(Tao)"Only Kindness Brings Peace."


(Zen) "It is as important to learn,
teach and consider what is NOT, as it is to learn,
teach and consider what IS.
Creativity is the fruit of the UNKNOWN."


"What the hell do we know about ANYTHING?!"
(-Carl Sagan)


"The soul is mingled in the whole of things."
(-Aristotle, "De Anima")


"Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid".
(-John Wayne as Sergeant Stryker in The Sands Of Iwo Jima)


"Afflictions color our life. But you choose the color."
(Kayla Unsell, age 10, Ewings Sarcoma cancer patient)


(Matthew 6:22) "...if therefore thine eye be single,
thy whole body shall be full of light."


"If you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
~Nietzsche


"...the only choice we have is what we do with the time that has been given to us."
(- from the film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien?s The Fellowship of the Ring)

There will come a time when you believe everything is
finished. That will be the beginning.
~Louis L'Amour



Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly--and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
~Omar Khayy�m


We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
~T.S. Eliot (from "Little Gidding," one of the Four Quartets)


No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face
to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally
getting bewildered as to which may be true.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne


It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.
~Richard Braunstein


You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.
~Max Ehrmann


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
~Carl Jung


"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path"
~Morpheous to Neo in The Matrix.


"The map is not the territory"
~Albert Korzybski


"God made everything out of nothing.
But the nothingness shows through."
~Paul Valery



"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be"
~Paul Valery



"What is history but a fable agreed upon?�
~ Napoleon Bonaparte


"A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven."
~ Richard Feynman, Physicist
("The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics," Nobel Lecture, 11 December 1965)


"Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people
who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in
this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do
things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true."
~Richard Feynmann ( 1999, The Meaning of It All, lecture 2: The Uncertainty of Values)


"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."
~ Richard Feynman, (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, 1999)



"Sic Parvis Magna"
(Thus great things from small things [come])
~ Latin motto inscribed below the coat-of-arms of Sir Francis Drake




Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die
~Basho (Zen poem reflecting on the difference in living life,
versus starting at some point to wait for death)


Amazon.com Question: "Who is the one person living or dead
that you would like to have dinner with?
Author (Lemony Snicket) Daniel Handler's Answer: "I would not like to have
dinner with a dead person under any circumstances..."
Amazon.com : "If you could have one superpower what would it be?
Handler: "As far as I know, there is only one superpower: The United States.
But I would most certainly use it differently than it is being used now."


When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true.
Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life.
Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for.
Unless it's death by meteor. - despair.com


All I ask is for a chance to prove that money can't buy happiness.
- Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant


It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others. - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant


Economics: The science of explaining tomorrow why the predictions you made yesterday didn't come true today.
- despair.com


Consistency: It's only a virtue if you're not a screwup.
- despair.com


If you need to climb a mountain, begin at the top
- Zen proverb


The obstacle is the path
- Zen proverb


The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing.
- Shurnryu Suzuki


Pain is inevitable. Suffering is Optional.
- Buddhist Proverb


Deliberando saepe perit occasio.
(An opportunity is often lost through deleiberation)
- Publilius Syrus



Quotes of my own...an exercise in narcisism?

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