, King George III asked what Washington would do next and was told of rumors that he’d return to his farm; this prompted the king to state, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.” Washington did, in fact, return to private life and retired to his plantation at Mount Vernon.
He presided over the Philadelphia Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 because of general dissatisfaction with the Articles of Confederation. Washington became President of the United States in 1789 and established many of the customs and usages of the new government’s executive department. He sought to create a nation capable of surviving in a world torn asunder by war between Britain and France. His unilateral Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793 provided a basis for avoiding any involvement in foreign conflicts.
He supported plans to build a strong central government by funding the national debt, implementing an effective tax system, and creating a national bank. Washington avoided the temptation of war and began a decade of peace with Britain via the Jay Treaty in 1795; he used his prestige to get it ratified over intense opposition from the Jeffersonians. Although never officially joining the Federalist Party, he supported its programs and was its inspirational leader. Washington’s farewell address was a primer on republican virtue and a stern warning against partisanship, sectionalism, and involvement in foreign wars.
Washington was awarded the very first Congressional Gold Medal with the Thanks of Congress.
Washington died in 1799, and the funeral oration delivered by Henry Lee stated that of all Americans, he was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”. Washington has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents.
1. The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
2. I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
3. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
4. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
————————————————— Excerpt from Wikipedia: George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy to make their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care and class privilege, and found them all defective.
He was most angered by the exploitation of the working class, and most of his writings censure that abuse. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal political rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles.
Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They settled in Ayot St. Lawrence in a house now called Shaw’s Corner. Shaw died there, aged 94, from chronic problems exacerbated by injuries he incurred by falling.
He is the only person to have been awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion, respectively. Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honors, but accepted it at his wife’s behest: she considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books to English.
1. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
2. Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
3. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
4. You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”
5. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
6. The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
7. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
8. Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
9. Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
10. A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
11. I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
12. A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
13. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
14. If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.
15. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
16. No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
17. People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
18. Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
19. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
20. Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
21. The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
22. The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
23. We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
24. We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
25. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
26. When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
27. If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
Famous Love Quotes and Love Sayings from George W. Bush
1. The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There’s nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
2. The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There’s nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
6. The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Here’s to the people who gave me life
And then showed me how to live it
And taught me that you measure love
By how freely you can give it
And the gift I give to you
Is the lesson that I learned
That when a love is true
It has nothing in return
Unconditional love, that they gave to me
It wasn’t mine to keep and I knew someday
I’d hand it down to you and hope that I can be
The one who makes you see
The importance of unconditional love
And there were times I know I let them down
But never once was I rejected
And when I stood alone to face this world
Somehow I still felt protected
That’s the common bond we share
And it will last through the years
And you can trust that I’ll be there
Through the good times and the tears
Unconditional love, like they gave to me
It’s not yours to keep and I know someday
Someone will look to you and you will have to be
The one who makes him see
The importance of unconditional love
How one generation Loves, the next generation Learns
My father was a generous, beyond his means … but the greatest gift he gave me, was the Gift of Love.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, biography, Christian apologetic, fantasy and detective fiction.
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