Quotes - Volume 3

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." - Tagore

"A mosquito that bites you and then apologizes is still a mosquito." - Steve Pavlina

"When we share our truth with others, we empower them to find their own peace." - Bruce Muzik

"The scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, in comparison with it, all the systematic thinking of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work." - Einstein

"Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form." - Eckhart Tolle

"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." - Japanese Proverb

"Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from your childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it, and help others live up to it." - The Buddha

"Nothing is more real than nothing." - Samuel Beckett

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance." - Nietzsche

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Bob Marley

"The Matrix cannot tell you who you are."

"...though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." - Emerson

"Perfection is a dead end. A condition of hopelessness. Always strive to be better than anything that came before you, but not perfect." - Bleach episode 200

"I make my own path."

"Any wish is possible, all you need is a little courage to set it free." - Jiminy Cricket

"Words make you think a thought, music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought." – E.Y. Harburg

"For man as for flower & beast & bird the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn & the dead may know they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh...the magnificent here & now of life in the flesh is ours alone & ours for only a time. We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive & in the flesh & part of the living incarnate cosmos." - DH Lawrence

"Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." - T.H. Huxley

"People are addicted to their beliefs. When you try to change someone's belief they act like an addict." - Dr. Bernie S. Siegel (paraphrased)

"There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light." - N.P. Willis

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise." - Tacitus

"If you don't become speechless when looking out into space on a clear night, you are not really looking, not aware of the totality of what is there." - Eckhart Tolle

"Serve yourself / No one else can do for you like you" - Smashing Pumpkins

"If you find yourself wondering if you should stop doing an activity, cancel something, leave a situation or place, quit something, or drop something, then yes, you should!" - Steve Pavlina (paraphrased)

"External reality always reflects back to you your inner state." - Eckhart Tolle

"A flower that blossoms only for a single night does not seem to us on that account less lovely." - Freud

"Smile back at the beauty around you!" (rearranged and severely paraphrased from my textbook {Mark Epstein} and Freud)

"Change is imminent. The question will only be; was it the change you made or the one made for you?" - Kenna

“Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.” - Thomas Merton

"Stop asking 'What should I do now?' That question only brings up what others expect of you. The shoulds are nothing but social programming. Free people don’t have shoulds. They have choices." - Steve Pavlina

"Renunciation is not giving up the things of this world, but accepting that they go away." - Shunryu Suzuki

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”-Vincent van Gogh

"Never stop being overwhelmed by your emotions, don't hide behind anything. Live and grow. Love and Glow." - P-nut

"Do as you will / do as you wish / follow your bliss" - 311

"Being both finite and infinite . . . If there were not such limits in human life, there would be no beauty." - Rollo May

"What is reality? An icicle forming in fire." - Dogen

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” - Lao Tzu

"Remember: Information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best." - Frank Zappa

"Delusion is delicious."

"The jaded ones will wither while the optimistic grow." - Nicholas Lofton Hexum

"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours." - Swedish Proverb

"You must also trust in your own experiences. No one is having the exact same experiences you are having, so you too are a valuable piece to the puzzle of humanity. Respect that your piece is important and is of value to the whole. Share your experiences with others so that they may learn what you have to teach." - Erin Pavlina

"When someone says no to your desires, say no to that aspect of your relationship with them (or to the whole relationship, if necessary)." - Steve Pavlina

"Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it."