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 This
collection of witty wisdom quotes (aprox. 450 quotes) is the result of
working through 6 major quotes books, books of my personal library, many
comprehensive internet collections, by surfing private homepages, or using
some of my own thoughts and quotes. Alltogether a first harvest, having
read some 60,000 Western and Eastern quotes. My only criteria were that
the quote had to make me smile, wow or thoughtful. I avoided those with
too much superficial holiness and moral doctrine. Hope you enjoy what I've
found. For an easier navigation I sorted the quotes by keywords, sub-categories
('heavy weights',.'own
quotes',.'quotes
entry')) and even a kind of personal rating. You are actually at the
'the
leight weights section'. The quotes pages
will be extended every couple of months. For returning visitors we marked
newly added quotes with (n).and
the date behind. So have a look from time to time to get some new mind
food.
- Feel invited to copy your favorite quotes,
but don't republish the whole collection :-) |
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"A proverb is a short sentence based on
long experience.".-
Miguel de Cervantes
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favorite quote
- The subdivision in 'heavy' and 'light' shouldn't
be taken too seriously. The criteria are completely subjective. At the
end they are either all 'heavy weights', all 'light weights' or sometimes
this and sometimes that. It completely depends on the circumstances and
where one stands. (That's wisdom already)
- In case you find any double entries
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Act
"However many holy words you read, how many you speak, what good will
they do you if you do not act upon them?"..(n).9-00
- The Buddha |
Action
"True strength is the flower of Wisdom, but its seed is action.".
.(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Activist
"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist
is the man who cleans up the river."
- Ross Perot |
Admit
"To admit you don't know everything is the first step on the road to
wisdom."
- author unknown |
Adults
"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults."
- Brian Aldiss |
Adventure
"Adventure is not outside a man, it is within.".+
- David Grayson |
Agreement
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
- Oscar Wilde |
Alone
"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone
can be.".+
- Ellen Burstyn |
Alone
"Spend some time alone every day."..(n).9-00
- The Dalai Lama |
Alone
"When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value
the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves." .+
- Eda LeShan |
Alternative Web
"The only alternative to prevent the net from becoming a mere market
place is to create alternative websites, sharing and exchanging one's personal
thoughts and insights. There are millions of spiritual seekers and religious
people all over the world. Imagine the changes and possibilities if all
of them would build their own sites! Start now!".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Anger
"Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing
it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
- The Buddha |
Art
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
- Michelangelo |
Art
"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious." .+
- Jean Cocteau |
Art
" What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something
which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. That
art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who artists.
But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp
or the house be an art object, but not your life?"
- Michael Foucault |
Artificial
"Our artificial man-made 'reality' is seen more and more as 'natural'.
Will what we still call natural once be understood as artificial?.(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Atheism
"Atheism is a non-prophet organization.".+
- author unknown |
Authority
"Often it's better to stay in the background. Sometimes it's one's
duty to show some spiritual pride. But a spiritual authority needs neither
this nor that. He simply is.".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
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Backwards
"Don't go backwards, you have already been there."..(n)
9-00
- Ray Charles |
Balance
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding
on."
- Havelock Ellis |
Beauty
"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibration
of beauty."
- Christopher Morley |
Beauty
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
- Franz Kafka |
Beauty
"There is beauty everywhere. Just put your heart into your eyes.".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Begin
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.".+
- Chinese Proverb |
Believe
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not
believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do
not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious
books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers
and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed
down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you
find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and
benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
- The Buddha |
Believe
"When you are educated, you'll believe only half of what you hear.
When you're intelligent, you know which half."..(n).9-00
- Jerome Perryman |
Big Song
"One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes
in a great big song!"..(n).9-00
- Woody Guthrie |
Books
"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can
get through, but rather how many can get through to you."..(n).9-00
- Mortimer J. Adler |
Books
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food
and clothes."..(n).9-00
- Erasmus |
Brain
"A piece of brain the size of a grain of rice
contains 1 million nerve cells, 10 billion synapses and 20 MILES of axons.
Each of these nerve cells both 'hears from' and 'talks to' 10,000 other
cells."
- Newsletter, The Salk Institute
for Biological Studies |
Brainpower
"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."
- Barbara Jordan |
Buddhism
"If you have no feelings about worldly things, they are all Buddhism;
if you have feelings about Buddhism, it is a worldly thing."
- Zen Saying |
Buddhist
"Don't be a Buddhist - be a Buddha!".+
- author unknown |
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Caring
"Caring for others is great. Sometimes not-caring can also be a kind
of care.".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Cause & Effect
"Most people know about cause and effect, but
just few handle this wisely and act accordingly." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Challenge
"Life is a constant challenge to know oneself."..(n).9-00
- Sri Rajneesh, AKA Osho |
Change
"The most unchangeable truth is change." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Change
"Change is not merely necessary to life. It is life."
- Alvin Toffler |
Change
"Not everything you face in life can be changed, but you can change
nothing until you have faced it."
- author unknown |
Change
"We are tomorrow's past.".+
- Mary Webb |
Check
"When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for
your problems."..(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Child Mind
"Great is the man who does not lose his child mind.".+
- Meng-Tse |
Children
"Some children are wiser than adults."..(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Church
"Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God."
- Lenny Bruce |
Cleverness
"Cleverness is not wisdom."
- Euripides |
Closed Mind
"A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood."
- Chinese Proverb |
Cold
"Only when the cold sets in do you notice the pines and cypresses turning
green."..(n).9-00
- Chinese Saying |
Comedy
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.".+
- Peter Ustinov |
Common Sense
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even
if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own
common sense.".+
- The Buddha |
Compassion
"To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion."
- Albert Camus |
Concept
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.".+
- Ansel Adams |
Conquer
"You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments;
then the wind blows your footprints away."
- Arlene Blum |
Consciousness
"The mind is an iceberg - it floats with only one-seventh of its bulk
above water."
- Sigmund Freud |
Conservative
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who refuses to
walk forward."..(n).9-00
- Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Continuity
"Today is yesterday's pupil."
- Benjamin Franklin |
Convention
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Course
"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights
of every passing ship."
- Omar N. Bradley |
Crazy Wisdom
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."
- Aristotle |
Creativity
"The best way to predict your future is to create it.".+
- Peter Drucker |
Criticize
"Don't criticize what you can't understand." +..(n).9-00
- Bob Dylan |
Cultivation
"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
- Cicero |
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Dance
"My life is a my song; I choose to dance to it with Light, Laughter
and Love."..(n).9-00
- Kathryn~WindWillow |
Dance
"Love is the music of the Universe ... just dance."..(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Dare
"To dare is to lose your "foothold" for a moment. Not to dare is to
lose yourself."..(n).9-00
- Sören Kierkegaard |
Death
"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.".+
- W H Auden |
Death
"There is but one way to be born but a hundred
ways to die."
- Chinese proverb |
Depth
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."..(n)
9-00
- Ralph Emerson |
Detail
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence
will come.".+
- Perry Paxton |
Different
"People have one thing in common: they are all different.".+
- Robert Zend |
Discover
"Your work is to discover and then with all your heart to give yourself
to it."..(n).9-00
- The Buddha |
Discovery
"The real voyage of discovery lies not in finding new lands, but in
seeing with new eyes"..(n)
9-00
- Marcel Proust |
Discrepancy
"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius
and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less
talent might not have been better." +..(n).9-00
- C. G. Jung |
DNA
".....there are approximately 125 billion miles
of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around
the earth 5 million times."
- Jeremy Narby |
Double Truth
"The double truth of feeling totally unimportant and at the same time
of uppermost importance is of great help in mastering life in it's various
aspects.".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Dream
"A Dream Is A Wish That Our Heart Makes."
- author unknown |
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Education
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open mind."..(n).9-00
- Malcolm S. Forbes |
Education
"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've
got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go." +..(n).9-00
- Timothy Leary |
Egg
"A hen is just an egg's way of making another egg."..(n).9-00
- Samuel Butler |
Ego
"Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.".+
- Diana Black |
Ego
"The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological
tests.".(n)
9-00
- Alan Watts |
Encouragement
"Sometimes too much encouragement by others or towards others can bring
creativity and spiritual development to a stand still.".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Enlighten
"You cannot enlighten the unconscious."
- Robert Mellott |
Enlightenment
"There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a
heart."
- Lao Tzu |
Essential
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential
is invisable to the eye."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Establishment
"The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger
of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to
the establishment.".+
- Timothy Leary |
Examine
"Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist."..(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Experience
"Even a high experience is worth nothing, when
not polished and kept warm." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Experience
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
- Emily Dickinson |
Experience
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection which is
noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience,
which is the bitterest."
- Confucius |
Experience
"Wisdom can be encreased by books and teachings. But lasting wisdom
is rooted in mind research and experience.".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Exploration
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of
the shore for a very long time.".+
- André Gide |
Expression
"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision
and its ultimate expression."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Eye for Eye
"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.".+
- Mahatma Gandhi |
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Face Yourself
"No matter where you go, there you are.".+
- Jackie Mason |
Failure
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
We get very little wisdom from success, you know." +..(n).9-00
- William Saroyan |
Faith
"Much knowledge of divine things is lost to us through want of faith.".+
- Heraclitus |
Fear
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
- Marie Curie |
Fear
"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." +..(n)
9-00
- Michael Pritchard |
Fears
"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."
- Alfred Hitchcock |
Forget
"Forget injuries, Never forget kindnesses."
- author unknown |
Free
"The best things in life are free, but it costs alot to find that out.".+
- author unknown |
Freedom
"Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions."
- Clarance Darrow |
Friends
"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.".+
- Oprah Winfrey |
Friendship
"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I
may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus |
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Galaxy
"From far away our galaxy may have the importance
of a neutrino." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Generosity
"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never
find it out."
- author unknown |
Getting
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke
of luck." +..(n).9-00
- The Dalai Lama (?) |
Giving
"Those who give only when asked have already waited too long."
- author unknown |
Giving
"Giving without expectations not just brings
highest joys but finds always a friendly karmic echo." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Good
"Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate
result of your life."
- Grenville Kleiser |
Good Ideas
"Good ideas is like mushrooms, where you find one you often find more."..(n).9-00
- Hans Carossa |
Goodness
"Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will
come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled."..(n).9-00
- The Buddha |
Growth
"Don't go through life, GROW through life.".+
- Eric Butterworth |
Growth
"Growth begins when we start to accept our own
weakness."
- Jean Vanier |
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Happiness
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the
life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by
being shared."
- The Buddha |
Happiness
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
- The Dalai Lama |
Happiness
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."
- Roy M. Goodman |
Happiness
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just
be happy.".+
- author unknown |
Happiness
"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the
rain.".+
- author unknown |
Happiness
"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."
- Sophocles |
Happiness
"Happiness is not a place - it is a direction."
- Bill Sands |
Happiness
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it
under his feet." +..(n).9-00
- James Oppenheim |
Head
"Use your head, or somebody else might."..(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Heart
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller |
Heart
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a
touch that never hurts."..(n).9-00
- Charles Dickens |
Helping
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t
help them, at least don’t hurt them.".+
- The Dalai Lama |
History
"We learn from history that we don't learn anything from history."
+..(n).9-00
- Bernard Shaw |
Home
"Home is not where you live, it's where people understands you." +..(n).9-00
- Chr. Morgenstern |
Home
"Expanding and experiencing the mind is like coming home, while the
former 'home' becomes more and more unimportant.".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
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Ideals
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given
me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and
truth.".+
- Albert Einstein |
Ideals
"Ideals are like stars. We never reach them but, like the mariners
on the sea, we chart our course by them."
- Carl Schurz |
Ideals
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.".+
- Les Brown |
Ideals
"We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
- Oscar Wilde |
Ignorance
"The only thing that costs more money than education is ignorance.".+
- author unknown |
Ignorance
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
- Derek Bok |
Imagination
"Imagination arises in between our eyebrows,
not from the intellect." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Imagination
"The man who has no imagination has no wings.".+
- Muhammad Ali |
Imagination
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." +..(n).9-00
- Jules de Gaultier |
Impossible
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."..(n).9-00
- Ray Bradbury |
Inferior
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your
consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt |
Innovative
"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your
mind, but how to get old ones out." +..(n).9-00
- Dee Hock |
Insight
"Hindsight is good, foresight is better, but insight is the best of
all."
- author unknown |
Insight
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.".+
- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Insignificant
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum
star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe
in which there are far more galaxies than people." +..(n).9-00
- Carl Sagan |
Inspiration
"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There
is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks."..(n).9-00
- Johann G. von Herder |
Integrety
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."..(n).9-00
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Intellect
"There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually
and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience."..(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Internet
"The Internet is like a living window into human consciousness and
perhaps even to the divine... if we can attune to it... we might well contribute
to a glittering awakening on a cosmic level. We can be on-line with ourselves
and the world all the time!"
- John Osborne |
Intuition
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten
the gift."
- Albert Einstein |
Intuition
"Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you."
- Morgan Llewllyn |
Journey
"The perfect journey is circular - the joy of departure and the joy
of return."
- Dino Basili |
Judgment
"There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment.".+
- Malcolm Hein |
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Keep Moving
"Even if your on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there."
- Will Rogers |
Kindness
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates
profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
- Lao Tzu |
Kindness
"Life is too short not to be kind to others.".+
- author unknown |
Kindness
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- author unknown |
Kindness
"Kindness gives birth to kindness.".+
- Sophocles |
Kindness
"Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the dumb can understand."
- Paramahansa Yogananda |
Kindness
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless."
- author unknown |
Kindness
"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
- J. W. von Goethe |
Kindness
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
- Seneca |
Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind.
The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
- Henry James |
Knowing
"A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything." +..(n).9-00
- African Proverb |
Knowing Better
"Don't blow up your ego by getting addicted to knowing everything better.
Even if you do it's often wiser to keep your mouth shut and give others
the chance and time to find things out by themselves.".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Knowledge
"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.".+
- John F. Kennedy |
Knowledge/Wisdom
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the
other helps you make a life.".+
- Sandra Carey |
Knowledge/Wisdom
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege
of wisdom to listen."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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Laughter
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
- Victor Borge |
Learning
"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant
and kindness from the unkind."
- Kahlil Gibran |
Lesson
"When you lose, don't lose the lesson." +..(n).9-00
- The Dalai Lama |
Let go
"Breathe when you breathe. Walk where you walk. Talk when you talk.
Cry when you cry. Die when you die. Let go when you let go..."
- Allen Ginsberg |
Let go
"Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself."
- Zen saying |
Letting Go
"It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself
back."..(n).9-00
- Mick Jagger |
Life
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait
so long to begin it."
- author unknown |
Life
"Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway."
- Elbert Hubbard |
Life
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
- author unknown |
Life
"Life is not about what you've gained, but what you've done....."..(n).9-00
- Wong Ka Kui |
Life
"Do you believe in life before death?"..(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Life
"Life is a Tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think."
+..(n).9-00
- Jean de la Brvyere |
Live!
"All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it."
- J. W. von Goethe |
Light/Hope
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
- Charles A. Beard |
Limits of Logic
"You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples
are in the seed.".+
- Ken Kesey |
Listen
"The Universe has many voices. Just listen."..(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Living
"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a
little flower."
- Hans Christian Anderson |
Love
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Love
"Love creates an "us" without destroying a "me.".+
- author unknown |
Love
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outwards
together in the same direction."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Love
"Love lights it's own path. It never get's lost on it's way home."
- author unknown |
Love
"Love people and use things, don't love things and use people."..(n).9-00
- Art DeMoss |
Love
"A life filled with love must have some thorns, but a life empty of
love will have no roses."
- author unknown |
Love
"Avoid this dangerous mix of personal (grasping),
spiritual and selfless love. Most of the time it ends in frustration."
(t)
- Hans Taeger |
Love
"With imagination we can capture infinity. With love we can make infinity
worth imagining."..(n)9-00
- Brian Henke |
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Magic
"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government
and business." +..(n).9-00
- Tom Robbins |
Man
"Man - a being in search of meaning.".+
- Plato |
Man
"A man is a little soul carrying around a corpse."
- M. Aurelius |
Master
"Be master OF mind rather than mastered BY mind."..(n).9-00
- Zen Saying |
Meditation
"No need for special meditation rooms or temples.
You can even meditate by driving a car, having a conversation or working
at the computer." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Meditation
"Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with
your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense
world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever
- can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result."..(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Mental Workshop
"I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like
having a mental workshop."..(n).9-00
- Jack Youngblood |
Mind-Activity
"Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up."
- Frank Zappa |
Mind-Activity
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp
the world, but to change it."
- Colin Wilson |
Mindrepair
"Many open minds should be closed for repairs.".+
- Toledo Blade |
Miracle
"There are two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is
a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein |
Modesty
"No really great man ever thought himself so."
- William Hazlitt |
Modesty
"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
- Henry David Thoreau |
Money
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they
don't want, to impress people they don't like.".+
- Will Rogers |
Money
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money.".+
- Jean Louis Agassiz |
Motivation/Work
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
- Richard Bach |
Move!
"All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy
where you are, MOVE."
- Timothy Leary |
Mystery
"No mystery is closed to an open mind."..(n).9-00
- author unknown |
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Narrow
"The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts."..(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Nature
"Nature is a mutual cloud, which is always and never the same."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nature
"All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying
- trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are
rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me."
- Laurie Anderson |
New Age
"We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between
the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual
and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of
humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal
of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at
the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among
cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way
to create a new order for the world."
- Václav Havel |
New Age
"It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able
to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around
the world."
- Jon Anderson |
New Age
"What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace,
lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment
of themselves and others."
- Sogyal Rinpoche |
New Age
"The unrest you are experiencing is not individual psychological difficulty
but rather, part of a widespread spiritual awakening."
- Carol Osborn |
New Ideas
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened
of the old ones."
- John Cage |
Nonessentials
"The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.".+
- Lin Yutang |
No Limits
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney |
Nonsense
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men..."
- Roald Dahl |
Nothing Less
"...to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is
what I want. And nothing less."
- Katherine Mansfield |
Now!
"The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks."
- Arthur Miller |
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Old
"In order to be old and wise, you have to be young and naive first."..(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Oneself
"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at huge waves
of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the
ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves
without wondering.".+
- St. Augustine |
Oneself
"Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret
of a successful appearance. If one is a Greyhound, why try to look like
a Pekinese?"
- Dame Edith Sitwell |
Open Mind
"The mind is like a parachute ... it must be open to work.".+
- author unknown |
Optimism
"Whenever you fall, pick something up."
- Oswald Avery |
Optimist
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist
stays up to make sure the old year leaves.".+
- Bill Vaughan |
Originality
"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before,
but in saying what you think yourself."
- James Stephens |
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Paradise
"Paradise is where I am.".+
- Voltaire |
Patience
"Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind."
- Andy J. Sklivis |
Patience
"The patient in spirit is better that the proud in spirit."
- Ecclesiastes |
Peace
"People say 'I want peace'. If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire},
you are left with peace.".+
- Sai Baba |
Peace
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
(l).+
- Albert Einstein |
Peace
"To embody peace and serenity is not a romantic
masquerade for sunday afternoons, but the result of a steady and hard mind-work
seven days a week. A possible by-product (- for some an end-product) of
the enlightenment-path." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Perfect
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to
see an imperfect person perfectly."
- Sam Keen |
Persistence
"Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.".+
- Josh Billings |
Pessimist
"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist
after it, he knows too little."..(n).9-00
- Mark Twain |
Philosophy
"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Plans
"Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans."..(n).9-00
- John Lennon |
Prayer
"Seven days without prayer makes one WEAK.".+
- author unknown |
Praying
"Praying is a power, but just if used in the
right way: flying on the wings of pure intention." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Prejudice
"It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break
an atom than a prejudice."..(n).9-00
- A. Einstein |
Progress
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.".+
- Frank Zappa |
Projections
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks
into it.".+
- Ernest Holmes |
Proverb
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."..(n).9-00
- Miguel de Cervantes |
Psychedelics
"Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people.
I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever
come back to thank me."..(n).9-00
- Timothy Leary |
Quote
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."..(n).9-00
- W. Somerset Maugham |
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Rainbow Nature
"In the daily profanity of life it's really hard
to hold one's vision of the vibrant rainbow nature of everybody's mind.".(t)
- Hans Taeger |
Reading
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
- author unknown |
Reading
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read.".+
- Japanese proverb |
Reality
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.".+
- Albert Einstein |
Reality
"HOFUKU (pointing at mountains): Is not this Reality? CHOKEI: It is,
but it’s a pity to say so." +..(n).9-00
- Zen story |
Realization
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own
hearts."
- A. Einstein |
Reduce
"Manifest plainness - Embrace simplicity - Reduce selfishness - Have
few desires."
- Lao-Tzu |
Reflection
"There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection."
- Samuel Coleridge |
Religion
"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.".+
- The Dalai Lama |
Religion/Humor
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.".+
- Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Religious
"Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does
not help you; it does not help others. In order to really help others,
you need to gain knowledge-wisdom." +..(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Rest
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop."
- Ovid |
Reward
"Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are only tokens. Seek
not to have the gold medal. Instead, seek to be the person who can win
the gold medal. It is in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which
the reward represents."
- Ralph Marston |
Rising
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time
we fall."
- Confucius |
Risks
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on
the way down."
- Ray Bradbury |
Rough Idea
"It is better to be roughly right than to be precisely wrong.".+
- John Maynard Keynes |
Rules
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.".+
- Katherine Hepburn |
Ruling
"To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most
want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize
the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President
should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary
of the summary: people are a problem." |
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Safety
"A ship is safe in the harbour but that is not what ships are for.".+
- Albert J Nimeth |
Science
"As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained."
- Fritjof Capra |
Science/Religion
"When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the
strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of
faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I
only wish they would admit it."
- Tony Rothman |
Science/Spirituality
"There is and always was something fundamentally wrong with spirituality
that doesn't embrace all aspects of life including and, especially, physical
science."
- T. Kun |
Self
"One may understand the cosmos, but never the self; the self is more
distant than any star.".+
- G.K. Chesterton |
Self-Confidence
"Our Own Heart, And Not Other Men's Opinion, Form Our True Honor."
- Samuel Coleridge |
Self-Empowerment
"You, yourself, must make the effort. The Buddhas are only teachers.".+
- Buddhist proverb |
Self-Seeking
"Many of us spend our whole lives trying to find ourselves, forgetting
the fact that we ARE ourselves.".+
- Joe Viscomi |
Senses
"The universe didn't give us five precious senses
to waste them for tv or the internet." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Silent
"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Simplicity
"Simplicity of all things, is the hardest to be copied."
- Sir Richard Steele |
Smile
"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."
- Charles Reade |
Smile
"If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars
in the bank and no checkbook."
- Les Giblin |
Smile
"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is
a caring, sharing person inside."
- Denis Waitley |
Smile
"Those secret smiles with the heart can be much more enjoyable than
those which show in the face.".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Society
"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular." + .(n).9-00
- Adlai Stevenson |
Softness
"The grass must bend when the wind blows across it."
- Confucius |
Solution
"Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems.".(l).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Spirits
"We are spirits with clothes on!".+
- Amber Jayanti |
Spreading Light
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror
that reflects it.".+
- Edith Wharton |
Stay Tuned
"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
- Duke Ellington |
Strangers
"Think of strangers as friends you not met yet."..(n).9-00
- Abraham Lincoln |
Stream
"It is better to be a small stream, than a deep ditch." +..(n).9-00
- Chinese Saying |
Stupidity
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein |
Stupidity
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its
limits."
- A. Einstein |
Surprised
"When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and
a half.".+
- Gracie Allen |
Synchronicity
"When the student is ready... the lesson appears.".+
- Gene Oliver |
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Talk Wise!
"Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because
they have to say something."
- Plato |
Teacher
"One good teacher outweights a ton of books."
- Chinese proverb |
Telephone of Mind
"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love,
and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they
will keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number."..(n)
9-00
- Edith Armstrong |
Thinking
"A moment's thinking is an hour in words."
- author unknown |
Think/Act
"Act like a man of thought - Think like a man of action." +..(n)
9-00
- Thomas Mann |
Time
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
- author unknown |
Time
"Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away."
- Ben Hecht |
Time
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
- Hector Berlioz |
Time
"The best way to save some time is to use it."..(n).9-00
- Carl Hammarén |
Time
"Time is not money, but a free gift to brighten up one's karmic career.".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
To Long
"If you think to long on your next step, you will end up in life standing
on one leg."..(n).9-00
- Chinese Proverb |
Today
"Yesterday is experience, tomorrow is hope, today is getting from one
to the other as best we can."
- author unknown |
Tolerance
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just
because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
- H. Jackson Browne |
Touch
"When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.".+
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Tranquility
"Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so
long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true
image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed."
- Indra Devi |
Travel
"The mind can travel everywhere. Why use the
body to travel somewhere?" (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Truth
"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously
and posthumously."
- Thomas Sowell |
Truth
"Truth has no special time of it's own. It's hour is now ... always."
- Albert Schweitzer |
Truth
"Love truth but pardon error."
- Voltaire |
Truth
"To uncover the truth is not difficult, but to follow the truth is
formidable."..(n).9-00
- Chinese Saying |
Truth
"Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of
the times."..(n).9-00
- C.G. Jung |
Truth
"What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing."..(n).9-00
- Louis L'Amour |
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Understanding
"Understanding is a kind of ecstasy."
- Carl Sagan |
Understanding
"Much learning does not teach understanding."
- Heraclitus |
Universe
"The universe was born restless and has never since been still."
- Rousseau |
Universe
"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the
combination is locked up in the safe.".+
- Peter DeVries |
Using Others
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better
understanding of ourselves."
- Carl G. Jung |
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Values
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."
- Albert Einstein |
Virtue
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.".+
- David Starr Jordan |
Visa
"Visa-cards can't buy wisdom!".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Vision-Activity
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is
a nightmare.".+
- Japanese proverb |
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Why Not?
"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never
were; and I say, 'Why not?' "
- George Bernard Shaw |
Window
"Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through
which you must see the world."..(n).9-00
- G. B. Shaw |
Wisdom
"Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.".+
- La Rochefoucauld |
Wisdom
"Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot."
- Balthasar Gracian |
Wisdom
"It needs an extreme life or a very still one
to develop heart-generated wisdom." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Wisdom
"Wisdom is one of the few things one can't buy.
Must be a thorn in the flesh of industry!" (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Wisdom/Activity
"I give myself very good advice But I very seldom follow it."
- Alice, Alice in Wonderland |
Wisdom illumination
"As the light of a torch illumines the objects in a dark room, even
so the light of wisdom illumines all men, whosoever they may be; if they
turn towards it."
- Fo shu-hing-tsan-king |
Wisdom Search
"Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect,
more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy."
- Aquinas |
Wise
"A wise man hears one word and understands two."
- author unknown |
Wise
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
- author unknown |
Wise
"We get old too soon and wise too late.".+
- author unknown |
Wise
"If you find you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday,
you are wiser today."
- author unknown |
Wise
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
- William James |
Wisely
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."..(n).9-00
- Sir William Osler |
Within
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.".+
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Wonder
"To wonder is to begin to understand."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset |
Words
"Words without action are the assasins of idealism."
- Herbert Hoover |
Write
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for
the public and have no self."..(n).9-00
- Cyril Connolly |
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Your Trip
"Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is
just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip." +..(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
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