Quotable Quotes 8

[David Baxter PhD]

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade." ~ Frederick Douglass

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls." ~Joseph Campbell

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." ~ Luciano de Crescenzo

 

[MHealthJo]

"The direction of our lives is more important than the speed at which we travel them."

- Harriet Lerner

 

[David Baxter PhD]

The Wisdom of Yoda

"If no mistake you have made, yet losing you are, a different game you should play." ~ Yoda

 

[MHealthJo]

Yoda is so full of wisdom!! I've also gotten a lot of value from this one:

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"Only a Sith deals in absolutes." - Obi-Wan Kenobi

Ignore that absolute thinking... it's got about as much truth and good in it as a Sith.

 

[Katieann]

What an awesome quote - and worthy of great discussion... I really should review the "Starwars" story line completely... I did use Darth Vader as a Plutonian archetype in an astrology article. No wonder the story has lasted...it's about timeless values...and it was my era - I remember watching Starwars as a first run movie.

Now that officially makes me a dinosaur...lol! But a very loving one...opcorn:

 

[gardens]

"We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are." -- Anaïs Nin

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." ~ Michael Jordan

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead." ~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley

 

[gooblax]

"You see a mousetrap; I see free cheese and a ****ing challenge." - Scroobius Pip (lyric from Introduction)

 

[making_art]

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
― Rumi

 

[forgetmenot]

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature ? trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence? We need silence to be able to touch souls." ~ Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa a very very intelligent women and compassionate beyond compare

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind." ~ Caroline Myss

 

[Katieann]

"urr: No matter what - Never mind..."

 

[making_art]

“Do you think I've gone round the bend?"
"I'm afraid so. You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

 

[GDPR]

"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind." ~ Caroline Myss

Do you think that's really true? I mean really true?

 

[David Baxter PhD]

It's especially true for certain types of anxiety disorders and mood disorders that are fueled by repetitive OCD-like ruminative negative thoughts.

 

[Mari]

"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received." ~ Albert Einstein

 

[GDPR]

The day that you decide that you are more interested in being aware of your thoughts than you are in the thoughts themselves- that is the day you will find your way out.- Michael Singer