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Wisdom Quotes
Say what you mean and act how you feel,
because those who matter don't mind,
and those who mind don't matter.
~ Dr Seuss ~
"The greatest lesson of relationship
is to learn to love without pain.
Pain is the result of unmet expectations,
of entering a relationship with the need to get
rather than simply enjoy."
~ from 'Cease To Need' by Almine ~
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
"The mirror is a worthless invention.
The only way to truly see yourself
is in the reflection of someone else's eyes."
~ Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist ~
"I want to know God's thoughts ...
the rest are details."
~ Albert Einstein ~
"Talk too deeply, and you'll talk alone."
~ Steve Young on ESPN's Gameday ~
"Your heart is free,
have the courage to follow it."
~ Braveheart ~
"Be still and know."
~ Aristotle ~
"There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for?
What is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same... Only love."
~ From the film Don Juan DeMarco, 1995 ~
"When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants, and murderers,
and for a time they can seem invincible,
but in the end they always fall, always."
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come close to the conclusion that
the gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
~ Albert Einstein ~
"A principle intention of an emotion
is to connect our animal nature with the world in which it is embedded.
Emotions respond immediately to the truth of things.
They are the most alert form of attention.
Disgust turns away from decay, fear warns of danger,
desire recognizes beauty, and pity responds to need. ...
[One lets] emotion guide behavior into participation with things as they appear."
~ James Hillman, from:
'Emotion: A Comprehensive Phenomenology of Theories
and Their Meanings for Therapy', 1960 ~
"Every man dies,
but not every man really lives."
~ Braveheart ~
"The greatest success
is successful self-acceptance."
~ Author Unknown ~
"Understand that all your emotions and behaviors
come directly from your thoughts."
~ Wayne Dyer ~
"If we follow how emotions actually work,
we begin to realize that they come to us from elsewhere,
the not-me, enter our premises,
and enchant us into their condition.
Blake also called emotions "divine influxes,"
suggesting that they are the way the Gods flow into the soul,
moving it to a more-than-human condition of excitement and fury,
of sorrow and mourning, of folly and ecstatic desire."
~ James Hillman ~
"If you f**k up, don't freak out
If you freak out, don't f**k up."
~ Another Musician's Rule Of The Road ~
"The first take
is always the best."
~ A Musician's Rule Of The Studio ~
"For all my fear is camouflage
My rage is the fuel of my truth telling
My demons are at home now
All my days and nights are for Love."
~ Kenny Loggins ~
"Do or do not...
there is no try"
~ Yoda ~
"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering.
Out of a fear of the unknown,
they prefer suffering that is familiar."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~
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