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Words That Have Changed You.

"fear not the other side for earth is but your egg,never constructed to last eternity"

"communism would need the entire world to treat complete strangers on the other side of the world with the same love and respect they show their closest friend,I like it lets start"

"why do they want to destroy fantasia.....because people with out hopes and dreams are easy to control"....sorry it may not be 100% correct it's been a while....hhhmmm maybe I'll watch the never ending story tomorrow

"Ignorance is the systems bliss for the product of ignorance is inaction and inactions end is absolute suppression"
 
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I dunno why, but I always liked that Dylan Thomas poem "Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night."

It seems a bit tacky, I know.
 
When i saw the Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace someone told Anakin "not to fear change". I was going to turn down a job offer before seeing that movie but that line convinced me to accept the job. It was one of the greatest decisions i ever made in my life and made me fairly wealthy. Had it not been for that line, i would not have changed jobs.
 
"Fuck you. Fuck your hopes, fuck your dreams, fuck your plans … fuck everything you thought this life was going to bring to you. Now let's go out there and try to make this bitch happy."
 
Some quotes I found recently.......



Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha


“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
Nathaniel Branden
"Accepting does not necessarily mean 'liking,' 'enjoying,' or 'condoning.' I can accept what is—and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck."
- Nathaniel Branden

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."
- Denis De Rougamont
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
- Marcus Aelius Aurelius
“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.”

Marianne Williamson

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."
- Joanne Kathleen Rowling
 
These two quotes hold a special place in my heart, I remember reading them constantly and willing myself to believe it when I got my heart shattered in the worst way a decade ago by somebody I really loved. Everytime I read it I remember that dark time in my life, and how long it took to get over it, and eventually being able to ...it still brings a tear to my eye actually reading these two quotes.

Last night I dreamed that I was pursuing a director I was once in love with and he invited me into his home to tell me that he couldn't be with me. I sat at his kitchen table on the verge of tears. Then he said to me "You once described a man's body as powerful. What is your definition of power now? " And I replied : "Power is being told you are not loved and not being destroyed by it."~ Madonna
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Other quotes I hold dear and read constantly
that serve to remind and inspire me :

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
~ Luke

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such..
~Henry Miller

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~ RWE

true humility is such an equilibrium, for it is not self-despising but other-enhancing.
~ A friend


A man told his grandson: "A terrible fight is going on inside me -- a fight between two wolves. One is evil, and represents hate, anger, arrogance, intolerance, and superiority . The other is good, and represents joy, peace, love, tolerance, understanding, humility, kindness, empathy, generosity, and compassion. This same fight is going on inside you, inside every other person too."The grandson then asked: "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply: "The one you feed.".
~anonymous
 
ocean said:
Yay for quotes.....
Words that changed my life.....
"I do."...... "I love you"
- The most wonderful man in the world;)

"Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring—these are some of the rewards of the simple life. The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it. "

-John Burroughs (1837-1921) American Writer and naturalist

"If you think about all the gains our society has made, from independence to now, it wasn't government. It was activism.
People think, 'Oh, Teddy Roosevelt established Yosemite National Park, what a great president.' BS. It was John Muir who invited Roosevelt out and then convinced him to ditch his security and go camping. It was Muir, an activist, a single person."

-- Patagonia founder and outdoor enthusiast Yvon Chouinard in a ( recent Sierra Magazine interview).


I love quotes.....very glad for this thread:)
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YES!
I know- I am quoting myself- but I have been looking for that John Burroughs quote in its enitrey like above for a while now- when I google it, I can never find the whole thing- <3 So happy now.
The above quotes really did change my life for the better-
 
'I'm done. I'm out.'

don't really want to explain but these words definitely changed me
 
"so how long have you been a drug addict?"

"I have never met anyone who has such a complete want to be so so alone" said to me by a very good friend.


and thanks ocean, for reminding me of John Muir, :) he was a wonderful man...I remember taking a trip to Muir Woods in N.California a few years ago, it was so so beautiful, that place changed me. a lot. <3
 
"Why the fuck did you take my Oxycontin?!" Followed by a prompt ass-whipping from my dad in 98'.

That was the first time I ever experienced any anger from him, and it put a big dent in my mind, changed who I was completely.
 
"That'll never happen"

Was told this one too many times. Now I push for those things to happen as much as I can and sometimes they do.
 
Right now, I recall two quotes I read long ago that really moved me.

"Mike, the whole world is a circus if you look at it the right way. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand, every time you stop and think, "I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!" Every time such a thing happens, Mike, you are part of the Circus of Dr. Lao." The Circus of Dr. Lao

"I no longer gave a damn about three-car garages and swimming pools, nor any other status symbol or "security." There was no security in this world and only damn fools and mice thought there could be.
Somewhere back in the jungle I had shucked off all ambition of that sort. I had been shot at too many times and had lost interest...

I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, "The game's afoot!" I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in company with the Duke of Bilgewater and the Lost Dauphin.
I wanted Prester John, and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail with Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and eat the lotus in a land that seemed always afternoon. I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be — instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.
Maybe one chance is all you ever get." Glory Road - Robert A. Heinlein
 
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I have spent far too much of my life worrying about past events where I could have said/done something better. Such a pointless thing to do, the past can't be changed. Yet still I can't help it sometimes.
 
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