Quotable quotes

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[Harke the Boeotarch]

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

― Helen Keller

Was Helen Keller a fake?

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”

― Lao Tzu

Did Lao Tzu actually say that? It doesn't seem to mesh with anything else he said, and also not with the inherent contradiction that Zen has.

Skeptical.

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[opinterph]

Was Helen Keller a fake?

Helen Keller [Wiki]

Did Lao Tzu actually say that? It doesn't seem to mesh with anything else he said, and also not with the inherent contradiction that Zen has.

Skeptical.

The name by which he is known is not a personal name but an honorific title meaning `Old Man’ or `Old Teacher’ and there has been countless speculation as to whether an individual by that name ever existed or whether Lao-Tzu is an amalgam of many different philosophers.

Lao-Tze on How Thoughts Translate into Destiny (HAC Bard)

Watch Your Thoughts, They Become Words; Watch Your Words, They Become Actions (Quote Investigator; January 2013)

 

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I have an answer to that. The first starts with the letter f.

 

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“Freedom doesn’t mean you get to choose what happens to you. But you do get to choose how you react to it.”

― Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree

 

[Norri]

Good sex is like good bridge, if you don’t have a good partner you’ll need a good hand.

Mae West

 

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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”

― Rumi

 

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[Alistair]

“Foolish of me to believe that my countless drops of love could fill up your sea of expectations”

 

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[Alistair]

“An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”

James A. Michener

 

[gsdx]

^ "They didn't call it the Dark Ages because it was dark."

Dr. Daniel Jackson - Stargate SG-1

 

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