favourite quotes?

StarGazerGirl

StarGazerGirl

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"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." ~ Rabindranath Tagore

For a while I found a certain level of peace through volunteering... wherever I could. It's really something special.
 
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animatedoodle

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StarGazerGirl said:
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"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." ~ Rabindranath Tagore

For a while I found a certain level of peace through volunteering... wherever I could. It's really something special.
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Blaze

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StarGazerGirl said:
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"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." ~ Rabindranath Tagore

For a while I found a certain level of peace through volunteering... wherever I could. It's really something special.
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Aye, it's one of the only ways I can bring peace to my mind......

And remember, everyday is a good day to practice compassion....
 
StarGazerGirl

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Blaze said:
Aye, it's one of the only ways I can bring peace to my mind......

And remember, everyday is a good day to practice compassion....
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Yes. Compassion for self and others... to feel it and mean it.

"I am not better than.
I am not less than.
I am not even equal to.
We are one" ~ teal

 
Blaze

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Reading some Voltaire. Truly a wise funny philosopher.

"It's forbidden to kill; therefore all murderer's are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
 
haidee

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I thought of this after reading another thread on quotes, but it was in the humor section, so I figured I'd post it here instead. :sleeping:
Though I'm not religious, it's from the Bible:
PROVERBS 17:28: Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise, and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
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Also the idiom "there are two sides to every story" popped up in my mind yesterday... It's good to remember that, imo.
 
piercethevale

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"Sometimes ya gotta lie, cheat and steal. Lie to save a friend. Cheat death. Steal the heart of the one you love." The late, San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Herb Caen
 
piercethevale

piercethevale

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haidee said:
I thought of this after reading another thread on quotes, but it was in the humor section, so I figured I'd post it here instead. :sleeping:
Though I'm not religious, it's from the Bible:

Also the idiom "there are two sides to every story" popped up in my mind yesterday... It's good to remember that, imo.
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"IT IS BETTER TO REMAIN SILENT AND BE THOUGHT OF AS A FOOL THAN TO OPEN ONES MOUTH AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT" I've forgotten who that is attributed to.
 
piercethevale

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"It's a fierce heavy feeling, thinking something's expected from you but you don't know exactly what it is. Brings forth a weird kind of guilt."
From the movie, "I'm Not There", attributed to Bob Dylan
 
piercethevale

piercethevale

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Blaze said:
Reading some Voltaire. Truly a wise funny philosopher.

"It's forbidden to kill; therefore all murderer's are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
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...but, mostly, only to those of whom the trumpets do play..
...some of us are deaf, and need to count on one finger at a time...

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