Short Phrases Of Wisdom?

[kayar]

Hi y'all!

Hey guys had an idea about a new thread, I'm not aware of it's already having been done recently. Apologies if it has!

I was exchanging messages with a friend on EC yesyterday, and we somehow (sad I know!) got into exchanging the type of phrases (pearls of wisdom, thoughts for the day, etc.) that some people seem to be able to quote endlessly. Conversation came round to a calendar I have with one of these phrases on each page. Explain: I belong to a Raja Yoga meditation group, and we have an everlasting calendar where you turn a page every day to reveal the date and today's message of 'Wisdom For The Day'.

Well guys, when I looked at today's message I immediately thought that it explains perfectly some of the ways we support and help each other here in EC.

It reads: (Thursday Feb 19)

"When I inspire enthusiasm and confidence in those around me, my own self-esteem flourishes."

(1) What do you think, eh?

(2) Do you ever feel inspired or touched by any phrases or sayings?

(3) Which one's have had the most impact on you?

I thought what I'd try for a few days, I'll post each days 'Wisdom For The Day' from my calendar and if you like any, or hate them all, or whatever; please feed back and let me know.

If you want me to carry on with them, I don't mind but please tell me and I will gladly do so.

Take good care and lots of love, Kayar.

[lostinthought9]

I think that's a great idea, everybody could use some inspiration from time to time.

[theworld]

"Don't leave that for tomorrow which can be done today." After all, 'today is tomorrow.'

cheesy, I know...but I still like it.

[Mickey]

I know I have written this many times,please bear with me!
My favorite quote is:
Those who are different,change the world.
Those who are the same,keep it that way.

[kayar]

Hi Mickey!

I don't care how many times you have written it at all, it's a GEM!

And if it can become reality, what a world we'd then have!!!!

Kayar. X

[tm74]

How about the one in my signature? I like it enough to have it there, and it kinda fits on this site!

[Lexington]

"It has taken me all of my forty-two years to make sense of life, and now you wish me to explain it to you in five minutes?" - Master Splinter

Sort of runs counter to the entire theme, but thought it was pithy enough to include.

Lex

[theworld]

and now I've learned what pithy means. thanks Lex.

[kayar]

Hey thanks Lex, I laughed at that one, truly.

Kayar. X

[Mickey]

Originally Posted by kayar

Hi Mickey!

I don't care how many times you have written it at all, it's a GEM!

And if it can become reality, what a world we'd then have!!!!

Kayar. X

Wow,thanks! I agree,becoming reality would be great!

[Shevanel]

Shit Happens XD

[Mickey]

I like all the others,too. This is a good thread.

[Maddy]

I used to have this as my signature, and it's probably everywhere, but I'm still a fan of the Dr Seuss quote "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

[pirateninja]

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~Buddha

Even though I ain't a full on Buddhist, I have to say, the Buddha provides some real words of wisdom to live by.

Always tie your shoes.

Very sound advice, in my opinion.

[OneHatMadder]

My father was in his cups one day and he turns to me and says:

"Different people are different, mate."

My daddy is so deep

[starfish]

My dad said this to me once.

Everyone has an excuse for not finishing college, some of them are even good. However if you finish you don't have to make excuses.

He was right I finished and I don't have to make excesses.

[Lexington]

But I LIKE making excesses.

"Illegitimi non carbonum." (Don't let the bastards grind you down.)

"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige

Producer (to drummer): Boom, whap, boom, whap.
Drummer: That's boring. Anyone can do it.
Producer: Prove to me you're anyone. Boom, whap, boom, whap.

"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto." (I am human; nothing human is alien to me.) - Terentius

"Don't complain about how much free stuff you're getting." - my father

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." - probably Dear Abby

"We don't stop dreaming because we grow older. We grow older because we stop dreaming." - probably a Hallmark card

"Never turn down a chance to piss." - either Douglas MacArthur or Isaac Asimov

"The lesson is there, if you care to learn it." - Master Splinter

Lex

[biisme]

I apologize for the number of quotes....but long ago I made a list of quotes I love, and these are some of them from that list. But, since they were already typed up, it was so easy to transfer them and I may have been a little carries away....


"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
James A. Baldwin

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion."
Javan

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."
H. L. Mencken

"Get mad, then get over it."
Colin Powell

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
Ambrose Bierce

"Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them."
James Fallows

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

"Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." "
Bill Maher

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."
Robert Brault

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely."
Pam Brown

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
Buddha

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
Arnold H. Glasow

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
Elbert Hubbard

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"
Eugene Kennedy

"Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn."
Irvin S. Cobb

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
Mohandas Gandhi

"When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence."
Thomas W. Higginson

"Humor is reason gone mad."
Groucho Marx

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
Georg C. Lichtenberg

"Common sense is not so common."
Voltaire

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa

"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
Isaac Asimov

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."
Lenny Bruce

"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" "
Annie Dillard

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
Anne Lamott

"The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs."
Bill Maher


"Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time."
Dennis Miller

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
Jonathan Swift

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."
Desmond Tutu

"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
Paul Valery

[mcrteenagers]

Forbidden fruits make many jams.