Author Topic: Life Quotes~ (Read 67417 times)

Alpha · « **on:** July 26, 2011, 03:39:33 pm »

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.” Chinese Proverb

“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Gandhi

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.” Charlie Chaplin

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” Baba Ram Dass

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” Aesop

"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” Robert M. Pirsig

“The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.” Dogen

“Whether talking or remaining silent, Whether moving or standing quiet, The Essence itself is ever at ease.” Daishi

“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.” Doug Larson

“This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.” Captain J. A. Hadfield

“Ten thousand flowers in spring
the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.” Wu-men

“Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.” Huanchu Daoren

“Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.” Douglas Pagels

“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S. Eliot

Alpha · « **Reply #1 on:** July 26, 2011, 03:40:17 pm »

“Every search begins with beginners luck and ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”

“The Boy didn’t know what a person’s ‘destiny’ was…
It’s what you have always wanted to accomplish.
Everyone, when they are young knows what their destiny is.”

“Treasure is uncovered by the force of the flowing water,
and it is buried by the same currents”

“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize
the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”

“Don’t forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.
And don’t forget the language of omens.
And, above all, don’t forget to follow your destiny through to its conclusion.”

“When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current
that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. “

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World. “

“When we strive to become better than we are,
everything around us becomes better too.”

“I don’t live in either my past or my future.
I’m interested only in the present.
If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man.
Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment
we’re living now.”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams,
because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God
and with eternity.”

~The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Alpha · « **Reply #2 on:** July 26, 2011, 03:40:45 pm »

“That which you resist stays.” David R. Hawkins

“Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.” Lester Levenson

“The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.” Mother Teresa

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” Khalil Gibran

“And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to the span of life?” Jesus

“To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.” Osho

“Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.”
Anthony de Mello

“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”
Deepak Chopra

“If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of,
how could you have anxiety or fear.” Confucius

“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” Jesus

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart
give yourself to it.” The Buddha

“…where we entirely miss the obvious-that is,
that we are all trying to decipher life’s big mysteries,
and we’re each following our own paths of enlightenment.” Dan Brown

“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open
where you didn’t know they were going to be.” Joseph Campbell

“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive –
the risk to be alive and express what we really are.” Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone,
ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery,
unique and not to be judged.” Rumi

“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.” Buddha

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
Buddha

“Through awareness, you get a certain attitude.
That’s the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion,
more friendship through that way.” 14th Dalai Lama

“If we knock on the door until it opens,
not taking no for an answer,
our lives will be transformed as we step up into a higher awareness.” James Redfield

“No one in the world was ever you before,
with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
It’s a shame to waste those by doing what someone else has done.”
Joseph Campbell

“We will discover the nature of our particular genius when
we stop trying to conform to our own or other people’s models,
learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.”
Shakti Gawain

“The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.
When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough,
when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.”
Marianne Williamson

“Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.” Zig Ziglar

The Golden Girl =D · « **Reply #3 on:** July 27, 2011, 02:35:53 pm »

I've only got pictures for now

My fav <3

Will add more later inshAllah =]

Alpha · « **Reply #4 on:** July 27, 2011, 02:38:12 pm »

Wonderful!

Thanks for posting.

And "a picture can speak a thousand words."

The Golden Girl =D · « **Reply #5 on:** July 27, 2011, 02:41:10 pm »

You're Welcome

True =]

Banana · « **Reply #6 on:** July 27, 2011, 04:15:04 pm »

That's nice...so all the moral quotes go here?

Here's one for old time's sake

"When you feel like cryin' and weepin'
When words can't describe that awful feelin'

Remember that banana dancin'
And Keep on Smilin'!!

"

MujtabaM

Amelia · « **Reply #7 on:** July 27, 2011, 09:22:48 pm »

My favorite topic

Here are a few for those "harsh" times of life.

"Pain is your friend; it is your ally. Pain reminds you to finish the job and get the hell home. Pain tells you when you have been seriously wounded. And you know what the best thing about pain is? It tells you you're not dead yet!"

”If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim” -Jackson Brown, Jr.

”Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?" --Mary Manin Morrissey

“In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing" Dave Pelzer - A Man Called Dave

"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey” --Miyazawa Kenji