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Kenji Miyazawa (27 August 1896 – 21 September 1933) was a poet and author of children’s literature in early Sh?wa period Japan. He was also known as a devout Buddhist, vegetarian and social activist.
?€œWe must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.?€
~ Kenji Miyazawa
I will be adding more quotes by Kenji [...]
September 5th, 2008 | Posted in Author | No Comments
“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.”
~Oscar Wilde
A kiss may ruin a human life.
~Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
~ Oscar Wilde
When a man has once loved a woman [...]
August 20th, 2008 | Posted in Author, Love | 1 Comment
Here are some Love Quotes for the soul by Kahlil Gibran.
Such beautiful words as, “Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”
“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn [...]
May 10th, 2008 | Posted in Author, Life, Love | 4 Comments
Some of my favorite quotes by Benjamin Franklin
1) “A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ”
2) “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
3) “A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than [...]
March 13th, 2008 | Posted in Author, Politician | No Comments
The Famous American Chess Grand Master Bobby Fischer is dead. A small eulogy:
“Chess,” Bobby Fischer once said, “is life.” It was the chess master’s tragedy that the messy, tawdry details of his life often overshadowed the sublime genius of his game. Fischer, who has died at the age of 64, was a child prodigy, a [...]
January 19th, 2008 | Posted in Author, Celebrity, Sports | 1 Comment
A brief biography from his page on the Nobel prize website;
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his [...]
January 19th, 2008 | Posted in Author, Inspirational | 1 Comment
Robert “Bob” Nesta Marley, Popularly known as Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945 and lived till May 11, 1981 when he died in Miami florida at an early age of 36. He died of Camcer. He was a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and famously an activist who wanted to change the world by [...]
January 14th, 2008 | Posted in Author, Celebrity, Inspirational | 7 Comments
Oprah Winfrey the most celebrated and famous television talk show host, and the richest celebrity, and yes she earns her millions ( Billions?) by talking, yes talking and just so just imagine how witty her quotes would be. And very inspirational. many people cry watching her shows!! I am even beginning to think that if [...]
November 27th, 2007 | Posted in Author, Celebrity, Inspirational, Life, Motivational | No Comments
On the greatness of cities by Aristotle, “A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
“To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.”
Like this friendship Quote by Aristotle, “Friendship is essentially a partnership. ”
“He who is unable [...]
November 12th, 2007 | Posted in Author | No Comments
Friedrich Nietzsche left a lot of wisdom on the human psyche and some of his sayings are downright witty.
Trained as a philologist, Nietzsche was a megalomaniacal philosopher of culture who intended to end metaphysics, transform Western intellectual life, and deconstruct Christianity (perhaps through personally supplanting Jesus Christ in the West). His penetrating psychological and cultural [...]
November 6th, 2007 | Posted in Author, Funny | 2 Comments