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
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always got
this is so true! Think of things like; personal relationships, eating habits, being overlooked for promotion at work!
Hi Peeps
At the moment:
Just do it.
🙂 x
I have so many favourite sayings, I didn't know where to start with this thread!
However, I'm reading through the book of Proverbs at the moment from The Message, which is an interpretation of the Bible in modern English by Eugene H. Peterson.
While I couldn't read deeply poetical and metaphysical parts of the Bible, like Psalms and Isaiah from it, for Proverbs it's great - lots of humour. Here are just three, all from Proverbs 27:
[COLOR="Blue"]If you wake your friend in the early morning
by shouting "Rise and shine!"
It will sound to him
more like a curse than a blessing.
A nagging spouse is like
the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet;
You can't turn it off,
and you can't get away from it.
Considering these ideas (not in that form though!) were written about 3,000 years ago, doesn't it just show that nothing's changed? 😀
This one is very pertinent in our celebrity age:
[COLOR="Blue"]
The purity of silver and gold is tested
by putting them in the fire;
The purity of human hearts is tested
by giving them a little fame.
The last one from the King James Version (this translation is 400 years old this year):
[COLOR="Blue"]21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
And again from that comes the first verse in a favourite hymn:
[COLOR="Blue"]As gold by fire is tested,
Its purity shown forth,
So cleansing fires of Truth may prove
To man his native worth.
Based on the Danish of
Bernhard S. Ingemann
Love and peace,
Judy
I like these wise words written by Shakespeare:
"To thine own self be true"
which is Polonius's last piece of advice to his son Laertes. Meaning to take care of yourself first and that way you'll be in a position to take care of others.[INDENT]
Polonius:
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!Laertes:
Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.
[url]Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 78–82[/url]
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On this month's calendar:
'Age is a question of mind over matter:
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter'. :rolleyes:
Bob Marley
"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."
— [url]Bob Marley[/url]
😀
"the microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything..." louis pasteur...
The microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything : a realtor/ real estate agent...version 21st century !:p
Do not take yourself too seriously : very few do anyway so enjoy yourself too. ...me !:o:)
More Bob
"love the life you live.
live the life you love."
— [url]Bob Marley[/url]
"start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible" - St Francis of Assisi
'Things are never bad; it's the way you think about them.' Epictetus
My school motto, which was emblazoned in a crest suspended over the stage in the hall, and stitched onto our school blazers:
"To wish is to be able"
Just come across this one that I like...
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Confucius
As one of our projects has just set up a new type of adult literacy programme - it makes me very thankful that I can read... and also enjoy it.
elf to self-chosen ignorance
Excellent quote, Celia, thank you. (Although I like the one in your signature even more!)
🙂
I am a sucker for cheese...
T..ogether
E..veryone
A..chieves
M..ore
"Teamwork makes the dreamwork!"
Both displayed on a Superhero poster (made by my own fair hands) on my office door!
Jay 🙂
You are unique, just like everyone else.
The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
The one eye'd man in king in the land of the blind.
The world needs more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us.
Say hello to my little friend.
Hi .
I can't remember where I heard this but I goes something like this . .
"As children we become afraid of the dark and as adults we become afraid of our own light ."