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Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.

- Kabbalah

 

The meaning of life is that it stops.

- Franz Kafka

 

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

- Henry Kaiser

 

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

- Abraham Kaplan

 

Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk.

- D.J. Kaufman

 

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

- Danny Kaye

 

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

 

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it better not come at all.

- John Keats

 

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.

- Helen Keller

 

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

- Helen Keller

 

I believe in immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

- Helen Keller

 

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

- Helen Keller

 

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

- Helen Keller

 

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

- John F. Kennedy

 

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- Robert F. Kennedy

 

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.

- Jean Kerr

 

Doubt yourself, and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgement, and you can see forever.

- Nancy Kerrigan

 

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

- Charles F. Kettering

 

The difference between education and intellegence is that intellegence will make you a good living.

- Charles F. Kettering

 

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

- Charles F. Kettering

 

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

- Charles F. Kettering

 

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

- Charles F. Kettering

 

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone....

- John Maynard Keynes

 

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers.

- Nikita Khrushchev

 

Life can only be understood backward, yet, it has to be lived forward.

- Soren Kierkegaard

 

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

- Soren Kierkegaard

 

Don't knock your competitors. By boosting others you will boost yourself. A little competition is a good thing and severe competition is a blessing. Thank God for competition.

- Jacob Kindleberger

 

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

- B.B. King

 

If a man hasn't discovered something he would die for, he isn't fit to live.

- Martin Luther King

 

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

- Martin Luther King

 

Our lives begin to end the day we are silent about things that matter.

- Martin Luther King

 

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

- Martin Luther King

 

We muct accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

- Martin Luther King

 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

- Rudyard Kipling

 

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

- Rudyard Kipling

 

True happiness consists in making happy.

- Bharavi's Kiratarjuniya (Hindu)

 

To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.

- Loren Klein

 

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

- George Knight

 

...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.

- Arthur Koestler

 

Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant part in the human tragedy, compared to the numbers massacred in unselfish loyalty to one's tribe, nation, dynasty, church, or political ideology, ad majorem gloriam dei. The emphasis is on unselfish. Excepting a small minority of mercenary or sadistic disposition, wars are not fought for personal gain, but out of loyalty and devotion to king, country or cause. Homicide committed for personal reasons is a statistical rarity in all cultures, including our own. Homicide for unselfish reasons, at the risk of one's own life, is the dominant phenomenon of history.

- Arthur Koestler

 

Suppose you considered your neighborhood to be your temple - how would you treat your temple and what would be your spiritual task there?

- Jack Kornfield

 

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.

- Karl Kraus

 

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

- J. Krishnamurti

 

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

- J. Krishnamurti

 

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

- J. Krishnamurti

 

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

- Nikita Krushchev

 

Life is what happens while you're making other plans.

- Kuffs

 

It's not peace I want, not mere contentment. It's boundless joy and ecstasy for me.

- Kugell

 

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

- Milan Kundera

 

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

- Charles Kuralt