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ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
And some by Douglas Adams

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.


And this last one is very descriptive of fundamentalists

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
ChristineM said:
I'm dyslexic, it was diagnosed at age 14, prismatic glasses prescribed and s whole new world of words came in to view. The very first book i read was 'the colour of magic' . i blame that book for my love of book's
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That was the first book of Terry's that I read too! Still have it somewhere ...

Enjoy your reading!

Cheers
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"To be truly happy we have to get rid of mental toxins such as hatred, obsession, arrogance, envy, greed and pride. The whole point of mind training or meditation is to get rid of those and to cultivate positive qualities such as altruism."

~ Matthieu Ricard

People call him "The world's happiest man" but he says there are plenty of others he has met who are at least as happy ...

Here Is What The World's Happiest Man Can Teach You About Happiness

:)
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

~ Rumi
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

~ Aristotle
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."

~ Wayne Dyer
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together."

~ Linda Thompson
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: “They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don’t know what they want. We think they are mad.”

~ Eckhart Tolle

More authors at this site -

Famous Quote from Eckhart Tolle
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor’s edge of Now – to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now."

~ Eckhart Tolle
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

~ Terry Pratchett
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew.
And you must sew my holey socks,
And soothe my troubled mind,
And develop the knack for scratching my back,
And keep my shoes spotlessly shined.
And while I rest you must rake up the leaves,
And when it is hailing and snowing
You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk,
And-hey-where are you going?”

~ Shel Silverstein
 
ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Some random ones

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams

Insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
- Albert Einstein

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.
- Ransom K. Ferm

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
- Quentin Crisp

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit.
- In the August 1993 issue, page 9, of PS magazine, the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance

Time is fun when you're having flies.
- Kermit the Frog

A hard man is good to find
- May West

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Jim Morrison
 
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