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Various Quotes

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
~Henry David Thoreau

"Those who awaken never rest in one place.
Like swans, they rise and leave the lake.
On the air they rise and fly an invisible course.
Their food is knowledge.
They live on emptiness.
They have seen how to break free.
Who can follow them?"
- Buddha in the Dhammapada

"Consider the world light,
And the spirit is not burdened;
Consider the myriad things slight,
And the mind is not confused.
Consider life and death equal,
And the intellect is not afraid;
Consider change as sameness,
And clarity is not obscured."
~Lao-tzu

"The Poet bears a likeness to that prince of the air,
who mocks at slingshots, and haunts the winds:
on earth, an exile among the scornful, where
he is hampered, in walking, by his giant wings."
~The Albatross, Baudelaire

"Jewels are tested with fire, gold is tested with a stone; a sword is tested with a hair, water is tested with a pole. In the school of the patchrobed monks, in one word, one phrase, one act, one state, one exit, one entry, one encounter, one response, you will see whether someone is deep or shallow, you will see whether he is facing forwards or backwards. But tell me, what will you use to test him with?"
~Yuan-wu

"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip."
~Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
~Carl Jung

"People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice."
~Ted Williams

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
~Japanese proverb

It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Flowers of ice
Hide the heavens
No more blue sky
A silver dust
Buries all the fields
And sinks the green mountains
Once the sun
Comes out on the one
Mountaintop
Even the cold
That pierces the bone
Is a joy"
- Muso Soseki (1275-1351)

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly, angrily.
~Celeste Holm

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.
~Mark Twain

Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.
~David Bower

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
~Deepak Chopra

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things."
~David & Leigh Eddings, Polgara the Sorceress

"When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; and the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed. On every act the balance of the whole depends."
~Ursula K. LeGuin, The Farthest Shore

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. "
- Albert Einstein

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.
~Ashleigh Brilliant

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
~Albert Einstein

By day the sun shines,
And the warrior in his armor shines.
By night the moon shines,
And the master shines in meditation.
But day and night
The one who is awake
Shines in the radiance of the spirit.
~Buddha in the Dhammapada

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
~Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. "
~Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on Me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'"
~John Wing

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
~Mahatma Gandhi

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
~Abraham Lincon

What is of all things most yielding
Can overcome that which is most hard,
Being substanceless, it can enter in
Even where there is no crevice.
That is how I know the value
Of action which is actionless.
But that there can be teaching without words,
Value in action which is actionless
Few indeed can understand.
~Lao Tzu

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
~Mark Twain

You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn.
~Benjamin Franklin

When you have the will to succeed, you will somehow find a way, regardless of the obstacles you encounter!
~Napoleon Hill

"I'm not going to change who I am for other people. Like me for who I am now, or don't like me. And if you can't like me for who I am now, then you can just go to hell."
~Craig Miller

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
~Ernest Hemingway

"The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you."
~Mary Doria Russell

"Experince is simply the name we give our mistakes."
- Oscar Wilde

"Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it"
~Unknown

"Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody" - Mark Twain

"Do not search out the Dragon to slay him, but instead to find love within his heart"
-Guiding Eagle

"The only thing that is yours, is your soul;
everything else is borrowed."
-Shadowmind

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
-H.P. Lovecraft

"No one holds command over me.
No man. No god. No prince.
What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal?
What is a claim of power for ones who defy death?
Call your damnable hunt.
We shall see who I drag screaming to hell with me."
-Gunter Dorn, Das Ungeheuer Darin. Vampire the Masquerade 2nd Edition Book

"Night has patterns that can be read
less by the living than by the dead."
-Dean Koontz

"In the real world, as in dreams,
nothing is quite what it seems."
-Dean Koontz

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes back."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
~Anais Nin (1903-1977)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
~James Branch Cabell

"Before thinking about where you're going, you gotta remember where you've been and who helped you reach there."
~Joel Perez

If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who we really are.
~Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
~T. S. Eliot

"We can be the captain of our ship, but not of the sea."
~Sliders

He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.
~Henry B. Wilson

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