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If you had to pick one quote to live by what would it be?

BeachHouseGuyBeachHouseGuy
edited August 2011 in Arts & Writings
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  • andyrobynandyrobyn Veteran
    Let go then let it be and live.
  • DandelionDandelion London Veteran
    A lady I once worked for said the following:
    "You can decide you want to change something in your life and just wake up the next day and do it" and I really like the simplicity of that. Sometimes it isn't that simple. But, I do think that a lot that we carry around with us is a burden when we can just 'let it go', 'stop doing something', or 'start doing something' without actually needing to over analyse and ruminate.
    That line has always stayed with me for some reason.
  • YishaiYishai Veteran
    "with the roar of engines and thunder of guns, we rip each day from life's teeth. "
    Pretty much an antithesis of how I seek to live. It's a quote from a video game. Reminds me of how humanity as a whole kinda brute-forces their way through life when it's much easier to just let it be.
  • zenmystezenmyste Veteran
    "There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path"
  • BonsaiDougBonsaiDoug Simply, on the path. Veteran
    "Now having obtained a precious human body,
    I do not have the luxury of remaining on a distracted path."
    - Tibetan Book of the Dead
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    One of my favorites is a quote from St. Augustine, in his seventh treatise on the Epistle of St. John:

    "Dilige, et quod vis fac."

    "Love, and do as you will."
  • thickpaperthickpaper Veteran
    Make More Happy
  • KarmaDondrupTashiKarmaDondrupTashi
    ...
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    "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."
    (Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', Polonius.)
  • ArjquadArjquad Veteran
    "All will be known in due time"
    I'm not sure who said it but it shows that eventually all of lifes answers will be told at some point so there's no reason to worry about them now.
  • Mr_SerenityMr_Serenity Veteran
    "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
  • tmottestmottes Veteran
    "He who takes offense when none is intended is a fool. He who takes offense when offense is intended is a bigger fool."
    -- Attributed to Confucius or Brigham Young depending on your reference :crazy:
  • BuckeyeBushHippieBuckeyeBushHippie
    "Love one another"

    -George Harrison
  • goshikigoshiki
    "BE AWAKE............"
  • ZaylZayl Veteran
    "Take it easy, dude."

    -Stoned guy on the beach at 4 AM.
  • I_AM_THATI_AM_THAT Veteran
    "Open You Heart and Free Your and the Truth will be Presented to You"
  • StaticToyboxStaticToybox Veteran
    "Have a good time all the time." - Viv Savage, Spinal Tap
  • seeker242seeker242 Zen Florida, USA Veteran
    "Don't live your life by one quote" :p
  • BonsaiDougBonsaiDoug Simply, on the path. Veteran
    "We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake."
    - Pema Chodron

    "Blink damn it! Blink!"
    - Bonsai Doug
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    If I could be allowed a second "single quote" (in addition to the one I already posted), it would be this:

    "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

    Benjamin Franklin
  • pegembarapegembara Veteran
    Contentment is the greatest wealth.
  • aMattaMatt Veteran
    If I had to, it would be the single quote: '
  • shanyinshanyin Novice Yogin Sault Ontario Veteran
    sit down and shut up
  • Kwantum_KevKwantum_Kev
    "Courage is not the absence of fear, but but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear"

    -- Ambrose Redmoon
  • jupitermadcatjupitermadcat
    Enjoy every sandwich - Warren Zevon.
  • zen_worldzen_world Veteran
    "To live is to die"
    Metallica:)
  • BeachHouseGuyBeachHouseGuy
    @shanyin sit down and shut up, a well know ditty from I believe Keats :]
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    Power is not the problem but it is dangerous thing, so live simple and practice and feel the earth.
  • shanyinshanyin Novice Yogin Sault Ontario Veteran
    @shanyin sit down and shut up, a well know ditty from I believe Keats :]
    haha didn't know that. The some sort of 'zen comic book' called sit down and shut up or something.

    words to live by

    I'll check Keats out.
  • StaticToyboxStaticToybox Veteran
    edited August 2011
    haha didn't know that. The some sort of 'zen comic book' called sit down and shut up or something.

    words to live by
    I don't know of any comic book, but an American Soto Zen monk Brad Warner wrote a book titled 'Sit Down and Shut Up', which has a rather comic book looking cover of Hotei (I presume) all punked out (mohawk, piercings, tattoos) and riding piggy-back on Godzilla.
  • DustyInTheMixDustyInTheMix
    The wolf credo:

    Respect the elders
    Teach the young
    Cooperate with the pack
    Play when you can
    Hunt when you must
    Rest in between
    Share you affections
    Voice your feelings
    Leave your mark.

  • MegMeg
    "Hatred does not cease by hatred- only by love."
  • ShaneKarmaShaneKarma
    "Don't live your life by one quote" :p
    That made me smile,

    I think mine would be,
    Be the person you would like to be
  • Bodha8Bodha8 Veteran
    "Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.

    So I got that goin' for me; which is nice."

    Carl Spackler

  • LesCLesC Bermuda Veteran
    edited August 2011
    Everything in life comes to you as a teacher. Pay attention. Learn quickly. (Cherokee proverb)
  • tmottestmottes Veteran
    @LesC I am beginning to see that this is very very true in life.
  • sovasova delocalized fractyllic harmonizing Veteran
    "Open the heart and the closed mind will follow."
  • zenmystezenmyste Veteran
    Everything in life comes to you as a teacher. Pay attention. Learn quickly. (Cherokee proverb)
    Ditto.
  • ImperishableNightImperishableNight
    Endure, in enduring, grow strong.
  • IronRabbitIronRabbit Veteran
    The Dude abides.image
  • walkthiswaywalkthisway
    Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. - Horace Mann
  • shadowleavershadowleaver Veteran
    One who knows does not speak. One who speaks does not know.

    --Lao Tzu
  • tjampeltjampel
    "when someone fall down on the street it's a comedy

    when I cut my finger it's a tragedy"

    Mel Brooks (paraphrasing slightly perhaps)
  • justsheajustshea Explorer
    "Free your mind and your ass will follow."

    --George Clinton
  • LesCLesC Bermuda Veteran
    :lol:
  • kayward2011kayward2011
    edited August 2011
    'To know yourself or study yourself is to forget, and to forget yourself then you become enlightened by all things'
    Pema Chondron (2001)
  • sndymornsndymorn Veteran
    A woman left lonely,
    will soon grow tired of waiting.

    Janis Joplin
  • kayward2011kayward2011
    A woman left lonely,
    will soon grow tired of waiting.

    Janis Joplin
    ooerrr thats a powerful quote can be taken in many ways!! :)
  • vixthenomadvixthenomad
    I have a friend whose motto (and tattoo) is "This too shall pass". Very Buddhist.
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