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Ultimate Truth is Infinite Possibility. This quote is one that has come to synthesize much of my view of the world - man's eternal quest for truth continuously reveals new and compelling explanations, projections, implications and interpretations for the world in which we live. I have been collecting this infinite wisdom for many years. Quotations have been gathered from writings, friends, and comments overheard around the world. This page contains a portion of the infinite possiblities of the written word (in random order). If you enjoy quotations, you will undoubtedly enjoy a visit to the Hall of Ideas at the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston (Look under Exhibits: Hall of Ideas). You may also enjoy the free screen saver available for download (Look under Fun Stuff: Streaming Ideas Screen Saver.) Throughout this site you will find quotations that are linked back to this page. Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb A problem worthy of attack, proves its worth by fighting back. - Piet Hein It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - Seneca You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science. - Lao Tzu The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. - Yasutani Roshi The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in our anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. - T.H. White, The Once and Future King, 1958 Before enlightenment, chop wood. After enlightenment, chop wood. - unknown The kind of person one is will determine what he thinks of others. - Nikilas Stethatos Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts. It cannot be forced on the smallest nation or enforced by the largest. It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together. - Oscar Arias Sanchez, Nobel acceptance speech, 1987 Life is the universe's gift to you, the way you live it is your gift to the universe. - ca The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you'll have. - Anna Quindlen The organs weep the tears the eyes refuse to shed. - unknown One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide The artist should be present everywhere and visible nowhere. - Flaubert (approximately) Why tell animals living in the water to drink? - West African Proverb In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble. - Yun-Men The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words? He is the one I would like to talk to. - Chuang-Tzu What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. - Eugene Delacroix You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. - Richard Bach, from The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. - Richard Bach, from The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon. - Franz Kafka Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm. - ca Be what you want, rather than get what you want. - ca Some people say there are no easy answers, I say they're not looking hard enough! - Bart Simpson As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied! This isn't greed, though it may be appetite. - Lawrence Calcagno Play by standard rules, and you get standard results. - ca Just because everyone's looking doesn't mean anything's happening. - Pat Emerton I would guess that enlightenment or nirvana is like being married to the world. - ca One should live one's life in a regular, orderly fashion - like a bourgeois - so that one may be violent and original in one's work. - Flaubert (approximately) There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them ... there is nothing. - Sartre Love is respect for, and joy in, the dynamic evolution of energy. - ca Life is short, but it is wide. - Ya-ya? Ultimate Truth is Infinite Possibility. - ca The greatest sin is to speak when there is nothing to say, and to remain silent when there is something to be said. - unknown You must learn fromt the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. - Sam Levenson Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should answer the question. - Lao Tzu Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) Some Guiness was split on the barroom floor when the pub was shut up for the night. Out of his hole crept a wee brown mouse and stood in the pale moon light. He lapped up the frothing brew from th' floor then back on his haunches he sat. And all night long you could hear him roar, "Bring on the goddamn cat!" - On the wall at the Brendan Behan pub Getting an answer involves listening, not talking. - ca The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. - Wilhelm Stekel A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi A man who was an active demonstrator for peace and justice was asked if he thought he could really change the world. "No. I live the way I live so that the world won't change me." Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. - Henry Ford When you feel like you're getting nowhere - stagnating, even slipping backwards - what you are actually doing is backing up to get a running start. - Fr. Tom Allender, Donald C. Fisher The painful things - seemed like the knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place. - Anita Diamont, The Red Tent Life is what we are doing to ourselves. - Fr. Tom Allender, Donald C. Fisher Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. - F. Scott Fitzgerald The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances. - Aristotle, Ethics We are here to share ourselves with people, to give ourselves as gifts. - Fr. Tom Allender, Donald C. Fisher You are your own friend and you are your own enemy. - Bhagavad Gita The best compliment to a child or friend is the feeling you give him that he has ben set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. - Alistair Cooke Nothing is left to you at this moment but to have a good laugh. - Zen Master Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein Very little of what could happen does. - Salvador Dali I'd rather regret something I did do, than something I didn't do. - ca It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end. - unknown If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. - David Viscott To become immortal is to first live a life worth living. - The Dragon We don't regard this as a failure. We just discovered another way that doesn't work. - Balloonists Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley Follow your heart. Investigating what interests you exercises your spirit. Learning is the greatest joy - the process of remembering everything that God knows. - ca Good things in life do not really happen. They are acknowledged. - ca There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us, to talk about the rest of us. - G.W. Cooke All that can accurately be said about a man who thinks he is a poached egg is that he is in the minority. - James Burke It don't mean a thing if it ain't go that swing. - Duke Ellington and Irving Mills Problems that go away by themselves, usually come back by themselves. - unknown The worst that can be said of a man is that he did not pay attention. - William Meredith Beauty is graceful power. - ca Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Reggie Leach Action is the antidote to despair. - Joan Baez What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstances. - Theodore Roethke The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects. - Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom The truth is much larger than I ever anticipated. - ca The life which is not examined is not worth living. - Plato We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. - attributed to both The Talmud and Anais Nin I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. - Saint Exupery Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it is just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. - Agnes de Mille If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing. - Zimbabwe Proverb I know what I came here to do. I came to live out loud. - Emile Zola? One day a mullah was out in the street on his hands and knees looking for something and a friend came up and said, "Mullah, what are you looking for?" and the mullah said, "I lost my key." "Oh Mullah, that is terrible, I'll help you find it." So he got down on his hands and knees, then said, "Mullah, about where did you lose it?" The mullah said, "I lost it in my house." "Then what are you looking for it out here for?" "He said, "Because there's more light here." - Sufi parable Don't take seriously anything after 10 o'clock at night. - Dotty, Laguna Beach, 1988 Life doesn't really get good until you're willing to do the hard stuff. - ca The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies. - Lao Tzu VIDIPATI - VIgilence, DIscipline, PAtience, TIme - ca Wherever you go, there you are. - Jon Kabat-Zinn Yeah, life's cold and the elements are harsh, but there's got to be a way. If Edmund Hillary can climb Everest in a tweed jacket, it can be done. - ca When there is a way or a path, it is someone else's way. - Joseph Campbell What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? - Berlolt Brecht Who would fault a general for changing strategies in the middle of a battle if it was under the guidance of wisdom? - CSPS Travel light. Live fast. Work alone. - Harry Tuttle, Brazil Good people keep walkikng whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad. - Buddha You never really know what your dreams are until they come true. - ca If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with facts. - Anne of Green Gables Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond. - Sri Rama Krishna "How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?" - the man who rules the universe, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) A good friend gives you the confidence to mix and match your plaids. - Lucas Freidlaender The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy. - Leo Buscaglia Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday. - unknown And what would happen if the world stopped spinning? - ca Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. - Mark Twain Do the deer know to cross there? - David Stevens Go confidently in the directions of your dreams! Life the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. - Henry David Thoreau When the student is ready, the Master appears. -Buddhist Proverb The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Plato If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water. - Bulgarian Proverb Throughout your life you are constantly meeting yourself. You meet people you are. You meet people that you might have been. And you meet people that you could be. - Louis LoPreste (quoting?) If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail. - Maslow Teach yourself by your own mistakes. - William Faulkner A flute with no holes is not a flute. - Basho (and a doughnut with no holes is a danish. - Ty Webb, Caddyshack) Let the beauty we love be what we do. - Jalal Uddin Rumi We see what it is time to see. - ca We speak to all the children - every thing that liveth and moveth upon the earth. - Bob Marley Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) Love always wins. - Dwight Maxwell Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. - Edgar Degas If you insist on living in the past, remember that each moment is now the past. - ca You're confusing what is important with what is impressive - Anne of Green Gables Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost Ain't nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream. - Dwight Maxwell Namaste: I honor the place in you where the whole universe resides. - Indian greeting/farewell If you define the terms of your argument, the argument will solve itself. - Jody Erikson You get what you settle for. - Louise In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. - the Tao Te Ching Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Conflict, pain and tensions are all transformations trying to happen. - unknown What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. - Albert Camus Questioning is good, it's doubting that gets you into trouble. - ca The things we don't think of don't exist. - ca Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost. - Robert F. Kennedy Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you. - Henry David Thoreau (as paraphrased by Bruce Cowdrey) If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. - Marcus Aurelius There is no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favourable to art. Art must crash through or perish. - Sylvia Ashton-Warner Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. - unknown To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. - A Fish Called Wanda The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way. - unknown Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world - even if what is published is not true. - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) God made man in his image, and man returned the compliment. - unknown If I had my life to live over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I wouldn't try to be so perfect. I'd have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones. - dying man In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore. - Sandor McNabb It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint Exupery It's not the voting that's democratic, it's the counting. - Tom Stoppard A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessing, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illness. - Hippocrates Don't compare other people's outsides with your insides. - Dotty, Laguna Beach, 1988 Every moment of your life is an event. - Tony Caruto Acting is not playing a role of someone we are not, but quite exactly the opposite - to express and explore who we are. - ca Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. - Jelal Uddin Rumi It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. - Somerset Maugham The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. - William James We think we are creating things, but we are actually rearranging. - ca It rains all over the world, sometime it's going to rain on you. - Big Head Todd and the Monsters Release that which is going out. Embrace that which is coming in. Leave alone that which has not yet come. - unknown Artistic intuition is the basis for confidence of th spirit. - Hans Hofmann The universe will reward you for taking risks on it's behalf. - Shakti Gawain A host is like a general: it takes a mishap to reveal his genius. - Horace I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau I am owner of the sphere * Of the seven stars * And the solar year * Of Caesar's hand * And Plato's brain * Of Lord Christ's heart * And Shakespeare's strain. - Ralph Waldo Emerson People wonder if there is life after death. Maybe this is life after death. - ca Empiricists are scientists who study linear reality. Witches are scientists who study cyclical reality. - Mote There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. - Soren Kirkegaard Life is what happens when you are making other plans. - unknown The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. - Nadia Boulanger The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction however and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. - Seng-T'San The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice they're different. - unknown I'm an American, show me line and I'll get in it. - David Stevens Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well. - Claudia Black You only get angry when you feel that other people's actions are important. - don Juan Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates. - Stella Terrill Mann "Come to the edge," he said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," he said. They came. He pushed them... And they flew. - Guillame Apollinaire Life is not about accomplishment but about experience. - ca We shall not cease from exploration * And the end of all our exploring * Will be to arrive where we started * And to know the place for the first time. - T.S. Eliot Always advance. Never dig in. - General Patton The answer is 42. - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Things you are proud of you'll more than likely lose. Things you are grateful for, you'll keep. - Leo Simone, Laguna Beach, 1988 I don't think it's about going out there and finding things that apply to you. I think it's about finding things you can apply yourself to. - David Stevens Contentment is allowing your entire being to flow with the rhythms and harmonies of the universe. - ca Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before. - Mae West To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce The line that I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls. - Friedensreich Hundertwasser You're never safe from surprise til you're dead. - Anne of Green Gables In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr. To achieve results never before accomplished, we must employ methods never before attempted. - Sir Francis Bacon If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion. - Stendhal Lord, please let me be the kind of person my dog thinks I am. - unknown "But the Emperor has nothing on at all!" cried a little child. Friends, when once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. - Prince Rilian, Narnia Chronicles There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore. - Mark Twain Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. - Agnes de Mille In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. - Basho Adventure: From the Latin "adventura" meaning "what must happen" You teach best what you most need to learn. - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) The best way to avoid responsibilities is to say, "I've got responsibilities." - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. - don Juan The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl G. Jung The test of an adventure is that when you are in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." And the sign that something is wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure. - Thornton Wilder If you play a mistake with enough conviction it becomes and idea. - Crowded House You are a class unto yourselves. You are the most foolish and the most noble of your class. - Pat Emerton You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. - Anne-Wilson Schaef Find yourself: Play Hide-and-go-Seek alone. - Bazooka Joe The map is not the territory. - Alfred Korzybski The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. - Richard Bach, The Messiah's Handbook (Illusions) What am I pretending not to know? - ca What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it. - Humphrey Bogart, Sabrina Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. - Jalal Uddin Rumi Those not busy being born are busy dying. - Bob Dylan |
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