I’ll add to this from time to time… I hope you will too.
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… with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
~ William Wordsworth
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“When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point,
such as the end of the composition.
If that were the purpose of music
then obviously the fastest players would be the best.
When we dance, the journey itself is the point.
When we play music the playing itself is the point.”
~ Alan Watts
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If you don’t enjoy the journey, you won’t enjoy the destination.
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“What’s the world’s greatest lie?” the boy asked, completely surprised.
“It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we loose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives are controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.”
~ Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
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The days that make you happy – make you wise.
~ Zen saying
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A friend is someone who knows our song
and will sing it back to us when we forget how it goes.
~ Anonymous
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We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us
that they may see, it may be, their own images,
and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even a fiercer life
because of our quiet.
~ W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight
Know thyself.
~ Socrates
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There is no more important injunction in all the world, nor one with a deeper interior meaning than “To thine own self be true.” In other words, be true to your own soul, for it is through your own soul that the voice of God speaks to you. This is the interior guide. This is the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. This is conscience. This is intuition. This is the voice of the higher self, the voice of the soul, the voice of God.
~ Ralph Waldo Trine, In Tune with the Infinite
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This above all:
to thine own self be true.
And it must follow as the night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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He who would understand the world
must first try to understand himself,
for he creates the only world he will ever know.
~ Ancient Chinese Proverb
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You have to find yourself first
and everything else follows.
~ Lin Yutang
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To love one’s self is the beginning
of a life-long romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
The most important product of his effort
is his own personality.
~ Erich Fromm, Psychotherapist
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Life’s a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death. -Auntie Mame