Quotes Worth Quoting

[Danimal506]

Great thread idea! I have a note on my phone full of a ton of cool quotes. I could read this thread all day if I had the time.

Here are a some from my notes:

“Were sitting under the tree of our thinking minds wondering why we’re not getting any sunshine.”
-Ram Das

“You can either try to carpet the entire world. Or you can just wear slippers all the time.”
-James Hetfield

"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti

[endo]

I like anything on the philosophy of beauty, found this one interesting:

Beauty is an interesting concept.
You can talk about beauty of things, and you can talk about beauty of ideas,
but for me beauty is a feeling, more than anything else.
It’s the feeling when the imperfect finds balance, and gives me peace of mind.

Pálmar Kristmundsson, Architect from Iceland
(Apple Series „Home“)

[goosehd]

@endo Wabi Sabi

[endo]

exactly, he was partly trained in Japan

[RobeOfTheMagi]

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there".

This comes from a poem called "The Great Wagon" by Rumi. I love that line.

[mclaincausey]

@endo beautiful quote and a beautiful series

[WhiskeySandwich]

"If at first it doesn't fit, schnizzle it a little bit." - My dad, a self-employed home improvement contractor, giving instruction on how to effectively modify a component that requires removal of material in order to fit into an intended space.

[SKT]

@WhiskeySandwich I’m stealing this…need more schnizzle in my life

[endo]

@RobeOfTheMagi beautiful

@WhiskeySandwich "schnizzle" - I need to include that into my vocabulary

[WhiskeySandwich]

@endo I think if you were to look up this words etymology, you may find Snoop Dogg in there somewhere....

[endo]

ah , your Dad and Snoop Dogg

[T4920]

'The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain, and so obvious, and so simple, and yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves'

Alan Watts

One of the quotes I turn to when the trappings of modern life get on top of me...

Saw it painted on a hostel wall many years ago, and never forgot it.

[RobeOfTheMagi]

I listen to the voice of Alan Watts when I cannot sleep.

[T4920]

@RobeOfTheMagi me too!

[T4920]

'Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.'
Carl Jung

Haven't been able to stop thinking about this quote since hearing it for the first time a few weeks ago.

[endo]

this just came up to my mind when reading of someone else’s ideals of freedom:

Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

[gazza61]

I can resist everything except temptation (Oscar wilde)

[Jord]

You're damned if you do and you're' damned if you don't...

[Graham]

“I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut.”

[mclaincausey]

“I’m going to need to see proof of purchase for your doughnut sir.”