Smart Quotes & Thoughts - Page 7

Rev · #61 11-07-2007, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Jess

It's very easy in life to become a skilled marionette dancer. Early on, most people are told who they are and how they should live their lives. With each move they are told to make, another string is lifted. Many people go their whole lives never really making a move of their own. They do the marionette dance for other people's pleasure, and their whole lives are a show.

Some people tire of doing this dance and go off, backstage, to do a dance of their own. They may look awkwardly unchoreographed, but they are moving their limbs of their own accord and are dancing to a music all their own, to their own inner harmony of soul.

While it is easy and comfortable to let others pull the strings for you, there is an inner satisfaction that comes from doing it yourself... an acknowledgment of your own powers that those who remain marionette dancers their whole lives never know....

There is a step beyond this... when you finally SEE that even at this time you were not truly exercising free will.

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Originally Posted by Jess

Remember, as Sydney J. Harris wrote, "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

Very true, as I have recently experienced. Luckily, time heals all wounds.

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Originally Posted by Jess

When you're really ready to make a change in your life, you'll find, as writer Anaiis Nin did, that the "risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

So goes much human transformation.

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Originally Posted by lamedog

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-- Martin Luther King jr.

Actually, this was from Marianne Williamson, later quoted by Nelson Mandela.

(Try picturing Dr. King saying gorgeous & fabulous.

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Jess · #62 12-12-2007, 07:44 PM

Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away...

Jess · #63 12-15-2007, 12:00 AM

SING As though no one can hear you.

DANCE As though no one is watching you.

LIVE As though heaven is on earth.

LOVE As though you've never been hurt before.

Jess · #64 12-15-2007, 12:12 AM

I think her words make a bigger impression when you see how pretty she is... Click on her image thumbnail to get the full size.

"In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin" ~ Ziyi Zhang

Jess · #65 01-23-2008, 01:55 PM

Here's something I learned recently about women, just makes me want to love them more... I'm sure everybody else already knew this.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man pleased with himself...

When a flirt fishes for a man, she fishes merely for the sport...

Why does man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her ?? By: Helen Rowland.

Youpidou1 · #66 01-26-2008, 12:31 AM

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Fish · #67 01-26-2008, 02:09 AM

"écrasez l'infâme"
-Voltaire

"Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something,"
"What are we holding on to, Sam?"
"That theres some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and its worth fighting for."

Samwise to Frodo, The Two Towers

nurvonic · #68 01-26-2008, 06:44 AM

"It's better to burn out than to fade away" -

quoted by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, from a Neil Young song

The Cap · #69 01-26-2008, 07:50 AM

Do not tempt the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose ... but you can't pick your friend's nose.

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you ... it's just that they already love someone better than you.

There are two ways to do anything : my way and the wrong way.

Women ! You can't live with 'em ... hey, pass the beer nuts, will ya ?

You can't put a cat in a microwave oven, no matter how hard you try.

Without experience of the dark, the light cannot be appreciated.

What's love, but a second handy motion ?

Never underestimate the power of the expression of genuine gratitude.

# 6 of 10 Things To Do Before You Die : Jump out of a plane at 20,000 feet without a parachute.

Never name your new Chinese restaurant "Mi Ow".

If you love somebody, set them free. If they don't come back, hunt them down and kill them.

Everything with a beginning must also have an end.

Dammit, Jim ! I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer !

The past is written in stone, the future is written in wet clay.

Love means always having to say "I'm sorry".

rcs · #70 01-26-2008, 03:32 PM

If you don't ask all the right questions, you don't get all the right answers.