They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
CARL W. BUECHNER They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too apt t...
CARL W. BUECHNER To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
CARL W. BUECHNER One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
CARL W. BUECHNER People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them.They may forget what you said, ...
CARL W. BUECHNER The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
CARL W. BUECHNER Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept ...
CARL W. BUECHNER It seems the government is somewhat vindicated.
CARL W. TOBIAS The Supreme Court has not directly faced the issue of whether 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegianc...
CARL W. TOBIAS We're just as happy to buy chunks of property along Route 72 and not develop it.
CARL W. BLOCK It would be the only major sports goods store between Egg Harbor and Toms River.
CARL W. BLOCK There's a lot of pressure because of the concern there might be another terrorist strike in the Unit...
CARL W. TOBIAS Most people watching this litigation closely thought that Merck ought to win it. Despite the charact...
CARL W. TOBIAS It seems to me that it would be relevant to a person's case. I would expect the government to say th...
CARL W. TOBIAS You can't see everything quite yet. But you can see pieces of it.
CARL W. BLOCK We'd want the buildings there to be in the Victorian style and perhaps have the business owners livi...
CARL W. BLOCK I always knew there was no one who is going to accept my flaws and understand my brokenness.And i kn...
CARL W. BAZIL Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon myster...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, cripp...
FREDERICK BUECHNER According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Everybody prays whether you think of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when someth...
FREDERICK BUECHNER A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips ov...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo...
FREDERICK BUECHNER When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts y...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are bec...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else'...
FREDERICK BUECHNER In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ar...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotles...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
FREDERICK BUECHNER It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Hol...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imag...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 To do for yourself the best that you have it i...
FREDRICK BUECHNER Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, beari...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst
FREDERICK BUECHNER In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where w...
FREDERICK BUECHNER When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
WILLIAM BUECHNER Go where your best prayers take you.
FREDERICK BUECHNER You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you ca...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
FREDERICK BUECHNER The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for the...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are b...
FREDERICK BUECHNER When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when some...
FREDERICK BUECHNER You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and sp...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER [A true atheist is one who is willing to face the full consequences of what it means to say there is...
FREDERICK BUECHNER In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another d...
FREDERICK BUECHNER What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet tha...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
FREDERICK BUECHNER The storyteller's claim, I believe, is that life has meaning—that the things that happen to people...
FREDERICK BUECHNER There is little we can point to in our lives as deserving anything but God's wrath. Our best moments...
FREDERICK BUECHNER We try so hard as Christians. We think such long thoughts, manipulate such long words, and both list...
FREDERICK BUECHNER In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not...
FREDERICK BUECHNER It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for...
FREDERICK BUECHNER There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer m...
FREDERICK BUECHNER And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love hi...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us -...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
FREDERICK BUECHNER Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
FREDERICK BUECHNER Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to kn...
FREDERICK BUECHNER For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The love for equals is a human thing--of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
FREDERICK BUECHNER The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
FREDERICK BUECHNER There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The Faces of Jesus
FREDERICK BUECHNER Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’...
FREDERICK BUECHNER God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst b...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are pe...
FREDERICK BUECHNER You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.
FREDERICK BUECHNER The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of A...
FREDERICK BUECHNER We weren't born yesterday. We are from [New York]. But we are also from somewhere else. We are from ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived...
FREDERICK BUECHNER ... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER You wake up on a winter morning and pull up the shade, and what lay there the evening before is no l...
FREDERICK BUECHNER It is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where t...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Or I think of breathing - the body in its wisdom taking its sustenance out of the air even when the ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER We cannot make ourselves known to each other; we are not healed and forgiven by each other’s prese...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Not the least of my problems is that I can hardly even imagine what kind of an experience a genuine,...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The world is in pain, and its pain makes strangers of us all and ties my tongue in a lover’s knot.
FREDERICK BUECHNER Come unto me. Come unto me, you say. All right then, dear my Lord. I will try in my own absurd way. ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Sometimes the things that do not quite happen in your life count for more than the things that do.
FREDERICK BUECHNER Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which...
FREDERICK BUECHNER I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both v...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Remember that the lives of other people are not your business. They are their business. They are God...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you . . . remember that the ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER I've never seen anybody quite like Secretary Bolton. I don't have a second, third or fourth in terms...
CARL W. FORD JR I left that meeting with the perception that I had been asked for the first time to fire an intellig...
CARL W. FORD JR The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM BUECHNER He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-ni...
W. WIRT Poetry is the language of feeling.
W. WINTER What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how...
W. MITCHELL Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life d...
W. MITCHELL Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
W. SECKER Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the ...
W. SECKER Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
W. FUSSELMAN Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become...
BILL W. There are more references in the Koran than the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus. -Julia W-.
JULIA W VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.
W. DAVIDSON You'll never find another like me because im the original.
RACHEL W You might as well be nice to everyone, because in the end if something happens to someone your mean/...
RACHEL W I remember on that occasion, Roz invited a group of friends to gather around a festive table for a m...
W. HULL Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more c...
W. GLADDEN Relationships are like glass. Sometimes its better to leave them broken instead of hurting yourself ...
ASHLEY W Marriage is a mutual admiration society where one person is always right, the other is the husband.
W. GRANT If we were to follow the format of Edith's memorial service, we would be here until next Wednesday,
W. HULL Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to...
W. PATTERSON Cheap things aren't good, and good things aren't cheap.
MARK W. Every morning began with Roz getting her mother up, dressed and in a wheelchair, then going off to t...
W. HULL When you come right down to it, the ground you stand on is the ground you stand on.
W. LEITZEN We are hear to celebrate, and I mean celebrate, the unique and wonderful life of Rosamond McPherson ...
W. HULL There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation...
CARL SAGAN But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu...
CARL SAGAN Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about ...
CARL SANDBURG I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, ...
CARL SANDBURG In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to sav...
CARL SAGAN Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there&#...
CARL SAGAN A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
CARL SANDBURG A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
CARL REINER Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of ...
CARL JUNG The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen ...
CARL JUNG The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for...
CARL JUNG Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far ...
CARL JUNG I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, o...
CARL JUNG The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
CARL JUNG We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overc...
CARL JUNG In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I co...
CARL JUNG Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They ...
CARL JUNG Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average consci...
CARL JUNG Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
CARL JUNG We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...
CARL JUNG Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hop...
CARL JUNG Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a compreh...
CARL JUNG When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
CARL JUNG A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered...
CARL JUNG Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has ...
CARL JUNG Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
CARL JUNG Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
CARL JUNG There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
CARL JUNG The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
CARL JUNG There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
CARL JUNG We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
CARL JUNG Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
CARL JUNG In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
CARL JUNG The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
CARL JUNG A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
CARL JUNG Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to th...
CARL JUNG Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal intro...
CARL JUNG Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
CARL JUNG The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most h...
CARL JUNG Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is...
CARL JUNG If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether...
CARL JUNG Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
CARL JUNG Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make th...
CARL JUNG The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be ...
CARL JUNG Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his ind...
CARL JUNG Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
CARL JUNG Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
CARL JUNG A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
CARL JUNG Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
CARL JUNG It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
CARL JUNG A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible dis...
CARL JUNG The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in ...
CARL JUNG The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGAN The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a conte...
CARL BERNSTEIN Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
CARL SAGAN There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow i...
CARL SANDBURG I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected the...
CARL SANDBURG If she America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if ...
CARL SANDBURG I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the ...
CARL SANDBURG The republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
CARL SANDBURG Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me workI am the grass; I ...
CARL SANDBURG Sometime theyll give a war and nobody will come.
CARL SANDBURG Who put up that cage?Who hung it up with bars, doors?Why do those on the inside want to get out?Why ...
CARL SANDBURG Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as...
CARL SANDBURG A baby is Gods opinion that life should go on.
CARL SANDBURG The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sens...
CARL SCHURZ Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you wi...
CARL SCHURZ The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easil...
CARL JUNG Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. Th...
CARL JUNG Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects...
CARL JUNG Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their child...
CARL JUNG God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all th...
CARL JUNG