Watching a film the other night and this came up....
" water which is too pure has no fish"
Sweet!
Anyone have any fav's they want to share, you know, ones that have made sense to you personally.
INDO
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas H. Huxley 😀
I have loads but here are my favs
We either regret or cherish moments of the past, worry or project for the future, but rarely live fully in the present moment...
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
((Buddha))
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us."
One who is controlled by desire cannot attain true peace...
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of faith is to see what you believe...
"Opinions are a bit like @rse holes...everyones got one and they all stink"
Monica ~ Shameless (sorry but currently this really is my fave quote!!!) xx
My other all time fave is
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
Mahatma Gandhi
xx
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak......sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
My two favourite quotes that I would like to share with everyone are:
"What’s past is prologue" - William Shakespeare
"Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization" - Ishmael / Daniel Quinn
Very meaningful quotes that really resonate with me 🙂
Wow so many great quotes everyone!! 😀
My quote of the day:
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs, Magican Thinking
"My heart would not puke if I never have to work" My Granny.
I love you granny! :043::005:
Slightly updated to remove offensive language:
"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine" - J.B.S. Haldane (Haldane's Law)
Anything a woman does, she has to do twice as well as a man to be thought of as half as good.
Luckily this isn't difficult.....
All men are liars !
Women make them so !!!
Oscar Wilde.
touche' Celia
"Tempering Makes Strong Steel, Hardship Develops Strong Character"
Always thought this was a good one!
Keep em coming people! 😉
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel ~ Maya Angelou
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel ~ Maya Angelou
That's beautiful angelstar xx
Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift
Thats why its called the present
I don't know the original author, but it came to me by email from my horse riding instructor, when reflecting about her last days with her beloved dog.
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
and
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Both by Mother Teresa.
Better to stay quiet and be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it.
Source unknown.
These are two of my favourites, don't know who said the first one.
You can make more friends in 2 months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in 2 years by trying to get people interested in you.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still Lao-Tzu
inspiring quote
"Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future. To lose hope or give up one's goals because of the setbacks of the moment is to diminish one's own life potential. Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives." Daisaku Ikeda
My first post.
Robyn xx
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. (c)_V For Vendetta
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"To discover new lands, you need to lose sight of the shore"
Not sure who wrote this (other than me just then :)).
Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity ...
- Iron Jawed Angels
Hey Robyn - welcome to HP 🙂
And this one:
"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." - Eunesco
copy n pasted fromn my fb profe::
"its life jim but not as we know it..." - spock...
"the bigger the outward show the greater the inner sorrow..."- j krishnamurti
"self love is self doubt..."- bernardo guardi
"confidence is death..."- j krishnamurti
"let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food..."- hypocrates
"live the nightmare..." & "take both pills **** the matrix"- robbie williams
"its not until you have lost everything that you are free to do anything..."- tyler durden (fight club)
"everything is backwards; everything is upside down. doctors destory health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality..."- michael ellner
"it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society..."- j krishnamurti
"freedom from the desire for answer is essential to the understanding of a problem..."- j krishnamurti
"what are ya...some kinda wild animal?!" - the Grinch...
"a pill is a poor excuse for personal effort..."- dr. randolph stone
"positive thinking is a reaction to a negative state and so contains it. reaction of the opposites is no action at all, on the contrary its a hindrance to understanding; understanding is neither positive or negative, it just is..."- me
"Yeah, I know. I'm guilty. I understand that. I knew it was a crime and i did it anyways. 5h!t, why argue? I'm a $%!?!@# criminal, look at me..." - Raoul Duke..
"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom..."- j krishnamurti
"Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms..."- j krishnamurti
"All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man..."- j krishnamurti
"If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem..."- j krishnamurti
"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself..."- j krishnamurti
"in the condemnation of others lies the justification of ourselves..."- j krishnamurti
As a fan of Sir Francis Bacon:
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Lord chancellor of England, dismissed [wrongly - V] for corruption, an early advocate of logical reasoning.
When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter. Essays - Of Cunning
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. Essays - Of Seditions and Troubles
and many more:
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself. The Advancement of Learning
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. The Advancement of Learning
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. The Advancement of Learning
Just as it is always said of slander that something always sticks when people boldly slander, so it might be said of self-praise (if it is not entirely shameful and ridiculous) that if we praise ourselves fearlessly, something will always stick. The Advancement of Learning
One of the Seven was wont to say: 'That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through.' Apothegms
I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils. An Essay on Death
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. An Essay on Death
Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. Essays - Of Adversity
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. Essays - Of Beauty
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Essays - Of Beauty
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. Essays - Of Boldness
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him...when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
[Often misquoted as If the mountain will not come to Mohammed...] Essays - Of Boldness
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Essays - Of Ceremonies and Respects
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Essays - Of Death
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Essays - Of Death
To choose time is to save time. Essays - Of Dispatch
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Essays - Of Friendship
In charity there is no excess. Essays - Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature
As in nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. Essays - Of Great Place
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils: for time is the greatest innovator. Essays - Of Innovations
The place of justice is a hallowed place. Essays - Of Judicature
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Essays - Of Marriage and the Single Life
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. Essays - Of Nature in Men
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears. Essays - Of Parents and Children
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Essays - Of Praise
Dreams and predictions ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. Essays - Of Prophecies
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. Essays - Of Revenge
The remedy is worse than the disease. Essays - Of Seditions and Troubles
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Essays - Of Studies
It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. Essays - Of Superstition
All colours will agree in the dark. Essays - Of Unity in Religion
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. Proposition touching Amendment of Laws
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.) Religious Meditations - Of Heresies
I have taken all knowledge to be my province. Letter to Lord Burleigh, 1592
If Bacon's style seems somewhat familiar, many consider him to have been the unknown author of the Shakespeare works. Indeed, he kept a notebook in which Bacon clearly writes out bits of plot but most of all, lines and sayings, which only LATER appear in Shakespearean plays.
V
"Not if his backside was covered in diamonds" - my elderly mother when asked if she would ever consider marrying again.
Jx
"the microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything..." louis pasteur...
from dr. mercola on facebook:::
"Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” - Edward Stanley
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Every hour before 12 is worth 2 afterwards.
"if you are going through hell, keep going"
Winston Churchill
"two things are infinite...
the universe and the stupidity of humans...
but I'm not sure about the universe"
Albert Einstein