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Post by Tamrin on Jan 31, 2014 11:27:23 GMT 10
Friday’s Quotes:What would it be to be alone forever? There is the past — of memories — but these would soon kill me
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply
Recipe For Greatness — To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things
At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It’s like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it’s not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you, and once in a while people may even take your breath away
The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it
I need this wild life, this freedomZane GreyAmerican pulp fiction author, Westerns ( Riders of the Purple Sage) (Born this day 1872) I will see this game of life out to its bitter end
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 31, 2014 11:28:07 GMT 10
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond, since it deals with what one is and not what one has
Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future
The most ominous of fallacies — the belief that things can be kept static by inactionDame Freya Stark, DBEBritish travel writer (Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan) (Born this day 1893) On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 31, 2014 11:30:11 GMT 10
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men
It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes
I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong
We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACEAlva MyrdalSwedish sociologist, politician and Nobel laureate (Peace, 1982) “one of the main driving forces in the creation of the Swedish welfare state” (Born this day 1902) My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 31, 2014 11:30:52 GMT 10
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell
We do not exist for ourselves
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for “finding himself.” If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey meThomas Merton, OCSOAnglo-American Catholic writer ( The Seven Storey Mountain) (Born this day 1915) Perhaps I am stronger than I think
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 31, 2014 11:31:27 GMT 10
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost for- ever, even to the protagonists … half of what is published is probably 50 % incorrect. The rest is 75 % wrong
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see him- self as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creationNorman MailerAmerican writer ( An American Dream, The White Negro) (Born this day 1923) I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 31, 2014 11:32:03 GMT 10
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible
As for the law — it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it
By love I mean the forgetfulness of self. Unions are frequent in which only the sexual instincts, or the remembrance of self, are roused
People do not like you to be different. If ever in your life you act differently from others, you will find it so
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidyJohn Galsworthy, OMEnglish novelist and playwright ( The Forsyte Saga) (Died this day 1933) If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 31, 2014 11:33:45 GMT 10
The writer’s job is the job of a clown … the clown who also talks about sorrow
I cannot talk about myself otherwise than by saying "Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself"
I don’t have faith nor do I think I will have it in the future, but I’m not an atheist. My faith is that of a secular person. You might call it “morality.” Throughout my life I have acquired some wisdom but always through rationality, thought, and experience. I am a rational person and I work only through my own experience. My lifestyle is that of a secular person, and I have learned about human beings that way
I would like to seek how — with what I hope is a modest decent and humanist contribution — I can be of some use in a cure and reconciliation of mankind
There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn’t there? Isn’t Jesus Christ’s Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards
I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos
To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young manKenzaburō ŌeJapanese author and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1994) (Born this day 1935) In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 31, 2014 11:35:21 GMT 10
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace
Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too
In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of lifeJean GiraudouxFrench dramatist ( The Enchanted) (Born this day 1944) Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 31, 2014 11:36:05 GMT 10
An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time
When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys and Nasty Girls of God realization, the men and women who are in your face, disturb- ing you terrifying you, until you radically awaken to who and what you really are
What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher
We move from part to whole and back again, and in that dance of comprehension, in that amazing circle of understanding, we come alive to meaning, to value, and to vision
The Realization of the Non-dual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder
There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other
Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domainsKen WilberUS author on psychology, philosophy, mysticism, ecology and spiritual evolution (Born this day 1949) An argument can be legitimately sustained only if the participants are speaking about the same level
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 31, 2014 11:36:41 GMT 10
Let's have some new clichés
The harder I work, the luckier I get
I read part of it all the way through
If I look confused it is because I am thinking
I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on
Include me outSamuel GoldwynAmerican film producer (Paramount & Goldwin Pictures) (Died this day 1974) Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day
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