Quotes I have
collected over the years.
Not in any particular order....one of those
thing I mean to get around to!
These from:
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Potting in Piedmont CA
RubySuMoon
Turns out I like quotes. I grabbed a few from Tongue Fu!, How to Deflect, Disarm, and Defuse any Verbel Conflict, by Sam Horn. I'd like to share these as they may (or may not) pertain to this topic (or any other topic):
- "The real art of conversation is not only to say the
right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the
wrong thing at the tempting moment"
Dorthy Nevill
- "It is better to swallow words than to have to eat
them later"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence"
Anonymous
- "Patience is never more important than when you're on
the verge of losing it"
Anonymous
- "We can be right or we can be happy"
A course in miracles
- "If you can laught at it, you can live with it"
Erma Bombeck
Just looking to spark some food for thought... :-)
- Who was it that said the most freeing thing she ever
did was to resign as general superintendant of the
universe?
Zen Buddhist to hot dog vendor: "Make me one with
everything."The vendor makes the hot dog, and gives it to the Buddhist
The Buddhist pays with a twenty. The vendor turns away, starts to leave.
Zen Buddhist : "Where's my change?"
Hot dog guy : "Change must come from within."
- "Life was meant to be lived, and curiousity must be kept alive."
Eleanor Roosevelt
- "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion
is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
Albert Einstein
- "When you look at all that's around us, you just have to wonder. So, go ahead, Wonder!......Wonder!, why don't you?.....For the love of God, Wonder!!"
Father Bill W.
- "Nothing I make with my own hands can be all bad."
Bethami Auerbach in 'The search for the perfect rye bread'
- "Most folks are as happy as they make up their mind to be."
Abraham Lincoln
- "It's not the despair, it's the hope!"
John Cleese in 'Clockwise'
- "The soul is no more in the body than the body is in the soul."
Meister Eckhart
- "There is no place that is outside of God."
Anon.
- "All will be well and all will be well."
Julian of Norwich