Quotation

Various quotations that have influenced or interested me

Parents

Associations
Influences

Children

"Act as if..."
"Consider the lilies"
"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"Leave something for the next guy."
“...if only for an instant...
“Achieve, but do not glory in the results. Achieve, but do not boast of the results. Achieve results, but not through violence. Force is followed by loss of strength.”
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
“An inch of gold cannot purchase an inch of time.”
“Be such a man, and live such a life, that if everyone did that we’d be living in heaven on God’s green earth”
“Better is a little with content than much with contention.”
“Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.”
“Do the next right thing”
“Don’t waste your hour: the sun sets too soon”
“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” - George Orwell
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
“Fishes see the worm, not the hook.”
“Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.”
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past”
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” - Melody Beattie
“Happy people never count hours as they pass.”
“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
“I believe that reality is a sublime comedy staged for my education and amusement, and that there is a benevolent conspiracy to liberate me from my ignorance and help transform me into the unique masterpiece I was meant to be.”
“I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one.”
“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.“
“I’d rather be in Nirvana.”
“If you desire many things, many things will seem few.”
“If you want your dinner don’t insult the cook.”
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.”
“It’s important to get the right size.”
“It’s not the problem that causes our suffering. It’s our thinking about the problem.”
“It’s your own lantern. Don’t poke holes in the paper.”
“Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”
“Just for today...
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enought to make them all yourself” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“Love your neighbor as yourself.”
“Measure twice. Cut once.”
“Men are disturbed not by events, but by the views they take of them.”
“Men fated to be happy need not haste.”
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
“Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.”
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
“Oh.. there’s a moment.. coming. There’s a moment coming, it’s.. it’s not here yet. It’s on the way.. It’s still in the future. Here.. here it is! [a beat] Oh.. it’s gone, man. There’s no present, man. Everything is the near future and the recent past. No wonder we can’t get anything together, we’ve got no time, huh?”
“One dog barks at a shadow...hundreds bark at his sound.”
“One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade”
“One man tells a lie. Dozens repeat it as the truth.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense.”
“Pick your inn before the dark...get on your road before the dawn.”
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
“Simple to open a shop...another thing to keep it open.”
“Soft tongue stays...hard teeth fall”
“Speak what you think today in hard words and what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”
“Take a second look...it costs you nothing.”
“Taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.”
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our iam is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” - Michelangelo
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some different that you have lived and lived well.”
“The rich count year to year...the poor count day to day.”
“The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor for today”
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
“Three early risings make an extra day”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“To go wrong an not to alter one’s course can definitely be defined as going wrong.”
“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
“Water floats a ship. Water sinks a ship.”
“We all come into this world bringing nothing. We all must leave at a chosen time taking nothing. Life was meant to share.”
“What makes it unbearable is your mistaken belief that it can be cured.”
“What you can plan is too small for you to live.”
“When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.”
“While it is still good weather, clean the drainpipes.”
“While some advance, the rest retire. While some inhale, the rest respire. While some are weak, the rest are strong. While some stand still, the rest move on.”
“With only a little sense you will walk on the main road. The only fear will be straying from it. But people seem to love being led astray.”
“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”
“Wrong desire is the greatest enemy of happiness”
“You are not leaving even as the light fades quickly now, you are arriving.”
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