Quotable Quotes 4

[Daniel E.]

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ~ Carl Jung

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. ~ Carl Jung

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves -- regret for the past and fear of the future. ~ Fulton Oursler

 

[Daniel E.]

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier, and simpler. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

 

[Daniel E.]

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan, Canadian educator and philosopher (1911-1980)

 

[David Baxter PhD]

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Jung

 

[Yuray]

“ I am weary of this prison I am in. From my prison window I see the goings on of the world. My prison has no bars, no fences, no guards. I must serve out this indefinite sentence until such time as I am paroled by conscience” - from an essay on Guilt, -Miller

 

[Daniel E.]

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. -Joyce Carol Oates, writer (b. 1938)

 

[Meg]

"It is important to keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out." :yup:

- Carl Sagan

 

[Daniel E.]

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. -Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)

 

[Daniel E.]

For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.

~ Arne Garborg, writer (1851-1924)

 

[Daniel E.]

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”

“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”

“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”

“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”

“The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.”

~ Jean de La Fontaine quotes (French Poet whose Fables are one of the masterpieces of French literature, 1621-1695)

 

[Daniel E.]

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there -- lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

~ Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

 

[Daniel E.]

"All of my life I wanted to be somebody. Now I finally am somebody--but it isn't me." ~ Ram Dass

 

[Daniel E.]

"Men have become the tools of their tools." ~ Walden, Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

more Thoreau quotes:

"Things do not change; we change."

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know."

 

[Daniel E.]

Some Zen-like quotes:

"I like reality. It tastes of bread." ~ Jean Anouilh

"Work begins when you don't like what you're doing." ~ Joseph Campbell

"Awe is what moves us forward." ~ Joseph Campbell

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." ~ Joseph Campbell

"The play's the thing." ~ Shakespeare

"The way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." ~ Oscar Wilde

"Awaken the mind without fixing it anywhere." ~ Kungo Kyo

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." ~ John Cage

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once." ~ Anonymous

"He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea." ~ Thomas Fuller

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." ~ Buckminster Fuller

"Dare to be naive." ~ Buckminster Fuller

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again." ~ F. P. Jones

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." ~ Anaïs Nin

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." ~ Chinese Proverb

"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." ~ Chinese Proverb

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." ~ Japanese Proverb

"To know and to act are one and the same." ~ Samurai Proverb

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." ~ Chinese Proverb

 

[Daniel E.]

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein

 

[Domo]

Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.

-Jane Rubietta

 

[Daniel E.]

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ~ Evelyn Waugh, novelist (1903-1966)

 

[Daniel E.]

"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds." ~ William James

"Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you a spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you." ~ Joseph Campbell

 

[Daniel E.]

“If you believe you can or if you believe you can't—you're right.” ~ Henry Ford

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it." ~ Albert Einstein