Sound of Wisdom

De Kahlil Gibran.

2010-06-30T01:31:00.000-07:00

" Each day look into your conscience
and amend your faults; if you fail
in this duty you will be untrue
to the Knowledge and Reason
that are within you. "

From " The Voice of the Master "

Oscar Wilde.

2010-05-31T06:53:00.000-07:00

" In order to say
the right thing
at the right time
-be silent
most of the time "

Viktor Frankl

2010-04-28T10:16:00.000-07:00

" Tolerance does not mean that one
accepts the belief of the other;
but it does mean that one
respects him as a human being,
with the right and freedom of choosing
his own way of believing and living. "

From " Psychotherapy
and Existentialism "

Viktor Frankl

2010-01-31T09:02:00.000-08:00

" The fact remains that meaning,
and its perception, as seen
from the logotherapeutic angle,
is completely down to earth
rather than afloat in the air
or resident in an ivory tower. "

From "Man's
Search of Meaning"

Anatole France.

2009-12-31T07:56:00.000-08:00

" Until one has loved
an animal,
a part of one's soul
remains unawakened."

Norman Cousins.

2009-11-30T07:59:00.000-08:00

" All man's history,
is an endeavor
to shatter his loneliness. "

Viktor Frankl

2009-10-30T05:36:00.000-07:00

" In general, people are inclined
to overestimate the positive
or negative aspects, or the pleasant
or unpleasant tone of their experiences.
In giving an exaggerated importance
to these aspects, they are apt to cultivate
an unjustified self-pity in respect to fate. "

From " The Doctor
and the Soul "

W. Goethe

2009-09-21T12:39:00.000-07:00

" We only see
what we know "

Abraham J. Heschel

2009-07-30T07:38:00.000-07:00

' To the prophet
God is never an object;
He is always
a person, a subject. '

From :
" Between God and Man "

Abraham J. Heschel

2009-04-30T10:03:00.000-07:00

" No religious act
is properly fulfilled
unless it is done
with a willing heart
and a craving soul. "

Miguel de Unamuno.

2009-03-29T08:11:00.000-07:00

" True science teaches,
above all, to doubt
and to be ignorant. "

Viktor Frankl

2009-02-26T07:56:00.000-08:00

" Logotherapy insists
that man's main concern
is not to seek pleasure
or to avoid pain, but rather
to find a meaning to his life. "

From : "Psychotherapy
and Existentialism"

Rainer M. Rilke

2009-01-27T07:47:00.000-08:00

" Death
is the side
of life
which is
turned away
from us "

Hippocrates

2008-12-30T09:14:00.000-08:00

" Whenever a doctor
cannot do good,
he must be kept
from doing harm "

Anne Frank

2008-11-30T02:45:00.000-08:00

" Thinking about the suffering
of those you hold dear
can reduce you to tears;
in fact, you could spend
the whole day crying.
The most you can do
is pray for God
to perform a miracle
and save at least some of them.
And I hope I'm doing enough of that ! "

From : " The Diary
of a Young Girl "

Hippocrates

2008-10-30T08:17:00.000-07:00

" A human being is mortal.

However, Art is inmortal . "

Viktor E. Frankl

2008-08-27T08:22:00.000-07:00

" Nothing helps man
to survive
and keep healthy
like the knowledge
of a life task "

From " Psychotherapy
and Existentialism "

Kahlil Gibran

2008-07-17T09:41:00.000-07:00

" Let there be spaces
in your togetherness "

From : " The Prophet "

T. S. Eliot

2008-06-22T08:29:00.000-07:00

" The great poet,
in writing himself,
writes his time "

Viktor E. Frankl

2008-05-28T08:54:00.000-07:00

" As logotherapy teaches,
human freedom is in no way
a freedom from conditions
but rather the freedom to take
a stand towards conditions "

From : " Psychotherapy
and Existentialism"

Anne Frank

2008-04-21T08:10:00.001-07:00

" Think about
all the beauty
around you
and be happy "

Abraham J. Heschel

2008-04-06T09:22:00.000-07:00

" Freedom is the state
of going out
of the self, an act of
spiritual ecstasy,
in the original sense
of the term. "

From : " Between
God and Man "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

2008-03-27T11:19:00.000-07:00

" The limits of my language
mean the limits of my world "

Viktor E. Frankl

2008-02-29T06:55:00.000-08:00

" Once an individual's

search for a meaning

is successful, it not only

renders him happy

but also gives him

the capability to cope

with suffering "

From :
" Man's Search
for Meaning "

S. Kierkegaard

2008-01-29T08:03:00.000-08:00

" Preachers
are no longer
the pastors
of the souls,
but doctors have
become such "

George B. Shaw

2007-12-31T10:52:00.000-08:00

" I enjoy
convalescence.
It is the part
that makes
the illness
worthwhile "

William Shakespeare

2007-11-22T01:08:00.000-08:00

" Some words
hide other words "

Anne Frank

2007-10-01T05:57:00.000-07:00

" In spite of everything
I still believe
that people are
really good at heart. "

From : " The Diary
of a Young Girl "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

2007-09-16T09:02:00.000-07:00

" It is only with the heart
that one can see rightly ;
what is essential
is invisible to the eye. "

From : " The Little Prince "

Graham Greene

2007-08-28T08:37:00.000-07:00

" There is always
one moment
in childhood
when the door
opens and lets
the future in. "

From : " The Power
and the Glory "

Y. Yevtushenko

2007-08-08T09:50:00.000-07:00

" Poetry is not
to be deceived.
And poetry deserts
those who are
false to her. "

From: " A Precocious
Autobiography "

Kahlil Gibran

2007-07-16T10:15:00.000-07:00

" Sorrow is one
golden link
between
submission
to the present
and the promised
hope of the future."

From : " The Voice
of the Master "

Viktor E. Frankl

2007-06-19T09:45:00.000-07:00

" Rising spiritually
above one's own
psychophysical
condition
might also
be called
the existential act. "

From : " Psychotherapy
and Existentialism "

Abraham J. Heschel

2007-05-03T09:03:00.000-07:00

" We are not only
in need of God
but also
in need of serving
His ends,
and these ends
are in need of us. "

From :
"Between God and Man"

Marcel Proust

2007-04-26T09:34:00.000-07:00

" Real books
should be
the offspring
not of daylight
and casual talk
but of darkness
and silence. "

Arthur Koestler

2007-03-14T11:11:00.000-07:00

"Courage
is never
to let
your actions
be influenced
by your fears"

Kahlil Gibran

2007-02-20T07:25:00.000-08:00

" LIFE IS AN island
in an ocean of loneliness,
an island
whose rocks are hopes,
whose trees are dreams,
whose flowers are solitude,
and whose brooks are thirst..."

From : "The Voice
of the Master"

Y. Yevtushenko

2007-02-02T00:34:00.000-08:00

" An autobiography
is meaningless
if it is only
an account of
the events
in a man's
outward life
and not also
an account of
his interior life-
of his thoughts
and feelings. "

From: "A precocious
autobiography"

Viktor E. Frankl

2007-01-22T06:13:00.000-08:00

" The human person
transcends
himself
insofar
as he reshapes
his own character. "

From : " Psychotherapy
and Existentialism "

Gustave Flaubert

2007-01-11T09:55:00.000-08:00

" Everything
you invent
is true :
you can be
sure of that.
Poetry is
a subject
as precise
as geometry. "

Anne Frank

2006-12-25T04:49:00.000-08:00

" I could spend hours
telling you
about the suffering
the war has brought,
but I'd only
make myself
more miserable. "

From : " The Diary
of a Young Girl "

Thomas Jefferson

2006-12-14T08:36:00.000-08:00

" I like the dreams
of the future
better than
the history
of the past."

Abraham J. Heschel

2006-12-05T10:05:00.000-08:00

" Prayer is an
invitation to God
to intervene
in our lives,
to let His will
prevail in our affairs;
it is the opening
of a window
to Him in our will,
an effort to make Him
the Lord of our soul. "

From : " Between
God and Man "

Viktor E. Frankl

2006-11-30T05:37:00.000-08:00

" Man is pushed
by drives.
But he is pulled
by values.
He is always
free to accept
or to reject
a value he is
offered
by a situation. "

From :
" The Will to Meaning "

Maimonides

2006-10-27T02:26:00.000-07:00

" The secret of
happiness and
satisfaction is
in a man's heart "

Andre Breton

2006-10-15T09:59:00.000-07:00

" Poetry
has
no role
to play
except
beyond
philosophy "

Kahlil Gibran

2006-10-05T08:38:00.000-07:00

" LIFE TAKES
us up and
bears us from
one place
to another;
Fate moves us
from one point
to another. "

From : " The Voice
of the Master "

T. S. Eliot

2006-09-27T06:21:00.000-07:00

" Genuine
poetry can
communicate
before it is
understood. "

George Orwell

2006-09-14T02:13:00.000-07:00

" Political writing
in our time
consists
almost entirely
of prefabricated
phrases
bolted together
like the pieces
of a child's
Meccano set. "

From :
" The Prevention
of Literature "

Anne Frank

2006-09-08T05:21:00.000-07:00

" I want to go
on living even
after my death !
And that's why
I'm so grateful
to God for
having given me
this gift, which
I can use to
develop myself
and to express all
that's inside me ! "

From : " The Diary
of a Young Girl ",
Anne Frank.

Viktor E. Frankl

2006-08-27T00:13:00.000-07:00

" Freedom threatens
to degenerate into
mere arbitrariness
unless it is lived
in terms of
responsibleness.
I like to say that
the Statue of Liberty
on the East Coast
should be
supplemented by
a Statue of Responsibility
on the West Coast. "

From : " The Will
to Meaning "

Abraham J. Heschel

2006-08-15T09:16:00.000-07:00

" In the light of the Bible,
the good is more
than a value ;
it is a divine concern,
a way of God. "

From : " Between
God and Man "

Kahlil Gibran

2006-08-03T05:36:00.000-07:00

" You and I
are all children
of one faith,
for the divers
paths of religion
are fingers of
the loving hand of
one Supreme Being,
a hand extended
to all, offering
completeness
of spirit to all,
eager to receive all."

From : " The Voice
of the Master "

Jorge Luis Borges

2006-07-24T04:09:00.000-07:00

" All literature
is, finally,
autobiographical. "

T. S. Eliot

2006-07-18T07:55:00.000-07:00

" Poets
in our
civilization,
as it exists
at present,
must be
difficult. "

Horace

2006-07-09T07:41:00.000-07:00

"Skilled or
unskilled,
we all
scribble
poems. "

Viktor E. Frankl

2006-06-30T01:42:00.000-07:00

" Man does not simply exist
but always decides
what his existence will be,
what he will become
in the next moment. "

From : " Man's Search
for Meaning "

Rollo May

2006-06-26T02:03:00.000-07:00

" The self is thus not merely
the sum of the various
'roles' one plays-
it is the capacity
by which one knows
he plays these roles ;
it is the center from
which one sees and is aware
of these so-called
different 'sides' of himself. "

From : " Man's Search
for Himself "

Friedrich von Schiller

2006-06-22T07:48:00.000-07:00

" The only time
a human being
is free is when
he or she makes
a work of art. "

Kahlil Gibran

2006-06-15T09:51:00.000-07:00

" The true wealth of a nation
lies not in its gold or silver
but in its learning, wisdom, and
in the uprightness of its sons. "

From : " The Voice
of the Master "

Rabbi Zusya

2006-06-10T12:44:00.000-07:00

" In the world to come
they will not ask me
' Why were you not Moses ? '
They will ask me,
' Why were you not Zusya ? ' "

Abraham J. Heschel

2006-06-02T06:24:00.000-07:00

" Judaism is not
a science of nature
but a science of
what man ought
to do with nature."

From "Between God and Man"

Goethe

2006-05-31T07:49:00.000-07:00

" No skill or art
is needed
to grow old ;
the trick is
to endure it. "

Ivan Illich

2006-05-24T09:15:00.000-07:00

" The medical
establishment
has become
a major threat
to health. "

Miguel de Unamuno

2006-05-24T08:52:00.000-07:00

" True science teaches,
above all, to doubt
and to be ignorant. "

Viktor E. Frankl

2006-05-16T03:13:00.000-07:00

" We live in
an age of affluence
in many respects.
The mass media
bombard us
with stimuli
and we have
to protect ourselves
against them
by filtering them,
as it were. "

From : " The Will to Meaning "

Rollo May

2006-05-16T02:54:00.000-07:00

" This capacity
for consciousness
of ourselves
gives us
the ability
to see ourselves
as others see us
and to have
empathy
with others. "

From : " Man's search for himself "

William Shakespeare

2006-05-11T03:40:00.000-07:00

" Present
dangers
are less
than future
imaginings "

Friedrich Nietzsche

2006-05-07T06:43:00.000-07:00

" We may lie with our lips,
but we tell the truth
with the face we make
when we lie. "

From : " Beyond Good and Evil "

Abraham J. Heschel

2006-05-04T06:23:00.000-07:00

" Man's life is not only driven
by a centripetal force
revolving around the ego,
but is also impelled
by centrifugal forces
outward from the ego-center.
His acts are not only
self-regarding but
also self-surpassing. "

From : "Between God and Man "

George Bernard Shaw

2006-05-02T09:24:00.000-07:00

" Men are wise
in proportion,
not to their experience
but to their capacity
for experience. "

Aristotle

2006-05-01T23:10:00.000-07:00

" Different men seek
after happiness
in different ways and
by different means,
and so make
for themselves
different modes
of life and forms
of government. "

Confucius

2006-04-27T09:34:00.000-07:00

" A man of humanity is
one who, in seeking
to establish himself,
finds a foothold for
others and who desiring
attainment for himself,
helps others to attain. "

Marcel Proust

2006-04-20T08:52:00.000-07:00

" Let us be grateful
to people who
make us happy.
They are the
charming gardeners
who make our
souls blossom "

Viktor E. Frankl

2006-04-16T05:25:00.000-07:00

" Man does not care for pleasure
and happiness as such, but
rather for that which causes
these effects, be it the fulfillment
of personal meaning or the
encounter with a human being."

Friedrich Nietzsche

2006-04-09T09:20:00.000-07:00

" Man's maturity :
to have regained
the seriousness
that he had as
a child at play."

From : " Beyond Good and Evil "

Rollo May

2006-04-05T04:24:00.000-07:00

" Human experience
always goes beyond
our particular methods
of understanding it
at any given moment,
and the best way
to understand
one's identity as a self
is to look into
one's own experience. "

From " Man's Search for Himself "

Blaise Pascal

2006-04-02T08:30:00.000-07:00

" The heart
has reasons
which are
unknown
to reason "

Abraham J. Heschel

2006-03-30T11:07:00.000-08:00

" Obstinately he
[ the modern man ]
ignores the fact that
we are all surrounded
by things which
we apprehend but
cannot comprehend;
that even reason is
a mystery to itself. "

From : " Between God and Man "

Jehudah Halevi

2006-03-29T09:45:00.000-08:00

" Lord, where shall I find thee ?
High and hidden is thy place;
And where shall I not find thee ?
The world is full of thy glory. "

Viktor Frankl

2006-03-28T05:51:00.000-08:00

" Not every conflict is
necessarily neurotic;
some amount of conflict
is normal and healthy. "

From " Man's Search for Meaning "

Hillel

2006-03-26T08:24:00.000-08:00

" If I do not do this job
-who will do it ?

And if I do not do this job
right now
-when shall I do it ?

But if I carry it out
only for my own sake
-what am I ? "

S. Kierkegaard

2006-03-23T08:06:00.000-08:00

" Preachers are
no longer the
pastors of the souls,
but doctors
have become such "

Friedrich Nietzsche

2006-03-19T12:30:00.000-08:00

" Who reaches
his ideal
thereby
surpasses it."

From " Beyond Good and Evil "

Oscar Wilde

2006-03-16T13:21:00.000-08:00

" Nothing in the
whole world
is meaningless,
suffering
least of all "

From " The Ballad of Reading Gaol "

Kahlil Gibran

2006-03-12T09:28:00.000-08:00

" Man is like the foam of the sea,
that floats upon the surface of the water.
When the wind blows, it vanishes,
as if it had never been.
Thus are our lives
blown away by Death..."

From " The Voice of the Master "

Rollo May

2006-03-08T10:15:00.000-08:00

" Freedom is
man's capacity
to take a hand
in his own
development.
It is our capacity
to mold ourselves."

Abraham J. Heschel

2006-03-05T10:48:00.000-08:00

" We have said that
the grand premise
of religion is
that man is able
to surpass himself.
Such ability is
the essence of freedom."

From " Between God and Man "

Viktor E. Frankl

2006-03-02T09:57:00.000-08:00

" Man is free to rise
above the plane
of somatic
and psychic
determinants
of his existence."

Lao-tse

2006-03-01T10:29:00.000-08:00

" Having completed
a task means
having become eternal."

Wolfgang Goethe

2006-03-01T10:17:00.000-08:00

" There is no predicament
that we cannot ennoble
either by doing or enduring "

Johann Pestalozzi

2006-03-01T09:57:00.000-08:00

" You must
love people
if you wish to
change them."

Albert Einstein

2006-02-28T10:02:00.000-08:00

" A person who thinks
his life has no meaning
not only is unhappy
but is hardly fit to live. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

2006-02-27T10:50:00.000-08:00

" When there is peace,
the warlike man
attacks himself. "

From " Beyond Good and Evil "

Leo Gabriel

2006-02-26T09:44:00.000-08:00

" The animal
is the world,
the human being
has the world."

Gordon Allport

2006-02-23T10:20:00.000-08:00

" The neurotic
who learns to
laugh at himself
may be on the way
to self-management,
perhaps to cure. "

From : " The Individual and His Religion "

Rollo May

2006-02-22T05:46:00.000-08:00

" We define love
as a delight
in the presence
of the other person
and an affirming
of his value
and development
as much as
one's own."

From " Man's Search for Himself "

Abraham J. Heschel

2006-02-19T08:05:00.000-08:00

" One of the chief problems
of contemporary man
is the problem :
What to do with time ?
Most of our life we spend
time in order to gain space,
namely things of space.
Yet when the situation arrives
in which no things
of space may be gained,
the average man is at a loss
as to what to do with time."

From " Between God and Man "

Viktor E. Frankl

2006-02-14T13:14:00.000-08:00

" Man lives in three dimensions :
the somatic, the mental, and
the spiritual. The spiritual
dimension cannot be ignored,
for it is what makes us human."

From "The Doctor and the Soul "

Abraham J. Heschel

2006-02-12T10:18:00.000-08:00

" Like a scream in the night
is the prophet's word.
The world is at ease and asleep,
while the prophet is hit
by a blast from heaven.
No one seems to hear
the distress in the world;
no one seems to care when
the poor is suppressed.
But God is distressed,
and the prophet has pity
for God who cares
for the distressed."

From : "Between God and Man"