|
Author
|
Topic: Just Quotes
|
mermaid26
Knowflake Posts: 779
From: Adyton
Registered: Jun 2009
|
posted May 19, 2010 11:26 AM
  
hello Yin,
I'm finding these quotes in a book called
"An Alchemy of Mind" by Diane Ackerman. Her writing really resonates with me.(I'm trying to gain some understanding of the left brain/right brain "thing" since I'm ambidextrous to a degree.) IP: Logged |
mermaid26
Knowflake Posts: 779
From: Adyton
Registered: Jun 2009
|
posted May 19, 2010 06:53 PM
If your everyday life seems poor, don't
blame it; blame yourself; admit to
yourself that you are not enough of a poet
to call forth its riches; because for the
creator there is no poverty and no poor
indifferent place.~ Rainer Maria Rilke IP: Logged |
Valus
unregistered
|
posted May 21, 2010 11:26 AM
“Cut these words and they would bleed;
they are vascular and alive; they walk and run.”
~ Emerson, on reading Montaigne"Doubt not, O poet, but persist.
Say, 'It is in me, and shall out.'"
~ Emerson "The poet stands among partial men
for the complete man."
~ Emerson "Now I see it is true, what I guess'd at."
~ Whitman "For a tree's branches to reach to heaven,
its roots must reach to hell."
~ Medieval Alchemical Dictum
IP: Logged |
Valus
unregistered
|
posted May 21, 2010 11:35 AM
"Seldom, very seldom,
does complete truth belong to any human disclosure;seldom can it happen
that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken."
~ Jane Austen
IP: Logged |
Valus
unregistered
|
posted May 31, 2010 04:38 AM
In life, you're either a liar, a hypocrite, or a saint;
the first two live a lie -- the last two tell the truth.
IP: Logged |
mermaid26
Knowflake Posts: 779
From: Adyton
Registered: Jun 2009
|
posted June 01, 2010 09:58 PM
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as the trees and the animals do.~ Walt Whitman IP: Logged |
Yin
Moderator Posts: 2562
From:
Registered: Apr 2009
|
posted June 25, 2010 12:33 PM
"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about." - Dr. Wayne DyerIP: Logged |
T
Knowflake Posts: 5851
From:
Registered: Apr 2009
|
posted June 25, 2010 04:47 PM
"We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. " ~Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters, 1913
IP: Logged |
mermaid26
Knowflake Posts: 779
From: Adyton
Registered: Jun 2009
|
posted June 27, 2010 10:49 PM
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.~ Langston Hughes IP: Logged |
mermaid26
Knowflake Posts: 779
From: Adyton
Registered: Jun 2009
|
posted June 27, 2010 10:56 PM
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.~ Epictetus IP: Logged |
mermaid26
Knowflake Posts: 779
From: Adyton
Registered: Jun 2009
|
posted June 27, 2010 10:59 PM
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction.~ Emma Goldman IP: Logged |
Valus
unregistered
|
posted June 29, 2010 03:53 PM
Epictetus 
All people dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind,
Wake in the morning to find that it was vanity.
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people,
For they dream their dreams with open eyes,
And make them come true. ~ D.H. Lawrence
I have learned,
that if one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
~ Victor Hugo
My mind wants to interpret
All my dreams.
My heart wants to love
All my dreams.
My soul wants to fulfil
All my dreams.
~ Sri Chinmoy
IP: Logged |
mermaid26
Knowflake Posts: 779
From: Adyton
Registered: Jun 2009
|
posted June 30, 2010 09:07 AM
Can miles truly separate you from friends....If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?~ Richard Bach The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. ~ Richard Bach If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. ~ Richard Bach IP: Logged |
Valus
unregistered
|
posted June 30, 2010 07:45 PM
"What are you doing here? Christ is your guru."
~ maharaj ji neem karoli baba
to the westerners who came
in search of enlightenment IP: Logged |
MysticMelody
Moderator Posts: 1066
From:
Registered: Apr 2009
|
posted June 30, 2010 10:58 PM
There are different wells within your heart.
Some fill with each good rain,
Others are far too deep for that.In one well
You have just a few precious cups of water,
That "love" is literally something of yourself,
It can grow as slow as a diamond
If it is lost. Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you. There are different wells within us.
Some fill with each good rain,
Others are far, far too deep
For that. ~ Hafiz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LuH0ywYVQc IP: Logged |
mermaid26
Knowflake Posts: 779
From: Adyton
Registered: Jun 2009
|
posted July 17, 2010 08:48 PM
How people treat you is their Karma; how you react is yours.~ Wayne Dyer IP: Logged |
Valus
unregistered
|
posted July 24, 2010 06:33 PM
quote:
How people treat you is their Karma; how you react is yours.~ Wayne Dyer
Oooooooooo! 
IP: Logged |
Valus
unregistered
|
posted July 24, 2010 07:08 PM
Herd mentality is childish. Questioning authority, seeking for answers outside of the cultural mainstream, is an initiatory experience that can last for years, even decades, and it is a prerequisite for adulthood. Most people think growing up means learning to honor the expectations prescribed by the status quo. Most people never grow up.
There's no such thing as a bad poet.
Art is gold, polished or in the rough,
and every artist is a miner of gold.
To be precise, Lord, I do not believe
in the peacefulness of your kingdom,
but in the kingdom of your peace.
Fools say that you are most yourself
when you are least in control of yourself.
Tragedy isn't about losing.
It's about almost winning.
Real tragedy is always ironic.
Like when your heart is in the right place,
and your head is up your ass.
Sometimes it takes great faith
to see what's right before your eyes.
~ 
IP: Logged |
mermaid26
Knowflake Posts: 779
From: Adyton
Registered: Jun 2009
|
posted August 02, 2010 06:03 PM
Tomorrow doesn't matter for I have lived today.~ Horace IP: Logged |
mermaid26
Knowflake Posts: 779
From: Adyton
Registered: Jun 2009
|
posted August 16, 2010 11:04 PM
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.
ca. 500 BCE- Heraclitus - IP: Logged |
Valus
unregistered
|
posted August 17, 2010 12:39 AM
You cannot step into the same river twice,
for new waters are continually rushing in.
You cannot even step into it once.
No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
~ Heraclitus
(an early favorite of mine) IP: Logged |
mermaid26
Knowflake Posts: 779
From: Adyton
Registered: Jun 2009
|
posted August 17, 2010 08:44 AM
Brilliant observation and declaration Valus!IP: Logged |
Valus
unregistered
|
posted August 18, 2010 01:52 PM
IP: Logged |
Valus
unregistered
|
posted August 18, 2010 01:53 PM
"Most people would sooner die than think;
in fact, they do so."~ Bertrand Russell
"Against stupidity,
the gods themselves contend in vain."
~ Friedrich von Schiller
"Many a man's reputation would not know
his character if they met on the street."
~ Elbert Hubbard
"If everything seems under control,
you're just not going fast enough."
~ Mario Andretti
"Sometimes when reading Goethe
I have the paralyzing suspicion
that he is trying to be funny."
~ Guy Davenport
"We all agree that your theory is crazy
but is it crazy enough?"
~ Niels Bohr
"Show me a sane man
and I will cure him for you."
~ Carl Gustav Jung IP: Logged |
Valus
unregistered
|
posted August 18, 2010 01:59 PM
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma,
a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt
to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."~ Umberto Eco IP: Logged |
Lindaland
UBBFriend: Email This Page to Someone! 
