The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
Vengeance: "It's your fault; you must pay; you must bleed."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The ugliest word in the world is revenge.
It spells hate; it spells fear; it spells greed.
For my loss, I must kill; I must steal - must avenge.
It's your fault; you must pay; you must bleed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
I accept everything that ever has been,
with no regrets, no resentments, and no call for vengeance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Control thy passions lest they take vengeance upon thee.
- Epictetus
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
Where did you park the invisible car?
- the movie Megamind (2010)
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Where large sums of money are concerned,
it is advisable to trust nobody.
- Agatha Christie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
The world turns aside to let any man pass
who knows where he is going.
- Epictetus
No government ought to be without censors;
and where the press is free no one ever will.
- Thomas Jefferson
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to have your head in the clouds,
and know where you are...
than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them,
and think that you are in paradise.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
Footprints in the sand...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Pay attention.
Don't let resentments or pessimism answer for you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My dream is of a place and a time where America
will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower
Went up where the homeless had their home.
- Jewel
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air.
They are where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
Errors of opinion may be tolerated
where reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Washington, where an insignificant individual
may trespass on a nation's time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
Follow your instincts.
That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The sacred altar of all existence
is where we meet our ancestors
and our descendants yet unborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where fifty-one percent of the people
may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson
Compassion blooms where there is no expectation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
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