Ways of thinking

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Postby yat_chum » Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:28 pm

"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."
Thucydides
     
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:15 am

"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you."
Madame de Tencin
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:10 am

"Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:19 am

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make any sense."
Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - 13th century
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Nov 28, 2011 2:11 pm

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
Malcolm X
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Nov 29, 2011 11:59 am

"Hope is necessary in every condition."
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:12 am

"I have found power in the mysteries of thought."
Euripides (484 B.C. - 406 B.C.)
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:15 am

"Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present."
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:54 am

"I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake."
John Frusciante
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:03 pm

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."
John Maxwell
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Dec 11, 2011 2:51 am

“He who does not venture has no luck.”
Mexican Proverb
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Dec 11, 2011 2:53 am

"Living beings are without number;
I vow to row them to the other shore.

Defilements are without number;
I vow to remove them from myself.

The teachings are immeasurable;
I vow to study and practice them.

The way is very long;
I vow to arrive at the end."

Four vows of the Bodhisattva
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:16 pm

"A finished person is a boring person."
Anna Quindlen
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:25 pm

“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
A. Sachs
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:26 am

"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more."

Christopher Hitchens
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:28 am

“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:18 pm

“Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.”
Christine Bovee
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:15 am

"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:48 am

"The only constant in the universe is change"
Heraclitus of Ephesus (535 BC - 475 BC)
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:31 pm

"Every increased possession loads us with new weariness."
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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