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RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 23-03-2025
Whenever you begin to think that you are a person of influence, try ordering someone else's dog around. - Mark Twain
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 24-03-2025
ÔÇ£So I'm on a little one-man crusade to bring the obituary closer to the front of the paper. Let's sing a bit louder about the unsung. Rather than spending all our time watching stupid people doing stupid things and being filmed by other stupid people on reality TV shows, why don't we spend a few minutes each day reading about good people doing good things? I'm not being a hippy. It's just that we've got to improve ourselves as a species or we are absolutely doomed.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£But I think I want to become part of Scotland when I die. In a coffin, you just turn to dust, so I would prefer to be buried in a wicker casket, or in a sheet like the Africans do, so that I actually become part of the earth. I would like a tree to be planted on top of me.
Billy Connolly
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 25-03-2025
And I told my wife Pamela a long time ago the epitaph that I want on my gravestone: Jesus Christ, is that the time already?
Failing that, I would like an epitaph in writing so tiny that visitors would have to inch right next to my gravestone to read it. It would say: You're standing on my balls.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Life can be tough, and you either give up and moan about it, or you have a go at it.ÔÇØ
Billy Connolly
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 26-03-2025
ÔÇ£Even though everybody knows that when you light up a cigarette God takes an hour off your life and gives it to Keith Richards.ÔÇØ
Billy Connolly
ÔÇ£The library is the temple of learning & learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.ÔÇØ
Carl T. Rowan
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 27-03-2025
ÔÇ£Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.ÔÇØ
Dalai Lama
ÔÇ£This is my simple religion.There is no need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple. The philosophy is kindness.ÔÇØ
Dalai Lama
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 28-03-2025
ÔÇ£The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders & realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.ÔÇØ
Rachel Carson
ÔÇ£What doesn't kill you ÔÇô makes you the proud owner of a bunch of unhealthy coping mechanisms & an alarmingly dark sense of humour.ÔÇØ
Elisabeth Das.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 29-03-2025
ÔÇ£Wherever law ends,tyranny begins.:
John Locke
ÔÇ£Books give a soul to the universe,wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, & life to everything.ÔÇØ
Plato
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 30-03-2025
ÔÇ£Hell is empty & all the devils are here.ÔÇØ
Shakespeare
ÔÇ£Books are the quietest & most constant of friends; they are the most accessible & wisest of counsellors, & the most patient of teachers.ÔÇØ
Charles William Eliot
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 31-03-2025
ÔÇ£All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.ÔÇØ
Dalai Lama
ÔÇ£If you want to be strong, be gentle. If you want to be rich, be generous. If you want to be powerful, be kind. If you want to be wise, be simple.ÔÇØ
Prem Rawat
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 01-04-2025
ÔÇ£Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.ÔÇØ
Anne Herbert
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
Cicero
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 02-04-2025
ÔÇ£The secret of health for both mind & body is not to mourn for the past,nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely & earnestly.ÔÇØ
Thich Nhat Hahn
ÔÇ£A library is not a luxury but one of the necessiities of life.ÔÇØ
Henry Ward Beecher
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 03-04-2025
ÔÇ£The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things.ÔÇØ
Ruth Reichl
ÔÇ£Love & compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.ÔÇØ
Dalai Lama
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 04-04-2025
ÔÇ£Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.ÔÇØ
Desmond Tutu
ÔÇ£There is a saying in Tibetan, ÔÇ£tragedy ishould be utilised as a source of strength. No matter what sort of difficulties, no matter how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.ÔÇØ
Dalai Lama
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 05-04-2025
ÔÇ£Poverty is not a lack of character but a lack of cash.ÔÇØ
Rutger Bergman
ÔÇ£Trauma in a person decontextualised over time,looks like personality. Trauma in a family,decontextualised over time, looks like family traits.
Trauma in a people, decontextualised over time, looks like culture.ÔÇØ
Resma Menakem
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 05-04-2025
ÔÇ£When a clown moves into a palace he doesnÔÇÖt become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus" ÔÇö Turkish proverb
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 05-04-2025
(05-04-2025, 03:02 PM)zqwerty Wrote: ÔÇ£When a clown moves into a palace he doesnÔÇÖt become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus" ÔÇö Turkish proverb
And especially true now!
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 05-04-2025
So Drumph has happened before in other places and other times, and has been noticed and commented on by astute observers.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 06-04-2025
ÔÇ£Serve the people at the bottom. The people at the top don't need your help.ÔÇØ
Yuri Kochimaya
Buddha was askedÔÇØwhat have you gained from meditation?' He replied ÔÇ£Nothing! However let me tell you what I lost:anger,anxiety,depression, fear of old age & death.ÔÇØ
Buddha
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 07-04-2025
ÔÇ£The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abumdance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.ÔÇØ
FDR
ÔÇ£I have no interest in ever coming out. There are enough self opinionated arseholes trying to get their ugly little face in front of you as it is.ÔÇØ
Banksy
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 08-04-2025
ÔÇ£Know well what leads youforward & what holds you back, & choose the path that leads to wisdom.ÔÇØ
Buddha
ÔÇ£The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to himÔÇØ
Schopenhauer