I have a few short ones and an three long ones. My favorite is what I use for my signature. As you will note, they are all very Eastern in their perspective
First the short ones:
Lao Tzu: "
The Way that can be told is not the eternal way."
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It is what it is." Very Zen.
Chinese saying: "
Wei wu Wei [Do don't do]"
Zen saying: "
When you seek it, you cannot find it"
Rinzai: "
If you know that fundamentally there is nothing to seek, you have settled your affairs"
From Dinotopia: "
Breathe Deep, Seek Peace"
My two long quotes I love just the same as the short ones:
Quote:
"The man who, being really on the way, falls upon hard
times in the world will not...turn to that friend who
offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old
self to survive. Rather, he will seek out someone who
will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself...
"Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and
over again to annihilation, can that which is
indestructible arise within him. In this lies the
dignity of daring. Thus, the aim of practice is not to
develop an attitude which allows a man to acquire a
state of harmony and peace wherein nothing can ever
trouble him.
"On the contrary, practice...should enable him to dare;
to let go his futile hankering after harmony, surcease
from pain, and a comfortable life in order that he may
discover, in doing battle with the forces that oppose
him, that which awaits him beyond the world of
opposites. The first necessity is that we should have
the courage to face life, and to encounter all that is
most perilous in the world...
"The more a man learns wholeheartedly to confront the
world that threatens him with isolation, the more are
the depths of the ground of being revealed in the
possibilities of new life and becoming opened."
The Way of Transformation
Karlfried Gras von Durkheim
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and
Quote:
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose
recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force
of nature instead of a feverish, selfish, little clod of
ailments and grievances complaining that the world will
not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole
community. And as long as I live, it is my privilege to
do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I
work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life
is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which
I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it
burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations.
George Bernard Shaw
From MAN AND SUPERMAN Act 3
Don Juan in Hell
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Finally, some quotes that are from various ZBS productions of The Adventures of Ruby, the Galactic Gumshoe:
From Ruby IV, the Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe,
ZBS Foundation :
Quote:
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"Life is always ow, OW! Living part of now, NOW!" --Ruby's Nichola Tesla
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Also from Ruby IV, a conversation between Ruby and the Time-Suspender Father Mojo:
Quote:
Ruby: "Father, how do I purify?"
Father: "Just do what you are doing."
Rudy: "Is that all?"
Father: "When you're doing, KNOW that you're doing."
Ruby (astonished): "That's it ??!!"
Father (laughing): "That's a lot!!"
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From Ruby III the Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe, ZBS Foundation:
Quote:
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"It's HOW you see that creates WHAT you see." --Ruby's Sister Hellopo
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