A Quote a Day........

Only JoKing! · 10-08-2014 6:43pm

The figure a poem makes.
It begins in delight and ends in wisdom...
In a clarification of life, not necessarily a great clarification, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Robert Frost.

Eramen · 07-09-2014 3:21pm

"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

kerry4sam · 09-09-2014 12:28am

“If we think only of ourselves, forget about other people, then our minds occupy very small area. Inside that small area, even tiny problem appears very big. But the moment you develop a sense of concern for others, you realize that, just like ourselves, they also want happiness; they also want satisfaction. When you have this sense of concern, your mind automatically widens. At this point, your own problems, even big problems, will not be so significant. The result? Big increase in peace of mind. So, if you think only of yourself, only your own happiness, the result is actually less happiness. You get more anxiety, more fear.”

Dalai Lama, The Wisdom of Forgiveness

Eramen · 12-09-2014 4:11pm

"Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles."

- Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

Eramen · 14-09-2014 4:34pm

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

– Jack London

The Princess Bride · 16-09-2014 2:15pm

Don't cry because it is over.
Smile because it happened.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a
moment until it becomes a memory.

Dr.Seuss.

Aenaes · 17-09-2014 5:52pm

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

― Oscar Wilde

Eramen · 18-09-2014 1:51pm

“The One Truth has many sides, and one sees one side only, another sees another, and some see more than others, according as it is given to them. Behold this crystal, how the one light is manifest in twelve faces, yea four times twelve, and each face reflects one ray of light, and one regards one face, and another another, but it is one crystal and one light that shines in all.”

- Jesus Christ

Eramen · 28-09-2014 6:52pm

“The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”

- James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

GinnyR · 04-10-2014 9:43pm

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde

LynnGrace · 04-10-2014 9:51pm

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Eramen · 04-10-2014 10:44pm

“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming—in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you—means a loss of opportunity for some other task.”

Marcus Aurelius

The Princess Bride · 04-11-2014 9:23pm

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma- which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs.

generic2012 · 04-11-2014 9:50pm

Harry Angstrom · 05-11-2014 3:33am

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donegal_man · 05-11-2014 8:45pm

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families. - Tennessee Williams

forgotten password · 05-11-2014 8:51pm

all art is quite useless , according to Oscar Wilde

ivytwine · 05-11-2014 11:42pm

This came up on my 'Momentum' programme today and I really like it (author unknown)

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

RoadhouseBlues · 06-11-2014 12:13am

"Without music, life would be a mistake" - Friedrich Nietzsche

Frankie5Angels · 06-11-2014 4:07pm

Always liked 'The Man in the Arena', an excerpt from a speech by Theodore Roosevelt:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat".

Eramen · 07-11-2014 7:46pm

“She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; and humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.”

– William Wordsworth

Eramen · 15-11-2014 11:52pm

“The trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no chance to kill the right people.”

- Ezra Pound

The Princess Bride · 08-12-2014 11:12pm

Life has to be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard.

wolfgirl · 10-12-2014 10:20pm

"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me."
W. H. Auden

I've been thinking about this quote a lot because I'm not sure I fully understand, I've always thought that being more loving means being more vulnerable...

kimmykins · 11-12-2014 5:28pm

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me

C.S Lewis

Eramen · 11-12-2014 7:17pm

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

- Carl Jung

Eramen · 13-12-2014 8:46pm

"The ancient theologists knew that we could form no positive idea of infinity, whether of power, space, or time; it being fleeting and fugitive, and eluding the understanding by a continued and boundless progression. The only notion we have of it is from the addition or division of finite things, which suggest the idea of infinite, only from a power we feel in ourselves, multiplying and dividing without end."

- Sir Richard Payne Knight

The Princess Bride · 15-12-2014 8:15pm

Making a big life change is pretty scary,
But do you know what's even scarier?

Regret.

lockman · 18-12-2014 5:54pm

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham, in Of Human Bondage.

TommieBoy · 19-12-2014 8:46pm

"And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

- Hamlet

Ipso · 20-12-2014 4:59am

When a man speaks of his strength, he whispers his weakness.

pavb2 · 20-12-2014 11:19am

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

from 'If' by Rudyard Kipling

Paddy Samurai · 23-12-2014 5:04pm

A couple from the above .Not my favourite Blake book ,but thought provoking all the same.

“The power of men like me does not come solely from our ability to kill--which is no small talent in itself, true, but neither is it as rare as gold. No, the true source of our power is so obvious it sometimes goes unnoticed for what it is: our power comes from other men's lack of courage. There is even less courage in this world than here is talent for killing. Men like me rule because most men are faint of heart in the shadow of death.”

“Never did I fight for the poor. I fought against the rich--which of course isn't at all the same thing. In any case, the fighting was the point. You don't fight to become free--to fight is to be free. A man with a gun and the will to use it can't be mastered, he can only be killed.”

I like these from the Author himself.

“If you're afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you're not really fit to advocate for them.”

“Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to forget the best things about the men they've loved and to remember the worst, which is why so many women become bitter about men.”

TommieBoy · 27-12-2014 8:23pm

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

Eramen · 28-12-2014 4:15am

"We are what we love. If we love a stone, then we are a stone, if we love a person, then we are that person, if we love God - I hesitate to go on, for if I said that we would then be God, you might want to stone me. But let me refer you to the Scriptures."

- St. Augustine

K.Flyer · 28-12-2014 5:11am

"This is a time for us to remember that in the name of religion more people have died than in all the wars and natural calamities put together.
Now, more than ever, we must understand that the purpose of religion is not to separate us.
True faiths don’t preach hatred and killing, nor did any of the prophets.
It is the people who interpret the scriptures who create the divisions. Division comes if we put our ego into the teachings of these religions.
Let us strive to be free of that kind of egotism”
- Sri Swami Satchidananda

Stinjy · 28-12-2014 6:04am

" No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world." - Robin Williams DPS

The Princess Bride · 17-01-2015 9:23pm

In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life:it goes on.

Robert Frost.

Harry Angstrom · 25-01-2015 2:21am

"Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering."

Haruki Murakami

Eramen · 25-01-2015 8:39pm

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this."

- Cervantes, (Don Quixote)

Xander81 · 29-01-2015 8:31am

"When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean."
—Lin-Chi

Lance06 · 29-01-2015 9:58am

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
-Peter Drucker

Paddy Samurai · 29-01-2015 3:12pm

A couple from Robert Mccammon

“Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful, it just takes the right touch”

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“The same river can never be crossed twice. The flowing water has no memory of footprints.”

Stinjy · 30-01-2015 3:13am

I like this, in the response to being asked " are you happy?"

- "I've no reason to be unhappy, and that is almost the same"

It's very appropriate at the moment.

GerB40 · 30-01-2015 3:18am

A country grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit it. -Greek proverb.

Asarlai · 30-01-2015 4:11am

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Howard Thurman

retro:electro · 06-02-2015 4:31pm

"There is no greater sorrow in life than while in present grief, remembering past happiness"

Dante Alighieri

bottlebrush · 06-02-2015 4:39pm

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't - you're right

Henry Ford

kimmykins · 10-02-2015 7:37am

'There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind'
-C.S. Lewis

Mr.Buzz · 10-02-2015 9:14am

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien

A Quote a Day........

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