Inspirational quotes/sayings etc

[Deepest Blue]

Originally Posted by Suse2907

"One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try" - Sophocles.

"No one can give you wiser advice than yourself" - Cicero.

Nice posts, thank you for sharing x

[Gamgee]

'You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. ' - Mahatma Gandhi

[Gamgee]

'The highest result of education is tolerance.' -Helen Keller

[dlm026]

'The positive elements within you are you, and the negative elements within you are you also. It is necessary for the positive elements to acknowledge and cradle the negative elements, and if you do that, a transformation will take place.' - Thich Nhat Hanh

[Sadpup]

Live in the moment, abandon fear, step towards the unknown. You never know, it could be great, take a chance because you might grow.

[diplodocus]

Fear is the friend of exceptional people - Cus D'mato

[Gamgee]

'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.' -Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician (1730-1774)

[Gamgee]

'Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.' - Martin Luther

[Jables]

In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse is left to the judgement of others.

Carl Jung

[Gamgee]

'For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else' - Winston Churchill

[xpeacex]

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to***65279; believe.-Michael Jackson

[AxelFendersson]

"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."
-Horace

[Mr_Bean]

'Feel the pain, to make the gain' (me)

[Gamgee]

'These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.' - William James

[Jables]

'For so long as we lack what we desire, it seems to us to surpass everything in value; but when it is acquired, it at once appears like something different; and a similar longing always holds us fast, as we thirst and hanker after life'

Lucretius / Schopenhauer

[Dougie Jones]

I'm abit of a movie geek, a quote that sticks with me is from the ending of fight club.

"You met me at a very strange time in my life"

[José Raúl Capablanca]

"I'm fed up with following my dreams, I think I'll just ask where the're heading and catch up with them later."
Mitch Hedberg

[xpeacex]

The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
Atisha

[xpeacex]

Conquer the angry man by love.
Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness.
Conquer the miser with generosity.
Conquer the liar with truth.



Let your love flow outward through the universe,
To its height, its depth, its broad extent,
A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.
Then as you stand or walk,
Sit or lie down,
As long as you are awake,
Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;
Your life will bring heaven to earth.
Sutta Nipata

[Mr. Nobody]

hey xpeacex,...is that Buddhist text?

I love the Dhammapada and Diamond Sutra,..
some great stuff there xpeacex
thanks for sharing

[yuffie]

"Human misery must somewhere have a stop, there is no wind that always blows a storm."

Euripides(c422BC)

"One man with courage is a majority."

Andrew Jackson

[yuffie]

Oh and,

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything"

Edward John Phelps (1899)

[Sparkie]

"Melt that lard" haha

Guy off Fat Families on Sky One lol.

For a proper one.

"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."
Hecato, Greek philosopher

I posted it a while ago but I'm still trying to accomplish it so thought I'd post it again.

Sparks.

[Gamgee]

'Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.' -RD Laing, psychiatrist and author (1927-1989)

[helenjane]

"Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)

[Gamgee]

'Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.' -Albert Camus

[Gamgee]

'A man's library is a sort of harem.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson

[xTKsaucex]

"God has given you but one face and yet you make yourself another" Shakespeare

[freedom]

Osho Quotes

"Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about the path."

"We all cling to the past, and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present."

"You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous. You cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot enter into reality if you are not courageous. Hence courage comes first... and everything else follows."

"Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself."



Alan Watts Quotes:

"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."

"I owe my solitude to other people."

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."

[Stokiegirl]

"The past is history, the future is a mystery but the present is a gift." Don't know who its by but its stuck in my mind and helps me focus on now.