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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
December 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
“Today more than ever, humanity cries out and calls for peace. This is a cry that requires responsibility and reason, and it must not be drowned out by the din of weapons or the rhetoric that incites conflict”
Pope Leo
Pope Leo
December 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“Today more than ever, humanity cries out and calls for peace. This is a cry that requires responsibility and reason, and it must not be drowned out by the din of weapons or the rhetoric that incites conflict”
Pope Leo
Pope Leo
“Our neighbors are not first our enemies … but other men and women with whom we can speak.”
Pope Leo
Pope Leo
December 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“Our neighbors are not first our enemies … but other men and women with whom we can speak.”
Pope Leo
Pope Leo
"Make peace with someone before the holy night of Christmas. This will be a more precious gift than anything that can be bought, because peace is a gift found only in the heart".
Pope Leo.
Pope Leo.
December 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"Make peace with someone before the holy night of Christmas. This will be a more precious gift than anything that can be bought, because peace is a gift found only in the heart".
Pope Leo.
Pope Leo.
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Claude Adrien Helvetius
December 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
December 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
Roy L. Smith
December 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
Roy L. Smith
" Decide … whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying"
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
December 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
" Decide … whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying"
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
December 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
Plato
December 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
Plato
Our job is not to solve every problem in the world, but to do our part with grace, integrity and courage.
Cornel West
Cornel West
December 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Our job is not to solve every problem in the world, but to do our part with grace, integrity and courage.
Cornel West
Cornel West
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
December 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Calvin: I wonder why we think faster than we can speak.
Hobbs: Probably so we can think twice
Hobbs: Probably so we can think twice
December 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Calvin: I wonder why we think faster than we can speak.
Hobbs: Probably so we can think twice
Hobbs: Probably so we can think twice
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
Saint Basil
Saint Basil
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
Saint Basil
Saint Basil
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope
Bob Hope
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope
Bob Hope
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
December 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
Joan Didion
Joan Didion
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
Joan Didion
Joan Didion
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We give because someone gave to us. We give because nobody gave to us. We give because giving has changed us. We give because giving could have changed us.
Alberto Álvaro Ríos
Alberto Álvaro Ríos
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We give because someone gave to us. We give because nobody gave to us. We give because giving has changed us. We give because giving could have changed us.
Alberto Álvaro Ríos
Alberto Álvaro Ríos
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
November 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham