“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.”
Archive for May, 2007
Albert Einstein.
Posted in rare photo, science on 31/05/2007| Leave a Comment »
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Posted in literature, words of love on 30/05/2007| Leave a Comment »
“So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
Love Letter. Ludwig von Beethoven.
Posted in famous love letters, music, words of love on 24/05/2007| Leave a Comment »
July 6, 1806
My angel, my all, my very self — only a few words today and at that with your pencil — not till tomorrow will my lodgings be definitely determined upon — what a useless waste of time. Why this deep sorrow where necessity speaks — can our love endure except through sacrifices — except through not demanding everything — can you change it that you are not wholly mine, I not wholly thine?
Oh, God! look out into the beauties of nature and comfort yourself with that which must be — love demands everything and that very justly — that it is with me so far as you are concerned, and you with
me. If we were wholly united you would feel the pain of it as little as I!
Now a quick change to things internal from things external. We shall surely see each other; moreover, I cannot communicate to you the observations I have made during the last few days touching my own life — if our hearts were always close together I would make none of the kind. My heart is full of many things to say to you – Ah! — there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all — cheer up — remain my true, only treasure, my all as I am yours; the gods must send us the rest that which shall be best for us.
Your faithful,
Ludwig
Otto von Bismarck.
Posted in political figures on 23/05/2007| Leave a Comment »
Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others’ experience.
I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
Otto von Bismarck has performed great services for his country, till now he remains one of the most significant political figures of modern Germany. During his life Otto von Bismarck pursued the idea of German unification. As a result, Germany grew into a powerful empire under its iron chancellor. For example thanks to him Germany became the first nation in the world to adopt an old-age social insurance program in 1889, designed by Germany’s Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. The idea was first put forward, at Bismarck’s behest, in 1881 by Germany’s Emperor, William the First, in a ground-breaking letter to the German Parliament. William wrote: “. . .those who are disabled from work by age and invalidity have a well-grounded claim to care from the state.”
Charles Dickens.
Posted in literature on 23/05/2007| Leave a Comment »
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Rabindranath Tagore.
Posted in philosopher, poet on 20/05/2007| Leave a Comment »
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
This words of Rabindranath Tagore is worth remembering. Sometimes I say to myself: stop standing, do what you planed! And what do you think? It helps me.
Anyway I love Rabindranath Tagore very much and I return to his work to re-read oftenly.
This is my one of the most loved poetry.
Song Unsung
The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.
The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set;
only there is the agony of wishing in my heart.
The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by.
I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice;
only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house.
The livelong day has passed in spreading his seat on the floor;
but the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house.
I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Posted in religious figures, Uncategorized on 20/05/2007| 1 Comment »
“To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom”.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 – 1945), German Lutheran pastor, theologian and participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and founding member of the Confessing Church.
Great Quotes Every Day 