The Quote Room

[LuxObscura]

"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

[LuxObscura]

"Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop"
- Rule 47 from 48 rules of power

 

[weirdoigo]

“Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time!
It's abominable!
When! When! One day, is that not enough for you?
one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf,
one day we were born, one day we shall die,
the same day, the same second,
is that not enough for you?

They give birth astride of a grave,

the light gleams an instant,

then it's night once more.”

. . .

“Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.
Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.
We have time to grow old.
The air is full of our cries.
But habit is a great deadener.

At me too someone is looking,
of me too someone is saying,
He is sleeping, he knows nothing.
Let him sleep on.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

 

[distioat]

"the one who follows the thought, is also a thought" ― papaji

 

[northape]

“I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”
― Rumi

 

[ABe©eDarian]

 

[Tripolation]

There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.
-Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

 

[LuxObscura]

"Never trust a person who betrays others, not even when they betray them for you"
- Niccolò Machiavelli

 

[LuxObscura]

"Those who seek respect don’t need to spread fear, because fear and respect are not the same."
- Unknown

 

[Transform]

"To produce a pearl, you generally have to filter a lot of sewage."

- me

 

[TheGreenPhantom]

Let go with your dis-ease.
Be with it.
Keep company with it.
This is the way to be rid of it.

– Bruce Lee

 

[LuxObscura]

"The value of an action lies less in its outcome and more in the manner and principles by which it is carried out, because acceptance of limits prevents harm while allowing authentic success."
- Are we becoming God? Or is God just a human idea?

 

[LuxObscura]

"We have to 'walk the walk' not just 'talk the talk'"
- Paul Kivel

 

[LuxObscura]

"A mistake repeated more then once is a decision.
A mistake repeated more then twice is a habit.
A mistake repeated more then three times is character.
Mistakes happen, we are all human.
But a mistake that is constantly repeated isn't a mistake anymore.
It is part of who you really are."
- The Sunnah Guy

 

[LuxObscura]

"Some people hate you because you had less and still did more"
- Unknown

 

[LuxObscura]

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for its not the same river and he's not the same man."
- Heraclitus

 

[LuxObscura]

"Karma digs graves for those who set traps for others that don't deserve it"
- Unknown

 

[weirdoigo]

"To produce a pearl, you generally have to filter a lot of sewage."

- me

reminded me of this one:

“It has been said by people, that all great literature is subversive in some way. A piece of literature in some ways attacks some part of the dominant culture that annoys or irritates the writer or gives some kind of pain. As an analogy, some people have said that an oyster only makes a pearl because it's irritated by the sand. One reason why writers write is because of the irritation caused by some problem. Without sand, we get no pearl. Without the irritation, we have no work.”
— Prof. Grant L. Voth, Ph.D., History of World Literature

 

[LuxObscura]

"It is not things themselves that disturb people, but their opinions and judgments about things."
- Epiktet: Enchiridion chapter 5

"If someone offends you, remember that it is your own opinion that harms you."
- Epiktet: Enchiridion chapter 20

"If someone does wrong, it is their problem. You will be harmed only if you think you are harmed."
- Epiktet: Enchiridion chapter 30

 

[Tripolation]

Foregoing self, the universe grows I.
-Sir Edwin Arnold