Short quotations about, rather - Page 3

William Wordsworth

What though the radiance which was …

15 Feb , 2011  

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts […]

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Edgar Z. Friedenberg

What we must decide is how we are v…

15 Feb , 2011  

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. Great short quote and quotation by: Edgar Z. Friedenberg ,

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Tom Robbins

When she was a small girl, Amanda h…

15 Feb , 2011  

When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, […]

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Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude

When we honestly ask ourselves whic…

15 Feb , 2011  

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us […]

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Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

You shall be free indeed when your …

27 Apr , 2010  

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. Great short quote and quotation by: Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet , Lebanese artist & poet in […]

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