Favorite quotes

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a 2-way street." -Malcolm X

 

There is a saying in Tibetan that “at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar.” The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come from wealth, but from setting limits to one’s desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction

- Dalai Lama

 

You follow him facebook too? Nice

 

indeed sir, check out my latest statement

 

"Your existence disprove both intelligent design and natural selection"

 

I have followed him for a long time and his latest is great as usual:
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The very purpose of spirituality is self-discipline. Rather than criticizing others, we should evaluate and criticize ourselves. Ask yourself, what am I doing about my anger, my attachment, my pride, my jealousy? These are the things we should check in our day to day lives.
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Im working on pride
Man, do I have a problem w that. Cant ask for help, I feel its a failure and I need to get over that.

 

Cosign on all fronts especially attachment and pride.

 

We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right." -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life. -Sophia Loren, actress (b. 1934)

 

"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -Langston Hughes

 

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” Oscar Wilde from The Critic as Artist

 

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” Wilde

– from The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

"All great ideas are dangerous.” Wilde

 

“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.” Wilde

 

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Wilde

 

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” Wilde

 

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” Wilde from The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

 

"A woman without curves is like jeans without pockets; you don't know where to put your hands."

 

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson, columnist (b. 1926)