Please Share one of your Favourite Quotations (page 2)

leavingwt

Voltaire: " To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."

LisaRose

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

WishingLiz

Good one Hortensia. Same thought here, from Rumi

This being human is a guesthouse.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
Some momentary awareness.
Comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows
Who violently sweep your house
Empty of its furniture
Still treat each guest honorably.
He may be cleaning you out
For some new delight!
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
Meet them at the door laughing,
And invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
Because each has been sent.
As a guide from the beyond.

tootired2care

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. -Anatole France

I just saw this the other day while reading a book. For me it captures feelings of bitter sweetness of getting what I wanted in leaving the WTS while overcoming the sadness over loss of family/friends and community and and starting anew.

Iown Mylife

Bumper sticker i love seeing: Jesus loves you. The rest of us think you're an asshole.

JakeM2012

Where there's smoke, there's fire.

Ucantnome

Get to the choppa!

Phizzy

This is a bit long to quote in full, but so good, I just had to:

Leisure

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this is if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

William Henry Davies

Julia Orwell

"If chickens hatch in your omelette, don't eat it." - my mother, c. late 90's.

GromitSK

"Those who will not hear must feel" - my martial arts instructor.

Also, regarding death, "we're all in the same queue, we just don't know where" - same source.

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