This is a compilation of thoughts and quotes that I have found or written recently, as well as many that I've collected throughout the years. Most thoughts are posted randomly, as I feel inspired. A listing of quotes can be found alphabetically (check the 2008 and 2009 archives listing), or by source.

Feel free to suggest additions!


“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Friday, May 17, 2024

John Steinbeck Quotes

 "A journey is a person in itself. No two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip. A trip takes us."

"We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent."

"I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical."

"To be alive at all is to have scars."

"So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out."

"You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future."

"You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway."

"When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people."

"It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough."

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Monday, April 1, 2024

King Gustav V of Sweden: Love and Justice in the Hearts of Men

“Laws and ordinances become more or less powerless as long as they are not supported in the hearts of men by an honest will and by a disposition which puts love and justice above selfishness. It is in people's hearts that the foundation must be laid for peace and mutual trust within society itself as well as between peoples. Nothing can better serve unity than for people to be driven by high goals, and with self-sacrificing zeal, seriously devote their thoughts and their lives to realizing them.” – King Gustav V of Sweden (1907-1950)

Quoted from his speech at the 1925 World Conference of Life and Work in Stockholm, Sweden

     Plaque in StorKyrkan, Stockholm, Sweden