Favorite Quotes (Inspirational or otherwise) ;~)

[kentauros]

I get this daily newsletter from Lissa Coffey called "WisdomNews" and noticed one of the quotes recently, and by a poet I've always liked, Rumi. The other was by Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, though in looking up the quote online, I came across one that I liked even more, so I'll post both.

Add those y'all like or from which you find inspiration :)


"Love is a fire and I am wood."
Rumi

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

[conscious evolution]

1. Love is all you need

John Lennon

[SheilaT]

2. "Little by little

the look of the country changes because of the men we admire." From the movie Hud.

It's simply the most prescient line ever in a movie. Or in anything.

The line is not in the novel by Larry McMurtry that the movie is based on, which was originally titled Horseman, Pass By.
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[Delphinus]

3. Well,

one of my all time favorites is by the author you quote, Pierre Tielhard de Chardin: "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."

“There is nothing can be said of solitude that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pines.” - Thomas Merton

My signature line: "Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams."

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. - La Pasionaria

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries, and you rejoice. - Cherokee saying

I have tons more, too.

Oh, and just about anything by Khalil Gibran.

[kentauros]

4. If you like 'em, post 'em!

:D

I find I am liking more of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin the more I look at his quotes. I'll have to see what books there are on him and his philosophy :)


Here's the daily one from that Wisdom newsletter I get, from someone for whom I have great respect:

"Ultimately there are no dualities - neither black nor white, neither oppressor nor victim. We are all connected in a journey toward the happiness that is labeled enlightenment."
-His Holiness The Dalai Lama

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Save me from the people who would save me from myself; they've got muscles for brains." -Gang of Four

[Kookaburra]

6. And on a lighter (and infinitely sillier) note...

"Neil, is it really necessary to nail the plates to the table? What happens when we want to play Monopoly? Go directly to plate? Do not pass plate nailed to the table by a stupid hippie?" -- Vyvyan, The Young Ones

[bigmonkey]

7. Mine is my sig too.

"Trust in God and row away from the rocks." I wish I remembered where I found it, but the net seems to attribute it variously. For me, it means be engaged and make an effort, while trusting that all will work according to plan. In my mind it recalls both that old joke about the fellow stuck on his roof in the flood calling on God, and Gandhi's "live every day as if it was your last, but study as if you were going to live forever" quote. I'm feeling in recent years like quietism isn't quite the thing, in other words.

[MorningGlow]

8. Okey dokey

"There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn’t do it right.' " - Lily Tomlin, All of Me

"Life's like a movie; write your own ending." - Jim Henson

"Remember, love each other always. There’s scarcely anything else but that." - Victor Hugo

"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose." - Richard Bach

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." - Richard Bach (Actually I could post a million by good ol' quotable Richard.)


I could go on all night! But I won't. Oh well, just a couple more. Let's see...now...hm...








"In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically." - Vincent Van Gogh

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." - Leo Tolstoy

"You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it." - Carl Sagan
:rofl: :hi:

[Celebration]

9. How about this?

As the waves pass the rock, their shape is changed. There is a hologram of the rock within the wave that comes forward and crashes on the beach, then there's a reflected wave back.

Ralph Abraham

[rumpel]

10. This one got me through a lot of suffering

“If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.”

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

[MorningGlow]

11. Thought of another one

"I reject your reality and substitute my own." - The guy with glasses on Mythbusters
:rofl:

[kentauros]

13. In a similar less than serious vein, here's another fave:

"I can't prove it, but I can say it." - Stephen Colbert
:thumbsup: :rofl:

[MorningGlow]

14. Good one!

Thanks for doing this, Kentauros! :hi:

[Mist]

12. "We learn to live by accident--we must change by design." Don't know who said it. nt

[kentauros]

15. On the need for beer:

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline -
it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons,
but at the very least you need a beer."

-Frank Zappa