- We learn from history that we don’t learn from history! Desmond Tutu
- “[Art] must reflect the world in all its brutality and beauty, not in hopes of changing it but in the mean and selfish desire to not be enrolled in its lie, to not be coopted by the television dreams, to not ignore the great crimes all around us.” ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
- “Today everybody admits that something is wrong with the world, and the critics of Christianity are the very people who feel this most. The most violent attacks on religion come from those who are most anxious to change the world, and they attack Christianity because they think that it is an obstructive force that stands in the way of a real reform of human life. There has seldom been a time in which men were more dissatisfied with life and the more conscious of the need for deliverance, and if they turn away from Christianity it is because they feel that Christianity is a servant of the established order and that it has no real power or will to change the world and to rescue man from his present difficulties. They have lost their faith in the old spiritual traditions that inspired civilization in the past, and they tend to look for a solution in some external practical remedy such as communism, or the scientific organisation of life; something definite and objective that can be applied to society as a whole.” ― Christopher Henry Dawson, Religion and World History: A Selection from the Works of Christopher Dawson
- “I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road ended before an almost uninhabited swamp called the Choco Colombiano. Even today there is no road. Perhaps it is time for me to resume my wanderings where I left off as a tropical tramp in the slums of Panama. Perhaps like Ambrose Bierce who disappeared in the desert of Sonora I may also disappear. But after being in all mankind it is hard to come to terms with oblivion – not to see hundreds of millions of Chinese with college diplomas come aboard the locomotive of history – not to know if someone has solved the riddle of the universe that baffled Einstein in his futile efforts to make space, time, gravitation and electromagnetism fall into place in a unified field theory – never to experience democracy replacing plutocracy in the military-industrial complex that rules America – never to witness the day foreseen by Tennyson ‘when the war-drums no longer and the battle-flags are furled, in the parliament of man, the federation of the world.’ I may disappear leaving behind me no worldly possessions – just a few old socks and love letters, and my windows overlooking Notre-Dame for all of you to enjoy, and my little rag and bone shop of the heart whose motto is ‘Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.’ I may disappear leaving no forwarding address, but for all you know I may still be walking among you on my vagabond journey around the world.”[Shakespeare & Company, archived statement]” ― George Whitman
- “I think it will be better if we can live our life as if Christ is going to return today and plan our live as if it is hundred years off. Keep living, serving and most of all be prepared.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. —Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory” ― douglas m laurent
- “If ever I was distraught or heartbroken, my mom would always say, Go read history. Her solution for everything. For so long I believed history was a thick book you carried around in your backpack, not something you could create. It was one hour in an air-conditioned portable classroom after lunch, watching Civil War reenactments…. It’d take me a long time to realize history is happening now, and we are a part of it. …History shows you what people have endured before you…History shows that if you were in the minority, if no one believed you, it didn’t mean you were wrong. Rather, it meant society was slow to catch up to you. And if those in the minority did not buckle, did not give up their truths, the world would shift below their feet.” ― Chanel Miller, Know My Name
- “He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
- “What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.” ― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
- “No matter how much struggle you face in your journey towards success, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.” ― Abhishek Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely
- “Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “The man who made great history is the Son of Man.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. James Baldwin
- “No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as Life which you should never forget to live and enjoy” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.” ― Joe Wheeler, Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President
- “Have and show motivation to do and learn. That’s the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.” ― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
- “The wheels of history are lubricated with human blood.” ― Fuad Alakbarov
- History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. Mahmoud Darwish
- “Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
- “The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all the desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I’d never known.Charlestons on the wings of airborne biplanes. Parties on sinking ships, the icy water bubbling around the waists of the orchestra as they sawed out a last brave chorus of “Auld Lang Syne.” Actually, it wasn’t “Auld Lang Syne” they’d sung, the night the Titanic went down but hymns, lots of hymns, and the Catholic priest saying Hail Marys, and the first-class salon which had really looked a lot like this: dark wood, potted palms, rose silk lampshades with their swaying fringe. I really had had too much to drink. I was sitting sideways in my chair, holding tight to the arms (Holy Mary, Mother of God), and even the floors were listing, like the decks of a foundering ship; like we might all slide to the other end with a hysterical wheeee! piano and all.” ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
- “Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism. Stephane Hessel
- “People would want to get safe and come to Christ because they see the evidence in your life not because you quote the scriptures to them.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “IF you want to be a winner than follow one simple rule and feed it in your mind. Take each task and work as ” Do it yourself project.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. Max Lerner
- History takes time. History makes memory. Gertrude Stein
- “Sina jinsi. Nguzo ya maisha yangu ni historia ya maisha yangu. Historia ya maisha yangu ni urithi wa watu waliojifunza kusema hapana kwa ndiyo nyingi – waliojitolea vitu vingi katika maisha yao kunifikisha hapa nilipo leo – walionifundisha falsafa ya kushindwa si hiari. Siri ya mafanikio yangu ni kujitahidi kwa kadiri ya uwezo wangu wote; au ‘pushing the envelope’ kwa lugha ya kigeni.” ― Enock Maregesi