Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[liminal_luke]

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

 

Rainer Maria Rilke

[silent thunder]

I freaking love Rilke!  So much so, I was planning to name my first daughter after her...

Well I never spawned a daughter, but I did find this quote that has been shaking my tree for the last few days...

 

The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.  ~Yeats

[silent thunder]

"What we call matter is really just specific dynamics of the field we are bathing in."  ~ Nassim Haramein

[blue eyed snake]

[thelerner]

It's better to light a candle,

than to complain about the darkness

my son in college was complaining about his (3) roommates turning on lights when he was in bed.  So I sent him an eye mask and wrote: 'Better to blow out a candle than complain about the light'.

[silent thunder]

Do not try to become anything.
Do not make yourself into anything.
Do not be a meditator.
Do not become enlightened.
When you sit, let it be.
When you walk, let it be.
Grasp at nothing.
Resist nothing.

~ Ajahn Chah ~

[blue eyed snake]

[rainbowvein]

[Marblehead]

I always did enjoy reading those.

[blue eyed snake]

there soo funny,

[silent thunder]

[Marblehead]

Although I do like that, he really does need a shave and a haircut.

[silent thunder]

Although I do like that, he really does need a shave and a haircut.

No way!  Let it go... let it grow baby!

I started growing my mane back again last year... it's coming along nicely now.

I've been shaved bald for the last twenty years or so, but it's time to regrow the viking and let it flow!

[silent thunder]

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.  ~Augusten Burroughs

[silent thunder]

Absolute certainty is the realm of the arrogant ignorant, and of this, I'm absolutely certain. ~me

[silent thunder]

turns out... life is the leading cause of death.  ~me

[cold]

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra

[silent thunder]

Aw... Yogi... man he had so many great zingers!

[silent thunder]

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.  To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ~ R Buckminster Fuller

[mostly_empty]

"I drank what?"  - Socrates.

[liminal_luke]

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

 

William S. Burroughs
 

[blue eyed snake]

Look at this surprising flower, which cannot be seen and yet its fragrance cannot be hidden.

 

 Bahauddin (12th C, Sufi scholar and poet)

[liminal_luke]

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

 

George Orwell
 

[Taomeow]

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. -- Michael McGriffy, M.D.

[zerostao]

they dont think it be like it is, but it do. 

 

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