Saturday, August 30, 2008

"I'm the one that's gonna die when it's time for me to die. So let me live my life the way I want to." - Jimi Hendrix, "If Six Was Nine"

Friday, August 29, 2008

"Form is emptiness; emptiness is form." - From the Heart Sutra
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Poverty can kill you, but widespread affluence does not bring happiness. It is one of the gravest problems of overdeveloped societies. Depression, stress, weight fixation and loose rage flourish in rich countries; in poor countries, people have other things to worry about.

Patrick French
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin
All suffering in this life and others is created by the unsubdued mind.

14th Dalai Lama
All the joy the world contains
Comes through wishing happiness for others;
All the misery the world contains
Comes through wanting pleasure for oneself.

Shantideva
Emptiness is not a void to be filled, but a window to be looked through.

Alan Watts
If you collected all the tears of sorrow and anguish you have shed in past lives, they would make an ocean larger than any in this universe.

Sublime Dharma of Clear Recollection
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr.
All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

Wei Wu Wei
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute the invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

Edward Bernays
The more you are motivated by love the more fearless and free your action will be.

14th Dalai Lama
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end up with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell
You ought to believe in something in life, believe that thing so fervently that you will stand up with it till the end of your days.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
My brother said to me... "If you shut your eyes to a frightening sight, you end up being frightened. If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of."

Akira Kurosawa