In memory of the 'inspirations' thread

Crisis precipitates change!!

Please share your words of wisdom again with the massive, and anything that you find motivational or inspirational.

If you have to ask why you have no place here

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

I reckon this should be changed to "When your penis rises, think of the consequences!"

i keep clicking on this thread thinking it is the In memory of the Jokes Thread and get so dissapointed when teh funneh is not delivered



not inspiring at all

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
-Ayn Rand

I can't stand those fluffy BS 'inspiration' things.
Like some wak emails I get all the time "dance like nobody's looking" etc ...BS
I especially revile the power point presentation ones that have a scenic backdrop and some matured cheddar mp3 playing.

They seem to only be emailed to me by Women.... Strange that...


That said, here is my 'inspiration'

Every problem presented is an opportunity in disguise

"You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later."
- Mitch Hedberg (RIP)

I like that one.

Pretty much everything he ever said is hillarious.

"I like Rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something."

I've heard that one before 

 

"I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is."

L. Ron Hubbard

"A young man who can not cry is a savage, an old man who can not laugh is a fool"

"Fight Fire with Water"

"Petience is the art of hoping"

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.

'Peace begins with thy neighbor. what are you fighting for?'

I dont expect the massive to understand but this is the only thing keeping me standing atm

The iron never lies to you. You can walk outside & listen to all kinds of talk. Get told that your a god or a total bastard.

The iron will always kick you the real deal.

The iron is the great reference point,

The all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me. Never runs. Friends may come & go.

Two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.   

Henry Rollins

Naw Ben, I think we do understand, its a tough time for ya! But there are some constants in life, and as trivial as it may seem, its those constants that keep u standing. Hang in there ok?

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
-La Bruyere

It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep.
-Chas. Austin Bates

Arguing with a fool proves there are two.
-Doris M. Smith

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half of the evil they say of others.
-J. Petit Senn

Thanx Anna

From Le Petit Prince...

"One cannot see clearly but with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes."

I did a choreographed/scripted theatre production of The Little Prince at the Norwood Star. I played Antoine Saint D'Expurie.

Great story with heaps of meaning to it.

off topic but

Choreographed! Awesome. 

Some more inspirations from literature:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Sylvia Plath

I talk to God but the sky is empty.
Sylvia Plath

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
Sylvia Plath

'What is life if we spend it in hate and spite? Life is for living, life is for loving, ask yourself... What feels better to you? What brings you more hapiness? I know what my answer is'.


The one chioce we can all afford, is how we choose to be.

“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.”

Albert Schweitzer

I like that

i cant see that holding up in a court of law

 

Just remember---if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off

I heard this somewhere, don't know who the quote belongs to, but I like it.

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience... but spirits having a human experience."

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Martin Luther King Jnr

I said that to the dudes at work today, and used this to explain why I am such a loud mouthed crazy.

"im full of life I tells ya"

In Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals' he points out that a Chinese character which represents crisis has the dual meanings of danger and opportunity. 

Chinese is full of multiple meanings for each character, thats what makes it difficult to learn how to write it.

"suck it down"

 

One of my long time favourites 

You could just as well say "snort it up"

Maybe not 

Ooh i want to go travelling...

 Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Growing old is mandatory
Growing up is optional

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
~ Agnes Repplier ~

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
I travel for travels sake.
The great affair is to move.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

Not as inspiring as keeping me going

There’s a long way to fall from the dizzying heights

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power"
~ Tao Te Ching

"If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is."
~Author Unknown

"Storms make trees take deeper roots"
~ Dolly Parton

 Pearls of wisdom from Dolly Parton. I have truly seen it all.

 Surely storms would cause he mammaries to blow off?

  yea - maybe those huge glands actually contained medulla oblongata's.

 

'The time has come to stop believing in your fairytale romance. It is time to crush your illusory sand castles. It's time to stop pretending you dont know who you are.

No one else can make you complete. Nor can they give you the love you crave. For the love can neither be given nor recieved. It is an ocean that can be experienced. It is an infinite embrace that you can joyously dance in with someone else, but ultimately no one can give it to you'.

~Brandon Bays in Freedom Is

a drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts

Tera Patrick can!

"Be still, and in stillness let there be Peace"

"Attitude determines altitude"

how can you soar like an eagle when you are surrounded by turkeys? 

If you can steal my mind, my heart is yours forever 

 

At Alana's quote

 

If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not being smart enough to be lazy.

Something I have had to learn and some advice for other ladies too

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
    Jean Houston

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
    John Berry, Flight of White Crows

i thought this one was sweet...

'today is a gift, that's why it is called the present'

I like that one too

Today has been a flaming bag of dogs poo on my doorstep.
Let's hope tomorrow is more of a present : )

talent borrows but genius steals!

"harden the fuck up"

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless".

"Pain is weakness leaving your body"

That's one of my favourite lines out of Evidence's Weatherman LP.
"Pain is just weakness leaving the body"

"the essence of who you are and the strength in that is what people will see when they really take the time to look. And if they dont, then they are not worth yours"

"Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river."
Malagsy Proverb

Pretty

I found this lecture so inspiring I bought the book 

"The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch. The idea behind this lecture is "what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?"
 
Background... Randy Pausch is a professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked with Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts (EA) and Walt Disney Imagineering. In September 2006, Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In August 2007, he was told he had only another three to six months to live (he is still alive today).
 
These are some of his online lectures from late 2007...
 
Childhood dreams, enabling the dreams of others, lessons learnt (I've seen this one its recommended but long 1hr 44 min)
 
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184

Time Management - about the importance of time above all other commodities (haven't watched this one yet but I will, its 1hr 26 mins)
 
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5784740380335567758

Anyway, he talks with great humour and modesty it is very inspiring I think especially if you are experiencing those moments of self doubt it kinda gives you a nice kick up the arse.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain

thanks for teh reminder nes, i will get onto it asap!

Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about events. Small minds talk about people. - Elenor Roosevelt

  true in so many ways.

"Value and worth is in every relationship is one is willing and open to seeing it"

Good girls are made of sugar and spice
Me and my girls are of vodka and ice!

"It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away."

-Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus),

"If you can be truely happy with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are - the being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something already defined"

Ekart tolle

That is SO true of the people around work!!!


Make me feel tiny if it makes you feel tall, theres always someone cooler than you - Ben Folds

"Find out what your limit is, then double it!"

You can't fail if you never give up.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.


*still on my holiday buzz*

 Exactly!

 

Or should it be "find out what her limit is, then double it"? Seemed to work a treat also ...

Amor Vincit Omnia- Love Conquers All

Can't fail if you don't try it in the first place, either

My mum listens to those stupid inspirational motivational brainwashing tape packs and they come out with all that balony too.

There is nothing wrong with positive affirmations, if people need them and they help it's better than being negative and taking other's down with you!! At least she's taking steps to trying to improve herself instead of being trapped in a victim's head space of 'poor me'.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucious

I shall remember while the light lives yet... And in the night time I shall not forget.
Algernon Swinburne

Poor me? Sounds like someone I know