some Wednesday Toughts( @ the risk of offending those who've read it all before)

[Guest guest]

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is

that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our

darkness, that frightens us most. We ask oursleves, 'Who am I to be

brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not

to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the

world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people

won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the

glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in

all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give

other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our

own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. "

Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech

 

When I say, " I love you, " it's not because I want you or because I

can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are,

what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength.

I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with

perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman. "

Spike to Buffy

 

" Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. "

Mark Twain

 

" To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but

to be loved by the one you love is everything "

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" There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle;

you can live as if everything is a miracle. "

Albert Einstein

 

" What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the

value of nothing. "

Oscar Wilde

 

" The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which

he has attained liberation from the self. "

Albert Einstein

 

" 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 quotes

 

" To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self. "

Albert Einstein

 

" One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of

treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

" We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

" Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs

of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. "

Mahatma Gandhi

 

" You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as

your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as

old as your despair "

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" Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive.

When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly

important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his

fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery ...(author of The Little Prince..bn)

 

" Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment;

Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength "

Lao Tzu

 

" Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would

not have used such a weapon. "

Kahlil Gibran

 

" Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of

strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of

strength greater than his own. "

Madame de Stael

 

" One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more

distant than any star. "

G. K. Chesterton

 

" There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of

faith in his true Self. "

William James

 

" And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-

times filled with your tears. "

Kahlil Gibran

 

" Each of us is born with the potential for the unfolding of our true

self. When you deviate from the truth, you are interfering with the

intention of something greater than you are- call it nature or a

higher power. As a result, you develop discomfort. "

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" Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in

the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal. "

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Some of these may be worth living with for the while?.....bob

(This thing exists this ego-ist)