Category: Quotes

Quotes

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Post date October 16, 2012
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“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do.”

-Walden, Henry David Thoreau

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date October 16, 2012
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“The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful vision of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know…

…Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delighful conditions, all, heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.”

-As A Man Thinketh, James Allen

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Quotes Quotes In Person

Post author By ojinoto
Post date October 15, 2012
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“The grass is not greener on the other side, it’s greener wherever you wet it. It’s greener wherever you wet it.”

-Kirk’s Best Man

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loving kindness meditation

Post author By ojinoto
Post date October 15, 2012
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“If anyone has hurt me or harmed me knowingly or unknowingly in thought, word or deed, I freely forgive them.

And I too ask forgiveness if I have hurt anyone or harmed anyone knowingly or unknowingly in thought, word, or deed.”

-Theravada Buddhism

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Chillin Quotes

Post author By ojinoto
Post date October 10, 2012
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“Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.”

-Albert Camus

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date October 9, 2012
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“What you pay for in life, you get. What you don’t pay for, you don’t get. The currency, is a concerted, persistent effort in thought, word, and deed. Each designed to raise expectations, instill optimism, and imply your inevitable success.”

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Quotes Trying To Not Drink

A Knock At The Door

“We must be watchful, especially in the beginning of temptation;

Because the enemy is easier overcome if he is not suffered to come in at all at the door of the mind, but is kept out at his first knock.

A certain man once said: “withstand the beginning, (because) after the ‘sickness’ has taken vigor from long delay, the remedies come too late”

For first a simple thought comes to mind, then a strong imagination, afterwards delight, and evil motion and consent;

And thus, little by little, the ‘wicked’ enemy gains full entrance when he is not resisted in the beginning;

And the longer a man is negligent in resisting, so much weaker does he daily become in himself and the enemy becomes stronger against him.”

-Thomas A’Kempis (14th century monk)

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date October 2, 2012
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“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”

-Alan Watts

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date October 1, 2012
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“We have to move from the illusion of certainty to the certainty of illusion.”

-Sam Keen

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 30, 2012
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“Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars…and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they aren’t going to become first ministers or presidents and they aren’t going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers–for no reason. It’s simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.”

-Osho

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 30, 2012
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“Breath sweeps mind.”

-Jakusho Kwong

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 26, 2012
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“The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.”

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 26, 2012
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“No matter what road I travel, I’m going home.”

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 24, 2012
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“When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.”

-Chinese Proverb

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 24, 2012
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“In quarreling about the shadow, we often lost the substance.”

-Aesop

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 24, 2012
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“At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don’t understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.”

-Jane Wagner

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Quotes In Person

Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 20, 2012
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“Dreaming of that place we all look for. We try to achieve. That quiet peaceful place where we feel powerful and aren’t afraid. The place where our brain is used at it’s capacity. So the potential is unlimited.

Where there is no fear.

Just love and fresh air and healthy water.

Lots of tall trees with deep mysterious shadows and beautiful moving bodies of water that teach us that life is always renewing itself.

Reminding us that change is un-avoidable. Part of growing.”

-Paola Andrea

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 20, 2012
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“I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom sets limits to knowledge, too.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 20, 2012
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“Late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”

-William Wordsworth

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 18, 2012
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“When you give yourself to practice through and through, which means through and beyond feelings and thoughts, little by little you begin to allow something great to surface, something without beginning, or end. That’s as it is!”

-Jakusho Kwong

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 17, 2012
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“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.”

-Jawaharlal Nehru

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 17, 2012
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“At this very moment reveal the truth!”

-Lin-chi

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 17, 2012
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“From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.”

-Taisen Deshimaru

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 16, 2012
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“People with low stress reactions tend to make molehills out of mountains.”

-Dr. Edward Dreyfus

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Quotes Quotes In Person

Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 16, 2012
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“If you avoid the situation, the thought avoids you”

-Mickey

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 15, 2012
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

-Leonardo Da Vinci

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 15, 2012
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“There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it and you will be happy.”

-Christopher Isherwood