cool quotes

[kelco]

L'ENVOI

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

And those that were good shall be happy: they shall sit in a golden chair;
They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets' hair;
They shall find real saints to draw from -- Magdalene, Peter, and Paul;
They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired at all!

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
~ Rudyard Kipling

 

[brinny]

That's beautiful kelco

Whataver you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[kelco]

Thanks brinny! I keep that one on the endpage of my bible where I can read it often.

 

[cinni]

Age is only important if your cheese!!!!!!

 

[kelco]

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~ Jerry M. Wright

 

[brinny]

Thanks brinny! I keep that one on the endpage of my bible where I can read it often.

you're welcome...I got a sense of peace in reading it

 

[brinny]

"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying."
-- Author Unknown

 

[amariselle]

“I don’t feel that this is unfair. That’s the thing about cancer. I’m not the only one, it happens all the time to people. I’m not special. This just intensifies what I did. It gives it more meaning. It’ll inspire more people. I just wish people would realize that anything’s possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try. -Terry Fox

"When I started this run, I said that if we all gave one dollar, we’d have $22 million for cancer research, and I don’t care man, there’s no reason that isn’t possible. No reason!” -Terry Fox

 

[brinny]

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." -- Jacob Braude

 

[tulc]

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." Oscar Wilde

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." Bernard Berenson

"The only completely consistent people are the dead." Aldous Huxley

 

[brinny]

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. -Lord Tennyson Alfred

 

[kelco]

I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.~Michelangelo

 

[freespirit2001]

" The goal of fasting is inner unity. This means hearing, but not with the ear; hearing, but not with the understanding; it is hearing with your whole being. The hearing that is only of the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty, tothe ear, or to the mind. Hence, it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is a direct grasp of what is right before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind. Fasting of the heart empties the faculties, frees you from limitations and from preoccupations."

---THOMAS MERTON, The Living Bread

 

[freespirit2001]

"We must respond to the Word of God as though it were a script that we want to act...for we are invited to move from role to role as the drama unfolds within us, as we fuse with the script...."
---Sten H. Stenson, Sense and Nonsense in Religion

 

[2Timothy2]

Beautiful is the night in which the moon and the stars of prophecy and types are shining; but when the sun arises then we forget the hours of watchfulness and expectancy, and in the clear and joyous light of day there is revealed to us the reality and substance of the eternal and heavenly sanctuary - Adolph Saphir

 

[freespirit2001]

Beautiful is the night in which the moon and the stars of prophecy and types are shining; but when the sun arises then we forget the hours of watchfulness and expectancy, and in the clear and joyous light of day there is revealed to us the reality and substance of the eternal and heavenly sanctuary - Adolph Saphir

 

[brinny]

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ~James Buckham

 

[freespirit2001]

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the
long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
-Helen Keller

going over a few of these July Quotes---a few of these earlier quotes are good to be reminded about

 

[freespirit2001]

SIX PHRASES OF A PROJECT

~ ENTHUSIASM
~ DISILLUSIONMENT
~ PANIC
~ SEARCH FOR THE GUILTY
~ PUNISHMENT OF THE INNOCENT
~ PRAISE AND HONORS FOR THE NON-PARTICIPANTS

 

[kelco]

SIX PHRASES OF A PROJECT

~ ENTHUSIASM
~ DISILLUSIONMENT
~ PANIC
~ SEARCH FOR THE GUILTY
~ PUNISHMENT OF THE INNOCENT
~ PRAISE AND HONORS FOR THE NON-PARTICIPANTS