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What is your favourite quote and why?
I would like to begin here a compendium of those bits of wisdom humanity perceives to be most true or without exception.
It is not necessary to name who might be credited with saying your selection, as no such person can honestly claim to have been without some outside inspiration, which catalyzed their creativity and moved them to express their insight.
Much like what you are called here to do.
If you yourself have distilled some wisdom through reflection, please allow me to present you this moment to pass it on here for consideration or perhaps start your own string.
The purpose of all this is to provide a most efficient tool for correlating the most valid ideas about morality and what we perceive to be real or important across culture or socialization. I would then like to work with you to turn this soil and see what new things (ideas) might grow. Food for the soul.
You are encouraged to emulate the creative process here so: COPY, COMBINE and TRANSFORM! Help me correlate.
Please comment in a constructive way if you agree or not with anything posted here and explain why.
Wayne Busby 30+
Colleen Steen 500+
Juliette Zahn 50+
Don't plant anything but Love.
Rumi ♥
I love this because it is a reminder to self check, and a most efficient way to regain proper perspective.
Eager Learner
" Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing, because he could do only a little"
Edmund Burke
jamie pascal
History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes
Enlightenment: the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according
to its own inner properties of cause and effect, probability and chance,
without any regard for human feelings.
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Freedom is born of great discipline.
It does not matter where you come from, it matters where you are going.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt
The least we know, the stronger we believe
I hear, i forget; i see, i remember; i do and i understand
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie
If you make people think their thinking, they love you;
if you make them really think, they hate you
I was too weak to be a leader, too strong to be a follower
One learns from defeat, not from victory
Learning tolerance while fighting ignorance
When you let "wonder" die, your time has passed
The readiness to answer all questions is an infallible sign of stupidity
You only live once; make sure it is enough
If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together
Short termism is the war that the present wages against the future
Planning is essential; plans are useless
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd
We need to learn to succeed and not just to win.
The least evidence we have, the more dogmatic we become
The greater your area of knowledge grows,
so it does your perimeter of ignorance
Beware conventional wisdom and groupthink.
Be skeptical of tidy explanations for complex past events.
Be even more skeptical of confident predictions of future human behavior.
A delusion that lasts a decade it is not a delusion; it is an institution
Liberty is allowing people to do things you disapprove of.
News is what is hidden; everything else is publicity
Mankind is becoming a single unit,
and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide
Colleen Steen 500+
(Nietzsche, Friedrich)
Eric Hazelle
Chelsea Cox
And he answered, saying:
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;
And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.
And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.
The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.
And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.
And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.
In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence.
When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue.
Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear;
For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered when the colour is forgotten and the vessel is no more."
This is a passage from The Prophet, a lyrical volume written by Kahlil Gibran in 1923. As a person who loves communication, the eloquence and simple exchange of ideas between human beings, I appreciate talking. This poetic quote struck such a note with me years ago that I still think of it each day.
Mary M. 100+
I really loved this line: "You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts"
And this one: "And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.".............he also wrote that when we speak of things, or ideas, that we do not fully understand, we are no better than donkeys loaded with books.
Thank you Chelsea for this poetic quote........I had missed it earlier
Chelsea Cox
Gretta Cox-Gorton
There is such misconception when we talk about society and our world. I think there is a gap between what we think we can accomplish, and it has to start with us being the change we want to see in the world. Self-examination is the only way to truly better the lives we and others live.
Mary M. 100+
Thank you.....YES we have to be the change we want to see. It starts with us....
Thank you!!
kaitlyn rodriguez
steve jackson
Brooke Branson
It is not a quote but a Welsh Proverb, and has significantly helped govern my young life. It gives a phrase to the value of a person's word and the loyalties that go with it.
kaitlyn rodriguez
This quote has been a great motivation for me through some of my toughest times. It's inspired me to keep on fighting and surviving no matter what comes my way.
Derek Young 30+
Elizabeth Williams
I use this so much because you can get so carried away by the dramas in life and this just helps me to stay centered and realise that every action is how it is, and even if the meaning of that action is not understood at the time it is what it is so.... what. Always moving forwards and living and appreciating the present moment.
Mohammed Khankhara
To me, it speaks volumes on the way we should all approach life, to not be afraid of (excuse the cliché) trying something new or to not be afraid of an experience that puts us outside of our comfort zone because once it's done, the experience is that much more rewarding. In an alternative but not entirely different meaning to me, it means approaching something, be it to do with work or leisure, with an open mind, letting go of what you know and not using our being and all we are made up of (past experiences) to define this new adventure.
kaitlyn rodriguez
Mary M. 100+
To melt a cold attitude......address warmly.
Wonderful play on words.....one of my favorite kinds of quotes.
Sterling Spencer
Mary M. 100+
I have used this alot with the kids.....when it's time to give up old clothes, toys, and the like.
Mwenjew Wewngwa
Mary M. 100+
Gerald Weathers
I have used this quote to overcome great difficulties. It comes from someone whom uses "values" to establish order in the Universe, . . . . yet it talks about more than numbers can fully describe.
http://blog.amcpros.com/2012/02/07/abandoned/
Thanks for asking Wayne!
Gerald
Thadeus Frei
- saw it on a sign while "in" traffic.
natasha nikulina 50+
We are not in crisis, we are crisis.
Beste Arslan
Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner
Micaela Genchi
"It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a packet of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane."
Douglas Adams has always be a great source of inspiration for me.
Well... "there you Goethe again" it's not bad too :)
Wayne Busby 30+
These are testaments expressing what we as individuals feel in the deepest parts of us, to be true.
Here are our inspirations and aspirations.
I find it irresistible the feeling I get when two individuals pause to reveal their vulnerability and share strengths, all the while encouraging each other towards mutually beneficial therefore constructive action.
We have done this here over 700 times. AWESOME!!!!
These posts are testimonials. Please examine them with respect and get to know the hearts of those with whom you are collaborating… this to me is as beautiful as it is scary.
Truelove; solemn, humorous, bittersweet and ultimately inspirational.
Please read through this string and contribute where you can. You wont be disappointed.
Don’t forget to contribute where you can (if not here elsewhere).
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Joe Michaels
Mwenjew Wewngwa
Linda Taylor 50+
Lee Hadley
Colleen Steen 500+
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves as well. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen accidents, meetings and material assistance that no one could have dreamed would come their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
– Goethe, by attribution
Wayne Busby 30+
Thanks again:)!
Colleen Steen 500+
"There's so much good in the worst of us
And so much bad in the best of us
That it ill behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us..."
(Mary Engelbreit)
Mary M. 100+
I have so much of her stationary....
"Mothers nurture the flowers in the garden of life"
"Too much of a good thing is wonderful"
What I do love from her the most are her illustrations......
Thanks Colleen!!
[EDIT]...oh, and "Life is a chair of bowlies"....she illustrates it with a comfy arm chair filled with lovely bowls of all colors.....
winnie mata
-in this complex world we cal always choose to be positive or to see the positive side of every situation.