OCTOBER 1ST, 1962: JOHNNY CARSON’S first night as host of the tonight show. He was introduced by Groucho Marx. guests included Joan Crawford, Mel Brooks, Rudy valley and Tony Bennett.
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FIND THE SWEETNESS in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
WHEN love is not accepted move on; when love is not appreciated walk away, hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.
SET YOUR SIGHT ON A PLACE HIGHER THAN YOUR EYES CAN SEE.
JIMMY CARTER 1924. 39th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
GO OUT ON A LIMB. THAT’S WHERE THE FRUIT IS.
WE CANNOT BE both the world’s leading champion of peace & the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
THE MEASURE OF A SOCIETY is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
AL I WANT is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
I HAVE ONE LIFE and one chance to make it count for something. My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
WHAT are the things that you can’t see that are important?/ I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love . . .They’re the guiding lights of a life.
THE TEST OF A GOVERNMENT is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.
WE BECOME not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
THE BOND OF OUR COMMON HUMANITY is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
GOD WISELY designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
I AM NO BIG SHOT. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
AMERICA did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
WHEN PEOPLE ARE INTIMIDATED about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
I’D LIKE to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
YOU ALWAYS GET BACK MUCH MORE THAN YOU GIVE.
JERRY FALWELL can go straight to hell — and I mean that in a Christian way.
TO BE TRUE TO OURSELVES, WE MUST BE TRUE TO OTHERS.
EVERYONE has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
WE SHOULD LIVE OUR LIVES AS THOUGH CHRIST WERE COMING THIS AFTERNOON.
WHEREVER LIFE TAKES US, THERE ARE ALWAYS MOMENTS OF WONDER.
REPUBLICANS are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
ANNIE BESANT 1847-1933 “The Ancient Wisdom”, “Thought Power”
“Annie Besant was a political and religious activist, along with the ideology of feminism. Intellectual freedom, secularism, women’s rights, birth control, workers’ rights and Fabian socialism were among her causes. She was especially against the church interfering in people’s lives.” wikipedia
THERE IS NO LIFE WITHOUT CONSCIOUSNESS; THERE IS NO CONSCIOUSNESS WITHOUT LIFE.
WHERE LOVE RULES, LAWS ARE NOT NEEDED.
MORALITY is the science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.
NO SOUL that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong and they who have suffered are able to save.
KNOWLEDGE IS ESSENTIAL TO CONQUEST; ONLY ACCORDING TO OUR IGNORANCE ARE WE HELPLESS. THOUGHT CREATES CHARACTER. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
IF YOU THINK FALSELY, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.
THE MAN OF MEDITATION is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.
SOCIALISM is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
PURIFICATION is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light.
EVERY PERSON, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
EVIL is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming but has yet found its end.
BIGOTRY is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.
IN A DEEP METAPHYSICAL SENSE, all that is conditioned is illusionary. All phenomena are literally ‘appearances,’ the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. the more ‘material’ and solid appearance, the further it is from reality, and therefore the more illusionary it is.
GOD IS ALWAYS THE EQUIVALENT OF ‘I DON’T KNOW.’
A MYTH is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
THE WANTING of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.