Collected Quotes

1/2 hour with the wind...
by Rui Cardoso

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

~ Warren Buffet


Forests and fields, sun and wind and sky, earth and water, all speak the same language: peace, solitude, silence.

~ Rumi


All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.

~ Galileo


Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

~ Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing would be what it is, Because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise: what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

~ Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, 1865, Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

~ William Faulkner

Open your eyes to the real world around you! Be open to possibilities, don't dismiss anything! But don't accept any old nonsense. We all know there is more to our life than meets the eye.

~ Unknown

Toward the One

~ A traditional Sufi blessing

Every single thing
Changes and is changing
Always in this world.
Yet with the same light
The moon goes on shining.

~ Saigyo

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.

~ Rumi


Those who are willing to be vulnerable, move among mysteries.

~ Theodore Roethke

Again and again some people in the crowd wake up,
They have no ground in the crowd,
And they emerge according to much broader laws.
They carry strange customs with them
And demand room for bold gestures.
The future speaks ruthlessly through them.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying.

~ Elie Faure

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

~ Rabindranath Tagore


We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

~ Carlos Castaneda 1925-1998


We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

~ Aesop


We do not own the land. We belong to it. And by our sweat and breath shall she know us, and welcome us upon our return.

~ Ancient Pueblo Proverb


Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

~ President John F. Kennedy


A Canticle of Echoes

We are as children on this land, a shadow on the still life of time.

We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon the line of history; it does not drift upon the winds of story, or float upon the shrouds of myth. We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones.

~ Kent Nerburn, from his book A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything will appear...as it is, infinite.

~ William Blake

When the legends die, the dreams end. When the dreams end, there is no more greatness.

~ T.S. Eliot

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

~ Zen saying

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been".

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

~ Malcolm X

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

~ Chinese Proverb

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know
peace.

~ Jimi Hendrix


All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently
opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer - Philosopher, 1788-1860

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principal
is contempt prior to investigation.

~ Herbert Spencer

Our lives begin to end,
the day we become silent,
about things that matter.

~ Martin Luther King

But he who gives to others more out of his own will then it is
better for his own self...

~ Koran, (2:184)

Love is the Water of Life
Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.

~ Rumi

The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.

~ Bill Hicks


When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.

~ Chinese Proverb

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

~ Socrates


The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

~ Albert Einstein

One prays for the life of tomorrow
ephemeral life though it be
this is the habit of a mind
that passed away yesterday

~ Master Ikkyu, a 15th century Japanese Zen Master

If you tell the same lie enough times, people will believe it; and the bigger the lie, the better.

~ Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's Minister of Propaganda)

To be rewarded for doing good is to rob goodness of any moral quality. It then becomes good business. It pays to be good. Morality is NOT a commercial enterprise.

~ Rabbi Levi A. Olan

To what
Shall I compare the world?
It is like the wake
Vanishing behind a boat
that has rowed away at dawn.

~ Sami Manzei,
translated by Edward Cranston

Memory is a child walking along the seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.

~ Pierce Harris

Moon-gazing:
Looking at it, it clouds over;
Not looking, it becomes clear.

~ Chora

Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The doors of the hidden land are opened before you…Osiris, conqueror of millions of years, come unto thee.

~ A Passage from the Egyptian Book of What is in the Duat

Whoever controls the Media, controls the mind.

~ Jim Morrison
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what
the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be
replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another
theory which states that this has already happened.

~ Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

~ Chinese Proverb

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