Timeless Wisdom is a section of our website dedicated to sharing the universal wisdom collected from individuals representing all walks of life throughout the centuries and around the globe. In this section, we will attempt to provide you with words of encouragement and inspiration, thought-provoking ideas and concepts, and poems and quotes to refocus your attention on the things that really matter in life. Particular emphasis will be given to selecting entries that address topics and situations that are pertinent and relevant to our current American political and cultural climate.
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
Thomas Jefferson
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Theresa
Farmer Sven and his neighbor farmer Ole who lived near Lake Wobegon in rural Minnesota were chatting over the fence about the weather and about the ridiculously high price of lutefisk when a "fowl-looking" animal sauntered by the farmstead. Both friends stared at the strange looking creature as Sven said with an observing tone, "It don't look like a duck, and it don't quack like a duck, and it don't walk like a duck." Ole looked at his friend with a pensive smile and replied, "Sven, if it don't look like a duck, and if it don't quack like a duck, and if it don't walk like a duck, then it ain't no duck!" They mumbled agreement and went back to their fields.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.
John F. Kennedy
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer or deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt