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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Aug 8 03, 18:51

"The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?"
- Oscar Wilde

"The pebble is the perfect creature, equal to itself, mindful of its limits."
- Zbigniew Herbert

"What we play is life."
- Louis Armstrong

"The sage himself never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved."
- Lao-Tzu

"What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer."
- Henry David Thoreau

"....And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils."
- William Wordsworth

"No words can describe it
No example can point to it
Samsara does not make it worse
Nirvana does not make it better
It has never been born
It has never ceased
It has never been deluded
It has never existed
It has never been nonexistent"
-Dudjon Rinpoche, on AWARENESS

"A man is known by the silence he keeps."
-Oliver Herford

"All wisdom can be stated in two lines:
What is done for you - allow it to be done.
What you must do yourself - make sure you do it."
-Khawwas

"If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without."
-Henry Miller

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
-Confucius

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
-Medgar Evers

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration."
-Thomas Edison

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Thomas Jefferson

"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
-Oscar Wilde

"This above {all;} to thine own self be true."
-William Shakespeare

Posted by: Blank_Canvas Aug 11 03, 12:36

..."Never lose an opportunity
  of seeing anything that is beautiful;
  for beauty is God's handwriting...
  Thank God for it..."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Aug 11 03, 12:41

AWESOME!

Thanks very much!

I have a new one today on my calendar:

"He who knows
speaks not; he who
speaks, knows not."
~Lao-Tzu

"A man's life is what his thoughts make it."
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Posted by: Blank_Canvas Aug 11 03, 13:09

"...To laugh often and much,
   to win the respect of intelligent people
   and the affection of children...
   to leave the world a bit better...
   to know even one life has breathed easier
   because you have lived,
   that is to have succeeded..."
       ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"...Choose to have fun.
   Fun creates enjoyment.
   Enjoyment invites participation.
   Participation focuses attention.
   Attention expands awareness.
   Awareness promotes insight.
   Insight generates knowledge.
   Knowledge facilitates action.
   Action yields results..."
           ~Oswald B. Shallow~

"...Life itself cannot give you joy
   unless you really will it.
   Life just gives you time and space,
   it's up to you to fill it..."
       ~Chinese proverb~

Posted by: Blank_Canvas Aug 26 03, 20:01

"...Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud-
We in ourselves rejoice !
And thence flows all that charms our ear or sight,
All melodies the echoes of that voice,
All colors a suffusion from that light..."
        ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~


"...Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime,
even under the most unpromising circumstances,
even in the midst of suffering, with tears in it's eyes..."
                   ~ Frederick Buechner ~


"...here is a simple revelation that is bringing me a lot of freedom:
There is enough time...I am discovering that I have exactly the right number of hours and minutes and seconds to accomplish and do everything that I need to do in my lifetime..."
                    ~ Claire Cloninger ~


"...Hope is hearing the melody of the future. Faith is to dance it..."
                        ~ Rubem A. Alves ~



A Tear
"...O' that the chemist's magic art
Could crystallize this sacred treasure !
Long should it glitter near my heart,
A secret source of pensive pleasure..."
            ~ Samuel Rogers ~


"...In our language we have two words
           Solitude and Lonliness
Solitude is being alone
Without thinking about being alone
While lonliness is being alone
And being aware that you're alone..."
            ~ Javan (from the book, Meet Me Halfway) ~


"... We are born into this World
Like a blank canvas
And every person that crosses our path
Takes up the brush
And makes their mark
Upon our surface

So it is that we develop

But we must realize there comes a day
That we must take up the brush
And finish the work
For only we can determine
If we are to be
Just another painting
Or a masterpiece..."
             ~ Javan ( from the book, Meet Me Halfway) ~


"... From time to time
Through the years
The world has brought me down
To teach me about pain
And has filled my eyes with tears
But there came a day
That I started to understand
That it is not about pain
That the World is trying to teach me
But rather about Life
And the not so simple act
Of Being Human..."
         ~ Javan (from the book, A Heart Full of Love) ~

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Aug 26 03, 20:07

You AN you!

These are are super and wise words to live by!!

Thanks for adding these thought-provoking pieces!

Cheers!
~Cleo  :pharoah2

Posted by: Martinus Julius Caesura Sep 2 03, 01:25

“He who laughs last, laughs after he who laughs next to last.”
-Anonymous

“Honesty is the best policy—unless you can get away with lying.”
-Anonymous Politician

“It ain’t easy being me.”
-Rodney Dangerfield

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Sep 2 03, 07:54

Posted by: Arnfinn Sep 3 03, 07:00

Here's A Few .


Little Mary from Boston Mass.
Stepped into water up to her ankles.
It doesn't rhyme now,
But wait till the tide comes in.

Graffitti New Haven 1976.


The cur foretells the knell of parting day;
The loafing heard winds slowly o'er the lea
The wise man homeward plods;I only say
To fiddle - faddle in a minor key

Ambrose Bierce

A sonnet goes eight lines and then
takes a turn for better or worse and
and goes six or eight lines more.
Robert Frost

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh it's good;
if it's stale, it's bad; and if your not
certain, try it on the cat.

Osbert Sitwell

Arnie

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Sep 3 03, 12:01

Here's A Few .


Little Mary from Boston Mass.
Stepped into water up to her ankles.
It doesn't rhyme now,
But wait till the tide comes in.

Graffitti New Haven 1976.


The cur foretells the knell of parting day;
The loafing heard winds slowly o'er the lea
The wise man homeward plods;I only say
To fiddle - faddle in a minor key

Ambrose Bierce

A sonnet goes eight lines and then
takes a turn for better or worse and
and goes six or eight lines more.
Robert Frost

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh it's good;
if it's stale, it's bad; and if your not
certain, try it on the cat.

Osbert Sitwell

Arnie

Very funny Arnie!

Cheers!
~Cleo  :pharoah:

Posted by: Martinus Julius Caesura Dec 22 03, 11:55

“                     !”
-Marcel Marceau

Posted by: Dove Mar 13 04, 19:43

"The earth laughs in flowers." - ee cummings


"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 17 05, 11:00

"Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise,
risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think
is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible!"
~ A Successories Poster ~

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Aug 7 05, 11:26

from a bumper sticker sent to me by Butch, aka Charon...

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty.

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Aug 7 05, 12:33

While Jan (Orion) and I were discussing poetry and critiquing earlier today, she wrote to me these words (with permission) that I find very enlightening.

"I see it (poetry) as elevating the writing process which elevates the human spirit." ~ Janet T Leonard

:pharoah2

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 30 06, 07:56

Here a few that John (JLY) sent me recently:

"Life is drawing without an eraser." ~ Unknown

"We can choose to be in reaction and settle on what we get...or we can choose our fate with conscious deliberation and get what we want." ~ Unknown


and a few I found in fortune cookies:

"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing, because you think you can do only a little."

"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."

"A journey must begin with a single step."

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 30 06, 08:17

There is a land of pure delight,
Beyond the Jordan's flood,
Where saints, apparelled all in white,
Fling back the critic's mud.

And as he legs it through the skies,
His pelt a sable hue,
He sorrows sore to recognize
The missiles that he threw.

~Orrin Goof


An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. ~ Mann, Thomas

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Aug 5 06, 12:37

two more fortune cookie notes:

You seek to shield those you love.

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.

Posted by: galoutofdixie Sep 3 06, 15:36

Here's one offering some of the best advice I've ever received


Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Oct 1 06, 08:17

That IS good advice Leigh Ann.

As I ponder those words, I think of this:
"A backbone needs to bend, not break."

I just made that up, but the sentiment is so true to life for me. Whenever anyone would say, "Grow a backbone, Lori!" I would cower, feeling inferior and afraid to speak up for myself (I'm speaking of folks that I've worked with at my day job here), feeling that my character was just ridiculed (years ago).

It didn't take long for me to realize that I was too fragile and insecure, so people took advantage. There are ways to help someone when in a vulnerable state of mind - breaking their confidence is not the way.

Anywho, here is a quote that one of my co-workers recently penned:

"As long as we are willing to learn from each other, the sky is not the limit, it is just the beginning!" ~ Carl Gamberdella

Posted by: shaggy breeks Jan 7 07, 15:19

ooooh sayings that mean something . . .
well to me i have one saying that has guided me through life, no idea where it comes from though. but i love it, it represents everything i believe!

The imagination is the only key you will ever need.


maybe it will mean something to you guys too!

shaggy breeks

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 14 07, 09:09

Ten Rules of Thomas Jefferson:

1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

3. Never spend money before you have earned it.

4. Never buy what you don't want because it is cheap.

5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

6. We seldom repent of having eaten too little.

7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

8. How much the evils cost us that never happened.

9. Take things always by the smooth handle.

10. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.

Posted by: Larry Oct 20 07, 08:42

When power leads man toward arrogance,
poetry reminds him of his limitations.
When power narrows the areas of man's concern,
poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.
When power corrupts,
poetry cleanses.