Category: Orange book quotes.

• Quotes I love….

  There are two ways to be fooled.  One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.  Soren Kierkegaard

  I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.  Jodi Picoult (Plain Truth)

  Ignorance is constricted awareness….Deepak Chopra

  Good luck is opportunity & preparedness coming together…..Deepak Chopra

  A foolish Faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.  Einstein.

  When you say something in a wrong group – it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.  Gloria Steinem

  In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate.  Only certainty will do.  Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.  Simone Weil

  Doubt means Don't.  Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.  (unknown)

  Depression means nothing matters.  Sadness, everything matters more…..unknown

  Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.  Maya Angelou

  …surrender in its place was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.  Maya Angelou

  Approval can't be trusted.  It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. (unknown)

  One of the most powerful concepts within the disability rights movement is the idea that we all have Temporarily Able Bodies.  Jonathon Mooney – Short Bus

  As unnecessary as a well to a village on the banks of a river, so unnecessary are all scriptures to someone who has seen the truth.  Stephen Mitchell – Gita

  It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin. Stephen Mitchell

  Knowledge is better than practice; Meditation is better than knowledge; and best of all is surrender, which soon brings peace.

  First casualty of war, is the truth.  Winston CChurchill…..

  First casualty of Dysfunction is the truth…Carl Huhta

  All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art.  By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.  Ellen Langer – On becoming an Artist

  In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind. – Neale Donald Walsh

  Our left brain is brilliant in it's ability to make things up, and fill in the blanks when there are gaps in its factual data.  In addition, during its process of generating a story line, our left mind is quite the genius in its ability to manufacture alternative scenarios…..Jill Bolte- Taylor (Stroke of Insight)

  Here are a few quotes from the book Blue Sweater.

  I am loving it, but it wordy.

   

  "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop

  to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing which you think you cannnot do."  Eleanor Roosevelt

   

  "Hope is the path on the mountainside.  At first there is no path.  But then there are people passing that way. And then there is a path."  Lu Xun

   

  "Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down."  Madagsy Proverb

   

  "When I despair, I remember that all through history, the ways of truth and love have always won.  There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.  Think of it – always."  Gandhi

   

  "There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth, not going all the way, and not starting".  Buddha

  "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
  – St. Francis of Assisi

   

  "Go to the people: Live with them love them start with what they know build with what they have.  But of the best leaders, when the job is done, the task accomplished, the people will say: 'We have done it ourselves.' "…Lao Tzu

  

  April 14, 2009

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• Byron Katie’s

  This is from A Thousand Names for Joy.

  "I don't know what is best for me, or you, or the world. I don't try to impose my will on you or anyone else.  I don't want to change you or improve you of convert you or help you or heal you. I just welcome things as they come and go. That's true love. The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way."

  April 14, 2009

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