Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[gendao]

The difference between science and magic lies in the knowledge of the observer.

[Guest winpro07]

'It's not that hard times are coming. It's that soft times are going'

Groucho Marks: Comment about WWII.

[rex]

"Beware the stories you read or tell: subtly, at night, beneath the waves of consciousness, they are altering your world." Ben Okri

[i_am_sam]

"For the true knowledge of music is nothing other than this: to know the order of all separate things and how the Divine Reason has distributed them: for this ordering of all separate things into one, achieved by skilful reason, makes the sweetest and truest harmony with the Divine Song."

- Hermes Trismegistus

 

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. "

 

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

 

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

 

edit to add (on my google homepage today)

 

"Art is science made clear"

- Jean Cocteau

Edited January 21, 2008 by i_am_sam

[minkus]

A well known saying goes:

 

Be carefull what you wish for in case your wish comes true ..

[ParkouRob]

"I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man with no feet"

[Chi kung apprentice]

There are only two ways to see the world. The first one is to think that nothing is magic, the second, that everything is.

 

Albert Einstein

[minkus]

My moms favorite quote ..

 

"When God created men, She was just kidding"

[Chanwu]

If abortion is murder, then masturbation is genocide!

 

-Unknown

[grace3]

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Will Rogers

[Heart&Mind]

my favorite quote comes from a song

song: everybody's free (to wear sunscreen) mix

album: something for everybody(aka Romeo and Juliet sound track)

artist: ?Baz Luhrmann

 

Don't waste your time on

jealosy sometime your ahead

sometimes your behind

the race is long but in the end

its only with yourself

 

 

 

PS check out the whole song

[manitou]

be still and know I am god

 

 

--Anonymous--

[mYTHmAKER]

be still and know I am god

--Anonymous--

Edited March 10, 2008 by mYTHmAKER

[pigeontoes]

Some of my favorites:

 

The control someone has over you, is the control u give them.

 

U can't lie to yourself

[hervoyel]

If you feel that you are not enlightened, you can always try to be.

 

Harish Johari

[aimee]

[james]

hey all heres one of my favorites my good friend Theodore Roosevelt:

 

"Its not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because threre is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

[Xienkula1]

Every form in the universe is subject to evolution and devolution and the two intermediate positions, birth and death, the wheel of life. The waves of the sea rise and fall, vegetation rises from the earth and returns to it, animals born to existence ultimately decompose and mingle with the dust of the earth; even the sun sets at the close of every day. Even seeing this, and knowing fully well that man after man dies, even still, our minds wander in attachments of the ego as though we were immortal. What is this delusion of ego, this ignorance of attachment, which binds our every thought and action? What are these dreamss and illusions to which we are so bound? We adorn our bodies as though they were never subject to decay, and cling to relationships with people and with things as though they were the substance of our very existence. We eat when we are not hungry, kill when we don't need food, and copulate out of season; we intoxicate ourselves to forgetfulness, take tobacco or drugs even when we know it is injurious to our health, drive our cars, as though there no stastics of traffic fatalites. We see a new desire take birth with every perception; helplessly watch it grow until it becomes an obsession regulating our every action. As one possessed, we see morality and convention, even common sense, yield to the ethics of convenience, in which we rationalize any behaviour which brings success. Look at the reality of our lives, at our goals and aspirations.

-Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Edited April 4, 2008 by Xienkula1

[Zenn]

Our lasting situations are results of our own actions. This is not destiny. This is causality.

 

 

Death is unavoidable, but let it not be from loss of will but because your time is over. As long as you can keep going, use your imagination to cope with the travails of life. You will know unexpected happiness. You will know the sorrow of seeing what is dearest to you cut down before your eyes. Accept that. That is the nature of human existence.

 

 

Your life is a creation that dies when you die.

 

 

Life acquires meaning when we face the conflict between our desires and reality.

 

 

No. No. No. This ruins a child.

 

 

Even in sleep, write a poem.

When waking, write a poem.

While loving, write a poem.

Even voting, write a poem.

When angry, write a poem.

While dreaming, write a poem.

-Anything is subject for a poem-

 

 

~Deng Ming-Dao

 

 

 

And then there's a whole other slew of quotes from Chris McCandless..

[Tutte]

Well this is more of a poem than a quote. It's from William Wordsworth's "Lines composed a few miles above tintern Abbey". I know he was a writer of the period of romanticism, but when I first read this part I coundn't help but thinking of taoism and the way. I find this part of the poem to be very beautiful, hope you enjoy it.

 

For I have learned

To look on nature, not as in the hour

Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes

The still sad music of humanity,

Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power

To chasten and subdue. And I have felt

A presence that disturbs me with the joy

Of elevated thoughts: a sense sublime

Of something far more deeply interfused,

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,

And the round ocean and the living air,

And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:

A motion and a spirit, that impels

All thinking things, all objects of all thought,

And rolls through all things.

 

Please, feel free with interpretations!

 

Hugs

[Ian]

Well this is more of a poem than a quote. It's from William Wordsworth's "Lines composed a few miles above tintern Abbey". I know he was a writer of the period of romanticism, but when I first read this part I coundn't help but thinking of taoism and the way. I find this part of the poem to be very beautiful, hope you enjoy it.

 

For I have learned

To look on nature, not as in the hour

Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes

The still sad music of humanity,

Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power

To chasten and subdue. And I have felt

A presence that disturbs me with the joy

Of elevated thoughts: a sense sublime

Of something far more deeply interfused,

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,

And the round ocean and the living air,

And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:

A motion and a spirit, that impels

All thinking things, all objects of all thought,

And rolls through all things.

 

Please, feel free with interpretations!

 

Hugs

 

Don't know about interpretations, but I visited there last year. It's a really nice place, what's left of it, in a deep valley by a winding river, and with strong and mellow energy lines.

One picture is me looking out at the back, and the other is standing on the Devil's Pulpit with the Abbey in the background below.

 

 

[Heidi1975]

"Your hearts know in silence the secrets

of the days and nights.

But your ears thirst for the sound of

your heart's knowledge."

Kahlil Gibran

 

 

"When you were born, you cried

and the world rejoiced.

Live your life

so that when you die,

the world cries and you rejoice."

White Elk

 

 

"Humankind has not woven the web of life.

We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together.

All things connect."

Chief Seattle

[yatzhong]

From the late taijiquan master Tao Ping Hsiang on being to eager.

 

A quote from some Chinese philosopher:

 

"Sometimes the flying dragon bites its own tail"

[Xienkula1]

Another Poem Quote:

 

COAL

 

I

is the total black, being spoken

from the earth's inside.

There are many kinds of open

how a diamond comes into a knot of flame

how sound comes into a word, coloured

by who pays for what speaking.

 

Some words are open like a diamond

on glass windows

singing out within the passing crash of sun

There are words like stapled wagers

in a perforated book, -buy and sign and tear apart-

and come whatever wills all chances

the stub remains

an ill-pulled tooth with a ragged edge.

Some words live in my throat

breeding like adders. Others know sun

seeking like gypsies over my tongue

to explode through my lips

like young sparrows bursting from shell.

Some words

bedevil me.

 

Love is a word, another kind of open.

As the diamond comes into a knot of flame

I am Black because I come from the earth's inside

now take my word for jewel in the open light.

 

- Audre Lorde

[EQi]

Clear! as though right by your side.

Vague! as though it will not be attained.

Indescribable! as though beyond the limitless.

The test of this is not far off:

Daily we make use of its inner power.

The Way is what infuses the body,

Yet people are unable to fix it in place.

It goes forth but does not return,

It comes back but does not stay.

Silent! none can hear its sound.

Suddenly stopping! it abides within the mind.

Obscure! we do not see its form.

Surging forth! it arises with us.

We do not see its form,

We do not hear its sound,

Yet we can perceive an order to its accomplishments.

We call it "the Way."

 

The Nei-yeh (Inner Cultivation or Inward Training)

Anonymous - Mid 4th Century BCE