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are from Rob Kall's Library of 500+ Quotation books. These are
lovingly collected "middle aged books, dating from 1726
to about 1908. More antiquarian books in the collection date back to
as early as 1582 and include a first edition of Fuller's Gnomologia.
Photo by Rob Kall
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- Quotes,on health, mind,
body, spirit, MIND/Body, Positive Psychology, Alternative
Health, stress, laughter, ADHD, heart, including unusual
topics-- words that are metaphors, like ,deep, muscle,
silence, awakening, wonder, touch.
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Quotes, etc on health, mind, body, spirit,
MIND/Body, Positive Psychology, Alternative Health, stress,
laughter, ADDHD, heart, including unusual topics-- words that are
metaphors, like ,deep, muscle, silence, awakening, wonder, touch.
This
page leads to a batch of linked pages covering different topics I have
collected in the process of building a software and print based quotation
collection. There are over 1089 quotations in this part of the web site,
with more added regularly. We're happy to accept suggestions for new
subjects to add, and to receive your favorite quotes. If there's a great
quote you know, for a topic we list, which we don't have, PLEASE send it
our way.
If you use a quote from this site for a book, please
credit it in your acknowledgements. I invite you to submit new quotes too.
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Right to the Quotations Central Subject Directory
Collecting quotations is a serious hobby of mine. I have
about 30,000-40,000 quotes on my hard drive, plus about 350+
quotation related books (sayings, proverbs, etc.) dating back to 1590, and
several CD quote collections. I am interested in proposals
from publishers, authors, web sites, etc. to develop projects using these
resources, which I have been told are among the most extensive in the
world.
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Samplings from Rob Kall's main Quote
Collection
Quotations
Central
Subject
Directory
- Subject (# of quotations in the
subject ) A sample quotation from the quote subject
collection author.
- Click on the subject to see more Quotes on that
subject.
- ADD/ADHD (20)"Without
deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
--Frank Zappa
- Adversity 26 "
My barn having burned to the ground, I can now
see the moon." --Taoist saying
- Awakening (10) "Smiles
awake you when you rise." Beatles, Golden Slumbers
.gif) Awareness
(19) "The most
difficult thing in life is to know yourself." Thales
- Balance (16) "Almost every wise
saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
Santayana, Essays
Biofeedback ( Mind/Body self control, self
awareness) Related Quotations (7) "Why does my
blood thus muster to my heart, and dispossessing all my other parts of
necessary fitness?" Shakespeare
- Blessings (20) "No
blessing lasts forever." Plautus,
Curculio, 200BC
- Brain (36) The
brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism."
Arthur Schopenhauer
- Brain laterality (right left brain
differences) (13) "You must
hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and
verbs." Ralph
Waldo Emerson
- Breath (18) "Breath
is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your
body to your thoughts." Thich Nhat Hanh
- Change, New Ideas & Innovation (38)
"I have a feeling we're not
in Kansas anymore." Dorothy, in Wizard of Oz by L.
Frank Baum
- Coaching (11) The
harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. Vince
Lombardi
- Consciousness (35)
 "Art
is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
Jean Cocteau
- Courage
(50) "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's
courage." Anais Nin
- Deep/Depth (19) "To love deeply
in one direction makes us more loving in all others." Madame
Swetchine
Diversity (5) "There
never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or
two grains; the most universal quality is diversity."
Montaigne, Of the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers
- Enlightenment (30) There
are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.
Lao Tzu
- Forgiving/Forgiveness/Pardon (18)
"Forgiveness is the key to
action and freedom." Hannah Arendt
- Freedom (41) "The
secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage."
Thucydides
- Frontiers (15) "Pessimism
operates in a narrowed field of vision that fails to take into account
the possibilities at the outer edges of experience."
Norman Cousins
- Genius (51) "What
is genius or courage without a heart?"
--Oliver Goldsmith
Health (47 ) We
know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than
we do about the causes of physical health. M. Scott Peck
- Heart (27) 'T
is the heart's voice alone can reach the heart."
Alfred De Musset
- Integrity(28)
"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family
parrot to the town gossip." Will Rogers
- Intention
(23)Ultimately, human intentionality is the most
powerful evolutionary force on this planet.
--George Leonard
- Laughter (24) "Nothing shows a
man's character more than what he laughs at." Goethe
- Learning(56) "The
man of imagination who is untrained (unlearned, uneducated,
undisciplined) has wings and no feet." Joseph Joubert
Muscle (17) "Our
most sacred convictions, the unchanging elements of our supreme
values, are judgements of our muscles."
Nietzsche,
The Will To Power
Pain
(27) When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.
Leo F. Buscaglia
- Positive (11) "Positive
anything is better than negative nothing." Elbert Hubbard
- Price(29)
"It's not what you pay a man,
but what he costs you that counts." Will
Rogers
- Relaxation (25) "He
that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books."
Ben Franklin
- Religion
(110) "It is the test of a
good religion whether you can joke about it." Gilbert
K. Chesterton
- Responsibility (22) "In
dreams begin Responsibilities." U2
- Science Spirituality & Emotion (20) "I'm
a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter
word in our tradition. Candace Pert (speaking tongue in cheek)
- Service
(25) "Sow good
services: sweet remembrances will grow from them."
Madame de Stael
- Silence (19) "A
quiet mind cureth all." Robert Burton
- Sleep (23)
When action grows
unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable,
sleep. Ursula K. LeGuin
- Spirit (20) Whatever
liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous.
Goethe
- Story,
Stories (31) "Storytelling is the most powerful way
to put ideas into the world today." Robert McKee
- Stress (15)"..restless
thoughts, that like a deadly swarm of hornets arm'd, no sooner found
alone, But rush upon me thronging."
Milton
Touch (19) "Touch
seems to be as essential as sunlight" Diane Ackerman, A
Natural History of The Senses
- Wonder (15) There
is something of the marvelous in all things of nature. Aristotle
384-322BC, Parts of Animals
- Heartwarmers: not quotes, but touching
anecdotes I've collected.
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More to come! Drop me a note to let me know what other topics you'd
like covered with quotes. I also do quote searches, using the net, my
personal quote data-base and my collection of 100s of quote books and
1000s of reference source books.
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My Favorite Quotations
People often ask what my favorite is. There are
so many I like, but here are a few I use often and keep
coming back to. I know they're not short, but then again, I said
quotations, not epigrams. <g>
- "A man is like a bit of Labrador
spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand
until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep
and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or
universal applicability in men, but each has his special
Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in
adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall
be oftenest to be practiced."
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- "The
movements of exaltation which belong to genius are
egotistic by their very nature. A calm, clear mind, not
subject to the spasms and crises which are so often met
with in creative or intensely perceptive natures, is the
best basis for love or friendship. --Observe, I am talking
about minds. I won't say, the more intellect, the less
capacity for loving; for that would do wrong to the
understanding and reason;-- but on the other hand, that the
brain runs away with the heart's best blood, which
gives the world a few pages of wisdom or sentiment or
poetry, instead of making one other heart happy, I have no
question."
- Oliver
Wendell Holmes Senior, THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE
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- Compassion is not religious business,
- it is human business,
- it is not luxury,
- it is essential for our own peace and mental
stability,
- it is essential for human survival.
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Dalai Lama
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- Creative
Quotations a power site, which searches through a database
of 21,000 quotations.
- Thought
for Today Quotation Archive George Osner has put together a
very impressive quotation resource, definitely worth bookmarking. It
includes a list of quotation books and a quotation collection with
over 200 subjects, plus six years of quote a day collections.
- MaximNet established by the
Templeton Foundation as a maxim resource, but perhaps more exciting a
place to report on the foundatioin's efforts to develop approaches to
using maxims for child character education. Good Work!
- Quotations Home
Page Thousands and thousands of quotes
- Compleat
Shakespeare full text of all his major works, searchable by word
or phrase.
- Bartlett's
Quotations 1901 Edition
- De
Proverbio: Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies
- Donald Lancon,
Jr.'s Quote page not that extensive, but very well
linked to the web--the way a really good quote site should, and
probably, ultimately will look, in terms of web links. Well, at least
a suggestion of it, sans images, and digitized audio and video.
- The Book of Famous
Quotations
- Conventional Wisdom:
Quotations which illustrate the Illusions of Popular History
- Empowerment
Now; Inspiration Corner
- Positive
Quotations, some with a religious flavor
- Quotations From
William Blake
- Mfx'
world Renowned quotations file (loads on programming)
- The Quotations
Archive
- Over
9,000 Quotations by Subject - Shareware for Windows
- The
Quotations Guide
- The Quotations Page
- The Quotations
Server
- Quoteland
- Random Quotes
- The Snow Quotation
Treasury
- Tech Classics Archive
- Tycho's
Quotations
- Frank
Lloyd Wright Quotations
- Words
- Aphorisms
a bit cynical, but what the heck, so is La Rochefoucauld
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