Is There A Quotation That Rings True For You?

[Shoshin]

Maybe this has been done before, but I was thinking it might be nice to share some quotations that reflect where we have been, that show where we are right now, or that are inspiring us as we heal.

This one does all three for me:

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker

What quotation rings true for you right now?

[linasmom]

I keep a document on my hard-drive of quotations that speak to me, here is one of my favorites - a bit long, but hey. (alright, maybe it's more of a passage!)



The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medecine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tent-show whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

[Cindy]

This is a great idea ...

I have many favorites, but today is "Everything is made up of small pieces, just choose one piece and do it."

[nic]

Well, to go along with the courage theme, Shoshin,

"Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but those who fought, fell, and rose again."

Sorry, I don't know who said it, but I love it!

[JustJane]

It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.

[linasmom]

Okay, I'm going to be a little obsessive - can everyone please try to give credit to the author of the quote, if you know it? It's respectful!

JustJane -That quote was by Tennyson (it's one of my favs).

[Shoshin]

But don't refrain from posting if you do not know. We can all help each other find the sources. The main thing is to share the words that get us through.

I hear you, though, Linasmom. I am a teacher, and citation format is an important part of our curriculum.:wink:

[linasmom]

:thumbs-up

[spiritofnow]

This thread is like being in a sweety shop, so many to choose from. I will think on it!

Nice thread Shoshin.

Spirit x

[Roo]

Shoshin -- great thread -- thanks for starting it!

A few of my favourites...

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? (Roger Bannister)

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. (Oscar Wilde)

The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it. (Sri Nisargatta)

I am larger, better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness. (Walt Whitman)

from Roo

[She Cat]

Fight for what you believe in, but believe in what you're fighting for.

[Cindy]

Carpe Diem

Sieze the day! I don't know who said it but I'ld guess Aristotle?

[Seeking_Nirvana]

"Faith begins where reson and logic ends"

[upstream]

"Fall down 7 times, stand up 8"
~Japanese Proverb

"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."
~Batman Begins

[linasmom]

He not busy being born is busy dying. - Bob Dylan


I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. - Simone de Beauvior

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. And once you truly understand the lesson of the five balls, you will have the beginnings of balance in your life. - James Patterson

[hjpalm]

"What it comes to, I think, is the knowledge that you are not God." He paused, then added, softly, "And the very real regret that you cannot be." Lord John, Voyager, Diana Gabaldon

[Cecilia]

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing so gentle as real strength." St. Francis de Sales

[linasmom]

"There's only one thing for certain. Everything changes." - Brenda, Six Feet Under

[spiritofnow]

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom". Betrand Russell. Bristish philosopher (1872 - 1970).

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human experience". Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).

"A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has". Epictetus. Greek Stoic philosopher ( c. 55 AD - c. 135 AD).

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom". Charles Dickens (1812-1870).

"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety". Abraham Maslow. American psychologist (1908 - 1970).

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity". Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).

Spirit x

[Cindy]

I was sifting through magazines this week end to make a poster of phrases and pictures of good place, things, and what I would like to project - or be.

this phrase jumped off the page and I can't get it out of my head


"MAKE A LIFE!!"

I'm trying. Just do it .... Action Jackson ... :think:

[Roo]

This quote leapt out at me tonight:

Whatever it was I lost, whatever I wept for
Was a wild, gentle thing, the small dark eyes
Loving me in secret.

(James Wright, from "Milkwood")

[tude]

This sums it up for me...

"If you want to change who you are, change what you do." - Anonymous

[linasmom]

oooo, Tude, I really like that quote!!! Thanks for posting it.

Best,
Rachel

[Auburngirl]

I like "be the change you want to see happen" (Ghandi I think)
and "there's a crack in everything that's how the light gets in" (Leonard Cohen)

[pandora]

Hurt me once shame on you...hurt me twice shame on me.

[goingonhope]

:smile: Hello Shoshin,

......this one speaks to me today:

"It is my aspiration that health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for."

- Kofi Annan

......thanks for creating this idea & thread! :thumbs-up


Hope

[upstream]

Jordan: "You should lock your door, there's horrible people out there."
Dr. Cox: "There's horrible people right in here!"
~Scrubs