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A Quote Thread....

frozen diamonds said:
Only if I love something can it reveal itself to me.
- Rudolf Steiner
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If I was a teacher, that motto would go on a big banner above my blackboard.

I've definitely found that to be true about learning medicine -- there's just so much to learn, in such complexity and pressure of accurate recall, that if I don't grow to love most of it and get very intimate with the human body all the way through, I don't have a snowman's chance.
 
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." Helen Keller.
 
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Learn as if you were going to live forever, live as if you
where going to die tomorrow. Life is a succession of lessons,
which must be lived to be understood.Most of the important
things in the world have been accomplished by people who
have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Learn as if you were going to live forever, live as if you where
going to die tomorrow. If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality
that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality
that helps you go on in spite of it all. An idealist believes the short
run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter.
A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run
determines the long run.
 
"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous & wrong, or deny to be possible." -George Santayana
 
frozen diamonds said:
Only if I love something can it reveal itself to me.
- Rudolf Steiner

I really love that one, let it sink in... try to apply it to every decision in your life, even the smallest... also definitely applies to the psychedelic universe/mindstate
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hence why every child should have the opportunity to experience a steiner based education. <3

today my quote is:

"every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement will be surer since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of judgement. go some distance away because then the work appears smaller, and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or portion is more readily seen." - leonardo da vinci
 
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." -F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up" (1936)
 
"I usually have an idea of highlights -- some things I want to see along the way -- and some of the most important things about the ending. Everything else is just improvisation, rhythm, and careful fakery. Smoke and mirrors, that's how I does it, mate.

-Tad Williams, on writing novels.




Followed shortly thereafter by . . .

"Can fakery be faked? Or . . .wait, would faking fakery make it reality?"

-Denizen of the Internet
 
"Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
-Oscar Wilde

"Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination."
-Immanuel Kant
 
"I mean
We are like caterpillars
Contemplating pupation

No longer will I chew on the cabbage leaves
No longer will I spend my time moving around on the underside of the foliage
Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension..."

Terrence Mckenna
 
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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And one of my favourite quotes:

Q : Dharma Master, what do you think of this prediction: the human race will become extinct as a result of a major disaster at the end of this century or the beginning of the next century?
A : Well, the best would be not to come back in the next century. Why are you bothering with this? You may remember the events of this century, but you will forget them by the time you are born in the next century. For instance, you remembered to ask this question now, but you will forget what you know in the next century. How is that useful?
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-- Peace o/
 
"Light is provided through sparks of energy from the mind that travels in rhyme form giving sight to the blind. The dumb are mostly intrigued by the drum." -Masta Killa (Wu Tang)
 
"If a thousand [people] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”

Henry David Thoreau
 
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness- Dostoevsky

Met some people along the way some split some stay some walk with me some walk on by ive got a few ill love till i die - bouncing souls

i dont even care we dont have to breed we can grow a house we can build a tree i dont even care we can have all three- nirvana

So watered down-your feelings have turned to mud- Marilyn Manson

Stirring a stir-fry of thoughts cooked beyond digestible reason- i dont know who wrote this
 
"You’re fake like nescience, eat too much steak to contemplate the essence. I hold the whole weight you’re half baked off the scraped resin." -Atma
 
"That the human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom; and that boredom is a direct proof that existence is in itself valueless, for boredom is nothing other that the sensation of the emptiness of existence."

-Shopenhauer
 
"That the human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom; and that boredom is a direct proof that existence is in itself valueless, for boredom is nothing other that the sensation of the emptiness of existence."

-Shopenhauer
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i've had the same thoughts
 
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