Evocative Quotes This page is filled with quotes from "quotable" people. Words of wisdom are intended to tickle the soul, and open our eyes to different perspectives and new ideas. Most of the hyperlinks and the pictures themselves are linked to songs from YouTube, so click away, and enjoy...  "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." ~Einstein "Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, health, free, the world before me." ~Walt Whitman "Here we will sit and let the sound of music creep into our ears. The soft stillness and the night become the touches of sweet harmony." ~William Shakespeare "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."" ~Carl Jung "Words, art and song help us appreciate what life does not teach us, and rediscover wisdom we misplace." -T-Bo "The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well." - Hippocrates "Every human being is the author of his own health or disease." - Buddha "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." - Thomas Alva Edison "Listening is better than medicating, no matter what they tell you." - from movie "Laurel Canyon," by Lisa Cholodenko "The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein: It rejects it." - biologist PB Medawer "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." - Buddha "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. - Thomas Jefferson "When your world turns to dust, get a dust-buster." - unknown "Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may happen. Keep in the sunlight." - Benjamin Franklin "We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift - that's why they call it the present." - RW Emerson
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." - Buddha "I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied.. I'm on my way." - Jon Anderson "It doesn't matter what you did yesterday. It's in what you do today." - Rose Martin "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Theresa "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls." - Mother Theresa "There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough." - Mother Theresa "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - Mother Theresa  "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King "Seeing is not always believing." - Martin Luther King "The reverse side also has a reverse side." - Japanese proverb "When you look up in the sky, you can see the stars and still not see the light." - Glen Frey "No development can take place unless we recognize that we must develop our character, our spiritual lives, our ethics, our families. We have come to this earthly realm to learn how to love each other more deeply." - Audrey Kitagawa "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." - Buddha "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson "If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." - Martin Luther King "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious... it is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." - Albert Einstein "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin "Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul." - Mohandas Ghandi "The man who does nothing, makes no mistakes." - Jerry Lewis
"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals." - Napoleon "I have never met Napoleon, but I plan to find the time." - Steely Dan "An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour." - Albert Einstein explaining "relativity" to reporters. "Turn left at Greenland." - John Lennon's response to a reporter who asked "How do you find America?" "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." - Bill Nye (1850-1896) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person between Nixon and the White House." - JFK "I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it." - JFK "The pay is good and I can walk to work." - JFK "Happy." - A young patient's response to Doctor Bolte who asked "What do you want to be when you grow up?" "Hope." - Doctor Bolte's response to a pharmaceutical representative who asked what he prescribed the most. "God will never close a door without opening a new window. He gives us something better when He takes something away." - "Things are for using. People are for loving." - Kahlil Gibran "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." ~ Sam Keen "So often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key," - Tempchin and Strandlin "Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that." - George Carlin "What a mess the world is in, I wonder who began it. Don't ask me, I'm only visiting this planet. This world is not my home, I'm just passing through..." ~ Larry Norman. Larry wrote my favorite song "The Outlaw." Dr Bolte runs a comprehensive integrated medical clinic and urgent care center in midtown Manhattan, and makes physician house call visits to midtown nyc residents and hotel guests. |
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"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do." - Thomas Jefferson
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