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

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Yesterday is history tomorrow a mystery, but today is a gift...that is why it's called present. (Master Oogway:))

"The meaning of life? That's simple. Try to be happy, try not to hurt other people, and hope to fall in love." -- Mallory Keaton

"Earth is a Beginning, Death is a Destination, and Life is a Journey. "
 
Not precisely a quote but saw Plato quotes so his best friend (..) surely deserves one.

Diogenes was knee deep in a stream washing vegetables. Coming up to him, Plato said, "My good Diogenes, if you knew how to pay court to kings, you wouldn't have to wash vegetables."

"And," replied Diogenes, "If you knew how to wash vegetables, you wouldn't have to pay court to kings."

Diogenes of Sinope, my favorite philosopher.
 
when i was a kid a century or so ago i barely remember the power ever going out and that was w/ snow, ice storms, nor'easters. here in the swamp a squirrel farts and the grid collapses.
-izzy

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still
- Lao Tzu
 
"Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness." ~Robert Creeley
 
'The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted the spoons' - ?

'Whether I stood before men, children or gods, I have not given myself heirs. Harder still, I have not mocked those that did'
- Egyptian Book of the Dead (xlated by Normandi Ellis)
 
"We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of… It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind." ---Edward Bernays


Not exactly inspiration or witty, but sums up modern America pretty well I think.
 
"We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of… It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind." ---Edward Bernays


Not exactly inspiration or witty, but sums up modern America pretty well I think.




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Great quote & yes, it definitely sums up America & how we are brainwashed into being robotic.
 
I take one one one cause you left me and
two two two for my family and
3 3 3 for my heartache and
4 4 4 for my headaches and
5 5 5 for my lonely and
6 6 6 for my sorrow and
7 7 for no tomorrow and
8 8 I forget what 8 was for and
9 9 9 for a lost god and
10 10 10 10 for everything
everything everything everything

Gordon Gano
"Kiss Off"
 
"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
-Hunter S. Thompson
 
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