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

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"no drug causes the fundamental ills of society. if we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs - we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power." p.j. o'rourke
 
"The thinking that we are has brought us to where
we have already been. In order to go somewhere
else, we must think in a different way."
~Albert Einstein

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
~Confucius

“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; Hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.”
~Confucius

-dp
 
"If it's too good to be true, it is."

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

"A pig in a dress is still a pig."
 
"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities." ~Voltaire

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."' ~Confucius

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

-dp
 
"Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." Aldous Huxley
 
"fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice....uhm"

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."
 
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. ~Anon

Ha=Dain't it da truth? Still, not a bad way to live IMO (philosophical and without much money, that is. Now, no money, that's another story!)
 
^ the only thing' i bought myself last summer, was a make-shift, "marble" Mala - 10 bucks ;-) at a thrift-store, and it broke!
sounds cliche but what i learned from it though, i will always always have and that is now i never need another Mala...
 
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
Charles Kingsley
 
@Ascieplus^ I love that!


“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

George Eliot
 
^Damn that is breathtaking!... and also, hugely, makes sense. ;)<3



It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
 
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.
― Philip K. Dick

Love that one <3 although I'd change "man" to "person".. ;)
 
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