Hell, there are no rules here – we're trying to accomplish something. -Thomas Edison
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Less than 15 percent of people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. -Luther Burbank
We discover, perhaps to our astonishment, that our greatest moments come when we find that we are not unique, when we come upon another self that is very like our own. The discovery of a continent is mere idle folly compared with this discovery of a sympathetic other-self, a friend or a lover.
J. B. Priestley
Resist much. Obey little.
Walt Whitman
The greatest service that you can do mankind is to expose hypocrisy, question authority, and blow the whistle … If you really want to make a difference, stand up for an unpopular cause.
Ed Asner
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer ---
Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
Maya Angelou
why lie when the truth is so much more ridiculous
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past them in a kind of dream. Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Virginia Woolf
" One good thing about music - when it hits you feel no pain!" Bob Marley
Everyone shows harmony or disharmony according to how open he is to the music of the universe. The more he is open to all that is beautiful and harmonious, the more his life is tuned to that universal harmony, and the more he will show a friendly attitude to everyone he meets, his very atmosphere will create music around him.
Hazrat Khan
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It's not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heart breaks.
Lin Yutang
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusions and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
Simone Weil
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
Han Suyin
The ten thousand things are all there in me. And there's no joy greater than looking within and finding myself faithful to them.
Mengzi Chinese Philosopher
Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.
Emerson
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
Vincent Van Gogh
Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that's more terrible than dying.
Joan of Arc
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
King
It is very nearly impossible … to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin
Conventional thinking is the ruin of our souls,
something borrowed which we mistake as our own.
Ignorance is better than this; clutch at madness instead.
Rumi Afghani-Turkish Sufi Mystic,
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Montaigne
Disagreement shakes us out of our slumbers and forces us to see our own point of view through contrast with another person who does not share it.
R. D. Laing
What is opposition?
It is the arena of hostility, of conflict and turmoil.
Where duality is transcended peace reigns.
This is the Dharma's ultimate truth.
Hanshan Deqing Chinese Chan Master,
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard
If two refuse, no one fights.
Joaquim Machado de Assis
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson
A clash of doctrines is not a disaster – it is an opportunity.
A. N. Whitehead
To be desperate is to discover strength.
We die of comfort and by conflict live.
May Sarton
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Vernon Howard
If there's nobody in your way, it's because you're not going anywhere.
Robert Kennedy
One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Kennedy
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
Samuel Johnson
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
Joseph Pulitzer
A good conversation is better than a good bed.
Galla (Ethiopia) Saying
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The capacity of speech is not only in the tongue, the ability to talk is not just a matter of words.
Yuanwu Kekin
There is no pleasure to me without communication; there is not so much as a sprightly thought that comes into my mind but I grieve that I have no one to tell it to. - Montaigne
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
Emerson
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Thoreau
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
Archibald MacLeish
Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man. Consciously or unconsciously, we are all actors in this life playing to the audience in a part and style approved by them.
Lin Yutang
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson
The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order, to know what is the world order in contradistinction to the wishful thinking orders we wish to impose upon one another.
Henry Miller
In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors; if thou despair of success, thou shalt not succeed.
Khemetic Saying
If you have no confidence in yourself, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Cicero
Lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty; the difficulty comes from a lack of confidence.
Seneca
You must act as if it is impossible to fail.
Ashanti (West Africa) Saying
When you realize where you come from,
you naturally become tolerant,
disinterested, amused,
kindhearted as a grandmother,
dignified as a king.
Immersed in the wonder of the Tao,
you can deal with whatever life brings you,
and when death comes, you are ready.
Laozi
The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent light.
Patanjali
Heaven is calm and clear,
Earth is stable and peaceful.
Beings who lose these
Qualities die,
While those who emulate
Them live.
Calm spaciousness is the
House of spiritual light;
Open selflessness is the
Abode of the Way.
Huai-nan-tzu
When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.
Marcus Aurelius
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to taking repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.
Hazrat Khan
The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow … Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.
Morihei Ueshiba
Inner calm is possible only when man is not disturbed by the vicissitudes of fortune.
Lin Yutang
When the mind is free from all its projections, there is a state of quietness in which problems cease, and then only the timeless, the eternal comes into being.
Krishnamurti
To live peacefully every day means you have no nationality, religion, dogma, or authority. Peace means to love, to be kind; if you haven't that, then you are responsible for all the confusion.
Krishnamurti
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Laozi
Kindness effects more than severity.
Aesop
We are to live so that no harm or pain is caused by our thoughts, words, or deeds to any other being.
Patanjali
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Seneca
I was hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in.
Jesus of Nazareth
Constantly remind yourself, "I am a member of the whole body of conscious things." If you think of yourself as a mere "part," then love for mankind will not well up in your heart; you will look for some reward in every act of kindness and miss the boon which the act itself is offering. Then all your work will be seen as a mere duty and not as the very porthole connecting you with the Universe itself.
Marcus Aurelius
Those desiring speedily to be
A refuge for themselves and other beings
Should interchange the terms "I" and "other,"
And thus embrace a sacred mystery.
Shantideva
You must constantly guard against the trap of falling into a routine of remaining busy with unimportant chores that will provide you with an excuse to avoid meaningful challenges or opportunities that could change your life for the better.
Og Mandino
As you think so shall you become.
Khemetic Saying
As a man acts, so does he become. As a man's desire is, so is his destiny.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha
Better than a thousand sayings composed of meaningless statements is a single meaningful statement on hearing which one becomes calm.
~ Buddha ~
