A collection of quotes I like:
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You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think that the beauty of love is that the more you love, and allow yourself to love, the more you are capable of loving.
Allowing yourself to love opens up a well of love in your heart and soul.
The more you stop yourself, (with the idea that you are protecting yourself from hurt), the more you actually hurt yourself as you have less love to give others which, in turn, makes you unhappy and unfulfilled.
The irony is, the more you try to protect yourself, the more you alienate yourself.
Just a thought. (FB status update by Anna de Buisseret in Oct 2011)
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Someone asked the Dalai Lama what surprises him most. This was his response. “Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; He lives as if he’s never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived”
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From Silk (the book)
“The rest of his time he spent in a liturgy of habits that protected him from unhappiness.”
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“Dance as though no one is watching
Love as though you’ve never been hurt
Sing as though no one can hear you
Live as though heaven is on earth.” – Souza
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If your past is in quarrel with hour present …… the cost will be your future.
Winston Churchill
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Believe in equality of opportunity because equality itself does not exist.
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Say what you mean
Mean what you say
Try and do what you say
Don’t attack individuals personally
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While one person hesitates because they feel inferor the other is busy making mistakes and becomes superior
(or While one person hesitates the other is busy making mistakes and moving forward.)
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Blame is for god & small children
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Schools teach you that mistakes are bad.
But if you want to learn beyond the available information, innovate & change experimentation, which means “mistakes” should be encouraged.
The worst mistakes are those of omission, of not trying, not of a decision that turns out to be wrong.
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Whatever you are, you are. Be proud of it.
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Learn to enjoy what you put in, not what you take out, of life.
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If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got.
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To help reduce climate change, the light @ the end of the tunnel is now off.
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The future will be amazing, but it is scientifically unpredictible.
- some stuff will be predictable.
- some stuff won’t be, and we can’t predict what will fall into which of those 2 categories.
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Tomorrow was created yesterday
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What we were meant to do, we have done.
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I’ve got too much energy to switch off my mind
But not enough to get myself organized
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What happens matters to those it happens to
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Dream not of today
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If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.
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Plato once said: “The wise man speaks because he has something to say, the fool because he has to say something.”
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“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” — Samuel Johnson
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Act NOW.
No one can do everything.
Everyone can do something.
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Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
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Make the world a better place, for others and so yourself.
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It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy what we have, that makes happiness.
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Wealth dies.
Friends die.
One day you too will die.
But the thing that never dies
is the judgement of how you spent your life.
- Havamal, The Way of the Norseman
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SNORRI STURLUSON; The Deluding of Gylf; (from the Icelandic)
Two Ravens sit on Odins sholders and bring to his ears
all the news they see and hear. Their names are Thought and Memory.
Odin sends them out with each dawn to fly over the world
in order that he may learn everything that happens.
Always he fears that the raven named Thought may not return, but every day his deepest concern is for Memory.
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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Have love,
not I love you because I need you
but I need you because I love you
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Love is not finding someone to live with
It’s finding someone you can’t live without
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We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing’
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In life there are 2 things of priceless value – learning and loving. Nothing else – not fame, not power, not achievement for it’s own sake – can have the same value.
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Small minds talk about people
Average minds talk about events
Great minds talk about ideas.
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Lead, follow or get out of the way.
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Stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything.
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You are already dead,
so the rest of your life is a bonus
(Zen Buddhist Teacher to Students)
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After bad times don’t look backwards, for what a caterpillar sees as the end, others call a butterfly.
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there is always a solution to a problem; it is just whether the solution is acceptable
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honeymoon phase > teaching phase > acceptance phase
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If you think knowledge is expensive, try ignorance.
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Eden Project put up a wall for comments on ‘SPECIAL PLACES, what or where are your special places’ to which one was ‘in my husbands arms’