Words of Wisdom

[XxgoeyxX]

[I]Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.
Chuang Tzu

Oh this is one of my favorites. I do love that quote and the book as well. Somehow it makes you understand how and why people think the way they do.

[Anushik]

In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our frineds.
Martin Luthar King. JR.

Love- is anterior to life-
Posterior- to Deth
Initial of Creation and
The Exponent of Earth
Emily Dikinson

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan but also believe.
Anatole France

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
Unknown

[XxgoeyxX]

"The whole world is you.
Yet you keep thinking
there is something else..."--Hsueh-Feng

"One day a student asked Taiga, 'What is the most difficult part of painting?' Taiga answered, 'The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult.'"--Painting Zen

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."--Wallace Stevens

[patient_zero]

I dislike blasphemy on purely rational grounds. If there is no God, blasphemy is stupid and unnecessary; if there is, then it's damned dangerous.
- Flan O'Brien

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
- George Deacon

The Lord himself prefers common looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire

The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?
- Judith Hayes

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
- Emo Philips

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
- Yassar Arafat, on going to war over religion

[sSsflamesSs]

I ran across this while planning for my essay.

Thai-Samurai, you're probably familiar with it.

"I have yet to meet a man who is as fond of Virtue as he is of sex." -Confucius

Funny, yet so true.

[Thai-Samurai]

I ran across this while planning for my essay.

Thai-Samurai, you're probably familiar with it.

"I have yet to meet a man who is as fond of Virtue as he is of sex." -Confucius

Funny, yet so true.

I think I came across that one. I have the Wing Tsit-Chan textbook.
I remember this one I liked a lot, it's actually the shorted one in the book.
"When is mat was crooked Confucius did not sit on it." lol

Also the posted one "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire
I wonder if he said that as a joke or if he was being serious.

[Anushik]

"So often we lose sight of the important things in life. Remember, when someone pisses you off, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles in your arm to reach out and b!tch-slap that fudger across the face."
- Navy Ninja -

I love this quote...

[Harut82]

confucious said man who sinks into womans arms soon his his amrs in womans sink

[XxgoeyxX]

Confucious was really confused when he said that. lol. And thanks Anushik. You just reminded me of who and what I was mad at when I posted that. How ironic it was in this thread. Anywho sticking to the subject,
I seem to like this one, I found the other day.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

-Quentin Crisp

[Harut82]

Can I keep you?
Casper

If you want something very, very badly, let it go free.
If it comes back to you, it's yours forever.
If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with.

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.
Fred Savage (Kevin Arnold)
The Wonder Years

You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did.
Marilyn Peterson

I don't love you because I need you. I need you because I love you.Erich Fromm

my favorite>Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. Oscar Levant

Beauty that is unaware of itself is the most beautiful.

How come we don't always know when love begins, but we always know when it ends?

When I told you I loved you, I meant it, but only because I wanted to please you. When I touched you, and my eyes told you I loved you, I meant it because I'm bad at lying.
Claire Breaux

It's funny, isn't it, how you can be surrounded by people and be lonely. Yet one person can bring infinite contentment.
Matthew Yearout

The one that loves the least controls the relationship.
Joseph Behrmann

The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting beside you and knowing you can't have them. me

Lots of good ones here