#quotablequotes — Public Fediverse posts
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Few More Sayings
“She was wearing the rose in her hair, and I was brushing off the snow from my jacket.”
“Sometimes freedom throws itself around your arms as unrequited love.”
“In friendship there is a giving without any expectation and a receiving without any obligation.”
“It is so sad that till now I have recognized instantly every friend I have met no matter how long it was since we last met.”
“One kind of bad karma, there are many kinds mind you, is when people start laughing more at you than at your jokes.”
“Gandhi is supposed to have said, ‘My life is my message.’ I, not being so profound, can only say, ‘My life is my joke’.”
“Ghar waapsi karna chahta hoon. Lekin kitna bi sonchoo ya dhoondoon pata hi nahi lag raa ghar ka pataa.”
“Hell is your underemployed and unmarried friend with access to WhatsApp.”
“Do not ruin the present by trying to make the future brighter. Light the candle now, and read in its soft glow, now, this moment, do not postpone.”
“Women contain men — wo(men) — confine them, restrict them, enclose them, imprison them, not in the tight embrace of their arms but merely parenthetically.”
“No one here on earth can understand God because we can never love one another with a love that passeth understanding.”
“When I cannot understand even her, how can I hope to understand God.”
“Those who read history carefully, will find it difficult to believe in the existence of God.”
“Jesus might as well have said love thy wife as thyself, for the wifey is one’s most immediate and present neighbour, much to the consternation of some husbands.”
#Bible #CarpeDiem #Freedom #Friendship #Gandhi #GharWaapsi #God #Hell #history #Jesus #Karma #Love #LoveThyNeighbour #Present #QuotableQuotes #Quotations #Quote #Quotes #UnrequitedLove -
A Few Sayings
“Buddha misread the origins of suffering. The cause of suffering is God’s desire to appear as this creation.”
“This is the mistake we keep making that we seek the truth with our mind and love with our heart, without realizing that only when we set aside the mind and heart will we find the truth and love that we seek.”
“When you set aside the mind and heart, you reach that state of aloneness that is also oneness in which there can be no loneliness.”
“The longing for the home is the cause for all the strife in this world. To feel at home anywhere and everywhere is freedom.”
“Morality is duality. Recognize God in and as not only the good and virtuous but also as the bad and wicked.”
“The world is not merely that which is revealed by the microscope and telescope.”
“Hum bahut kuch pade hai, aur abh uljhan may pade ahi.”
“One of the advantages of being a theist is that one can leave the bloody work of revolutions to God, trusting he will bring them about in his own inimitable ways, and rest comfortably in one’s drawing room, reading The Motorcycle Diaries.”
#Freedom #God #Heart #Home #Love #Mind #QuotableQuotes #Quotations #Quote #Quotes #Revolution #TheMotorcycleDiaries #Theist #Truth #World -
Recent Sayings
“The more significant question always is “Do you love?” rather than “Do you love me?”. Why? Because love is a state of being without any particular direction. All directed love is a lower form of love, though such directed love can also be beautiful.”
“Nididhyasana is the wedge of wisdom interposed between a stimulus and our response to it.”
“Nididhyasana is nothing but looking at everything with the eyes of wisdom.”
The quickest way to discover the Truth is to “go rogue”.”
“Why even do Nididhyasana when the entity that thinks it ought to do it is unreal.”
“The ultimate Nididhyasana is the questioning of the very need for Nididhyasana.”
“Is love an escape from Truth?”
“In this world everyone loves their own happiness most, so who can love whom as their first love?”
“I knew God was up to his usual mischief when I became aware that he had given me a heart.”
“The asymmetry of the heartbeats is the most annoying thing for all of us, ain’t it?”
“Intellectually, I am a sage. Emotionally, I am just a teenager.”
“Buddha’s First Noble Truth seems untrue when you are in the arms of a woman.”
“I keep wanting the love of a woman. Then I ask myself do I want love or do I want the woman. In understanding that distinction there is a possibility of getting enlightened.”
“I hope to find in silence what I could not find in the world.”
“Even in the depths of hatred, Truth awaits you.”
“Your own love, be it love for others or love for truth, takes care of you much more than the love of others for you.”
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Thoughts Close to Midnight
“One has to strike a balance between ‘making a living’ and ‘living’.”
“Most people foolishly let the marketplace enter their hearts.”
“Ask yourself how differently you would approach life if you realized happiness is within.”
“The greatest risk to one’s freedom is marriage. Yet marriage continues to be popular as an institution across all cultures in all epochs maybe because “it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity” as George Bernard Shaw put it.”
“Most people derive their happiness from physical pleasures, a few from intellectual pleasures, and hardly anyone from their own self.”
#Freedom #GBShaw #Happiness #Heart #IntellectualPleasures #MakingALiving #Marriage #PhysicalPleasures #QuotableQuotes #Quotations #Quote #Quotes -
"The outline of a pine tree on a northern twilight sky is better than therapy for me." -- Sarah Bessey
#QuotableQuotes #NeverABadSunset #SunsetPhotgraphy #YEGPhotographer #CanadianPhotographer
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“If your church never talks about loving your enemies but always reminds you who your enemies are, you really aren’t in a church.” - John Fugelsang, from the book Separation Of Church And Hate #Quotes #QuoteOfTheDay #QuotableQuotes
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“That's the thing about books, they let you travel without moving your feet.” —Jhumpa Lahiri #writers #quotablequotes
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> When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.
— ‘Contradiction’ in *The House at Pooh Corner* by A. A. Milne
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Those who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable. 😉 -
Words to live by, from our beloved Nora, who always speaks the truth.🙌
#HappySunday #thoughtsbecomethings #bepositive #begrateful #behappy #quotablequotes #wordstoliveby
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Words to live by, from our beloved Nora, who always speaks the truth.🙌
#HappySunday #thoughtsbecomethings #bepositive #begrateful #behappy #quotablequotes #wordstoliveby
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"curate those people around you..."
"Edit your friendships."
"People are either radiators or drains."
-- actor and businesswoman #ReeseWitherspoon at the #HubSpot #INBOUND2023Ya mon! 🤘😄
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Listening to a #podcast.
Regarding nerves..."It's not fear, it's adrenaline. It's just your mind and your body preparing you to do something extraordinary. And you will do something extraordinary."
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Sir John Harvey Jones: “the only good thing about no planning, is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of anguish and fear.”
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