Thread: What are some of your favourite quotes?

Originally Posted by MoonageDaydream

^Nice one. I really love this one by Teal Swan.

"Stop trying to feel better, instead, get better at feeling."

That's a really good one! I'm going to have to write it down!

"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly." -Walsh


"If we could see without the distorting influence of ego, everything would appear as it is, perfect." - William Blake

"The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate. Second, including the excluded. Third, admitting that you are wrong." - Unkown


"You possess everything you need right now to be happy and fulfilled. Happiness naturally awakens in you through a simple process of awareness. You see life differently because you are different. You see things you have never seen before. Beautiful things. You're much more energetic, much more alive. When you finally awake, you don't try to make good things happen; they just happen. You understand suddenly that everything that happens to you is good, and that all is well, even at times when things are a mess." - Anthony De Mello


"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave." - Rainer Maria Rilke

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

-Litany Against Fear

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened, but no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher." - Mortimer Adler

"No one is looking for truth, that's just talk. Truth doesn't hide from us, we hide from truth. If you have to look for truth, you won't find it because it's always right where you never look. It's like a trick you play on yourself, looking all over for something you already have." - Marichelle

"If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into a flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly." - Anthony DeMello

"Don't miss the forest for the trees." -Unknown.