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"Sayings and Quotes" Thread.
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The previous Sayings thread had become too low in the water because of its size, water was lapping at the gunwales so I will break a bottle of bubbly (non alcoholic of course) over the bow of the good ship Other Sayings and slide her down the slipway into the clear,
still waters of the forum.
May God bless her and all who sail in her. Heartfelt thanks for the contributions to the previous thread.
MODERATOR NOTE:
Combined with quotes thread begun by @MeisterBob.
If it's a saying, it may not have an author, or a definite confirmed provenance.
If however, you choose to quote a saying or passage, by a specific author, that author and its source, (book, article, website) should please be given credit.
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"When a body is immersed in water....the phone rings"
Archimedes' other principle
Kia Ora,
"Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it!"
Now an't that the truth =:D -
Metta Shoshin
Life is like a shopping trolley : you go partly where you want to, and partly where the damn thing takes you.....!
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
Steve Maraboli
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Kia Ora,
"A person’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
Metta Shoshin
A persons dimensions, once stretched by the mind, never regains its original ideas...
Save the whales...try for a complete set.
" A formula for success..rise early, work hard, strike oil..." John Paul Getty.
" Time stays. We go " H.L.Mencken.
~the Karmapa
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." Henry David Thoreau
It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others.
Latin Proverb
. . . a chance for our Latin scholars to tell us the original . . .
Kia Ora,
Holding resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die
_
Metta Shoshin
Being Angry is like picking up a burning coal to throw at someone - you burn yourself first, and more seriously....
"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
Probably not Buddha but still a great "quote" so to speak...
" Never oil a camera "....my Uncle John, circa 1960.
And he was right.
He was .
I believe it was a hard won insight involving a new camera, a squeaky wind-on mechanism, and a can of Three-In-One oil.
Uh-oh....I bet he said "Oh Fu....jica....."
Better to never start; once started, better finish. - The Way of the Peaceful Warrior.
"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most"
Buddha
“Die before you die,” Prophet Bodhi
http://www.techofheart.co/2007/10/die-before-you-die-poem-by-rabia.html
Well there's a "sayings' thread but I don't feel right about putting quotes in it . Figured I'd start a thread just for quotes instead. I'll go first...duh! lol! Here's one of my favorite Jon Kabot-Zinn quotes:
"Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness."
"Being a slave to our concerns is like being in debt to them. When we're in debt, we have no real freedom in our hearts. The more we pay off our debts, the more lighthearted we'll feel. In the same way, if we can let go of our various worries and cares, peace will arise in our hearts." -- Ajaan Lee
One of my favorites is by Clare Booth Luce. Indeed I have it on a rubber stamp that I picked up in a monastery store in Moncks Corner, SC. The Luce family gave their land down there to Trappist monks (Mepkin Abbey) in the early days of the last century:
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there."
Kia Ora,
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away."
Maya Angelou
Metta Shoshin:)
These are sayings.
Quotes would involve a paragraph, and maybe an indication of why that passage resonates.
I'm inclined to combine the threads.
If you'd like a 'quotes' thread (And I see no objection) really, it should be distinctly different to the 'sayings' thread.
Hmmmm... I don't know abut that. I don't see the relevance of length. Your distinction of saying and quote differs from mine.
To me a quote is a remark that a person has stated- often not so well known. It's author is known and it needs to be quoted. Whereas with a saying while you do not always know who said it, it is a well known short expression that many know and say hence a "saying"
For instance my JK-Z quote is not well known and so there arent enough people saying it to be a saying. Plus it has a known author so it needs quoting.
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness."
Albert Einstein
Edited
And here we go: a minor problem, straight away:
The above quotation is a composite. he didn't actually say all this as one piece. It's been mashed together and proposed as a quotation, but it isn't.
THIS may interest you....
Lol, thanks. Has nothing to do with a quotes thread per say though if that is your implication. It would be the same difference under a "sayings" thread. I appreciate the clarification either way. Bob
My point is, as the case is with "What the Buddha said" quotations, is that authenticity is important. And it's up to the poster to check their source and ensure it's accurate, as much as is humanly possible.
('per SE')
I am also the forum's most irritating and persistent Grammar Nazi'....
It's a sickness, I assure you....
"My affliction is my salvation" unknown
“Man surprised me most about humanity.
Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
Dalai Lama
"The habit of ignoring our present moments in favor of others yet to come leads directly to a pervasive lack of awareness of the web of life in which we are embedded. This includes a lack of awareness and understanding of our own mind and how it influences our perceptions and our actions. It severely limits our perspective on what it means to be a person and how we are connected to each other and to the world around us. Religion has traditionally been the domain of such fundamental inquiries within a spiritual framework, but mindfulness has little to do with religion, except in the most fundamental meaning of the word, as an attempt to appreciate the deep mystery of being alive and to acknowledge being vitally connected to all that exists."
Jon Kabot-Zinn
Kia Ora,
"Ones future is just the echo of ones past actions!"
Karma
Metta Shoshin
"Not always so."
Shunryu Suzuki
" Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment "
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. Perhaps its value lies precisely in this. Maybe we all need to do one thing in our lives simply for its own sake.
Jon Kabot_Zinn
"Never too soon to learn the Dharma. Never too late to practise the Dharma"
Stonepeace
“This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.”
– Earl Wilson
“You must unlearn what you have learned.” Yoda
Dang! Bob beat me to the Yoda quote...
But here's another...
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
I like that one too. They can be rather insightful. Bob
Kia Ora,
On worry
"Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured,
From the evil which never arrived !"
R.W. Emerson
"Some people drain into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds!"
Metta Shoshin:)
“There's no I in denial”
― Peter Serafinowicz
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller
"This world is your best teacher,
There is a lesson in everything,
There is a lesson in each experience,
Learn it and become wise"
Swami Sivananda
"Looking at objects, there are no objects:
they are seen to be mind.
Looking at mind, there is no mind:
it is empty of essence.
Looking at both liberates dualistic
clinging in its own ground.
May we realize luminosity,
the true nature of mind."
From the "Mahamudra Aspiration Prayer" by the third Gyalwang Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje.