Quote of the Day

[Piling]

Here I open a topic for members post the quotes they like or that strikes them, or that they find interesting even if they are not sure to agree at 100% but want to debate.


Honor to Chinese wisdom :

"Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter’s place. When you handle the master carpenter’s tools, chances are that you’ll cut yourself."
Lao Tzu

I like the philosophy of let it go, though I am not very skillful for stopping to hope I can fix the world.

[Anthea]

Here I open a topic for members post the quotes they like or that strikes them, or that they find interesting even if they are not sure to agree at 100% but want to debate.


Honor to Chinese wisdom :

"Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter’s place. When you handle the master carpenter’s tools, chances are that you’ll cut yourself."
Lao Tzu

I like the philosophy of let it go, though I am not very skillful for stopping to hope I can fix the world.

I hate injustices and I also do my bit to try and improve the world we live in

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"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

That's true, though it is not mentioned if the number of years is equally shared or if it is something like 10 years of questions, 1 of answer, and if you miss it, you're stuck.

[Anthea]

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavour

Samuel Johnson

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“Don’t move. Just die over and over. Don’t anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don’t move.”
— Shunryu Suzuki

[Anthea]

“Don’t move. Just die over and over. Don’t anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don’t move.”
— Shunryu Suzuki

That was depressing

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"Hamish had long ago discovered that it was easier to tuck painful things he could do nothing about at the present away into a far corner of his brain until such time as he could take some action."
— Death of a Cad, M.C. Beaton.

I realize that all the sentences I like nowadays are praising the 'Let It Go' philosophy.

[Anthea]

"Hamish had long ago discovered that it was easier to tuck painful things he could do nothing about at the present away into a far corner of his brain until such time as he could take some action."
— Death of a Cad, M.C. Beaton.

I realize that all the sentences I like nowadays are praising the 'Let It Go' philosophy.

You have a soft heart

My philosophy is get them and make them SUFFER

OOPS! I must be thinking of 2 men I know

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He wondered why it was the actress television chose for the passionate sex scenes were always scrawny, sallow and angry-looking.

And yet to Hamish’s old-fashioned way of thinking, there was something slightly sad about bed before courtship. He might have fallen in love with her. Not that he was a prude or thought that Jenny’s morals were lax in any way. But in affairs, it was sometimes better to travel slowly than arrive too quickly. Instant gratification certainly knocked the spiritual side out of romance, no matter how much the modern mind tried to shout down the primitive emotion.

DEATH OF AN OUTSIDER, M. C. Beaton.

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[Anthea]

The success for any people is oneness, unity and support for their whole nation

Any nation that does not have oneness and unity will forever be under his enemies control

You as Kurds are no less than any other free nation, on the contrary you are in many ways more ready than other nations that freed themselves from oppression

But those who freed themselves had unity amongst them

For you to be free you have to stop fighting amongst yourselves, stop being jealous of each other

STOP SELLING YOURSELVES TO THE ENEMY

Only then will you be free and free your nation

Last words of Qazi Muhammad

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“Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.”
— Chris Brogan

[Anthea]

"It's never about how good you are, it's about how much you can change lives."
Anon

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'They're such good boys. Do you know they did a special show for the Kurdish refugees and raised five thousand pounds? And all that money for the photographs goes toward restoring the abbey roof.'

'How clever of them,' said Agatha, who recognized good PR when she heard it. By donating occasionally to charity, the troupe of male strippers had made themselves respectable and allowed licensed lust to flourish in the breast of the Cotswold ladies, who would turn up by the busload to cheer them.

THE QUICHE OF DEATH, M. C. Beaton.

[RomaMater]

“An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.”

Genghis Khan.

What an irony.