"What's the difference between the Titanic flooding out and Houston flooding out? In Houston, the turds in the water already knew how to swim." Iceaura
Oh, Kahlil Gibran has a wealth of wonderful quotes. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6466154.Kahlil_Gibran?page=2
- DaveC426913 holy [expletive deleted] but I'm LMFAO I've seen this quote a lot! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"If you are thinking 1 year ahead, plant seeds. If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people." -- Chinese Emperor Kuan Tsu, 5th centuring BC
Ooch! I like this one! It's quite relevant considering some other posts I've read here lately (the site, not this thread). "Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie." -Miyamoto Musashi
“Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to existence and become part of it.” ― Osho
“A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.” ― Carlos Castaneda
“You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge.” ~Robert M. Pirsig Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.” ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.” ― Conan O'Brien Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"There is nothing wrong with believing in a God. There is everything wrong in believing in a religion." -- Anon
" I didn't do it!" long long ago(highschool) someone broke something before pe class coach Nelson asked the guilty party to step forward no one did ok, so coach Nelson called the roll when he got to Bob Shenk Shenk blurted out "I DIDN'T DO IT!" we all laughed Coach Nelson said: See me after class Bob.
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." – Kurt Vonnegut
"We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems."----Carl Jung
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ― Lao Tzu