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Posted by Cass on July 5, 2004, at 18:14:46
Hi everyone,
I thought it might be fun to share or discuss our favorite quotes. Would you like to list some quotes that inspire you or reflect your own personal convictions or that are just funny? Here are some of mine to start:
"Be the change that you want to see in the world".....Mahatma Gandhi
“Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage” Anais Nin
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"
"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
—Matthew Arnold"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious."
— Rumi“I used to wonder why somebody didn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.” - Lily Tomlin
Posted by TexasChic on July 6, 2004, at 12:42:01
In reply to Favorite quotes, posted by Cass on July 5, 2004, at 18:14:46
I like this one because its so profound (LOL).
"Where ever you go, that's where you are."A couple of quotes from my Grandmother when I'm feeling bad:
"Nothing ever stays the same."
– and –
"In a hundred years, no one will ever know the difference."
They're simplistic, but they remind me of the bigger picture.
Posted by Cass on July 6, 2004, at 13:22:05
In reply to Re: Favorite quotes, posted by TexasChic on July 6, 2004, at 12:42:01
I like those quotes, and "Wherever you go, there you are" is so true!
By the way, "The greatness of a nation..." was said by Gandhi. I had forgotten to give the author.
Posted by karen_kay on July 6, 2004, at 14:57:50
In reply to Favorite quotes, posted by Cass on July 5, 2004, at 18:14:46
i think i may have posted some of these before, but i'll try them again:
both by charles bukowski:
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
a few by albert camus:
Integrity has no need of rules.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
and one by einstein:
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Posted by Toph on July 6, 2004, at 15:27:34
In reply to Favorite quotes, posted by Cass on July 5, 2004, at 18:14:46
I shared this w/ Cass on PB-Admin:
As a social worker who knocks on the doors of the elderly who are desperately trying to hang on to their independence, I always try to keep this quote in the back of my mind:
"If I knew as a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life..." -Henry David Thoreau
Posted by pegasus on July 6, 2004, at 15:32:21
In reply to Favorite quotes, posted by Cass on July 5, 2004, at 18:14:46
Here's some of my faves (one of them from babble!):
“Tennessee Williams once wrote, ‘We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.’ In a certain sense the playwright was correct. Yes, but oh! What a view from the upstairs window!
What Tennessee failed to mention was that if we look out of that window with an itchy curiosity and a passionate eye; with a generous spirit and a capacity for delight . . . then it DOESN'T MATTER that the house is burning down around us. It doesn't matter. Let the M**F** blaze! “ – Tom Robbins from Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates“Lie down before the door you long to go through” – Sanai
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from an iron cross." — Dwight D. Eisenhower in a speech given in 1953 at the end of the Korean War
“The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
"There are sometimes when we aren't *supposed* to be in control - when we are just supposed to be *there*." - fallsfall
"Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity?
Why would you refuse to give this love to anyone?"
- Rumipegasus
Posted by Jai Narayan on July 7, 2004, at 8:37:34
In reply to Re: Favorite quotes, posted by pegasus on July 6, 2004, at 15:32:21
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and beheld service was joy. - Rabindranath TagoreMahatma Gandhi was asked by a reporter, “Sir, when do you take a vacation?” Gandhi replied, “I’m on vacation everyday!”
“Let us be the change we want to see.” Gandhi
“War is not the answer.”
In his San Jose talk the Dalai Lama asked that we think about inner and outer disarmament.
“In the deeper state of meditation you can feel a deep attunement with God and infinite joy.” (from How to Meditate by John Novak)The Bhagvad Gita promises “even a little practice of this inner religion will save one from dire fears and colossal sufferings.”
"Where motion ceases God begins." Yogananda
In Japan it is said that words of the soul reside in a spirit called kotodama or the spirit of words, and the act of speaking words has the power to change the world. - Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto
Posted by Elle2021 on July 9, 2004, at 3:55:54
In reply to Favorite quotes, posted by Cass on July 5, 2004, at 18:14:46
Two of my most favorite quotes are by Alexander Pope:
Quote Number One
"A man should never be ashamed to admit that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
Quote Number Two
"Where ends the Virtue, or begins the Vice.
Fools! who from hence into the notion fall,
that Vice or Virtue there is none at all.
If white and black blend, soften, and unite
A thousand ways, is there no black or white?"Alexander Pope's Essay on Man.
Elle
Posted by Cass on July 11, 2004, at 21:16:33
In reply to Re: Favorite quotes, posted by Elle2021 on July 9, 2004, at 3:55:54
Thanks for all the quotes so far. Here are some more of my favorites.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. ~*~Wolfgang Amadeus MozartBelow are some more quotes by Lily Tomlin (I think most of them were actually written by her writer, Jane Wagner.) I'm a big fan of theirs. I just love their humor:
"Reality is the leading cause of stress among
those in touch with it....""The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"
"If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing." - the character Trudy in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
Posted by AuntieMel on July 14, 2004, at 15:24:09
In reply to Favorite quotes, posted by Cass on July 5, 2004, at 18:14:46
A friend just sent it to me.
"Don't assume malice for what stupidity can explain."
Posted by Cass on July 14, 2004, at 20:43:04
In reply to Quote - good one, posted by AuntieMel on July 14, 2004, at 15:24:09
That's probably a good thought to keep in mind. It's easy to get defensive or hurt at things people say and do when, in fact, they are sometimes acting out of sheer naivity (to put in diplomatically.) The problem is that people who don't know any better can do just as much damage as malicious people.
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