Let's Post Some Quotes

Drew263

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson

--My favorite--
Repeal that law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday and St. Tuesday, will soon cease to be holidays. Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

Benjamin Franklin

Excessive taxation will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

Thomas Jefferson


--Ok this is really my favorite--
"Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy."

Ben Franklin

Drew263

This first one seems very appropriate on the AMT....

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
- Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
- Benjamin Franklin

melodious

Love lift us up where we BELONG, where the EAGLE flies....

melodious

14.A GOOD MIXTURE is 70 percent faith and 30 percent science. Faith in the ART OF PEACE will show you how to understand the intricacies of modern science.

he still stands

"Don't let yourself be victimized by the age you live in. It's not the times that will bring us down, any more than it's society. When you put the blame on society, then you end up turning to society for the solution. .... There's a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your soul. It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve of imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it. Yuk."

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."

And finally, the most relevant for this forum...

"Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego. It is complicated by exposure to politics."

tybird

"That kangaroo stole my ball!!!" Rodney Dangerfield

beachdweller

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." – Tolstoy

"The capacity to learn is a gift;
The ability to learn is a skill;
The WILLINGNESS to learn is a choice." –Unknown

"It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own." -Malcolm Forbes

"Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." -Thomas Jefferson

"It is better to have a government in fear of its people than to have a people in fear of their government." –Unknown

"...see here's the thing, it's a presidential election year, and although it doesn't feel like it most days, your vote counts..and your voice counts. We've been tricked into thinking that it doesn't, but it does. Choose to use your voice. If you don't..use your voice, someone else will speak for you, believe me. Think for yourself and question authority." Maynard James Keenan

" You're the only one who knows who you are. I hope you know who you are. If you don't know who you are, figure it out. Cause you are somebody. And I'm probably stating the obvious, but I just thought I'd do it anyway. So if you feel like you've got a piece of duct tape on your mouth, if you feel like you can't speak, take it off, speak up, speak your mind, shout it out, let em hear, shout it out...." - Ed Vedder

"I wish I was the President, I wouldn't go to war, I'd communicate and negotiate, isn't that what Presidents are for?" Ed Vedder

melodious

"Gotta love the naked rule"

beachdweller

melodious wrote:

"Gotta love the naked rule"

I've seen that before...hmmm love scrubs, lol

Commy

The truth is so often the reverse of what has been told us by our culture that we cannot turn our heads far enough around to see it.

Howard Zinn.

Commy

Perhaps the worst consequence of WWII is that it kept alive the idea that war could be just.

Howard Zinn-who fought in WWII.

beachdweller

Commy wrote:

Perhaps the worst consequence of WWII is that it kept alive the idea that war could be just.

Howard Zinn-who fought in WWII.

I like this one, WWII was just, but preventable, but it is used as the why war works

melodious

15.CONFLICT BETWEEN material and spritual science creates pysical and mental exhaustion, but wehn matter and spirit are harmonized, all stress and fatigue disappear.

harmless_little_f***

'Brevity is the highest........... '

Collin

"Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored, this is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting"

--Waking Life

Thanks, Abook

melodious

If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny


yep!!!!!

gratefulness.org

melodious

16.USE YOUR BODY to create forms, use your spirit to transcend forms; unify body and spirit to activate THE ARTOF PEACE....

melodious

Collin wrote:

"Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored, this is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting"

--Waking Life

Thanks, Abook

:)

angelica

"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.”
~Bill Watterson

angelica

"At last fell humbly down upon his knees, and of his wonder made religion."
~Edmund Spenser

Abookamongstthemany

Collin wrote:

"Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored, this is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting"

--Waking Life

Thanks, Abook

"I was complaining, I was down in the dumps
I feel so strong now 'cause you pulled me up!
Pull me up up up up up up up up"~Talking Heads

Thank you, Collin

melodious

17.IF YOU have not
Linked yourself
To true emptiness,
You will never understand
THE ART OF PEACE.


*this quote and another about about questioning others intentions are the two that stand out the most.




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melodious

THE ART OF PEACE functions everywhere on earth, in realms ranging from the vastness of space down to the tiniest plants and animals. The life force is all pervasive and its strength boundless. THE ART OF PEACE allows us to perceive and tap into that tremendous reserve of universal energy...

RolandTD20Kdrummer

It's a honey of an O
It's Honey Nut Cheerios

melodious

Roland, that was really cute...thank you for light heartedness...

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

from gratefulness.org...quote of the day...

*.thank you book...you know i love you so much and your linkage to all these other wonderful HUmans....you are a spark in my flame...

give my best to the bong; ...."man, o man life evolves" melody...;)

melodious

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

It's a honey of an O
It's Honey Nut Cheerios

thank you for lighthearted way....

blueintheface

"brevity is the soul of wit"
-william shakespeare

melodious

19.Eight forces sustain creation:

Movement and stillness,
Solidification and fluidity,
Extension and contraction,
Unification and Division

melodious

20.LIFE IS GROWTH. If we stop growing technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. THE ART OF PEACE is a celebration of the bonding of heaven, earth, and humankind. It is all that is true, good and beautiful.

angelica

melodious wrote:

20.LIFE IS GROWTH. If we stop growing technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. THE ART OF PEACE is a celebration of the bonding of heaven, earth, and humankind. It is all that is true, good and beautiful.

Amen!