Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[joeblast]

 

 

 

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch

[Brian]

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

Mark Twain

[Jadespear]

"As we live, we also die. The balance you keep is who you really are and where you are going."

[Dr_D]

“You don’t need yo be happy to be happy.”

Maestro Lar Short

[C T]

"Pierced at a distance by the thorn of sanyama, the virgin yields her essence which, like moonlight, soothes those burned by the three-tongued flame of misery."

 

(taken from a fragment of a lost tantric text).

 

 

Edited October 23, 2013 by C T

[zerostao]

"the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

joseph campbell

[zerostao]

“A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.”

northrop frye

[chegg]

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

[RiverSnake]

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[roger]

"There are no accidents, everything is happening as it's supposed to."

 

-Maitreya the Christ

[roger]

"What you want is love and power. You will have them both when you see that they are one and the same."

 

-me

Edited November 20, 2013 by roger

[ThisLife]

“Why me?

-That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?

-Yes.

-Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."

Kurt Vonnegut

[chegg]

Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen. Tzu Chang asked what they were.

Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness.

If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected;
if you are generous, you will gain everything.
If you are honest, people will rely on you.
If you are persistent you will get results.
If you are kind, you can employ people.”

 

 

 

- Confucius

Edited November 25, 2013 by chegg

[Marblehead]

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit,

Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

- Miles Kington

[C T]

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher... and that is a good thing for any man." (Socrates)

[Marblehead]

You see why I enjoy talking about philosophy so much?

[C T]

You see why I enjoy talking about philosophy so much?

Hm, yes, i did think about you when i came across that quote yesterday.

[chegg]

"Every morning three million "free wills" flowed toward the center of the New York megapolis; every evening they flowed out again -- all by "free will," and on a smooth and predictable curve."

(from "The Year of the Jackpot")

Heinlein: [1] [2]

[zerostao]

i am always influenced by experience, last week i watched 'Searching For Sugarman"

and then 2 days later Nelson Mandela died.

synchronicity again

 

"It always seems impossible until it's done." -- nelson mandela

"that's a cold fact" -- sixto rodriguez

[chegg]

Only when the last tree has died,
when the last river is poisoned,
when the last fish is caught,
only then will you realize that you can't eat money.

 

- Unknown

[Starjumper]

 

It says, "If a person needs religion to be good then that person is not good but only like a trained dog."

Edited December 13, 2013 by Starjumper

[jayvyn]

I like this quote from Lao Tzu.

 

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only create sorrow.

Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

[chegg]

"The rain of God's wisdom cannot fall on the mountain tops of pride"

 

-unknown

[Marblehead]

"The rain of God's wisdom cannot fall on the mountain tops of pride"

 

-unknown

Sounds like nothing can be added to the tea cup if it is already full.

[chegg]

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”- Albert Camus