cool quotes

[Lost]

"If your dreams turn to dust.......vacuum!"

"I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several attack me at once!"

"Just when I was getting used to yesterday along came today."

"Live life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror."

 

[psalms 91]

i be me who be you

 

[tulc]

A cook initiates a Prince on the Way of Life



Prince Hui's cook was cutting up an oxen. Every blow of his hand, every heave of his shoulders, every step of his foot, every thrust of his knee, every whshh of the oxen's torn flesh, every chhk of the chopper, was in perfect harmony— in rhythm like the dance of the Mulberry Grove, simultaneous like the chords of the Ching Shou.

“Well done!” cried the Prince.
“How did you ever achieve such skill?”

“Sire,” replied the cook, “I have always devoted myself to the Tao. It is better than skill. When I first began cutting up oxens, I saw before me simply whole oxens. After three years of practice, I saw no more whole animals. And now I work with my mind and not with my eye. When my senses bid me stop, but my mind urges me on, I fall back upon eternal principles. I follow such openings or cavities as there may be, according to the animal's natural physique. I do not attempt to cut through the veins, arteries, and tendons, still less through large bones.”

“A good cook changes his chopper once a year— because he cuts. An ordinary cook, once a month— because he hacks. But I have had this chopper nineteen years, and although I have cut up many thousands oxens, its edge is as if fresh from the grindstone. For at the joints there are always crevices, and the edge of a chopper being without thickness, it remains only to insert that which is without thickness into such a crevice. By these means the crevice will be enlarged, and the blade will find plenty of room. It is thus that I have kept my chopper for nineteen years as though fresh from the grindstone.”

“Nevertheless, when I come upon a hard part where the blade meets with a difficult section, I proceed with caution. I fix my gaze and go slowly, gently applying my blade, until with a Hwah! the part yields like earth crumbling to the ground. Then I take out my chopper, and stand up, and look around, and pause, until with an air of triumph I wipe my chopper and put it carefully away.”

“Bravo!” cried the Prince.
“From the words of this cook I have learnt how to take care of my life.”
— Chuang Tzu (369-286 BC)

 

[brinny]

Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it."
---- Lt. John B. Putnam Jr. (1921-1944)

 

[Andy Broadley]

If descretion is the better part of valour, then cowardace is the better part of discretion

 

[tulc]

Throughout the Bible, God shows a marked preference for "real" people over "good" people.
-Phillip Yancey

 

[brinny]

"Nunya bizznizz" ~brinny

(profound, eh?)

 

[brinny]

Throughout the Bible, God shows a marked preference for "real" people over "good" people.
-Phillip Yancey

 

[2Timothy2]

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot

 

[JPPT1974]

What Goes Around Comes Around!

 

[psalms 91]

life is like a box of chocolates

 

[tulc]

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The
credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and
sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best
know in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he
fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor
defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt

 

[freespirit2001]

"We are the boy who said the emperor has no clothes.
We are rachel weeping for her children.
We are Noah setting his feet upon dry ground.
We are Preacher Casey and Tom Joad.
We are the ones with AIDS hopsices in our rectories and homeless shelters in our basements.
We are the widow with her mite.
We are the woman at the well.

We pray for the dead and work like hell for the living.
We afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
We make the Kingdom of God manifest.

We are your sons and daughters.
We are your fathers and mothers.
We are your sisters and brothers.

We break bread with the Pharisees and the lepers.
We will dine with sinners and tax collectors.
We will be a neighbor to all, even to all our enemies.

For are we not the Body of Christ? What else can we do?

(CaDan's reply in the "what is a liberal Christian" thread)
* I wanted to add ...lost sons and daughters....lost father and mothers...lost sisters and brothers...
My computer has had some problems lately with switching around correct lettering

 

[cygnusx1]

"Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony"

John Calvin

 

[2Timothy2]

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

[Stefania777]

We can bomb the world into pieces, but we can't bomb the world into peace. -Michael Franti

 

[Jesus_Freak728]

[font=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans"
"[/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Life's a garden dig it"

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[tulc]

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping." [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-Rita Rudner[/font]

 

[freespirit2001]

"And after a long time traveling
You will enter a silence
You will know it is winter
by the way your dreams
tremble like stones
when the wind comes
through."

Lanie Henson

 

[tulc]

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked
into the soul of the boy next to me.
-Woody Allen