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posted September 10, 2006 09:17 PM         

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings

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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
~ Alice in Wonderland

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posted September 10, 2006 10:14 PM         

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"Drop the mind that thinks in prose; revive another kind of mind that thinks in poetry. Put aside all your expertise in syllogism; let songs be your way of life. Move from intellect to intuition, from the head to the heart, because the heart is closer to the mysteries. The head is anti-mystery; the whole effort of the head is how to demystify existence."

Osho, excerpted from The Secret, Chapter 12

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posted September 13, 2006 03:31 AM         

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Waiho ma te tangata e mihi
Let someone else acknowledge your virtues

Maori Proverb

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posted September 13, 2006 04:16 AM         

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"Only the things
of the spirit
can never be
taken away"

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posted September 13, 2006 07:31 AM         

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It is easy to make a choice between a right and a wrong path, but whats difficult is to make a choice between two right paths or two wrong paths.

- From a Hindi movie

I really really agree with this. Oftentimes I find it easy to choose between good and bad, whats difficult is when both your options are right, and you've to make a choice of which is more "right", I guess!

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posted September 13, 2006 06:15 PM         

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My favorite:

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"Hungry, violent, lonely, godless: thus the lion-will wants itself. Free from the happiness of slaves, redeemed from gods and adorations, fearless and fear-inspiring, great and lonely: such is the will of the truthful."

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-- Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra

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posted September 13, 2006 07:10 PM         

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Enjoy the Summer of your youth, so that the memories will keep you warm in the Winter of your old age - me

AND

Dance like you're making love and make love like you're dancing - me

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...to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever...

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posted September 13, 2006 07:16 PM         

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Egad, the mental image that last one conjures...

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posted September 13, 2006 07:18 PM         

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Argue your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. -Richard Bach, Illusions

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posted September 13, 2006 07:41 PM         

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Everything resolves itself in contradiction.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

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posted September 13, 2006 09:05 PM         

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Here's a classic one:

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Que Sera,Sera

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Which is Latin. I forget the direct translation but its something like "Whatever will be,will be". I like it.

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posted September 13, 2006 09:08 PM         

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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -Goethe

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posted September 14, 2006 11:47 PM         

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I like that one Johnny

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posted September 14, 2006 11:51 PM         

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To penetrate that room is my desire;
The extreme attic of the mind
that lies just beyond
the last bend in the corridor.
~Gautier

*edited because I had the quote wrong

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posted September 15, 2006 12:51 AM         

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"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
-Chinese Proverb

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."
-Hubbard

"There is no need to run outside
For better seeing,
...Rather abide
At the center of your being;
For the more you leave it, the less you learn.
...The way to do is be."
-Lao Tzu

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posted September 15, 2006 03:55 AM         

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We are the creators of our own environment.

(I wish I knew who said this first, so I could KISSS them)

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