Archives of Previously Published Proverbs
Hatred is more contagious than all infectious maladies combined.
A cup of hatred can infect an ocean of civility.
A cup of hatred can infect an ocean of civility.
“Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean, in a drop.”
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his
tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all
creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of things
was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.
Oglala Sioux chief - Luther Standing Bear (1868 - 1939)
Oh, Great Spirit
Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me, I am small and weak,
I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold
the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have
made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things
you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have
hidden in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy - myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my Spirit may come to you without shame.
Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark - ca 1850
Follow your own footsteps.
Learn from the rivers,
the trees and the rocks.
Honor the Christ,
the Buddha,
your brothers and sisters.
Honor the Pachamama (Earth Mother)
and the Great Spirit.
Honor yourself and all of creation.
Andean shamans (Q'ero Elders)