You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
- C. S. Lewis
All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration.
We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.
There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream,
and we are the imagination of ourselves.
- Bill Hicks, American comedian
Every person, all the events in your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
- Richard Bach - "Illusions"
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.
- Edmund Burke
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
- Mark Twain
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- unknown
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
- Spanish Proverb
Love makes time pass. Time makes love pass.
- French Proverb
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
- unknown
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations.
It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
- Karen Casey
1. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.
2. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
3. A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
4. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
5. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
6. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
7. Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
8. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet that person, we will know how to be grateful.
9. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
10. There's always going to be people that hurt you, so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust the next time around.
11. Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try to know someone else and expect them to know you.
12. Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
- (these 12 are from some book or website, don't remember)
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
- Carl Sagan, Astronomer
The burden of proof always rests on the one making an assertion or accusation.
- unknown
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
- Hitchen’s Razor
All religions have been made by men.
- Napoleon Bonaparte, 1760-1821
Before I was enlightened I chopped wood and carried water.
After I became enlightened I chopped wood and carried water.
- Zen teaching
But you who walk facing the sun – what images drawn on the earth can hold you?
- Kahlil Gibrar
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Everything is beautiful, seen by a loving eye.
- C. Morgenstern
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day.
Give him a religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
- Timothy Jones
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
- Dennis Roch
Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
- A. de Saint-Exupéry
If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.
- Kelvin Throop
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Gandhi
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.
- David Hume
Le microbe n’est rien, le terrain est tout. (The microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything.)
- The last words of Louis Pasteur (Father of the “Germ Theory” of disease)
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
- Chinese Proverb
Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a fucking pain in the ass.
- Ricky Gervais
Ignorance is lack of knowledge, stupidity is ignorance with pride.
- unknown
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
- Albert Camus
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
- Benjamin Franklin
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato
"The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, yet more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life, we've added years to life not life to years.
We've done larger things but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; big men and small character.
Remember to say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. Remember to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent. Remember to say "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment, for someday that person will not be there again.
Give time to love, time to listen. Give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind."
- George Carlin
About the fear of germs: "What we have now is a completely neurotic population... Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this? The media, constantly running stories about all the latest infections - salmonella, e-coli, hanta virus, bird flu - and Americans, they panic easily so now everybody's running around, scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs. It's ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths... bunch of goddamn pussies! Besides, what do you think you have an immune system for? It's for killing germs!...Let me tell you a true story about immunization okay? When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know... to cool off! And at that time, the big fear was polio; thousands of kids died from polio every year but you know something? In my neighborhood, no one ever got polio! No one! Ever! You know why? Cause we swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw ***! So personally, I never take any special precautions against germs. I don't shy away from people that sneeze and cough, I don't wipe off the telephone, I don't cover the toilet seat, and if I drop food on the floor, I pick it up and eat it! Yes I do. Even if I'm at a sidewalk café! In Calcutta! The poor section! On New Year's morning during a soccer riot! And you know something? In spite of all that so-called risky behavior, I never get infections, I don't get them, I don't get colds, I don't get flu, I don't get headaches, I don't get upset stomach, you know why? Cause I got a good strong immune system and it gets a lot of practice…"
- George Carlin
