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Your Favorite Quotes..............

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Dave said:
"This too shall pass"

- Sufi proverb
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^ I agree. This is one of my favoriates too.

OctoberRust12 said:
"When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy." They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand Life." -John Lennon
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^ This one is awesome. :)
 
schizaphonic said:
Here's some Zen Buddhism for you:

"If you understand . . .
things are as they are.
If you do not understand . . .
things are as they are"
~Zen Koan

not a favourite but rather one of many.
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Good one.

There are so many good ones here :)
This is always one of my favorite threads.

Something I read (and do not know the author of) and have been saying recently is:
"Comparison is the thief of joy"
 
Let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream, and that you could for example have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time or any length of time you wanted to have, and you would naturaly as you began on this adventure of dreams you would fufill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive and after serveral nights of 75 years of total pleasure each you would say “Wow that was pretty great, but now lets umm lets have a surprise. Lets have a dream which isn’t under control. Where something is going to happen to me that I don’t know what it’s going to be” and you would dig that and come out of that and say “Wow that was a close shave wasn’t it” and then you would get more and more adventureous and you would make further and further gambles as to what your dream, and finally you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.
-Alan W. Watts
 
My parents are the heaven and the earth,
My home is my body,
My power is my loyalty.
My magic is my training,
My life and death is breathing,
My body is control,
My eyes are the sun and the moon,
My ears are sensitivity,
My laws are self protection,
My strength is adaptability,
My ambition is taking every opportunity with fullness,
My friend is my mind,
My enemy is carelessness,
My protection is right action,
My weapons are everything that exists,
My strategy is one foot in front of the other,
My way is Ninjutsu

-The Essence of Ninjutsu
 
Yoda said:
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny
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I've probably posted that before, but shit, I watched the movie last night. :D
 
"Kiss the sun and taste the motherfuckin rainbow"

'Scuse me while i kiss the sky..."
 
"Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."

- Josey Wales
 
“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.” ~Swami Vivekananda

"Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man." ~Swami Vivekananda

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.” ~Swami Vivekananda

-dp
 
There's story around this particular quote that makes it a bit more unique, so I'll share it.

Around where I lived for a while, there was a big, mostly-buried water tower in a neighborhood not far from the town. If you sat on top of this thing you could see the whole idyllic Western valley below; you could see the lights of the town glowing at night, the headlights and taillights dancing up and down the freeway (which ran perfectly perpendicular to your viewpoint), and if you looked up you could see a wonderful mountain sky, always filled with far more stars than any person would care to count. It was, in many ways, the perfect view.

This particular location was well-known among the teenagers because it was quite fun to climb up to it and share a bowl or two of cheap, high quality Rocky Mountain herb. At some point somebody brought a bench up to that concrete circle, and it's been there ever since. There were few other things up here, save for a small, raised access hatch, a waist-high ventilation pipe, and a forest green maintenance box that was raised about two or three feet above the ground and measured about four feet by two feet by six inches, give or take.

One day, me and two friends climbed to the spot where they prepared to share a decent-sized bowl while I catered to my anxiety disorder and simply treated myself to a cigarette. As I tilted my head to light the little white cylinder (a difficult task in the mountain winds) I noticed something written on the box. The message, drawn artistically in black ink, echoed through my head as I read the words aloud. I still don't know why, but for some unexplainable reason, discovering those words at that precise moment at that particular time in my life still makes me smile to this day. They mean a lot to me, and though it is not the most unique combination of words ever put together, nor the most powerful, I find them inspiring and uplifting in the most peculiar, strange, and thought-provoking way. The writing on the box, in carefully-planned pen strokes, read:

"Sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll,
weed, speed, and birth control,
life's a bitch and then you die,
so fuck the world, and let's get high."

I know quite definitively that these words are the key to someone's happiness, and that realization makes them all the more powerful.
 
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." -Norman Cousins
 
Lord of War has some awesome quotes in it. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to watch it.

"Some of the most successful relationships are based on lies and deceit. Since that's where they usually end up anyway, I figured it's a logical place to start."
 
“The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.”
― Corey Taylor
 
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