Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[redcairo]

^^ post above: American history in a nutshell. We're nearly to the last line.

[Marblehead]

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner

[OldDog]

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. - Werner Heisenberg

[七星門]

"Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not." Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[Daemon]

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Edited October 5, 2018 by Daemon

[七星門]

"The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough." Thomas Carlyle.

[Hannes]

You can guide one to the fountain, but you cannot make one drink.

 

All wisdom in the world is written on a small stone; be it mere a single symbol.

 

 

[七星門]

“One of the most freeing things we learn in life is that we don’t like everyone, everyone doesn’t like us, and that’s okay.” David Bohl, Parallel Universes. 

 

(I may post too many quotes!) 

[neti neti]

"Sympathy? Not for me. No mercy for a criminal freak in Las Vegas. This place is like the army: the shark ethic prevails-eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."

 

~Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream) (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson

[七星門]

"I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident." -Samesies

[Daemon]

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Edited October 5, 2018 by Daemon

[Starjumper]

An old healer said to the soul:

It's not your back that hurts, but the burden.

It's not the eyes that pain, but the injustice.

It's not the head that hurts, but your thoughts.

It's not the throat that's in pain, but what you don't say or say with anger.

It's not your stomach that hurts, but everything you can't digest.

It's not the liver that hurts, but the mind.

It's not your heart, that pain, but love.

And it is the love itself, which is the most powerful and effective medicine.

By Ada Luz Marquez

[Starjumper]

[Starjumper]

Land of mountains

 

Land of mountains

Place of highest mountains
top of this earth
nothing can bound you
no way keep you in the mist of lies

 

Save it for the further generations 
Save the wisdom forever
For all generations in the future
the future needs it more

than any man now can understand

 

Oliver Shanti

 

(towards the end of this song)

 

 

Edited March 23, 2018 by Starjumper

[Starjumper]

The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is.

[Starjumper]

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

 

- Mignon McLaughlin

[七星門]

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - C.G. Jung

Edited March 25, 2018 by 七星門

[Marblehead]

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive ..." - Eleonora Duse

[neti neti]

"What is not natural cannot be permanent, and what is not permanent is not worth striving after." ~Ramana Maharshi

[Daemon]

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Edited October 5, 2018 by Daemon

[moment]

Kites harness the force of the wind. They express our intent, But they cannot change the wind.

 

                            365 Tao, Deng Ming-Dao

[neti neti]

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Edited August 25, 2020 by neti neti

[Michael Sternbach]

28 minutes ago, neti neti said:

"My name is SLOTH, and I am exhausted.

I am tired, tired, tired and I will have none of the world before me but to lie in my own circle of comfort. I am the child of inertia, 
supine and lethargy incarnate.
I am SLOTH, and I will have your hands.

 

 

Californian Giant Sloth.

[Michael Sternbach]

"Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,
A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply:
“Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.”

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,
A fish can’t whistle and neither can I.
Ask me a riddle and I reply:
“Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.”

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,
Why does a chicken, I don’t know why.
Ask me a riddle and I reply:
“Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.”

 

Winnie The Pooh

[moment]

 

- "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." --  Douglas Adams