Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-- Lao Tsu
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-- Lao Tsu
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
-- Lao Tsu
The farther you go, the less you know.
-- Lao Tsu, "Tao Te Ching"
The major sin is the sin of being born.
-- Samuel Beckett
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
-- Lao Tsu
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
-- Lao Tsu
I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer.
-- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and
robbers there will be.
-- Lao Tsu
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
-- Michel de Montaigne
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live
at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result
is the only thing that makes the result come true.
-- William James
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
-- James Thurber
Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is
published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.
-- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul
If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
... “fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water” do not matter.
"I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers
words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him.
He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see
them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time.
Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he
knows them in the naming.
-- Roger Zelazny, "Lord of Light"
If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women
you've got in the house.
-- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the
Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea,
Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if
a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes
me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
-- John Donne, "No Man is an Iland"
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
-- Jean Anouilh
A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such
a speed, if feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the
sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will
know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.
-- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul
Every person, all the events in your life are there because you have
drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
-- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul
I have a simple philosophy:
Fill what's empty.
Empty what's full.
Scratch where it itches.
-- A. R. Longworth
Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
-- J. Winter Smith
All of us should treasure his Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a
Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks,
tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks:
“Just lie down on the floor and keep calm.”
-- Robert Wilson, "John Dillinger Died for You"
When you die, you lose a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
-- William Faulkner
Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no
wiser. But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.
-- The Mahabharata
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads
lead down.
-- Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad"
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits,
but not when it misses.
-- Francis Bacon
You can't run away forever,
But there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start.
-- Jim Steinman, "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through"
...He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither
does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to
combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is
self-propagating.
-- Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose"
“You mean, if you allow the master to be uncivil, to treat you
any old way he likes, and to insult your dignity, then he may deem you
fit to hear his view of things?”
"Quite the contrary. You must defend your integrity, assuming
you have integrity to defend. But you must defend it nobly, not by
imitating his own low behavior. If you are gentle where he is rough,
if you are polite where he is uncouth, then he will recognize you as
potentially worthy. If he does not, then he is not a master, after all,
and you may feel free to kick his ass."
-- Tom Robbins, "Jitterbug Perfume"