The Great Quotes thread

[onawah]

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
Neale Donald Walsch

[Frankie Pancakes]

“It comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.”

from the Shawshank Redemption.

[Eva2]

"A mature, civilized being lives without closure, without the closure provided by Freudianism, Marxism, Buddhism, Positivism, Capitalism, Zen, The Hopi Prophecies, The Teaching Of The Arcturians, or anything else. Living without closure is honest living, and it's uncomfortable because there is something about the anal retentive mind that we want to button it down and say it's this or it's that, with no sense of irony, no sense of scale, no tongue-in-cheek approach at all.
I think that corporate capitalism and object fetishism, which seem to be two human traits that cross fertilize each other, are run on anxiety, and that this anxiety trivializes what it is to be human, and that all of Nature waits upon human beings to awake from the delusion of history and to re-embrace the living processes that nature represents."
- Terence McKenna

[Bill Ryan]

Copying this very powerful and timely quote from arwen's post here.

Posted by arwen (here)
Cancel culture has occurred repeatedly throughout history. This epic quote from Milan Kundera, author of the seminal classic novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being serves as a reminder of that.

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history, Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster……The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

The quote is from his book, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, published in 1979.

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by pueblo (here)
David Dippé, remembered as Sebastopol’s ‘grandfather’ of skateboarding, dies at 45
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On Monday afternoon inside his family’s home, his mother took out a sheet of paper with lines from Dippé’s journal that read:

“I love that I love people that can’t be loved.

I love the wrinkles on my Dad’s and Mom’s hands even before I watched the wrinkles form my own.

I love when my work is in a beehive and I witness everyone simply reacting in the way that their instincts predict them.

I love pressing my forehead against trees, the elders, and feeling safe in the woods after thanking them.

I love that I know my brothers’ eyes so well and even when he is complaining, I know my love for him can never change.”

[Bill Ryan]

Propaganda controls the minds of the masses in much the same way that command in the military psychologically subdues soldiers.

Edward Bernays

[Ewan]

Saw two good ones yesterday and remembered this thread....

The two most common things in the universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity. - Harlan Ellison

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. - Hubert H. Humphrey

[Tintin]

'We are at war, and the enemy knows that the subconscious absorbs everything.' — Wayne Gerard Trotman

[Miller]

“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”
— Henry Kissinger

[Bill Ryan]

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

Vladimir Putin
(He wrote this himself: the closing words of his Sept 2013 New York Times op-ed article.)

[Miller]

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.” —Lao Tzu

[Miller]

"The more things change, the more they stay the same"


Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr 1849
(“plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose“)

[pueblo]

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is."

- Sir Francis Bacon

[Eva2]

The Lie said to the Truth, "Let's take a bath together, the well water is very nice. The Truth, still suspicious, tested the water and found out it really was nice. So they got naked and bathed. But suddenly, the Lie leapt out of the water and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth.
The Truth, furious, climbed out of the well to get her clothes back. But the World, upon seeing the naked Truth, looked away, with anger and contempt. Poor Truth returned to the well and disappeared forever, hiding her shame. Since then, the Lie runs around the world, dressed as the Truth, and society is very happy...
Because the world has no desire to know the naked Truth.
Painting: Truth Coming Out Of The Well, Jean-Léon Gérome, 1896.

[Ewan]

Posted by Eva2 (here)
The Lie said to the Truth, "Let's take a bath together, the well water is very nice. The Truth, still suspicious, tested the water and found out it really was nice. So they got naked and bathed. But suddenly, the Lie leapt out of the water and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth.
The Truth, furious, climbed out of the well to get her clothes back. But the World, upon seeing the naked Truth, looked away, with anger and contempt. Poor Truth returned to the well and disappeared forever, hiding her shame. Since then, the Lie runs around the world, dressed as the Truth, and society is very happy...
Because the world has no desire to know the naked Truth.
Painting: Truth Coming Out Of The Well, Jean-Léon Gérome, 1896.

Love that little story.

[Matthew]

"I also fought in WWII. I don't remember seeing you there." - Mel Brooks

[edina]

Using AI as a tool is based. Delegating decisions to AI is cringe.

Don’t fall for the smoke and mirrors.

Fosco Marotto (CTO - GAB)

[Bill Ryan]

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

[rgray222]

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

When Hill wrote these unbelievable words he was speaking mostly about money and advancement in the business world around the turn of the century. Little did he know what we are now finding out. The mind can bring into your life whatever you need. It can start and end war, cure disease, make one fabulously rich, or make advancements in science and technology. Your mind and your mind alone can change the world. The trick is not just the conception of an idea it is actually believing in it as well.

[Sue (Ayt)]

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and in that space, is our freedom”

~Viktor Frankl