Quotations

"Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want."

— Gerald Jampolsky, American psychiatrist, born 1925

"Today I will give to others only the gifts I want to accept for myself."

— Gerald Jampolsky, American psychiatrist, born 1925

"There was once a fellow who saw everyone around him as his enemy. His view was that his kids gave him nothing but problems, his wife was constantly cross with him, the people he worked with were a bunch of morons, and the government was even worse. He constantly complained that just about every person around him seemed to be out to get him. Finally he began praying to have a different life: day after day, week after week, and year after year. Eventually, even God became his enemy, for why would a loving God give him such a miserable life and never answer his prayers?

After he died he was complaining once again to God. Finally God said, "my son, you kept praying for a different life and I kept sending you teachers to teach you what you needed to be happy. I sent you your children to teach you understanding, patience, and perseverance. I sent you your wife to teach you how to listen with the heart. I sent you countless people to teach you how to forgive, and even more to teach you how to be of service and make a difference. In your next life, please pay attention to the teachers I send you and it will go much more smoothly than this last time around.""

— Lee l. Jampolsky, American psychologist, born 1957

"I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don't have to eat... eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives."

— Theo Jansen, Dutch artist, born 1948

"It is the search for the truth, not possession of the truth which is the way of philosophy. Its questions are more relevant than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question."

— Karl Jaspers, German philosopher, born 1883

"Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions."

— Robinson Jeffers, American poet, born 1887

"Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it."

— Robinson Jeffers, American poet, born 1887

"I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy--parts of one organic whole (this is physics, I believe, as well as religion). The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars; none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine."

— Robinson Jeffers, American poet, born 1887

"It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of the spirits."

— Robinson Jeffers, American poet, born 1887

"1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. We never repent for having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you speak. If very angry, count one hundred."

— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the United States, born April 13, 1743

"I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change."

— Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian author, born 1946

"Love which cries out, and wants the world to understand, is love that holds itself in doubt. For love is quiet, and love is kind."

— Elizabeth Jennings, English poet, born 1926

"Time does not heal. It makes a half-stiched scar that can be broken, and again you feel grief as total as in its first hour."

— Elizabeth Jennings, English poet, born 1926

"Even the stork
in the sky knows
her appointed seasons,
and the dove,
the swift and the thrush
observe the time
of their migration."

— Jeremiah 8:7