I've read a lot of great quotes tucked away in various thread on this board. Since we seem to have a lot of great thinkers within this community, I thought in may be worth while to have a thread dedicated to our favorite quotes.

Please post any quotes that you find to be memorable, profound or inspirational. I'll start with a simple one that I've always liked.

"believe those who seek truth, doubt those who find it"

namaste

2 that i live by:
"You are only in control of your body for a short amount of time so you should experiment with it"
"You know everything, you just dont know it yet"

I love this

Here are some of my favourite quotes sorry that i have so many....Enjoy.


"Peace, Compassion and understanding is all you need and a little bit of SUNSHINE" By Me

“Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.”
By Terence McKenna

"The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish."
By Terence McKenna

“Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.”
By Terence McKenna

"We're playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiosity can legitimately send its attention and where it can not."
By Terence McKenna

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
By Jimi Hendrix

"Technically, I'm not a guitar player.
All I play is truth and emotion."
By Jimi Hendrix

“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”
By Jimi Hendrix

“White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.”
By Jimi Hendrix

“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
By Jimi Hendrix

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
By The Dalai Lama

'Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them, humanity cannot survive."
By The Dalai Lama

"If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue."
By The Dalai Lama

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
By The Dalai Lama

"The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis."
By The Dalai Lama

"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned."
By The Dalai Lama

"To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle."
By The Dalai Lama

"The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world."
By The Dalai Lama

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
By Stephen Hawking

"A question that sometimes drives me crazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
By Albert Einstein

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
By Albert Einstein

"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
By Albert Einstein

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
By Albert Einstein

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
By John Lennon


Much Peace and Sunshine

SoCal

Thank you very much for this thread its an awesome idea, i love your quote so true.


Much Peace and Understanding

Yes its quite special isnt it.

@Aegle: thats cheating.. the point is to have your best favorites.. only 2 or 3 per post.

Czepa

Sorry man if you want i can edit my post, I had no idea that there was a limit to the amount of quotes that i could post. Again my most humble apologies.


Much Peace

"The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish."... Terence McKenna

And everything Bill says here..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKXZ2EzW7gw

please don't edit. the more the merrier! obviously, my intent was to illicit people's favorite quotes, but if those all have inspired you in one way or another then share away.

"In a perfect world all would realise that it's here if we want it"

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

"I can't believe I ate the whole thing"

"It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out." Neem Karoli Baba

SoCal

Thank You! Indeed they have all inspired me in so many ways, each one is really special to me. I didn't have the heart not to post them all.


Much Peace

Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly whereever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

-T. H. Huxley

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

All happenings are in the mind, what happens in all minds truly happens.
-- Goerge Orwell

"We are the analogies we believe."

"It's hard not to fall, even the last bit in love, with everyone."

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edit, +1, also, incredible quotes all ^^

"Suffering is resistance to pain. Let go of suffering, and ride on the beautiful waves of bliss."

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail" - Benjamin Franklin

I love that one! That is my favorite quote.

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" - Too many people are credited with this quote to know for sure who actually coined it.

That’s a great quote with so many meanings.

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." - Albert Einstein

That one craps me up!

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." - Albert Einstein

That quote is pure genius. There’s a hidden meaning in that one and it’s very clever.

"Live by the foma (harmless untruths) that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy." - Kurt Vonnegut

Here's about 10 quotes I like, plus the ones in my sig. Sorry if it's too much. If it is good thing my PC crashed and I lost my "Quotes" file with hundreds of quotes

Is GOD willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him GOD?
- Epicurus

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. - H. L. Mencken

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they
have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. - Milton Friedman

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his
will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral,
is not a sufficient warrant. -- John Stuart Mill

"If we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to
take it from them but to inform their discretion by education" - Thomas Jefferson

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our
troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them
for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. - P. J. O'Rourke

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police. - Keith Richards

I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every
form of tyranny over the mind of man. -- Thomas Jefferson

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the
masses of men exhibit their tyranny. -- James Fenimore Cooper

The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these
conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul.
Whatever may happen to you, remember always:
Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality! -- Mordechai Anielewicz

Here's one i try to live my life by:

Peace
It does not mean to be in a place
where there is no noise, trouble
or hard work. It means to be in
the midst of those things and
still be calm in your heart.

Unknown


Much Peace