Quotes - Volume 2

"If you want my opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it to you in a nutshell: the universe is like a safe to which there is a key. But the key is locked up in the safe." - Peter de Vries

"Four Rules for Life: Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results." - Angeles Arrien

"Only infinite patience produces immediate effects." - from The Disappearance of the Universe

"The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do." - Andrew Carnegie

"Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream."
— Jack Kerouac

"Risk more than others think is safe, care more than others think is wise, dream more than others think is practical, expect more than others think is possible." - Cadet maxim, USMA, West Point, NY

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
- Hamlet

“If ever there is a tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you.” - Winnie the Pooh

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Nietzsche

"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem." - Krishnamurti

"Your connections can only be maintained by your consent. Say NO to dull, distracting, or destructive relationships." - Steve Pavlina

"Whether or not you are engaged in a lot of 'doing' in your life, 'being'
is primary. If you lose touch with being, you lose yourself in your
mind, you lose yourself in doing, and you won't do any good for anybody,
really." - Eckhart Tolle

"For long years a bird in a cage,
today, flying along with the clouds." - Zen saying

"Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't." - Rick Warren

"you need to understand / there's nothing fake about this / you need to let me in / I'm watching you / I'll be waving my hand watching you drown / watching you scream / quiet or loud / maybe you should sleep / maybe you just need a friend / as clumsy as you've been / there's no one laughing / you will be safe in here" - Our Lady Peace

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - Booker T. Washington

"Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement...get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed." - Abraham Joshua Heschel

"I've been seeing a lot of vanilla skies lately..." - Kristy

"When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible." - Tina Lifford

"If you go into a forest with your mind only, you'll only notice the sounds and the mind will try to interpret them. You might think you're present; but you're not really, you're simply judging what you hear. But if you become aware of the silent dimension underneath the sounds and in between the sounds, then you become present because the moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent." - Eckhart Tolle

"Heading home at dusk, squeezing between enclosing storms.
Electric blue ahead, otherworldly lightning and white to navy clouds surround.
Unforeseen goosebumps and a glimpse of reality." - Kristy

"By focusing on the negative aspects of change, (people) see such changes as too risky, so they remain where they are. The status quo has consequences too, however. It's unwise to dismiss potential changes out of hand without also considering the consequences of staying put." - Steve Pavlina

"When I was five years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life." - Unknown

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way." - Virginia Woolf

"The learners shall inherit the earth while the learned will be beautifully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer

"Nonduality is the understanding that identification with common dualisms (Mind/Matter, Self/Other, Conscious/Unconscious, Illusion/Reality, Quantum/Classical, Wave/Particle, Spiritual/Material, Beginning/End, Male/Female, Living/Dead and Good/Evil) avoids recognition of a deeper reality." - scienceandnonduality.com

"I'll lay roses at your feet / 'till you decide there is something great in you" - The Smashing Pumpkins

"Science is not only a disciple of reason, but, also, one of romance and passion." - Stephen Hawking

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"The most beautiful, perfect sound, in my world, is the sound of waves crashing." - Kristy

"Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious." - Bill Meyer

"The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay."