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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/15/2009 7:57:42 AM | “To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach for another is to risk involvement.
To expose your feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd, is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To believe is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live. Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom. Only a person who risks is free.”
— An anonymous Chicago teacher, quoted in Abounding Grace by M. Scott Peck.' | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/15/2009 8:45:09 AM | ^^^^ Really like that one. I will make a point of looking for Peck's book now!
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands;
you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/15/2009 9:30:18 AM | Win or lose,,,,she's booze!!!! 
Short, shorter, shortest,shortage,shortbread, shortcake, shortcoming,,,,, | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/15/2009 9:38:43 AM | "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix | |
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Posted: 8/15/2009 9:54:12 AM |
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
Throw that one up in the "texting" thread will ya???? If that Plato character had it figured out then, what the heck is wrong with the peoples of today???? Gonna put this one in the vault. | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/15/2009 10:05:55 AM |
^^^^ Really like that one. I will make a point of looking for Peck's book now!
The book is actually called: Abounding Grace, An Anthology of Wisdom
It is filled with inspirational words of wisdom by people both famous and unknown throughout the ages. It has a permanent home on my coffee table and I really enjoy paging through it from time to time. One of the few books that for me, was well worth buying. | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/15/2009 10:26:38 AM | One I heard recently that resonates with me:
All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing ~Edmund Burke
The Desiderata is a poem I've loved since childhood:
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees 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.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
~Max Ehrmann | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/15/2009 11:53:02 AM | Here's another neat inspirational story.
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed." | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/16/2009 1:24:49 AM |
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly
I guess this is where Nietzsche got his notion of the "uber mensch" from, although he expands on it quite a bit - one of his more misunderstood thoughts unfortunately.
Generally speaking, I don't have time for platitudes. I find the people who quote them usually act the opposite. In other words, they quote it because they lack it. Kind of a reverse spin on the Plato quote I guess. | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/16/2009 8:53:04 AM | Rockondon,
That one about the old Cherokee, "The one you feed.", is one of my all-time favourites. I have it typed up and sitting on my computer desk as a reminder.
Below is one I wrote while in para-hypnotic 'levels', many years ago, and it's the other one I have up, in my computer room. I wonder if it will resonate with the folks here (or not -- grin). Anyway, here it is:
You are a being who inhabits a body and plays on planets. You direct your body through thoughts and emotions, perceptions and associations you have created between yourself, other beings and your environment. Your body is attuned to your input, both deliberate and inadvertent.
To recognize at any time the areas in which your input is seriously flawed, you need only look at the problems it has created in your body, or in experiences with others and your environment.
A problem is not a ‘cross to bear’; it is a clue, a gift. Without it, you would remain unaware of the flaw, the virus you’ve introduced into your personal program. Do not bemoan your problems; decipher what they are trying to tell you. Your problems are ‘cheat sheets’ for the tests you keep giving yourself. Did you forget to study (yourself)?
Perhaps you long for a vacation from problems. Yet how quickly do you become bored with the ‘perfect vacation’? How long could you handle paradise on Earth, with full security and no challenges?
You chose this lifetime because it is all option and no promises. This is your playground or battlefield of choice — whatever you choose to make of it. It is yours as you have arranged it to serve purposes you have chosen but may not realize.
Your enemies are not the problems you perceive; they are the flaws in your thinking, perceptions, emotional attachments and beliefs. Resolve those successfully, and the problems they created to ‘clue you in’ fall away, having done their job.
Happy hunting (... and fishing  )! | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/16/2009 9:21:27 AM | Jeffrey (message 89), you're probably right, that people quote platitudes about something because they lack it. But I guess we all lack one thing or another, or we wouldn't bother with lifetimes in such a basic system as cause-and-effect (just my point of view).
I for one use maxims, platitudes, etc. as crib notes; they come in handy when something gets under my skin or I start fixating about some situation or problem I can't, at that moment, do much about. | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/16/2009 9:32:26 AM |
too much coffee is not good
there always is some wicked old witch disturbing people on a Sunday morning with curses
 *wipes coffee off key board*
just had to scroll down to learn this???
THANKS DARLINNN
what do you suggest instead? | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/16/2009 9:51:36 AM | OH! and there is my fave quote:
"live with intention.
walk to the edge.
listen hard.
practice wellness.
play with abandon.
laugh.
choose with no regret.
continue to learn.
appreciate your friends.
do what you love.
live as if theis is all there is."
MN | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/17/2009 12:17:10 PM | "Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life, and love should not be one of them."
"Relationships, of all kinds, are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you squeeze to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold on to some of it, but most of it will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship is lost. "Kaleel Jamison
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
-Sam Keen | |
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| WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE, STORY OR POEM?
Posted: 8/17/2009 9:33:03 PM | Here are a couple of my perspectives, re love:
Love will live out, for the person to see, feel and judge, the hidden properties (s)he has attached to it.
Try to hide love, and it will leak out in myriad self-expressions. | |
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