Intersting Quots

"Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.
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"Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone."

Don Juan Matus

Determination doubt itself because only doubt
is undoubtedly determined.

Real Meaning

With every step a person is able to make, he has become much stronger.
- Tamahome, Fushigi Yuugi

With every step a person is able to make, he has become much stronger.
- Tamahome, Fushigi Yuugi

If a person were able to cognize distinctly all that is happening in or appearing to him at the present moment, he could foresee all that will happen in him or appear to him forever.

Leibniz: " the p-in-n principle"

I do not believe in religions because I believe in God!
"Real Meaning"

I am so beautiful that ugly people find me ugly.

"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."

Mary Wollstonecraft

"Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that chasing it is such a fool's errand, is that happiness isn't a goal in itself but is only an aftereffect. It's the consequence of having lived in the way that we're supposed to -- by which I don't mean ethically correctly so much as just consciously, fully engaged in the business of living. In this respect it resembles averted vision, a phenomena familiar to backyard astronomers whereby, in order to pick out a very faint star, you have to let your gaze drift casually to the space just next to it; if you look directly at it, it vanishes. And it's also true, come to think of it, that the only stars we ever see are not the "real" stars, those cataclysms taking place in the present, but always only the light of the untouchable past."
- Averted Vision, Tim Kreider

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Waw...

The ultimate defense is being offensive.
By Mr. Larry

^ great for a game of chess

How could we ever talk
with the words thrown in trash,
with stains,
about whiteness,
the way the brave hearts
have spoken in the ink of their death
about the nature of sunshine??

" Ahmad Shamloo"

"You get a little chill, you're hurting here. Say to yourself: 'Find a way.' Get through this one minute.
"... the satisfaction that I never gave up is stronger than the joy of making it."
-- Diana Nyad re her swim from Cuba to Florida at age 62

How could we ever talk
with the words thrown in trash,
with stains,
about whiteness,
the way the brave hearts
have spoken in the ink of their death
about the nature of sunshine??

" Ahmad Shamloo"

AWESOME

"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Gottfried Leibniz

"Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them."
Immanuel Kant

It is the great source of pleasure to witness SunShine is back here and also someone finally enjoys THE word
you perhaps like oxymoronic poetry I call it butterfly affect.
by the way it was my trance

Hahahahahahaha...thank you :) i was attracted by the sunshine word at 1st .biased ..but na really great stuff ure sharing! ♡

You very welcome. I also missed you.
I hope that always attract you. That is the main force of all the thing I write or do, Sunshine I mean.
(( fire - sun, worshiper))

Hehehe your sense of humor is in wellbeing until this moment, im glad.
And you are missed too, infact I miss the whole "crew"
Keep posting *(fire_sun; worshiper)* stuff . Keeps me on the track of rechecking forums and profiles.

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside -- remembering all the times you've felt that way." - Charles Bukowski

When you focus too much on being a man or a women, you would miss on the occasions of being a human.

There is geometry in the humming of strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
- Pythagoras

"We are busy with the luxury of things.
Their number and multiple faces bring
To us confusion we call knowledge"

Attar of Nishapur

True!! Now haha you may even be worthy of being mistaken with yours truly.
Wow how do you know about: "Attar of Nishapur"??
He is the master of all the masters. Even Rumi bows for him: This is the famous Rumi's verse about him::

Attar has cruised all the "Seven Wonder Cities of Love."*
We still wander, at the turn of the first alley.

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*) "Seven Wonder Cities of Love." is the highest state of achievement in the Persian "Irfan or Sufism" in which they say no one has ever come even near it but "Attar of Nishapur"

"This too, shall pass."

Persian Sufi-s

Muhammad Ali has some great quotes

'The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.'

'Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.'

'Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.'

'It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.'

'Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.'

'It's not bragging if you can back it up.'

'Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.'

'I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.'

'If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.'

'Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.'

'I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.'

So it goes...

- Vonnegut, Slaughter-house Five

Im truly glad that you enjoyed my quote RM! You have a unique passion for Sufism. How do I know about Attar? Lets just say I had a moment in my struggling life when I felt true love and it turned me into a moth.
Ever since I am seeking the teaching of Attar, Rumi,Hafez.. to be consumed by the candle light. Anyway, enough about me lol! But before I go, I have to say one more thing! I believe with all my heart that those three poets I just mentioned above should be thought in every corner of the word! The truth they represent would help us to understand and feel true love and ultimately would forces us to become a geometrical echo of goodness... And for my closing argument let me exhale this little quote:

"The children of Adam are part of a whole,
In creation being of one essence and soul.
If misfortune afflicts a member with pain,
Other members upset will remain.
If you feel free of fellow human's pain,
The designation of Adam you cannot claim!"

Saadi Shirazi

With Saadi they are four
By the way I am from Shiraz, from my father side.

"silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation."
Rumi

"...I long to escape the prison of my ego
and lose myself
in the mountains and the desert. "
Rumi

so beautiful :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SkcdVhI_Ns

"...I long to escape the prison of my ego
and lose myself
in the mountains and the desert. "
Rumi

Hearing this in the video gives me goosebumps.. So beautifully touching

Yes it is!!
You either are Persian or own a Persian rug or cat or something.

"You are not a drop in the ocean
you are the entire ocean in a drop"

Rumi

I own some Persian rugs but thats as close as I can get to be a Persian...

Love the quote you just posted. So short yet you can thinking about it for days...

Here is a quote that pretty much defines me...

"In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque,
a church

that dissolve, that
dissolve in

God."

Rabia al Basri

We live in deeds not years; in thoughts not breaths;
in feelings not figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives
who thinks most - feels the noblest - acts the best.

- Phillip James Bailey ("Festus")

Thanks NIN and Larry

Bertrand Russell::

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

It is not important if you are right or wrong, if you are boss or not, if you are rich or poor.
It is not important if you are unknown or famous, if you belong or are a vagabond.
It is only important if you have true friends!

But it is not important even if you do have true fiends,
if you ARE,
a true friend!!

"Ugly Duckling"

Those are some truly beautiful and thought provoking quotes
Larry and RM!

I was kind of hoping that someone will post my next quote before me but looks like I have to do it! :)

This is probably the most beautiful and meaningful verse by Rumi:

In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do,
and that light becomes this art.

You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers. - Gautama Buddha

Thanks NIN

"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
George Berkeley

This is the true wine of astonishment: "We are not over when we think we are."
Alice Walker

"In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me."
Tia Walker

OH these quotes are brilliant! Thank you peeps for posting them! I know that its embarrassing for me to admit but I think its time for me to look up the Walker family :)

"There's nothing like an accident, it's fate misnamed"
- Napolean Bonaparte