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  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    Hi Brigid

    Nice quote! I think it was Voltaire who said it.

    There's another one I recall ... something along the lines that the true test of a religion is whether you can make a joke about it. Not sure who said it

    :)
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    Update -

    Found the Voltaire quote at one of my favourite quotes sites - you can get 'random' quotes and it tosses up some interesting ones -

    http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1389.html

    Peace!~Love~Happiness
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    Me again

    Had a bit of a Google for religion and making jokes - took me here -

    http://www.rudyh.org/religion-quotes-quotation.htm

    Even more pages by clickin on the links down the left-hand margin

    Namaste
  • distortedchilddistortedchild
    edited December 2009
    My favorite quote is the one I used for my signature.
  • fivebellsfivebells Veteran
    edited December 2009
    distortedchild wrote: »
    My favorite quote is the one I used for my signature.

    <a href="http://paulgraham.com/discover.html">Persuade xor Discover</a>
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others

    http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42407/

    Namaste
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

    http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2764.html

    Namaste
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    http://www.randomquotes.org/author/4557-francois-marie-arouet-voltaire.html

    Enjoy!
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

    http://www.randomquotes.org/quote/11321-let-the-refining-and-improving-of-your-own-life-ke.html

    It's a site you can spend ages clicking on random quotes

    :)
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once

    I believe it is Ashleigh Brilliant

    :)
  • KnightofBuddhaKnightofBuddha
    edited December 2009
    Georges Clemenceau is one of my favorite characters from the Great War. I think he is owed a debt of gratitude for the salvation of France. Quite a humorous fellow too, and could crack a joke even about attempts on his life. Here's what he said when an anarchist tried to assassinate him at Versailles.

    “We have just won the most terrible war in history, yet here is a Frenchman who misses his target 6 out of 7 times at point-blank range. Of course this fellow must be punished for the careless use of a dangerous weapon and for poor marksmanship. I suggest that he be locked up for eight years, with intensive training in a shooting gallery."
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them

    He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor

    You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses

    The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious

    Wisdom begins in wonder

    http://www.randomquotes.org/quote/916-wisdom-begins-in-wonder.html

    Namaste
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful

    Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy

    The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing

    Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

    The first recipe for happiness is to avoid too lengthy a meditation on the past

    Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence

    The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed

    Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood

    :)
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass... unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it's real motives And who sent it here in the first place It only looks like crab grass. That's what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms.

    :)
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these

    If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else - an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong

    Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat

    Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it

    In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled

    The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives

    http://www.randomquotes.org/quote/9300-the-pursuit-of-truth-and-beauty-is-a-sphere-of-act.html

    My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right

    http://www.gaia.com/quotes/Ashleigh_Brilliant?page=2

    http://www.sayingsnquotes.com/quotations-by-subject/belief-quotes-and-sayings/

    For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation

    Namaste
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    "Like all things in your life, forgiveness is a choice. By making the choice to grant unconditional forgiveness, you will have brought yourself one step closer to living a life of fulfillment, joy, and deep inner peace."

    Namaste
  • VinylLadyVinylLady
    edited December 2009
    Knight of Buddha...it is good that you quote Gracho Marx in this forum.
    appropriate being the Devil's Advocate..... :-)

    Here's one I read in a newspaper called "The Funny Times"
    Leo Tolstoy was on his deathbed
    and a priest was trying to do a deathbed conversion to
    the Russian Orthodox Church.
    Leo said
    "Even in the Valley of the Shadow of Death...
    2 and 2 still don't make 6"

    What I love about buddhism is that it makes such good sense.

    Thanks,
    VL
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    "The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know…”

    Namaste
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    http://motivatingtexts.blogspot.com/

    I like this one:

    Use your LIPS for truth; your VOICE for kindness; your EYES for compassion; your HANDS for charity; your FIGURE for uprightness; your HEART for love and for anyone who does not like you…PRAYER.

    Namaste
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    Hi All

    It's me again!

    May all sentient beings abide in equanimity, free from attachment and anger that hold some close and others distant

    http://www.viewonbuddhism.org/immeasurables_love_compassion_equanimity_rejoicing.html

    Namaste
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others

    ~ Moliere
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited December 2009
    "Things are not as they seem, nor are they otherwise."

    ~ Zen proverb
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited January 2010
    Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.

    Namaste
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited February 2010
    It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others

    ~ Joseph Addison

    A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side

    ~ Ditto
  • Quiet_witnessQuiet_witness Veteran
    edited February 2010
    Life is good and if you do disagree, what's your problem?

    ~Author unknown
  • specialkaymespecialkayme Veteran
    edited February 2010
    "Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature."

    Kant
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited February 2010
    "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

    - Bertrand Russell
  • distortedchilddistortedchild
    edited February 2010
    Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
    ~Pat Robertson
    :) My mother heard this and said, I have two kids, I'm still married, I don't believe in witchcraft, I'm always buying stuff 0/7
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited February 2010
    See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child

    ~ Atisha

    Namaste
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited February 2010
    G'day gang!

    Just surfin around & found these -

    http://quotations.about.com/od/funnyquotes/Funny_Quotes_Cute_Famous_Funny_Quotes.htm

    http://familyheart.tripod.com/funnykid.htm

    Namaste
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited February 2010
    "It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed."

    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ramdass134988.html

    Namaste
  • simplelaypersonsimplelayperson
    edited February 2010
    All tremble at the rod, all hold their life dear. Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

    Buddha
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited March 2010
    When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

    ~ Gerald Jampolsky

    Namaste
  • jovialpranksterjovialprankster
    edited March 2010
    "They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom.
    But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."
    Jack Nicholson, Easyrider.
  • armandoarmando
    edited March 2010
    "any hussar that is not dead by the age of thirty is a blackguard"
    - gen. antoine lasalle
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited March 2010
    He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

    Epictetus
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited March 2010
    You can never love another person unless you are equally involved in the beautiful but difficult spiritual work of learning to love yourself.
  • PietroPumokinPietroPumokin
    edited March 2010
    great quotes geoff
  • MikeMike
    edited March 2010
    It's easy to be a Holy Man on the top of a mountain.
  • HavenHaven
    edited March 2010
    "If while on your way,
    You meet no one your equal or better,
    Steadily continue on your way alone
    There is no fellowship with fools."
    the dhammapada verse 61
  • HavenHaven
    edited March 2010
    The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~Chuang Tzu
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited March 2010
    Hi Pietro

    Glad you like the quotes. Here's another from one of my faves -

    We try so hard to hang on to the teachings and "get it," but actually the truth sinks in like rain into very hard earth. The rain is very gentle, and we soften up slowly at our own speed. But when that happens, something has fundamentally changed in us. That hard earth has softened. It doesn't seem to happen by trying to get it or capture it. It happens by letting go; it happens by relaxing your mind, and it happens by the aspiration and the longing to want to communicate with yourelf and others. Each of us finds our own way.

    ~ Pema Chodron, Start Where You Are
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited March 2010
    From a little book called "Soul Food" -


    Self-love
    The most important thing you can do is love yourself for who you are right now. Don't put it off until you're more patient, thinner, less irritable, more loving or wahtever it is you want to improve about yourself. The fact is you are not and will never be perfect. The things you're dealing with are necessary for your learning and growth, so embrace them and love yourself for who you are right now. You might even find the things you don't like about yourself will take care of themselves.

    ~ Kate Kippenberger

    More 2 follow ... if you behave yourselves :)
  • NamelessRiverNamelessRiver Veteran
    edited March 2010
    Enlightenment dwells only in those who exert themselves. (Shantideva)
  • Geoff-AllenGeoff-Allen
    edited March 2010
    From that same book -

    Compassion

    It's very easy to fall into the trap of reacting to other people's behaviour. If someone is rude to us, or if an impatient driver cuts us off in the street, we become annoyed. Instead of feeling annoyed, try to feel compassion by putting yourself in their shoes. Imagine how bad you'd feel to be rude to another person, or how stressed you would feel to be in such a hurry. By taking the focus away from yourself, you realise that other people potentially have problems worse than your own, so be thankful for what you have.

    Namaste
  • NamelessRiverNamelessRiver Veteran
    edited March 2010
    I'll give you a cookie if you can find out who said these: x-D

    Wisdom is earned, not given. If you discover a tome of knowledge, devour its words. Should you already have knowledge of the arcane mysteries scribed within a book, remember - that level of mastery can always increase.

    Though the heat of the sun is beyond measure, the mere flame of a candle is of greater danger. No energies, no matter how great, can be used without the proper focus.

    The higher you place your faith in one man, the farther it has to fall.

    The hand, the heart and the mind can perform miracles when they are in perfect harmony.
  • NiosNios Veteran
    edited March 2010
    "get away from her you b****" Ripley, Aliens

    Woman: "Look, you don't have to do this. If you say you're a ninja I'll believe you"
    Man: "Then why did you laugh?"
    Woman: "'Coz I thought you were joking"
    Man: "Ninjas don't joke!" "Right, hold that"
    Woman: "ok"
    Man: "Eeeyie!" (brakes board) "Eeeyie" (brakes second board)
    Woman: "WOW!"
    Man: (arms fall off) "oow"
    Woman: "Is that supposed to happen?"
    Man: "No!"
    Woman: "Shall I call an ambulance?"
    Man: "Well I can't do it can I?"

    From Man stoke Woman, UK comedy
  • StephenStephen
    edited March 2010
    I'm not sure if anyone posted this, but I've always rather enjoyed this one:

    "Let us rise and give thanks, for if we didn't learn a lot today at least we learned a little. And if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick. And if we got sick, at least we didn't die. So, let us all be thankful."

    It's nice and optimistic. I think it was listed as something the Buddha said, but I very highly doubt it. Still, I like it.
  • sukhitasukhita
    edited March 2010
    "Selfish desires grow in the mind like trees: first seedlings, so tiny you scarcely see them, then a number of big trees, and finally a forest so dense that the branches and foliage shut out the light of the sun."
  • StephenStephen
    edited March 2010
    "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams (R.I.P.)
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