cool quotes

[tulc]

Time and Eternity

I reason, Earth is short,
And Anguish - absolute,
And many hurt,
But, what of that?

I reason, we could die -
The best Vitality
Cannot excel Decay,
But, what of that?

I reason that in Heaven
Somehow, it will be even,
Some new Equation, given -
But, what of that?
-Emily Dickinson

 

[freespirit2001]

"The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path of knowledge, and there's no place in it in the endeavor of science. We do not know before hand where fundamental insights will arise from our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources."

----Carl Sagan

 

[freespirit2001]

"I worry that, (especially as our millennium edges nearer), pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our "ethics" or "national prejudices" are aroused; in times of scarcity; during challenges to "national" self-esteem or nerve when we agonize about "our habits of thought" familiar from ages past reach for controls.
....The candle flame gutters...Its little pool of light trembles....Darkness gathers....
THE DEMONS BEGIN TO STIR...."

Car Sagan, THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD: SCIENCE AS A CANDLE IN THE DARK

 

[Lady Di-USA]

They serve God well who serve his creatures.

---Caroline Norton

 

[freespirit2001]

RECIPE FOR A HAPPY LIFE

1 full measure of Faith in God
1 1/2 Cups of Freedom
2 Cups of Helping Others
4 teaspoons of Fun
1 Whole happy Home, maturely separated for individuality
1 Cup of Cleanliness, inside and out
2 Cups of Success
2 Teaspoons of Belongs
1 Whole Pitcher of Love
1 Large Package of Honesty
1 Pound of Understanding for Others
1 Full Measure of Forgiveness to All
1 Full Measure of Humbleness
Generous Supply of Work to help reach a goal


Method: Mix all ingrediants until well blended into a small body. Distribute in the proper amounts in home, school, church, city, nation.

To Preserve: This will keep indefinelty if covered with a layer of prayer several times a day.

Yield: If used in daily amounts throughout a lifetime, a happy life is guaranteed to you and all lives touched.

---Author Unknown

*There has been so many variations of the following recipe, but they always seem to be missing something. Although recipes in the past have been quick and easy, not so this time.

 

[praying]

"Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children."


Albert Camus, speaking at a Dominican Monastery in 1948

 

[tanya88]

Here are some quotes!!!!

*The reason god put spaces in between your fingers was so another person's hands could fill it up.
*Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic!
*Yesterday was that past, Tomorrow is the future, Today is a gift...that is why they call it the present.
*A memory lasts forever, never does it die. True friends stay together and never say goodbye!

 

[Lady Di-USA]

So once in every year we throng upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.


---Arthur Guiterman (regarding Thanksgiving Day)

 

[tanya88]

Somewhere there's someone
Who dreams of your smile
And finds in your presence
That life is worth while
So when you are lonenly
Remember, its true
Somebody somewhere is thinking of you

 

[freespirit2001]

"Its not the strongest of the species that survives...
or the most intelligent....
but the one most responsive to change..."

From an IBM Commercial

 

[elanor]

"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on ,or you will be taught how to fly. "

--Barbara J. Winter

 

[tulc]

Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question, "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[freespirit2001]

"Men of old slept without dreams,
Woke without worries.
Were they cool? Only as cool as autumn.
All that came out of them, came quiet, like the four seasons.
Joy does all things without concern."

---Lao Tze

 

[Lady Di-USA]

A beggar is no different than you or Me, 'cept he ain't go no money. Always keep some spare change to give a beggar.

---Gumpisms by Winston Groom

 

[praying]

Self-realisation is a modern phrase—“Be moral, be religious, be upright in order that you may realise yourself.” Nothing blinds the mind to the claims of Jesus Christ more effectually than a good, clean-living, upright life based on self-realisation (see 2 Corinthians 4: 3 - 4) The issue with us to-day is not with external sins, but with the ideal of self-realisation, because Jesus Christ reveals that that ideal will divide clean asunder from Him. If we are going to be His disciples our ideal must be Christ-realisation.

and take up his cross . . .

There is a difference between devotion to principles and devotion to a person. Hundreds of people to-day are devoting themselves to phases of truth, to causes. Jesus Christ never asks us to devote ourselves to a cause or a creed; He asks us to devote ourselves to Him, to sign away the right to ourselves and yield to Him absolutely, and take up that cross daily. The cross Jesus asks us to take up cannot be suffering for conviction’s sake, because a man will suffer for conviction’s sake whether he is a Christian or not. Neither can it be suffering for conscience’ sake, because a man will go to martyrdom for his principles without having one spark of the grace of God in his heart. Paul says, “Though I give my body to be burned, and have not [love], it profiteth me nothing.” What then is our cross? Our cross is something that comes only with the peculiar relationship of a disciple to Jesus. It is the sign that we have denied our right to ourselves and are determined to manifest that we are no longer our own, we have given away for ever our right to ourselves to Jesus Christ.

 

[tulc]

The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.
-Marcus Aurelius

 

[freespirit2001]

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in the common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion, as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and the solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty, poverty, nor weaknesses, weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
Thoreau

 

[freespirit2001]

"I read in the Gulistan, or Flower Garden, of Sheik Sadi of Shiraz, that
'They asked a wise man, saying;
Of the many celebrated trees which the Most High God has created lofty and umbrageous, they call none azad, or free, excepting the cypress, which bears no fruit; what mystery is there in this?
He replied; Each has its appropriate produce, and appointed season, during the continuance of which it is fresh and blooming, and during their absence dry and withered; to neither of which states is the cypress exposed, being always flourishing; and of this nature are the azads, or religious independents.
---Fix not thy heart on that which is transitory; for the Dijlah, or Tigris, will continue to flow through Bagdad after the race of caliphs is extinct;
if thy hand has plenty, be liberal as the date tree;
but if it affords nothing to give away, be an azad, or free man, like the cypress.' "

Walden: EconomyHenry David Thoreau

 

[tulc]

The Emperor of Ice Cream

1 Call the roller of big cigars,
2 The muscular one, and bid him whip
3 In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
4 Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
5 As they are used to wear, and let the boys
6 Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
7 Let be be finale of seem.
8 The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.


9 Take from the dresser of deal,
10 Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
11 On which she embroidered fantails once
12 And spread it so as to cover her face.
13 If her horny feet protrude, they come
14 To show how cold she is, and dumb.
15 Let the lamp affix its beam.
16 The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
-Wallace Stevens
(thanks Polycarp1! )

 

[freespirit2001]

"Knowledge does not come to us in details,
but in flashes of light from Heaven."

..."Let nothing come between you and the Light..."
Thoreau