cool quotes

[Athalia]

"You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many bumps." - advice to Ben Franklin upon approaching a low-hanging beam in his parsonage.[/COLOR](how funny is that?!)

Cured yesterday of my disease,
I died last night of my physician.


I love good credible acquaintances; I love to be the worst of the company.

 

[freespirit2001]

"Vision without action is daydream,
Action without vision is nightmare."

Japanese Proverb

(*!*)....Thanks Tulc!

 

[tulc]

One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a
voice said reassuringly:
"Cheer up, things could get worse."
So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.
-JAMES HAGGERTY

 

[tulc]

"Dude, They're not using the internet to express their
freedom of speech. They're using the internet to express
their freedom from being punched in the mouth."
-anonymous internet user

 

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return
-Moulin Rouge

 

[Breetai]

"Doh!"- Homer Simpson

(Doh, I just can't top these great quotes.)

 

[Skunkboy]

Tyler Durden: Shut up. Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?
Narrator: No, no, I... don't...
Tyler Durden: Listen to me! You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you! He never wanted you! In all probability, he hates you! This is not the worst thing that can happen.
Narrator: It's not?!
Tyler Durden: We don't need him!
Narrator: I agree, we d-
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- Fight Club

(Sorry to anyone who was offended, I happen to really like this quote.)

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[dsdumpling]

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. Mahatma Gandhi

 

[tulc]

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."
-Dalai Lama

 

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

"Shake it like a polariod picture"
-Outkast

 

[elanor]

The Father and his Troubadour
sat down
Upon the outer rim of space,
"And here,
My Singer," said Earthmaker,
"is the crown
Of all my endless skies--the
green, brown sphere
Of all my hopes." He reached
and took the round
New planet down, and held it
to his ear.

"They're crying, Troubadour,"
he said. "They cry
So hopelessly." He gave the
little ball
Unto his Son, who also held
it by His ear...

"It is a peacless globe.
Some are sincere
In desperate desire to see
her freed
Of her absurdity. But
war is here.
Men die in conflict, bathed
in blood and greed."
Then with his nail he scraped
the atmosphere
And both of them beheld the
planet bleed...

--Calvin Miller, from The Singer

 

[freespirit2001]

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....again.... so beautiful Eleanor!


" He who has faith...has...an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well--even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."

B.C. Forbes

 

[KristianJ]

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

Ralph Wiggum (The Simpsons)

 

[tulc]

Creation Dream
centered on silence
counting on nothing
i saw you standing on the sea
and everything was
dark except for
sparks the wind struck from your hair
sparks that turned to
wings around you
angel voices mixed with seabird cries
fields of motion
surging outward
questions that contain their own replies...

you were dancing
i saw you dancing
throwing your arms toward the sky
fingers opening
like flares
stars were shooting everywhere
lines of power
bursting outward
along the channels of your song
mercury waves flashed
under your feet
shots of silver in the shell-pink dawn...
-Bruce Cockburn

 

[Ghost23]

"courage is not the absence of fear, but is the ability to do what is right in the face of it."

-J. Johnson

 

[Ghost23]

"faith is not the ability to see long and far into the future, it is simply taking God at his word and taking the next step."

i think this one is from Joni Earickson Tada

 

[Ghost23]

"I am the way, the truth, and the life! no man can come unto the Father accept through Me!"

-Jesus

 

[freespirit2001]

Creation Dream
centered on silence
counting on nothing
i saw you standing on the sea
and everything was
dark except for
sparks the wind struck from your hair
sparks that turned to
wings around you
angel voices mixed with seabird cries
fields of motion
surging outward
questions that contain their own replies...

you were dancing
i saw you dancing
throwing your arms toward the sky
fingers opening
like flares
stars were shooting everywhere
lines of power
bursting outward
along the channels of your song
mercury waves flashed
under your feet
shots of silver in the shell-pink dawn...
-Bruce Cockburn

Hawaiian Seascape


Your quote is so extraordinary, Tulc!..

 

[tulc]

When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions
should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does
things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see
clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

 

[freespirit2001]

BRIDGES

After posting no trespassing signs
What you own is private property,
Access to opposing shores
restricted by choice,
While the river,
polluted by the past
carries pebbles
back and forth,
blurring the boundaries.
And the bridge between
closed indefinitely
still stands.
Sorely in need of repair.
The river flows on
muddied by years of mistrust
and misunderstanding
Successive storms stirring the depths
causing polished skeletons to surface and sink again.
Is it possible to sift the sediment of sorrow
or wade to the rivers edge
until a common stone is found?
A pebble of truth
never forgotten,
spanning the distance between us
like a bridge connecting opposing shores
a bridge never crossed."

Joyce Gullickson