Post your favorite quotes here!

Thread: where is my thread : "I think I'm Jesus" ?

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
Lenin (1870 - 1924), "State and Revolution", 1919

Elaine Dickinson:
Would you like something to read?
Woman:
Do you have anything light?
Elaine Dickinson:
Umm, how 'bout this leaflet: "Famous Jewish Sports Legends"?

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
-H. L. Mencken

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
H. L. Mencken


Mencken was a quote machine

[link to www.quotationspage.com]

"...And don't call me Shirley"

I wouldn't even know where to begin ... I have been collecting favorite "words of wisdom" for several years. I have about ten pages of them now.

.

By all means... After all, its not like there's a surplus of wisdom.

. .
By all means what? Are you asking me to post some of them?
. .

YOU get a cookie!!

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will no peace - one of my favorites by Jimmy Hendrix


I graduated high school.
I have a job.
I don't have un protected sex
I have never stolen from someone
I have never been arested for a violent or disgusting crime.
I have never sold drugs
AND I smoke marijuana - Hunter S. Thompson

You can stay single and be miserable or get married and wish you were dead.

"Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity."

The late great George Carlin

Here's page 1:


“A child needs to be disciplined until he learns self-discipline.
After he learns self-discipline, he is no longer a child.” ~ AQ7

* * *
“A friend is one who knows all about you and loves you just the same.” ~ Hubbard

* * *
“A lack of understanding does not render a thing invalid.” ~ Albert Einstein

* * *
“All your circumstances are in the hand of God, so never think it strange concerning the circumstances you are in.”
~ Oswald Chambers

* * *
“A mistake is evidence that someone has tried to do something.”

* * *
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." ~ Winston Churchill

* * *
“A room without books is as a body without a soul.” ~ Cicero

* * *
“A word is worth one coin; Silence is worth two.” ~ The Talmud

* * *
“All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke

* * *
“An idea is something that won’t work unless you do.” ~ Thomas Edison

* * *
“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to THE LORD, and not unto man.” ~ Colossians 3:23

* * *
“As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.” ~ Toyohiko Kagawa

* * *
“Be good, sweet Maid, and let who will be clever.” ~ Charles Kingsley

* * *
“Be not simply good; Be good for something.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

* * *
"Be the change you want to see in the world." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

* * *
“Caution comes from God; Haste comes from the devil.” ~ Arab Proverb

* * *
“Challenge doesn’t build character. It reveals it.”

* * *

Oh, and I love "English motherfucker! DO YOU SPEAK IT", Pulp Fiction

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" [link to www.youtube.com] name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" [link to www.youtube.com] type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Page 2:

“Cherish your beloved as a gift from God, lest you lose both beloved and Beloved.” ~ AQ7

* * *
“Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.” ~ H. W. Shaw

* * *
“During the past thirty years, people from all civilized countries on the earth have consulted me. Among all my patients in the second half of life – that is to say over thirty-five years of age – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.” ~ C. G. Jung

* * *
“Eat before you get hungry; Rest before you get tired.” ~ Indian Proverb

* * *
“Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

* * *
“Every author should weigh his work and ask, ‘Will humanity gain any benefit from this?’ ” ~ Nachman

* * *
“Everything in life worth having requires work.”

* * *
“Evil is that which serves the self, with no regard for others, either individually or collectively.” ~ AQ7

** *
Friendship begets friendship.

* * *
“From this day on, I will do only that in which I believe.” ~ Jess Lair

* * *
“Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

* * *
“Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt.

* * *
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” ~ Albert Einstein
* * *

“He who does a thing in secret, of which he would be ashamed if done openly, has no respect for himself.” ~ Arab Proverb

Page 3:

* * *
“He who is conscious of danger creates peace for himself;
He who takes things lightly creates his own downfall.” ~ I Ching / The Book of Changes

* * *
“He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars;
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.” ~ William Blake

* * *
“He whom we love and lose, is no longer where he was before;
He is now wherever we are.” ~ St. John Chrysostom

* * *
“I am too blessed to be stressed, and too anointed to be disappointed.”

* * *
“I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

* * *
“I do not want merely to possess a faith; I want a faith that possesses me.” ~ Charles Kingsley

* * *
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one think I know:
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

* * *
“I have discovered that all of man’s unhappiness derives from only one source – not being able to sit quietly in a room.”
~Blaise Pacal

* * *
“I learn by going where I have to go.” ~ Theodore Roethke

* * *
“If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?” ~ Confucius

* * *
“If it is not necessary to do a thing, It is necessary not to do it." ~ Ninja adage

* * *
“If there is righteousness in the heart,
there will be beauty in the character.
If there be beauty in the character,
there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home,
there will be order in the nation.
When there is order in the nation,
there will be peace in the world.” ~ Old proverb

* * *
“If a person chooses not to respect my rights, then I may choose not to associate with that person.” ~ AQ7

* * *
“If there is no God, we have nothing to lose by praying;
And if there is one, we have much to lose if we don’t.” ~ Blaise Pascal (paraphrased)

* * *

Page 4:

“If you keep My commandments you will remain in My love,
just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in His love.” ~ Jesus (John 15:10)

* * *
“If you always seek a better way to do things, your god is goodness.
If you always seek a cheaper way to do things, your god is money.” ~ AQ7

* * *
If you have high expectations of people, they will generally rise to the challenge. If you don’t expect them to amount to anything, they probably won’t.”

* * *
“If you want to attract hummingbirds, fill your garden with beautiful flowers;
If you want to attract angels, fill your mind with beautiful thoughts.” ~ AQ7

* * *
“If you would make a person happy, do not add to his possessions, but subtract from the sum of his desires.” ~ Seneca

* * *
“In the hour of adversity be not without hope, for crystal rain falls from black clouds.” ~ Nizami

* * *
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” ~ Agnes Rapplier

* * *
“It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.” ~ Leo Rosten

* * *
“In knowledge lay not only power but freedom from fear; for generally speaking, one only fears what one does not understand.”
~ Kerbouchard

* * *
“Let Food be your Medicine, and your Medicine be your Food." ~ Hippocrates

* * *
“Let nothing be preferred to the work of God.” ~ Rule of St. Benedict #43:3

* * *
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.” ~ Plato

* * *
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy Sight, O YAHWEH, my Strength and my Redeemer.” ~ Psalms 19:14

* * *
"Let your counselor be one who fears God." ~ Arab Proverb

* * *
“Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that challenges and setbacks which we endure help us in our marching onward.“ ~ Henry Ford
* *

Page 5:

* * *
" Life is not a journey to the grave, with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved piece.
Rather, skid broadside, thoroughly used, worn out and shouting Geronimo."

* * *
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ~ John Lennon

* * *
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
~ St. Francis of Assisi

* * *

“Love can be defined as the willingness to extend oneself to nurture one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.”
~ Dr. M. Scott Peck

* * *
“Make thy home as a reflection of thy heavenly home.” ~ From the readings of Edgar Cayce

* * *
“Mental illness: To do the same thing twice and expect a different result.” ~ Kristin Billerbeck
* * *

“Money is a crop, as sure as wheat or corn or barley. Those who can plant it and make it grow are farmers – money farmers.”
~ J. Spaith

* * *
“Never complain; Never explain.” ~ Henry Ford

* * *
“Never put yourself down. There are always others who will do that for you.”

* * *
"'No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'" ~ Edmund Burke
* * *

“No one is ever a failure until he blames someone else for his own mistakes.”

* * *
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

* * *
“Oh Great Spirit, Grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until have walked a mile in his moccasins.” ~ Indian Proverb

* * *

Page 6:

“On Decisions and Making Choices...
The first question to ask myself:
"How will this spiritually affect myself and all those involved?"
or
"How will this affect the spiritual growth of all those who will be affected by this decision or choice?"
Absolutely everything we do is a decision or choice.
Even not making a decision is a decision.”
~ Depok Chopra

* * *
“On moving … The disassembling of one’s life, and reconstructing it in another place.” ~ AQ7

* * *
“Only by the fear of God do men depart from evil.” ~ Proverbs 16:6

* * *
“Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness, and holding one another up with a tender hand.” ~ Isaac Pennington

* * *
“People
who try to help people
who won’t try to help themselves
are stupid.”
~ AQ7

* * *
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.“ ~ Colin Powell

* * *
“Practice what you know, and God will increase you in wisdom.” ~ Old Proverb

* * *
“Prayer is the highest use to which speech can be put.”

* * *
“Protect us, YHVH, as we stay awake, watch over us as we sleep;
That awake we may keep watch with Yahshua, and asleep, rest in His peace.” ~ An Ancient Prayer

* * *
“Reflect on yesterday and learn;
Work on today and accomplish;
Plan for tomorrow and have faith.” ~ AQ7

* * *
“Reminder: It is ‘respect energy’ that not only energizes, but feels extremely good as well.”

* * *
“Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.” ~ André Gide
* * *

“Selfless love should not be cast before the swine of unregenerate selfishness.”
~ Gina Cerminara
(This is a reference to the Scriptural passage: “Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces.” ~ Matthew 7:6)

* * *
“So long as we love, we serve. So long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable. And no person is useless while he has a friend.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

A MAN IS FOOLISH TO DENY THAT WHICH HE CANT CONCEIVE, SIMPLY BECAUSE HE CANT CONCEIVE IT

and if anyone could tell me where its from i would appreciate it

Page 7:


* * *
“Some people come into our lives, make footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.”

* * *
“Success is hearing and following the Word of God.” ~ Damon Thompson

* * *
“Successful people know when to delegate responsibility.”

* * *
“That which does not destroy me makes me stronger.” ~ Ninja Proverb

* * *
“The ability to accept responsibility is always the measure of a man.” ~ Roy Smith (Writer)

* * *
“The absence of inner conflict is one of life’s richest blessings. And it comes only from the Hand of God.” ~ Timothy Marcus

* * *
“The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom.” ~ Solomon (Proverbs 1:7)

* * *
“The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him." ~ Lamentations of Jeremiah 3:25

* * *
“Yahweh will rescue me from every evil threat, and will bring me safe to His Heavenly Kingdom. To Him be glory and praise forever and ever. Amen.” ~ 2nd Timothy 4:18

* * *
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heaven.” ~ John Milton 1608 - 1674

* * *
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797

* * *
“The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
~ Sir Winston Churchill

* * *
“The steel for the finest swords is thrust into the fire ten thousand times.” ~ Old adage

* * *
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
~ Albert Einstein

* * *
“The sum of Excellence is the perfection of detail.”

* * *
“The right plan is the one that aims at the right ultimate end.” ~ Aristotle

.

I never understood how someone could get so called writers block, my problem was always having too much to write, and not being able to get it on the paper - cant remember

Guns in the schools isn't arite with me, you've got to be the peace you'd like to see - krs one


Dedicated to loneliness, all timingins inappropriate, hip hop went from selling crack to smokein it - mos def



America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson


I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
Hunter S. Thompson



I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson


If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson


There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. Thompson

Page 8:

* * *
“The response to tyranny is non-aggressive, non-violent, non-cooperation.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

* * *
“The words you say shape the course of your life.” ~ Dr. Creflo Dollar

* * *
“The world belongs to the energetic.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

* * *
“There is a destiny that makes us brothers; none goes his way alone.
All that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own.” ~ Edwin Markham

* * *
“This above all: To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” ~ William Shakespeare

* * *
“Thou shalt love YHVH, thy Elohim, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. This is the first and greatest Commandment.” ~ Luke 10:27

* * *
Tragedy and trial build character and make us stronger people.

* * *
“We have to have God’s help to make a marriage work.”

* * *
“We like people in proportion to the good we do them, and not in proportion to the good they do us.” ~ Laurence Sterne

* * *
“What cannot be changed must be endured.”

* * *
“We are responsible for what we do that affects others.”

* * *
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” ~ William Blake

* * *
“What is Love? What makes Love live? What makes Love die?
Love is God. Loves lives in God. Love dies without God.” ~ AQ7

* * *
“What you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

* * *
“When rules are reasonable, reasonable people follow them.
When rules become unreasonable, reasonable people ignore them.” ~ AQ7

* * *
“Where thought goes, energy flows.” ~ A Universal Law

* * *

Page 9:

“Whoso draws nigh to God one step through doubtings dim,
God will advance a mile in blazing light to Him.” ~ author unknown

* * *
“You are who your friends are. So if you want to know who you really are, take a good hard look at your friends.”

* * *
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

* * *

“You either carry your cross, or you get crushed under the weight of it.”
~ James Caviezel (Actor who portrayed Christ in “The Passion of the Christ”)

* * *

Millions long for immortality who don't know
what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

==========

For what do we live, but to make
sport for our neighbours,
and laugh at them in our turn?''

spoken by Mr. Bennet in
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

==========

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.

"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville

==========

Resentment is like taking poison and
waiting for the other person to die.

~Malachy McCourt

Page 10:

DESIDERATA
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
~ written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s

"I can fly this thing, no problem" JFK Jr.

"A few more pills won't hurt anyone" Dana Plato

"There is no Government money. I have to take it from people's pockets. So there is a duty to be a good manager of it."
- Margaret Thatcher