Paul Tillich quotes and words of wisdom

"The awareness of the ambiguity of one"s highest achievements (as well as one"s deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity."
Found in the topic Achievement.

"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone."
Found in the topic Alone.

"Boredom is rage spread thin."
Found in the topic Bore.

"Doubt isn"t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith."
Found in the topic Doubt.

"The first duty of love is to listen."
Found in the topic Duty.

Interesting Quotes

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.Mahatma Gandhi - Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.Alfred Hitchcock - British movie director (1899 - 1980)