Quotes

[lauramed]

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[cas]

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

 

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

[BCC123]

There are three types of people in this world: the ones who keep you alive, the ones who would otherwise cause you to die, and the ones who somehow manage to do both at the same time.

 

To get a woman's heart, a man must first use his own

 

Could the people we really like get together in this world and then just stay together?

I guess that wouldn't work 'cause someone would leave.

Someone always leaves, then we have to say goodbye.

I hate goodbyes...I know what we need-

We need more hellos.

-Snoopy

 

Maybe sometimes you have

to lose who you were,

to find out who you are.

 

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer,

but wish we didn't.

 

Love all, trust few, do wrong to no one.

-Shakespeare

 

The meaning of life is to give life a meaning

 

Life isn't about finding yourself, its about creating yourself

 

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure,

but risk must be taken,

because the greatest hazard in life is to risk

nothing

[journeynow]

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

—Joseph Campbell

 

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we can become.

—Charles DuBos

[coldplay.]

My favorite thread returns!

 

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

 

Anais Nin

 

WOW, that makes so much sense to me.

 

The best way out is always through.

 

Robert frost...

[journeynow]

Here's an Anais Nin quote I have written in my sketchbook. (Works for sketching, but doesn't read so well in light of the break up of relationships....)

Every moment you can choose what you wish to see, observe, or record. It is your choice. So you create the total aspect according to your vision. We have the right to select our vision of the world.

[journeynow]

Every thing is funny and stupid and it all doesn't mean a damn thing.

—Joan Rivers

[John Bendix]

"The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives."

 

Dr. Wayne Dyer

[CallingAllAngels]

"To Thine Own Self Be True"

[John Bendix]

"Time is not a line, but a series of now points."

 

Taisen Deshimaru

[monkeymaid]

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you

But make allowance for their doubting too,

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,

If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much,

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

 

 

--Rudyard Kipling

[createhappiness]

“Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong- sometimes it's letting go"

 

 

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

 

 

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”

[John Bendix]

^ ^ ^

 

 

I enjoyed this very much!

 

It has a feel to it of the philisophy of The Tao of Lao-Tse

[coldplay.]

Arise my thread....!

 

 

Two thirds of human existence are wasted in hesitation, and the last third in repentance. ~ Emile Souvestre

[cas]

Accept disgrace willingly.

Accept misfortune as the human condition.

 

What do you mean by "Accept disgrace willingly"?

Accept being unimportant.

Do not be concerned with loss or gain.

This is called "accepting disgrace willingly."

 

What do you mean by "Accept misfortune as the human condition"?

Misfortune comes from having a body.

Without a body, how could there be misfortune?

 

Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things.

Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.