The Great Quotes thread

[Ankle Biter]

Vulnerability is the birthplace of Love,
Belonging, Joy, Courage, Empathy,
Accountability and Authenticity.
It is at the core, the Heart, the Center
of meaningful human experiences.

Brene Brown.

[justntime2learn]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

[Satori]

“Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrations have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.

In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained,—we must fight! I repeat it, sir—we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.” Patrick Henry.

[Eva2]

Every storm runs out of rain.
Maya Angelou

[Eva2]

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order
- Jung -

[Kryztian]

[Bill Ryan]

War is young men dying, and old men talking.

Odysseus (in the movie Troy)

[Eva2]

[Eva2]

[Bill Ryan]

My grandfather rode a camel. My father rode a camel.
I drive a Mercedes. My son drives a Land Rover.
My grandson will drive a Land Rover. But my great-grandson will ride a camel.

Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the Founder of Dubai

[Eva2]

I am both the source and the destination.
All come from I am and return to I am.
I am all that is spontaneous.
I am the perfection that contains every imperfection.
I am beyond grace, above intelligence or desire.
Unapproachable, unattainable yet accessible
what I am leaves nothing to be acquired.
I am, and in this I-am is both "was" and "will be".
I am what remains when all negations are concluded.
I am the shadow and the substance.
I am both. I am neither.
What can be said about Me?
Antecedent to consciousness.
I cover the entire Universe,
I transcend the Universe.
wu'hsin

[Eva2]

[gord]

You cannot be free, if your mind is chained before you were old enough to see the chains for what they are.

--Clive Robinson

[pueblo]

"To heal a wound you must stop scratching it."

- Paul Coelho

[pueblo]

"A drunken man who falls out of a cart, though he may suffer, does not die. His bones are the same as other people's; but he meets his accident a different way.

His spirit is in a condition of security. He is not conscious of riding in the cart; neither is he conscious of falling out of it. Ideas of life, death, fear and the like cannot penetrate his breast; and so he does not suffer from contact with objective existence.

If such security is to be got from wine, how much more is it to be got from God?"

Chuang Tzu

[Eva2]

The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Eva2]

[Eva2]

"We are travelers on a cosmic
journey, stardust, swirling
and dancing in the eddies
and whirlpools of infinity.
Life is eternal. ✨
We have stopped for a moment
to encounter each other,
to meet, to love, to share.
This is a precious moment.
It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
🔆 Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
🎨 Artist signature, bottom left corner (Page memory)

[Eva2]

"Some kind of dialogue is now going on between individual human beings and the sum total of human knowledge and. nothing can stop it."
Terence McKenna

[Sue (Ayt)]

“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.”

― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin