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Favourite Quotes And Sayings V3. I'm Serious, And Don't Call Me Shirley

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
 
Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

[i'm sorry this letter is so long, i would have written a shorter one if i had time]
-blaise pascal

 
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
M. Gandhi


“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."




 
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
 
^ Indeed.

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
 
'In the end, you're on your own
And there is no one who can stop you being alone'

Lemmy (Motorhead) - 'Stay Clean'
 
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs
 
Ah man, only just been reminded of Walt Whitman in another thread - how could I forget him for so long! Two of my favourite WW quotes:

'Be curious, not judgemental'

'I have learned that to be with those I like is enough'
 
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

“We were together. I forget the rest.”

"Resist much, obey little.”






 
“When we inhabit our own life—stop doing things based on the approval of others—we offload baggage and trade up to joy!”
 
Erikmen said:
“We are always the same age inside. ”
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Sorry but that is just plain ridiculous. Moreover, it would imply zero growth. Which is hardly an admirable trait. Hoping to hold onto certain traits over the years is one thing... but such a statement is facile beyond belief. If we all retained the social-sponge status of an infant there would be no racism - and arguably no alternate language or culture. If we try to pin it at any other developmental stage such a statement is... facile beyond belief. No?

The more a man becomes aware, through reflection, of his servile condition, the more indignant he becomes, the more the anarchist spirit of freedom, determination and action waxes inside him. That is true of every individual, man or woman, even though they may never have heard of the word “anarchism” before.

– Nestor Makhno

Squeaky said:
"Inspiration is for Amateurs. Professionals just go to work"
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Perhaps so... But most "pros" were "inspired" by years of (largely incestuous but also other forms of) abuse so that's a mixed blessing at best...

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

-Denis Waitley

Mysterie said:
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

- Thomas Jefferson
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I kinda suspect enslavement stopped a number of folk with "the right" mental attitude... but then I doubt Thomas Jefferson would have noticed...

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.

– Clarence Darrow

Erikmen said:
[FONT="]That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

-[/FONT] Steve Jobs
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... And then jump off Chinese slave factories to your sweet, sweet death <3

... Oh no, no you can't :(

"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

<3
 
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Quotes are somehow like art, it's an opinion said within certain context. By thinking simple can be as expansive and complicated than one may think. Simple rather than neurotic, worried, overthinking, etc, etc. You can't get someone's thoughts and impose your own interpretation.


Same with age, some people grow mature, work hard, set examples, and some think of age as a mark, it doesn't mean you have to be bold, have gray hair or even be impaired following a standardized chronological table. Poetry, arts, proverbs and sayings are not meant to be literal. And literal was all you did above.


Think of a context, a time and place that you have not witnessed. It would be as if I'd tell to some artist that the ocean or whatever he or she's painting is not at all that color. You or anyone else don't have the power to impose your own ideas to others imho.
 
“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”
 
“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”

 
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Erikmen said:
Quotes are somehow like art, it's an opinion said within certain context. By thinking simple can be as expansive and complicated than one may think. Simple rather than neurotic, worried, overthinking, etc, etc. You can't get someone's thoughts and impose your own interpretation.


Same with age, some people grow mature, work hard, set examples, and some think of age as a mark, it doesn't mean you have to be bold, have gray hair or even be impaired following a standardized chronological table. Poetry, arts, proverbs and sayings are not meant to be literal. And literal was all you did above.


Think of a context, a time and place that you have not witnessed. It would be as if I'd tell to some artist that the ocean or whatever he or she's painting is not at all that color. You or anyone else don't have the power to impose your own ideas to others imho.
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Nope. Quotes are small sections of speech taken out of context. What one makes of them is, obviously, down to the individual. I, personally, found that particular quote ridiculous and facile. That is my personal interpretation. This in no way implies anything about anybody else's interpretation. I simply have an opinion and state it. This is my way and I apologise if it offends you - truly it is not meant to as I would never intend to offend anybody without making it abundantly clear I was intending to offend them. Besides, given they are presumably not your own words how is it even possible to be offended at somebody else finding them vacuous?!? 8(

And onna more practical note, bear in mind this is a drug forum and some of us may be heavily intoxicated when posting at times. It happens ;)<3

Also...

"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"

-- Charles Schulz

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

-- Elbert Hubbard
 
^ I'm not offended at all. Like you said yourself it's not my words. I feel differently about quotes like I've already mentioned because some of them were said in a given context. Anyways..thanks for replying. ;)

The following has been taken from a book

“In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.”
― Paulo Coelho
 
^ my refuge :)

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