I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? Jean Kerr on beauty
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. Jean Kerr on marriage
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. Charles F. Kettering on change
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan on growth
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan on life
Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. Omar Khayyam on death
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox. Soren Kierkegaard on understanding
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Martin Luther King Jr. on understanding
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Martin Luther King Jr. on understanding
The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb. Russell Baker on politics
The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again. Charles Kingsley on change
The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet. Rudyard Kipling on heart
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! Rudyard Kipling on mother
Nature gave man two ends one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. George R. Kirkpatrick on success
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor. Grenville Kleiser on judgment
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. Koran on justice
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. Koran on wealth
My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms Kotomichi on beauty
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember. Karl Kraus on ability
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch on cats