Some quotes, even taken out of context, seem to sound a universal note. I try to preserve a few of these on this web site, www.nonviolentcow.org at Jokes and Quotes. Here are a few recent quotes you might have missed: from Mahatma Gandhi, “Everyone in the world knows that Jesus and His teachings were nonviolent except Christians.”; “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.” And finally, “Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.” And from Thomas Merton, “When we live superficially … we are always outside ourselves, never quite ‘with’ ourselves, always divided and pulled in many directions … we find ourselves doing many things that we do not really want to do, saying things we do not really mean, needing things we do not really need, exhausting ourselves for what we secretly realize to be worthless and without meaning in our lives”; “We must not lose sight of the real problem, which is not the individual with a revolver but death and even genocide as big business … It is this polite, massively organized white-collar murder machine that threatens the world with destruction.” The third main person I collect quotes from is Dorothy Day who said: “You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you.”
Also I have a few friends that keep me smiling with email jokes. Despite getting many jokes a day sent to me I keep very few. Some jokes sent to me make me smile and laugh but I seldom save them. What does that say about me?
Looking through many of the quotes I see a lot of common themes, like the notion that the sign of the right work and vocation is joy. Great persons make for great quotes. They suffer and sometimes give their life for their work. But there is always joy in their words and work.
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