I have read a lot of philosophy and self-help books and books about various religions. Well, let's face it, I've read a lot of anything that could be enclosed on pages with the use of some sort of ink.
But I was just thinking about the four quotes I think have influenced me more than just about any others.
They are:
"Judge not that you be not judged." (Jesus)
"Wherever you go, there you are." (Anonymous)
"I am the master of my fate, I am the Captain of my soul." (William Henley, Invictus)
"I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam." (Popeye.)
I think that pretty well covers it for me, really.
What are yours?
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Okay I'm kidding about that one
2. If you think you can or you think you can't, you are correct. Unknown
3. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Thats all I got. Although I think I might have to add Popeye's. I like that one.
The longest journey begins with a single step.
What goes around comes around.
F-em' if they can't take a joke!
Luke 6:37-38
(37)"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. (38) Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
Happiness is wanting what you have, not having what you want.
You can never have too much ice cream (my daughter).
With great power, there must also come great responsibility -- Ben Parker (from the Spiderman comics).
All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing -- Edmund Burke.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton.
George Bernard Shaw
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
"Beware what you hate, because you might find that you have become what you hate." me. ^_^
by XIII Century Italian poet Bertran de Born
"The things that are above are as the things that are below; and the things that are below are as the things that are above, to complete the wonders of one thing"-- Emerald Tablet, ascribed to Hermes Trismagistus
"To be specific what has been taken for granted are certain ideas about cognition as an instrument and as a medium, and assumes that there is a difference between ourselves and this cognition. above all, it presupposes that the absolute stands on one side and cognition on the other, independent and separated from it, and yet as something real; [...] it presupposes that cognition which, since it is excluded from the absolute, is surely outside of the truth as well, is nevertheless true, an assumption whereby what calls itself fear of error reveals itself rather as the fear of the truth." - G.W. Hegel