I find a quote by Red Green to be very apt..."Remember I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together."
Couple that with Geni's "We are all on the Hindenburg so there is no sense fighting over the window seat."
I'd also add Murphy's Law in there too.
Above all be happy, it could always be worse (just think about all those in the past who didn't have the internet!)
Your philosophies
Moderator: Fist and Faith
-
Kinslaughterer
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 2950
- Joined: Fri Jul 04, 2003 3:38 am
- Location: Backwoods
"We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and remember:X never, ever, marks the spot."
- Professor Henry Jones Jr.
"Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."
https://crowcanyon.org/
support your local archaeologist!
- Professor Henry Jones Jr.
"Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."
https://crowcanyon.org/
support your local archaeologist!
-
Lord Mhoram
- Lord
- Posts: 9512
- Joined: Mon Jul 08, 2002 1:07 am
-
Fist and Faith
- Magister Vitae
- Posts: 25464
- Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:14 pm
- Has thanked: 9 times
- Been thanked: 57 times
LM,
Take out the "might" and read those books!!!!!!! I don't imagine I'll ever recommend anything more highly!
And here's how it's said in Conversations With God:
Take out the "might" and read those books!!!!!!! I don't imagine I'll ever recommend anything more highly!
YES! Well said, Joy!Dragonlily wrote:It's easier if you don't expect a particular type of happiness, just trust happiness of some kind to come along. The more specific your hopes, the more likely reality won't match them, but give it some leeway and notice that things that make you happy, find you.Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:Dragonlily: I would rather be eternally wrong and happy to be proven so, than to repeatedly have my hopes shot down. I'm used to being wrong, but I can't stand disappointment. Also, it's very tiring to always be an optimist. I don't know how you people do it!That is the kind of emotional energy I just don't have.
And here's how it's said in Conversations With God:And here's a tiny little website of mine: www.geocities.com/happinessisournaturalstate/GOD: Passion is the love of turning being into action. It fuels the engine of creation. It changes concepts to experience.
Passion is the fire that drives us to express who we really are. Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are and Who You Truly Want to Be.
The renunciate never denies passion - the renunciate simply denies attachment to results. Passion is a love of doing. Doing is being, experienced. Yet what is often created as part of doing? Expectation.
To live your life without expectation - without the need for specific results - that is freedom. That is Godliness. That is how I live.
NEALE: You are not attached to results?
GOD: Absolutely not. My joy is in the creating, not in the aftermath. Renunciation is not a decision to deny action. Renunciation is a decision to deny a need for a particular result. There is a vast difference.
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon
-
ChoChiyo
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 4127
- Joined: Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:32 am
- Location: Middle of a Minnesota Cornfield
Excellent. I really enjoyed that. thanks.Fist and Faith wrote: And here's a tiny little website of mine: www.geocities.com/happinessisournaturalstate/
Empress Cho hammers the KABC of Evil.
"If Ignorance is Bliss, Ann Coulter must be the happiest woman in the universe!"
Take that, you Varlet!
-
Fist and Faith
- Magister Vitae
- Posts: 25464
- Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:14 pm
- Has thanked: 9 times
- Been thanked: 57 times
-
Dragonlily
- Lord
- Posts: 4186
- Joined: Sat Jun 14, 2003 4:39 pm
- Location: Aparanta
- Been thanked: 1 time
- Contact:
-
Lord Mhoram
- Lord
- Posts: 9512
- Joined: Mon Jul 08, 2002 1:07 am
Thank you.
Yeah, LM, those brilliant quotes are from Fisty's page, and they're what inspired me in the first place.
Yeah, LM, those brilliant quotes are from Fisty's page, and they're what inspired me in the first place.
Check out my digital art at www.brian.co.za
-
Dragonlily
- Lord
- Posts: 4186
- Joined: Sat Jun 14, 2003 4:39 pm
- Location: Aparanta
- Been thanked: 1 time
- Contact:
-
Fist and Faith
- Magister Vitae
- Posts: 25464
- Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:14 pm
- Has thanked: 9 times
- Been thanked: 57 times
Thanks, Fisty. And thank you for the inspirational quotes!
Check out my digital art at www.brian.co.za
-
[Syl]
- Unfettered One
- Posts: 13021
- Joined: Sat Oct 26, 2002 12:36 am
- Has thanked: 2 times
- Been thanked: 1 time
Right mind leads to right thought leads to right action leads to right result. Right thought leads to right mind and right action. Right action leads to right thought and right result. Etc.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
-George Steiner
-
Fist and Faith
- Magister Vitae
- Posts: 25464
- Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:14 pm
- Has thanked: 9 times
- Been thanked: 57 times
Thanks, Edge. I forgot how much I enjoyed the "Conversations With God" books. (BTW, anyone who hasn't read these: They had the ring of truth to me, for no smaller reason than the God the author talks to has the same sense of humor as the one I remember talking to as a child.)
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
-- James Madison
"If you're going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise they'll kill you." - George Bernard Shaw
-- James Madison
"If you're going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise they'll kill you." - George Bernard Shaw
-
[Syl]
- Unfettered One
- Posts: 13021
- Joined: Sat Oct 26, 2002 12:36 am
- Has thanked: 2 times
- Been thanked: 1 time
Centered, harmonious, beneficial
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
-George Steiner
-
Worm of Despite
- Lord
- Posts: 9546
- Joined: Sat Oct 26, 2002 7:46 pm
- Location: Rome, GA
- Contact:
-
Fist and Faith
- Magister Vitae
- Posts: 25464
- Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:14 pm
- Has thanked: 9 times
- Been thanked: 57 times
Yeah.Plissken wrote:Thanks, Edge. I forgot how much I enjoyed the "Conversations With God" books. (BTW, anyone who hasn't read these: They had the ring of truth to me, for no smaller reason than the God the author talks to has the same sense of humor as the one I remember talking to as a child.)
Here's one of my favorite humorous moment:NEALE: Whew! You inspire me!
GOD: Well, if God can’t inspire you, who in hell can?
NEALE: Are You always this flip?
GOD: I meant that not as a flippancy. Read it again.
NEALE: Oh. I see.
GOD: Yes. However, it would be okay if I were being flip, wouldn’t it?
NEALE: I don’t know. I’m used to my God being a little more serious.
GOD: Well, do Me a favor, and don’t try to contain Me. By the way, do yourself the same favor.
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon
-
lurch
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 2694
- Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:46 pm
- Location: Dahm dahm, dahm do dahm obby do
Philosophies??
...WTF?...philosophies??..well when you all get up to the age for the need of maximum Grecian Formula,,,one has the ability to look back on things...
Philosophies? Here goes..Eat green leafy vegetables at least once a day..and related..have a bowel movement at least once a day..and while we're at it..a glass of wine or some spirits once a day is a good idea too!..and ,,oh yea,,brush after every meal..Just DO IT!,,you'll thank me later.
...What else.oh yea..Upon becoming nothing,,one realizes that becoming anything, means becoming everything...
...and aaa..children are born ugly, we really need to improve apon that..Most of us do as we age,,but some of you..jeeeezuz!
..lets see, what else...there is no final answer,,life is a constant exploration. so there Alex Trebek,,
..and the really important one...If you're at work and its after 11 a.m. on a friday..do not answer the phone or open any e-mail...if ya know whats good for ya....otherwise,,Frank Sinatra had it right..."God Father! I'll do anything , if you make this happen for my career,,anything!.............MEL
Philosophies? Here goes..Eat green leafy vegetables at least once a day..and related..have a bowel movement at least once a day..and while we're at it..a glass of wine or some spirits once a day is a good idea too!..and ,,oh yea,,brush after every meal..Just DO IT!,,you'll thank me later.
...What else.oh yea..Upon becoming nothing,,one realizes that becoming anything, means becoming everything...
...and aaa..children are born ugly, we really need to improve apon that..Most of us do as we age,,but some of you..jeeeezuz!
..lets see, what else...there is no final answer,,life is a constant exploration. so there Alex Trebek,,
..and the really important one...If you're at work and its after 11 a.m. on a friday..do not answer the phone or open any e-mail...if ya know whats good for ya....otherwise,,Frank Sinatra had it right..."God Father! I'll do anything , if you make this happen for my career,,anything!.............MEL