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Your Favourite Quotes and Sayings - MKII

Sammy G said:
"A Ghaela", aduirt sé, "cuireann sé gliondar ar mo chroi Gaelach a bheith anseo inniu ag caint Ghaeilge libhse ar an fheis Ghaelach seo i lár na Gaeltachta. Ní miste dom a rá gur Gael mise. Táim Gaelach ó m’ bhathais go borm mo choise - Gaelach thoir, thiar, thuas agus thios. Tá sibhse go léir fíorGhaelach mar an gcéanna. Gaed Ghaelacha de shliocht Ghaelach is ea an t-iomlán againn. An té atá Gaelach, beidh sé Gaelach feasta. Níor labhair mise (ach oiread libh féin) aon fhocal ach Gaeilge ón lá rugadh mé agus, rud eile, is fán nGaeilge amháin a bhí gach abairt dár ndúras riamh. Má táimid fíorGhaelach, ní foláir dúinn bheith ag plé ceist na Gaeilge agus ceist an Ghaelachais le chéile i gcónai. Ni haon mhaitheas Gaeilge bheith againn má bhíonn ár gcomhrái sa teanga sin ar neithe neamhGhaelacha. An té a bhíonn ag caint Gaeilge ach gan a bheith ag plé ceist na teanga, níl sé fíorGhaelach ina chroí istigh ní haon tairbhe don Ghaelachas a leithéid sin mar gur ag magadh faoin Ghaeilge a bhíonn sé agus ag tabhairt masla do Ghaelaibh. Níl aon ní ar an domhan chomh deas nó chomh deas nó chomh Gaelach le fíorGhaeil fíorGhaelacha a bhíonn ag caint fíorGhaeilge Gaelaí i dtaobh na Gaeilge fíorGhaelai. Fógraím an fheis seo anois ar Ghaeloscailt! Na Gaeil abú! Go maire ár nGaeilge slán!"
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What happened to Jams O Donnell?, sor.
 
‘Many a man has spent a hundred years trying to get the dimensions of it and when he understands it at last and enters the certain pattern of it in his head, by the hokey he takes to his bed and dies.’
 
When they stop believing in God, it's not that they believe in nothing: they'll believe in anything.
 
alasdairm said:
nice. it's basically the same as something somebody once told me: "10% of life is what happens. the other 90% is how you choose to deal with it."

i think that's true in large part. it seems naive and not a little simplistic to suggest that the difference between happy people and miserable people is, in part, that happy people have made a conscious choice to simply be happy.

sure, bad things - car crashes, loss, trauma - happen to people and suggesting that they can just will that kind of stress away by simply choosing to not be upset is a little naive but even the effect of that kind of stuff is a function of the individual's chosen reaction. i think what the saying is getting at is that we have a lot more control over this than some people would like (us) to believe.

nice quotes people.

alasdair
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Nicely put Alasdair! Wise thoughts. :)
 
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
Georges Gurdjieff
 
"If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance." -George Carlin
 
^Sounds like fun.

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
 
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
 
"Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death."
de Selby
 
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”




 
love that one, have not heard it ^
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^ true so very often. related thought:
goethe said:
Until one is committed there is hesitancy, a chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.

Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment that one definitely commit oneself, then providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would come his way.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it!

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!
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alasdair
 
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
 
If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself inthe universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should thattrouble us? For that is exactly what we are now! Flesh or plastic,intelligence or mechanism, nerve or wire, biology or physics—it allseems to come down to this fabulous electronic dance, which, at themacroscopic level, presents itself to itself as the whole gamut of formsand "substances."
Alan Watts
 
i've been watching a fantastic documentary about film recently: The Story of Film: An Odyssey

in a recent episode, the narrator was describing a character in coppola's the conversation as: "...getting so lost in the fragments of other people's behavior that your own life dissolves".

it really struck me that i see (what appear to me as) examples of this everyday online. the internet is a powerful disintermediating force but also, somewhat paradoxically, a clinical, impersonal medium. our collective attention span reduces, we sometimes care more about who said something and to whom than what was actually said. and when we do see what's said, we have a tendency to make it all about ourselves.

erikmen, eleanor roosevelt said a lot of cool things. my favourite quote of hers: "no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

alasdair
 
"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

Same goes for a lot things.
 
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