The Great Quotes thread

[Chester]

Life is an unbroken, continuous observation of and participation in contrast.

[DeDukshyn]

Probably already posted somewhere here, but its a good one ...

“Fear doesn't prevent death. It prevents life." ― Naguib Mahfouz

[Kryztian]

"If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?"
--- G.K. Chesterton

[DeDukshyn]

 
"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible nature; Unaware that the nature he is destroying is the God he is worshiping." -- Hubert Reeves

[Valerie Villars]

"Cover me boys. I'm going in."

Valerie Marie Villars

[Bluegreen]

"I have a moral obligation to be happy."

- My cousin

[Rhogar]

“Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.”
Santosh Kalwar

“Truth starts with truth and ends with truth.”
Santosh Kalwar

“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”
莊子(Zhuangzi)

[Cara]

Will I dim the lights inside me just to satisfy someone?

~ John Mayer

[conk]

Why imagine an easy life, when you can imagine being a strong person? - Unknown.

95% of people sit around waiting for the other 5% to tell them what to do - A. Einstein

[Franny]

Nonconformists...

[Anka]

Wonderful thread ...if you allow me in Latin,

Actiones secundum fidei ab antiquo, ab origine, a posteriori,a mundo conditio, ad unum omnes ad infinitum ad astra per aspera,audaces fortuna juvat !

[Cara]

When Thou is spoken, the speaker has no thing for his object. For where there is a thing there is another thing. Every It is bounded by others; It exists only through being bounded by others. But when Thou is spoken, there is no thing, Thou has no bounds. When Thou is spoken, the speaker has no thing, he has indeed nothing. But he takes his stand in relation.

—Martin Buber, I and Thou

* This work was translated into English from German and sometimes the Thou is translated as You.

[Franny]

Fundamentally...

[Franny]

Someday...

[Franny]

[Valerie Villars]

Much peace and blessing to you Omni. Thanks for starting this thread. Many kind thoughts from me to you.


"I will rouse myself from my traditional languor."

From the movie "Pirate Radio".

[Sue (Ayt)]

Always a great re-minder to myself.

[Caliban]

Two from Chuang Tzu:

Once we happen into the form of this body, we cannot forget it. And so it is that we wait out the end. Grappling and tangling with things, we rush headlong toward the end, and there’s no stopping it. It’s sad, isn’t it? We slave our lives away and never get anywhere, work ourselves ragged and never find our way home. How could it be anything but sorrow? People can talk about never dying, but what good is that? This form we have soon becomes others, and the mind vanishes with it. How could it be called anything but great sorrow? Life is total confusion. Or is it that I’m the only one who’s confused?


If you follow the realized mind you’ve happened into, making it your teacher, how could you be without a teacher? You don’t need to understand the realm of change: when mind turns to itself, you’ve found your teacher. Even a numbskull has mind for a teacher. Not to realize yourself in mind, and to insist on yes this and no that – it’s like leaving for Yueh when you’ve already arrived there. It’s like believing that what isn’t is. What isn’t is – even that great sage-emperor Yu couldn’t understand such things, so how could someone like me?

[Valerie Villars]

"I am in the Kingdom of the Glorious State of my Evolution."

Dustin Stephen Talley

[Bill Ryan]

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Maya Angelou