Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming. – Rumi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.
A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.
Gandhi
These are nice. Thanks both of you for posting.
"When we define, we also confine"
Unfortunately I have misplaced the book from where I read that. The discussion was how we might try to understand some 'thing' by defining it, but in the process of defining, we limit our understanding because we may have inadvertantly 'confined' the thing to some category.
Think of the word 'elephant'. Now think of all the words that you would use to describe 'elephant'. And then all the words to describe 'not-elephant'.
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Did you include "loving kindness"? If yes, does that mean everything that you define as 'not-elephant' excludes "loving kindness"?
Peace and love in all of us.
When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.
I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.
When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town.
I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.
Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself,
and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself,
I could have made an impact on my family.
My family and I could have made an impact on our town.
Their impact could have changed the nation and
I could indeed have changed the world.
~ Author Unknown
Love your neighbor as yourself. -- Jesus
My 2 favorites and pretty much my life's mantras. I'm a Gemini, I get bored easily, and I don't like being told what to do, therefore:
"Live and let live"
" Variety is the spice of life "
:)
@saibh I was trying to move these last two posts from Trump unraveling to the Timeline Hits section but they didn't make it. Every time I make such moves and end up in the wrong threads, I marvel at where the posts do end up. This one is "favorite words of wisdom." That can't be bad. :-)
Anyway, yes, we had predictions about strange goings-on with daffodils. I counted them as hits because daffodils are coming up earlier in parts of the country as a disturbing sign of climate change.
“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”
--Julian of Norwich
These words of wisdom have gotten me through some pretty dark times. She didn't mean that things will work out the way you want, but rather that with strength and faith, we can -- and will-- get through anything.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Something good from something bad.
I have seen this happen so many times in my life, that I firmly believe it.
@Jeanne Mayell I love Rumi too! "
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
― Rainer Maria Rilke
‘When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them’ (Maya Angelou)
My mother used to always say to me:
'Birds of a feather flock together'
And my own two cents to many executives I've supported at the Fortune 50 company I worked at for 36 years:
'No one will remember you were the Vice President of this or that, but on your gravestone it will talk about what kind of husband, father, son or brother you were (or wife, mother, daughter or sister etc.)'
I will always remember the first time I heard Maya Angelou's words as one of those key moments in my life. I happened to be walking by an outdoor college commencement, one day in 2011, and decided to walk up and listen to whoever was speaking. I wandered over and stood just outside the roped off area. A woman was walking towards me from a far. She came right up to me smiling and for an instant our eyes locked. I realized that the woman was Oprah Winfrey looking radiant and larger than life. I live in a small New England town so wasn't expecting to see her there! She then turned and walked straight to the stage and got up there and gave the best commencement speech I'd ever heard.
During her speech which is replayed on Youtube here, around minute 13 she began giving advice she'd learned from Maya Angelou that she said would be particularly important for young women: "When people show you who they are, believe them..."...Then she paused and said, "THE FIRST TIME. Not the 20th time!" The girls in the audience erupted in a roar. It's been a mantra to stop co-dependency that I have passed on again and again.