Funeral Quotes
Albert Einstein Funeral Quotes"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." "Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." "Imagination is more important than knowledge..." "Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible." "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." "Truth is what stands the test of experience." "Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." J.K Rowling Funeral Quotes"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.""It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." "The best of us must sometimes eat our words." "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open." "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it." "What's comin' will come and we'll meet it when it does." "Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy." "...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right." "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth." "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." "You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike." "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution." "The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed." Sir Winston Churchill Funeral Quotes"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.""A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril." "All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time." "It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." "Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room." "Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." "The price of greatness is responsibility." "To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." Helen Keller Funeral Quotes"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.""Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content" "I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace." "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure." "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." "Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." "Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world." "Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived." "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart." "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." "The highest result of education is tolerance." Martin Luther King Jr. Funeral Quotes"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.""Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it." "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." "I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." "Let no man pull you low enough to hate him." "Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true." "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative." "The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood." "The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." "I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Lao-tzu Funeral Quotes"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness." "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." "He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know." "He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened." "He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire." "I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: "Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness,Have few desires." "The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action." "The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete." "There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed." "To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease." "When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil." Funeral Quotes from Additional Authors"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."--Richard Moss "Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotton..but the hurt stays in the heart." --Ella Higginson "Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe. --Henry Anatole Grunwald "If I've got the correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing righ, I'm going to succeed. --Dan Dierdorf "Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste." --Lucille Ball "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." --Lucille Ball "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." --Lucille Ball "Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given." --Deepak Chopra "Action is the foundational key to all success." --Tony Robbins "The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less." --Zeno "The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." --Zeno "About life Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill." --proverb "Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." --Sir James Dewar "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing." --W. Edwards Deming "It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best." --W. Edwards Deming "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest." --Mark Twain "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." --Mark Twain "About happiness There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." --Christopher Darlington Morley For more information Contact Us, it'll be a pleasure to help you. Return from Funeral Quotes back to Funeral Messages Return from Funeral Quotes back to The Funeral Planner Home Page
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