Sayings & Quotes

[zqwerty]

Whenever you begin to think that you are a person of influence, try ordering someone else's dog around. - Mark Twain

[Lilith7]

“So I'm on a little one-man crusade to bring the obituary closer to the front of the paper. Let's sing a bit louder about the unsung. Rather than spending all our time watching stupid people doing stupid things and being filmed by other stupid people on reality TV shows, why don't we spend a few minutes each day reading about good people doing good things? I'm not being a hippy. It's just that we've got to improve ourselves as a species or we are absolutely doomed.”

“But I think I want to become part of Scotland when I die. In a coffin, you just turn to dust, so I would prefer to be buried in a wicker casket, or in a sheet like the Africans do, so that I actually become part of the earth. I would like a tree to be planted on top of me.
Billy Connolly

[Lilith7]

And I told my wife Pamela a long time ago the epitaph that I want on my gravestone: Jesus Christ, is that the time already?
Failing that, I would like an epitaph in writing so tiny that visitors would have to inch right next to my gravestone to read it. It would say: You're standing on my balls.”

“Life can be tough, and you either give up and moan about it, or you have a go at it.”

Billy Connolly

[Lilith7]

“Even though everybody knows that when you light up a cigarette God takes an hour off your life and gives it to Keith Richards.”
Billy Connolly


“The library is the temple of learning & learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”
Carl T. Rowan

[Lilith7]

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
Dalai Lama

“This is my simple religion.There is no need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple. The philosophy is kindness.”
Dalai Lama

[Lilith7]

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders & realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
Rachel Carson

“What doesn't kill you – makes you the proud owner of a bunch of unhealthy coping mechanisms & an alarmingly dark sense of humour.”
Elisabeth Das.

[Lilith7]

“Wherever law ends,tyranny begins.:
John Locke

“Books give a soul to the universe,wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, & life to everything.”
Plato

[Lilith7]

“Hell is empty & all the devils are here.”
Shakespeare

“Books are the quietest & most constant of friends; they are the most accessible & wisest of counsellors, & the most patient of teachers.”
Charles William Eliot

[Lilith7]

“All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.”
Dalai Lama

“If you want to be strong, be gentle. If you want to be rich, be generous. If you want to be powerful, be kind. If you want to be wise, be simple.”
Prem Rawat

[Lilith7]

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
Anne Herbert

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
Cicero

[Lilith7]

“The secret of health for both mind & body is not to mourn for the past,nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely & earnestly.”
Thich Nhat Hahn

“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessiities of life.”
Henry Ward Beecher

[Lilith7]

“The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things.”
Ruth Reichl

“Love & compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
Dalai Lama

[Lilith7]

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
Desmond Tutu

“There is a saying in Tibetan, “tragedy ishould be utilised as a source of strength. No matter what sort of difficulties, no matter how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”
Dalai Lama

[Lilith7]

“Poverty is not a lack of character but a lack of cash.”
Rutger Bergman

“Trauma in a person decontextualised over time,looks like personality. Trauma in a family,decontextualised over time, looks like family traits.
Trauma in a people, decontextualised over time, looks like culture.”
Resma Menakem

[zqwerty]

“When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus" — Turkish proverb

[Lilith7]

“When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus" — Turkish proverb

And especially true now!

[zqwerty]

So Drumph has happened before in other places and other times, and has been noticed and commented on by astute observers.

[Lilith7]

“Serve the people at the bottom. The people at the top don't need your help.”
Yuri Kochimaya


Buddha was asked”what have you gained from meditation?' He replied “Nothing! However let me tell you what I lost:anger,anxiety,depression, fear of old age & death.”
Buddha

[Lilith7]

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abumdance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
FDR

“I have no interest in ever coming out. There are enough self opinionated arseholes trying to get their ugly little face in front of you as it is.”
Banksy

[Lilith7]

“Know well what leads youforward & what holds you back, & choose the path that leads to wisdom.”
Buddha

“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him”
Schopenhauer