quotables

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"If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope?"

Gordon Downie
lead singer
The Tragically Hip

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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
~ Erich Fromm


Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
~ Richard Bach


The enjoyment of the journey comes by learning to love myself despite my imperfections, limitations and vulnerabilities.
~ Marge Schneider

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Life is a succession of experiences sprinkled with emotions, people, places, adventures, triumphs, wonders, disappointments, puzzlements, injustices, loves, losses, and, if you pay attention, lessons that make the journey that much more savory and easily navigable along the way.
~ Erika Lenkert

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If we search outside ourselves for the meaning of life, we tend never to find it. But if we center ourselves and look for meaning in life, it's always waiting for us, right here in the present moment.
~ Bo Lozoff


I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.
~ Louise Hay


Even if the patterns of my life do not conform to my preconceived vision of how I wished or expected things to be, every moment is a learning opportunity. Every moment is scared. Every moment offers me a unique challenge. And, no matter how much I may protest, every moment is perfect for me at that time.
~ Jeffrey Mishlove


There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings for us to learn from.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

decides2dream

There comes a time when it lies within a man's grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes it to be. Only the weak blame parents, the times, lack of good fortune, or quirks of fate.
~ Louis L'Amour


Living on this earth is such a rich experience. If we stand back from our lives, sounds, sights and smells, experiences profane and sublime whirl and blend deliciously into a tapestry of lush colors and multiple textures. If we stand farther back and look in, we can see how our life is a shining thread in a larger tapestry, the fabric of all life.
~ Erin Everett


The meaning of our life is to experience all the divinity of ourselves and of all creatures.
~ Willigis Jager

Duhon

"If you can't criticize the president during war, doesn't that encourage him to BE at war?" - Eddie Vedder

vmfury

"Oh...when it looks like that, I can't stop making out with it." ~ RC

reeferchief

"Some people say that I must be a terrible person, but it’s not true. I have the heart of a young boy in a jar on my desk" -Stephen King

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein

"I've had a wonderful evening, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

"My one regret in life is that I'm not somebody else." - Woody Allen

"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." - Dean Martin

"When you are down and out, something always turns up - usually the noses
of your friends." - Orson Welles

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". --Gandhi

Byrnzie

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

Byrnzie

(To a Liverpool F.C trainee) "The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head."
Bill Shankly - Liverpool Football club manager 1959 - 1974

Boom The Cat

Very Simple one:

"The reality we experience is something we make"

If you read this, and you are starting to become aware of what is really around you, then thank you for beggining to wake up.

sennin

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
-William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959

seagoat2

Boom The Cat wrote:

Very Simple one:

"The reality we experience is something we make"

Or alternatively:

"Reality is the only obstacle to happiness"......hee, hee...

imspinnin

Everything that begins also ends.
Make peace with that and all will be well. ~The Budda

seagoat2

"There is enough for for everybody's need but not for everybody's GREED."

Gandhi

decides2dream

Life itself is the proper binge.
~ Julia Childs


Life loves the liver of it.
~ Maya Angelou


A man who dares to waste an hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.
~ Charles Darwin


Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
~ C.S. Lewis


Life is a festival only to the wise.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

decides2dream

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows.
~ Jean Anouilh


Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
~ Alexis Carrel


On with the dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to confine.
~ Mark Twain


Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
~ William Saroyan


Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
~ James F. Bymes

SeeTheSky

"Chaos is the law of nature, order is the dream of man." -Henry B. Adams

SeeTheSky

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas


The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years, but the one with the richest experiences.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau


We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs.
He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~ Philip James Bailey


Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
~Anonymous


I would urge you to be as imprudent as you dare.
BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
~ Susan Sontag