“If you follow the crowd,
you will go no further than the crowd.
But if you walk alone, and find your own way,
you will likely find yourself in places
no one has ever been before.”
~ Albert Einstein
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“If you follow the crowd,
you will go no further than the crowd.
But if you walk alone, and find your own way,
you will likely find yourself in places
no one has ever been before.”
~ Albert Einstein
"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."
~Dalai Lama
What you're prepared to walk by is the standard you accept
May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun
And find your shoulder to light on,
To bring you luck, happiness and riches
Today, tomorrow and beyond.
~ Irish Proverb
Sunday- Rest Day
Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
-Buddha
“Our youth have an insatiable desire for wealth:
They have bad manners and atrocious customs
regarding dressing their hair
and what garments or shoes they wear.”
~ Plato 428 – 347 B.C.
Things havnt changed much since 347 B.C ....................... LMAO
Taxi driver:
"If we accept that most of spare parts producing in China, I reassemble Chinese car from Japanese car using parts."
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"contentment is the greatest wealth"
-Buddha
“It is a thousand times better
to have common sense without education
than to have education
without common sense.”
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
That is so true in today's world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob
If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
-Buddha
“A mind is like a parachute.
It doesn’t work if it is not open.”
~ Frank Zappa
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- Buddha
“You know everybody is ignorant,
only on different subjects.”
~ Will Rogers
Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those that a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
-Buddha
“Remember,
happiness doesn’t depend upon
who you are
or what you have,
it depends solely upon
what you think.”
~ Dale Carnegie
“The day, water, sun, moon, night;
I do not have to purchase these things with money.”
~ Plautus
It is in a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that leads him to evil ways.
-Buddha
Everyone wants your best! Don't let them take it away from you.
-anonymous
“I not only use all the brains that I have,
but all that I can borrow.”
- Woodrow Wilson
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
-Buddha
“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust -
we all dance to a mysterious tune,
intoned in the distance
by an invisible piper.”
~ Albert Einstein
“Lest I keep my complacent way
I must remember somewhere out there
a person or persons died for me today.
As long as there must be war
I ask and I must answer,
was I worth dying for?”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962)
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.
-Buddha
“When you spend time worrying,
you’re simply using your imagination
to create things you don’t want.”
~ Author Unknown
Thanks Bob. Sent this to my wife.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob
She's a worry wart.
Pure-limbed, white-canopied, one-wheeled, the cart roles on. See him that cometh: faultless, stream-cutter, bondless he.
War doesn't determine who is right, war determines who is left.
“The end justifies the means.
But what if there never is an end?
All we have is means.”
~ Ursula K Le Guin
Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming.
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
Patrick Murray
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
“You can complain because a rose has thorns,
or rejoice because thorns have a rose.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
-Buddha
Knowledge, is knowing tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom, is not to put it in a fruit salad.
“Life may not be the party we hoped for…
but while we’re here we may as well dance.”
~ Jeanne C. Stein, Blood Drive
The non-doing of any evil,
the performance of what's skillful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching of the Awakened.
-Buddha
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse always gets the cheese.