Especially for those of you who love the quotes I send at the end of emails... Here's a collection of my favourites! (You weren't hoping they were categorized were you? nahh...)
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Play. Don't leave home without it.
musings by Janet L Whitehead
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Play. Might I suggest playing with fire?
musings by Janet L Whitehead
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“Sometimes we forget that children have just arrived on this earth.
They are like little aliens,
coming into being as bundles of energy and pure potential,
here on some kind of exploratory mission
and they are just trying to learn what it means to be human.”
from the movie ‘Martian Child’
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"Magic is a bridge," he said at last, "a bridge that allows you to walk from the visible world over into the invisible, and to learn lessons of both those worlds."
From Brida by Paulo Coelho
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"What if you slept?
And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven
and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke,
you had the flower in your hand?
Ah, what then?"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Philosopher,
Author: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1772-1834)
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
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“The answer to why are we here is: I don’t know. So live your dreams to honour God”
From Brida, Paulo Coelho
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“… as she became a grown up, she wasn’t so sure. I don’t know why grown ups don’t believe what they did when they were kids. I mean, aren’t they supposed to be smarter? What Mahoney needed was the opportunity to prove to herself that she was something more than she believed.”
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
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“37 seconds”
“Great. Well done. Now, we wait.”
“No. We breath. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds well used is a lifetime.”
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
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"Whatever makes you happy, Dear"
Great words of wisdom from my father
James Victor Whitehead
1925 - 2006
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Dreams are journeys that take one
far from familiar shores,
strengthening the heart,
empowering the soul.
from a much loved poster I have framed on my wall...
a picture of a grand ship about to head over a
waterfall in the edge of the entire ocean.
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So you see, imagination needs moodling
- long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Brenda Ueland 1891-1985
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If you can't be a good example,
then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning.
anonymous
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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention
of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved
body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used
up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming:
Wow.... What a ride !!!"
author unknown
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There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I dare say you haven't had much practice,"said the Queen.
"When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Lewis Carroll
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Twenty years fron now
you will be more disappointed
by all the things you didn't do
than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Imagination is only for those who lack reality.
from the poster on my old outhouse wall. anonymous
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"The most beautiful experience we can
have is the mysterious; it is the fundamental
emotion which stands at the cradle of
true art and true science."
Albert Einstein Physicist and philosopher
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought
Buddha
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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Author, Musician, 1950 -
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Christmas waves a magic wand
over this world, and behold,
everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
1879 - 1955
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I was in yoga the other day.
I was in full lotus position.
My chakras were all aligned.
My mind is cleared of all clatter and
I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing.
It's amazing what comes up,
when you sit in that silence....
'Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.'
Ellen Degeneres
US comedian and actress
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As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced
to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas.
Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical.
I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that
we have forgotten the intangible.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes
wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government ......
Tom Robbins novelist (1936 -
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Yes I am a pirate...two hundred years too late..
The cannons don't thunder,
there's nothing to plunder...
I'm a…. victim of fate...
Jimmy Buffett, from the song
A Pirate Looks at 40
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A ship in port is safe, but that's
not what ships are built for.
Grace Murray Hopper
US admiral & computer scientist
(1906 - 1992)
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"Lots of people talk to animals," said Pooh.
"Not that many listen though."
"That's the problem."
The Tao of Pooh
Benjamin Hoff
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" Not like Pooh, the most effortless Bear we've ever seen."
"Just How do you do it, Pooh?"
"Do What?" asked Pooh.
"Become so Effortless."
"I don't do much of anything," he said.
"But all those things of yours get done."
"They just sort of happen," he said"
The Tao of Pooh
Benjamin Hoff
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When you discard arrogance, complexity,
and a few other things that get in the way,
sooner or later you will discover that simple,
childlike, and mysterious secret known to
those of the Uncarved Block:
Life is Fun.
The Tao of Pooh
Benjamin Hoff
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and
he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike (1831-)
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The vitality of thought is an adventure.
Ideas won't keep.
Something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947)
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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me
- shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking
that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught
Georgia O'Keefe US painter of Southwestern motifs (1887 - 1986)
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Imagination, which, in truth,
is but another name for absolute power
and clearest insight, amplitude of mind
and Reason in her most exalted mood.
William Wordsworth
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'The masters in the art of living make little distinction between their work and their play, their labor and their leisure, their minds and their bodies, their information, their recreation, their love and their religion. They hardly know which is which, they simply pursue their vision of excellence at whatever they do, leaving others to decide whether they are working or playing.'
James A Michener (1907 - 1997)
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We sit in a reality that we believe to be true, until we allow
our imaginations to visualize something different.
Janet L Whitehead
Philospher and being audacious by calling herself a philosopher!
~forget it, I"m not putting my birth year here!~
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Being 'creative' is a way of thinking,
a way of responding to the world.
Janet L Whitehead
still being audacious
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Be the Magic you want to see in the world
Judy Steves - poet, artist, muse 'Opta-Mystic,' lover of quotable quotes
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"Your life is an occasion.
Rise to it."
from Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
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"Sometimes we forget that children have just arrived on this earth.
They are like little aliens,
coming into being as bundles of energy and pure potential,
here on some kind of exploratory mission
and they are just trying to learn what it means to be human."
from the movie 'Martian Child'
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All children are artists.
The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo PIcasso
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There's as much risk in doing nothing
as there is in doing something.
It came from somewhere- I'm sure it wasn't my mind.
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"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull
of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."
~Rumi
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"Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experience of silence, or transcendence, or the divine – a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment where the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come... believe in them.
They reflect your true nature.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, spiritual teacher and humanitarian.
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Go Confidently in the direction of your
dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
--Henry David Thoreau
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To infinity and beyond!
Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story
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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred,
and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit,
become a child again at Christmas-time.
~Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!
~Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836
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"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected"
William Plomer 1903-1973
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It is crazy even to ask what creativity is.
It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your garden and ask:
“How did you decide to be a spice?"
Eeva Kilpi
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Found this fabulous collection on the "What the Bleep do We Know" facebook page.
There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein, in The New Convergence
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
- William Faulkner, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
- Stephen W. Hawking
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
- Niels Bohr
The warrior steps forth to accept the unknown and challenge disbelief, for if it lies in mind it Is, by God!
- Ramtha
If those who lead you say to you, "See, the Kingdom is in the sky," then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, "It is in the sea," then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.
- (All the sayings of Jesus gathered from ancient sources and compiled into a single volume for the first time. Compiled by Ricky Alan Mayotte) From The Complete Jesus. (Pg 71) Jesus
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
- Niels Bohr
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
- Copernicus
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
...the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you remember how electrical currents and "unseen waves" were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
- Albert Einstein
It gives me a deep comforting sense that ‘things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.’
- Helen Keller
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality.
- Ramtha
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
- William James
Time is not a line, but a series of now points.
- Taisen Deshimaru
The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
- Chang-Tzu
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
- Archibald MacLeish
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
- Aart Van Der Leeuw
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler.
- H.D. Thoreau
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
- Dogen
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Gustav Jung
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
- Helen Keller
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
- Winston Churchill
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.
- Jelauddin Rumi
All speech, action, and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness -- enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
The universe on a very basic level could be a vast web of particles which remain in contact with one another over distance, and in no time.
- R. Nadeau and M. Kafatos
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle
Kow thyself.
- Socrates
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
- Albert Einstein
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth…home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.
- Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and founder, Institute of Noetic Sciences
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
- Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
- Freeman Dyson
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend upon the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
- Marianne Williamson
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
- Confucius
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
- Democritus of Abdera
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we are looking for is what is looking.
- St. Francis of Assisi
