CHIEF DAN GEORGE1899-1981 Accomplished performer, poet, philosopher, champion of First Nations peoples.
THERE IS A LONGING among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. to satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.
MAY THE STARS carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. and, above all, may silence make you strong.
LOVE IS SOMETHING YOU AND I MUST HAVE. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. we must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world.
THE HEART NEVER KNOWS THE COLOR OF THE SKIN.
IF you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.
CAN WE TALK OF INTEGRATION until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.
WE ARE AS MUCH ALIVE AS WE KEEP THE EARTH ALIVE.
IF THE LEGENDS FALL SILENT, WHO WILL TEACH THE CHILDREN OF OUR WAYS?
MY FRIENDS, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.
WHERE NO ONE INTRUDES, MANY CAN LIVE IN HARMONY.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS 1899-1981 “THE THREE MUSKETERS
HOW IS IS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL, UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL.
GREAT IS TRUTH. FIRE CANNOT BURN IT NOR WATER DROWN IT.
THE MERIT OF ALL TRUTH LIES IN THEIR DIFFICULTY.
THE PERSON WHO DOUBTS HIMSELF is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
ONLY A MAN WHO WHO HAS FELT ULTIMATE DESPAIR is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. . . . the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: wait and hope.
THE FRIENDS WE HAVE LOST do not repose under the ground . . . they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been ordained that they may always accompany us.
PURE LOVE AND SUSPICION cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
BE KIND. AIM FOR MY HEART.
WHEN YOU COMPARE THE SORROWS OF REAL LIFE to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
ORDER IS THE KEY TO ALL PROBLEMS.
HAPPINESS IS LIKE those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
MASTERY OF LANGUAGE AFFORDS ONE REMARKABLE OPPORTUNTIES.
LOVE IS THE MOST SELFISH OF ALL THE PASSIONS.
I DO NOT CLING TO LIFE SUFFICIENTLY TO FEAR DEATH.
MORAL WOUNDS have this peculiarity — they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
HASTE IS A POOR COUNSELOR.
TO LEARN IS NOT TO KNOW; there are the learners and the learned. memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
WOMAN IS SACRED; THE WOMAN ONE LOVES IS HOLY.
HAPPINESS IS EGOTISTICAL.
PHILOSOPHY cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
FOR THERE ARE TWO DISTINCT sorts of ideas: those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
Zelda Fitzgerald 1900-1948 “Save Me the Waltz: a Novel”
I DON’T WANT TO LIVE. I WANT TO LOVE FIRST & LIVE incidentally.
OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS OF US ARE DEPENDENT largely on what they’ve hoped for.
ALL I WANT to be very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.
SHE REFUSED TO BE BORED CHIEFLY BECAUSE SHE WASN’T BORING.
I LOVE YOU, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
MAYBE OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS OF US ARE TRUER THAN OUR OWN.
ONE ILLUSION IS AS GOOD AS ANOTHER.
I AM REALLY ONLY MYSELF when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
THE PURPOSE OF LIFE ON EARTH is that the soul should grow — So Grow! By doing what is right.
ISN’T IT FUNNY how danger makes people passionate?
LOVE IS IN THE AIR!