Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Nature does not hurry yet everythuing is accomplished.ÔÇØ
Lao Tzu

ÔÇ£When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.ÔÇØ
Lao Tzu

[Lilith7]

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.ÔÇØ
Lao Tzu

ÔÇ£Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.ÔÇØ
Lao Tzu

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Life comes from the earth & life returns to the earth.ÔÇØ
Zhuangzi

ÔÇ£He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.ÔÇØ
Immanuel Kant

[zqwerty]

   

   

She was beheaded. Guillotined.

ÔÇ£The real damage is done by those millions who want to ÔÇÿsurviveÔÇÖ. The ones who just want to be left in peace. Those who donÔÇÖt want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who wonÔÇÖt take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who donÔÇÖt like to make wavesÔÇöor enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. ItÔÇÖs the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, youÔÇÖll keep it under control. If you donÔÇÖt make any noise, the bogeyman wonÔÇÖt find you.

But itÔÇÖs all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe.

Safe? From what?

Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does.

I choose my own way to burn.ÔÇØ

Sophie Scholl

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Full film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrbBlXqc1Is&t=5563s

[Lilith7]

Never come across her before. But she's right in that those trying to keep quiet, keep the peace, not make waves can do real damage.

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ÔÇ£In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people angry & has been widely regarded as a bad move.ÔÇØ
Douglas Adams

ÔÇ£There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.ÔÇØ
Ernest Hemingway

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£It is not who is right but what is right, that is important.ÔÇØ
Thomas Huxley



ÔÇ£Mostly it is the loss which teaches us about the worth of things.ÔÇØ
Arthur Schopenhauer

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Never argue with someone whose TV is bigger than their bookshelf.ÔÇØ
Emilia Clarke

ÔÇ£The talkers are rising above the thinkers.ÔÇØ
Barbara Kingsolver

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.ÔÇØ
Robin Williams

ÔÇ£You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.ÔÇØ
Robert Heinlein

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.ÔÇØ
Eric Micha'el Leventhal

ÔÇ£I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.ÔÇØ
Leonardo Da Vinci

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, & poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.ÔÇØ
Leonardo Da Vinci

ÔÇ£Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.ÔÇØ
Leonardo Da Vinci

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The painter has the universe in his mind & hands.ÔÇØ
Leonardo Da Vinci

ÔÇ£Study without desire spoils the memory, & it retains nothing that it takes in.ÔÇØ
Leonardo Da Vinci

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.ÔÇØ
Leonardo Da Vinci

ÔÇ£The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.ÔÇØ
Leonardo Da Vinci

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£People speak sometimes about the bestial cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust & offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as man.ÔÇØ
Fyodor Dostoevsky

ÔÇ£The truth was a mirror in the hand of god. It fell & broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, & they looked at it & thought they had the truth.ÔÇØ
Rumi

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£We live in a a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practised in broad daylight.ÔÇØ
John Lennon

ÔÇ£A creative life is an amplified life, a happier life, an expanded life, & a hell of a lot more interesting life.ÔÇØ
Elizabeth Gilbert

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£These days, people know the price of everything & the value of nothing.ÔÇØ
Oscar Wilde

ÔÇ£Boys & girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty; they should be made to feel that nothing gives one human being rights over another, & that jealousy & possesiveness will kill love.ÔÇØ
Bertrand Russell

[zqwerty]

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.

Part of Shakespeare Sonnet 30 about male friendship on reflection at the end of a long life.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Seeing someone reading a book you love is like seeing a book recommending a person.ÔÇØ
Anon

ÔÇ£You will never forget a person who came to you with a torch in the dark.ÔÇØ
M.Rose

[zqwerty]

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda

[zqwerty]

1675 letter by Isaac Newton: "if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.ÔÇØ
C.S.Lewis

ÔÇ£Nobody is going to pour the truth into your head. It's something you have to find for yourself.ÔÇØ
Noam Chonsky