Inspirational quotes or concepts....got any goodies?

[Czarina369cz]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Sure, having some experience helps evaluate, and perhaps better understand, what you read., But I don't think lack of experience precludes learning something from books, otherwise we wouldn't use them to teach.

I can live with that.

[spudcon]

Everything is a decision.-Spudcon

[footfootfoot]

The map is not the territory, however without a map it will take a long ass time to familiarize yourself with the territory.

[classicman]

The Master gives himself up
to whatever the moment brings.
He knows that he is going to die,
and he has nothing left to hold on to:
no illusions in his mind,
...no resistances in his body.
He doesn't think about his actions;
they flow from the core of his being.
He holds nothing back from life;
therefore he is ready for death,
as a man is ready for sleep
after a good day's work.
-Tao te Ching

[footfootfoot]

When the weather's hot and sticky
That's no time for dunkin' dicky.
But when the frost is on the pumpkin
That's the time for dicky dunkin'

[xoxoxoBruce]

Wow, that's deep.


I some cases.

[xoxoxoBruce]

There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don’t try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is- particularly the artist- particularly myself!

— Hermann Hesse

[skysidhe]

OPPORTUNITY is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison

[Lamplighter]

A comment from one viewer of this Monty Python skit:

You know what this scene taught me as a kid;
never give a permitable reason for violence or the violent will exploit that societal permission.
I would like to call this the "low fat pringles" scenario;
you feel guilty eating something fattening, but then you find a version of it with 1/3 the fat,
so you eat 5 times more of it some twisted indulgent logic.

Give people a permissible instance for antisocial behavior and there will be mobs of fools who just wanted a reason to do it

[skysidhe]

I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde

[footfootfoot]

Well, if we're going to trot out Wilde...

Lady Bracknell: To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

[fo0hzy]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Well, if we're going to trot out Wilde...

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

[classicman]

"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed,
lest Rome fall."
Marcus Tullius Cicero 55 B.C.

[ZenGum]

John Sattler, as captain of his rugby league team, 13 minutes into the grand final, having just received a punch that broke his jaw in two places:

Help me stand up so they don't know I'm hurt

He played the rest of the game, refused treatment at half time, threatened violence at any of his team mates who tried to cut him out of the play, led his team to victory ... and then made the after-match speech:

Whu, ue puae eeuh ooh, uh, uoo ree-ih oo ee o-ho-hi-hon, ehh aeve ih eeai ehhs ooht...

[casimendocina]

"Whatever you do, marry a woman, become a priest, you stay because it's a choice that you keep on making." (Milos Forman's character in Keeping the Faith).