Quotable quotes

[Alistair]

 

[Kahaih]

/\ Then, since the US population consists of enough idiots to put an asshole like Trump in office, he must be terrified -- and by T. Jefferson's theory, there should liberty for all.

 

[pornoboy]

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[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

 

[opinterph]

“He is learning that in any war, the victors may be destroyed as completely as the vanquished. They still have their lives, but they have given up everything else in order to keep them. They sacrifice what they do not realize they have until they have lost it. And so the man who can win the war can only rarely survive the peace.”

― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

 

[pornoboy]

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[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.”

― Amit Kalantri

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

― Albert Einstein

 

[Thad1527]

"Be defiantly creative. Make art of your life, especially if you don't consider yourself an artist - collect all the little pieces of you and make your story. When you look back many years from now, you will see something extraordinary and impossible to duplicate. You will see you."

-A.S. King, from her anthology The Collectors

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

― Roy T. Bennett

 

[opinterph]

“What if there were a secret back-door portal to enlightenment? A shortcut, so to speak. I believe that the answer lies here, in wilderness. The shortcut is the long walk. However, you must go it alone. Once you get past the jitteriness of day one, the cravings of day two, and the loneliness of day three, meditation comes easily and naturally. Months of tension can be released in just a few days.”

― Scott Stillman, Wilderness, The Gateway To The Soul: Spiritual Enlightenment Through Wilderness

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.”

― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

 

[Alistair]

“What if there were a secret back-door portal to enlightenment? A shortcut, so to speak. I believe that the answer lies here, in wilderness. The shortcut is the long walk. However, you must go it alone. Once you get past the jitteriness of day one, the cravings of day two, and the loneliness of day three, meditation comes easily and naturally. Months of tension can be released in just a few days.”

― Scott Stillman, Wilderness, The Gateway To The Soul: Spiritual Enlightenment Through Wilderness

I just ordered this book. I’m looking forward to reading it

 

[opinterph]

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

― Mahatma Gandhi

 

[opinterph]

“If you can remember why you started, then you will know why you must continue.”

― Chris Burkmenn