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Quotes #7: My Own Personal QUOTES

Learn from the Masters

In my healing sessions, I tend to use quotations from many different sources.

Here are my faves... selected and arranged by me so I can stop wasting valuable session time in repeating them!

"The word heretic means 'being the one is who able to choose'. Being called a heretic means having chosen a way different from whatever is now the mainstream. Being punished as a heretic happens in a society, a state, a church, a community of the like minded (say in this era, scientists) where the predominant philosophy is 'believe like me, think like me, and act like me, or I will bury you'. Being proud to be a heretic is to honor one's own uniqueness. I have been a heretic in many lifetimes. I still am proud to be one!"
   - Ellen Mogensen

"Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!"
   - Martin Luther

"A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
Our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing."
   - Martin Luther

"A thing of BEAUTY is a JOY forever. Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep. A bower for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."
   - John Keats

"For those that have faith, no evidence is necessary;
...... for those who do not, none is sufficient."
   - Anonymous

"Death is but a path that must be trod, If man would ever pass to God...
For we live in deeds, not years; In thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not figures on a dial... Life is not measured by the time we live,
But in how we show our love for God, Through how we act to those around us...
For those most live who think most, Feel noblest, act best, and live life well...
Just as night brings out stars, So does sorrow bring out truths.
Of all these, this one is greatest... In love nothing is ever too late,
For even after our tired heart shall cease to palpitate...
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
   - Julia Jackson Christian

"You may be whatever you resolve to be."
   - Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

"I came, I saw, I conquered."
   - Julius Caesar

"Do, or do not. There is no try".
   - Yoda (in the movie "The Empire Strikes Back")

"Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him."
   - Thomas Carlyle

"There is nothing too strange to have happened. There are only things too strange to be believed."
   - Thomas Hardy

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'It might have been.'"
   - John Greenleaf Whittier

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in. I needed clothes and you clothed me. I was sick and you looked after me. I was in prison and you came to visit me . . . I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me."
   - Jesus Christ in the Bible: Matthew (25:35-36, 40)

"For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever."
   - Apocrypha (Baruch 3:13)

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
   - Benjamin Franklin

"Guilt is like taking poison and expecting someone else to die."
   - Anonymous

"Holding on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned."
   - Gautama Buddha

"Hatred corrupts the subject (the one who hates) not the object (the one who is hated)."
   - Lacey Baldwin Smith

"Don't complain. Don't explain."
   - Benjamin Disraeli

"It is better to ask for forgiveness than for permission."
   - Anonymous

"Until I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues."
   - Hugh Prather

"The fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves."
   - William Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar")

"Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course,
So live today so it will be a memory without remorse."
   - Edgar Cayce

"Today is a good day to die."
   - Star Trek: the "Klingon" Battle Cry
......(even though I personally am a fan of Cardassians)

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier – not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do it has increased."
   - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."
   - Anonymous

"No answer is also an answer. Doing nothing is also a decision."
   - German Proverb

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."
   - William Penn

"What cannot princes err? Cannot subjects receive wrong?"
   - Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex

"Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
   - Quaker Proverb

"Fiat justitia, ruit coelum. Translation: 'Let justice be done, even if Heaven falls.'"
   - Roman Legal Maxim

"Men willingly believe what they will."
   - Julius Caesar

"With words we govern men."
   - Benjamin Disraeli

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
   - Jimi Hendrix

"Climb on down from the cross, honey. Someone else needs the wood."
   - Dolly Parton (in the movie "Straight Talk")

"You've got to think about 'big things' while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. For leaders 'do the right thing' while getting their followers to 'do things right'..."
   - Alvin Toffler

"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing."
   - Michael Gerber

"Cripple them, and you get a Sir Walter Scott or a Florence Nightingale. Lock them in a prison cell, and you get a John Bunyan or a Susan B. Anthony. Pit them against impossible, overwhelming odds, and you get a George Washington or a Joan of Arc. Raise them in abject poverty, and you get an Abraham Lincoln or a Mother Theresa. Strike them down with terrible illness, and you get a Franklin Roosevelt or a Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Bronte. Deafen them, and you get a Ludwig von Beethoven or a Helen Keller. Have them born black in a society filled with racial hatred and discrimination, and you get a Booker T. Washington or a Marian Anderson. Call them slow learners, 'retarded', or write them off as uneducable or crazy, and you get an Albert Einstein or a Marie Curie… and so it is that life is 20% what happens to us and 80% the way we respond to it."
   - Ted Engstrom and Ellen Mogensen

"The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
   - Mark Twain

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do."
  - Theodore Roosevelt

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."
   - Ernest Hemingway

"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds."
   - Hanmer Parsons Grant

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
   - Edmund Burke (attributed)

"Faith is often the step into the light that feels like a leap in the dark."
   - Anonymous

"Through the gateway of feeling your weakness lies your strength.
Through the gateway of feeling your pain lies your pleasure and joy."
   - Doris Warcholik

"And what is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered."
   - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nursing a grudge will never make it better, it will only keep it alive."
   - Anonymous

"I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm."
   - Calvin Coolidge

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
   - Upton Sinclair

"Most of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by those who did not know they were impossible."
   - Anonymous

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
   - Pablo Picasso

"Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward."
   - Anonymous

"Discontent is the first step in the progress of an individual or a nation."
   - Chinese Proverb

"This life is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual life you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do!"
   - Anonymous

"Tell me your philosophy and I will tell you your destiny."
   - "Ayn Rand"

"What we do in life echoes through eternity."
   - "Maximus" (in the movie "Gladiator")

"For any question, love is the answer."
   - Anonymous

For My Beloved "Never Ending" Love

"Every age is the same. It is only love that makes any of them bearable."
   - "H. G Wells" (in the movie "Time After Time")

"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
   - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends to the seas; they live in one another still."
   - William Penn

"Two souls with but a single thought: two hearts that beat as one."
   - Maria Lovell

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no! it is an ever-fix'd mark: that looks on tempests and is never shaken."
   - William Shakespeare ("Sonnet XVI")

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart."
   - Helen Keller

"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."
   - Louisa May Alcott

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
   - Jalalu'l-din Rumi

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."
   - Henry Ward Beecher

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
 Love leaves a memory no one can steal."
   - From a headstone in Ireland

"But, O Sarah! if the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; In the gladdest days and in the darkest nights... always, always, and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath, as the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again."
   - Major Sullivan Ballou
    (to his wife a week before his death in the Civil War in 1861)

"...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."
   - e. e. cummings

"The pleasures of loves which we shared have been too sweet - they can never displease me, and can scarcely be banished from my thoughts. Wherever I turn they are always there before my eyes, bringing with them awakened longings and fantasies which will not even let me sleep..."
   - Heloise to Abelard

"Past the devil's own temptation, Beyond where angels sleep,
To the holy invocation, Of a neon city street,
I feel your hand, I hold you... Through your eyes I see,
...... My love, Wherever I go, I take you with me!
Down the road of my desires, To the oceans of my peace,
Through the fueling of my fires, Until my yearnings cease,
I hear your voice, I know you, In your arms I sleep.
...... My love, wherever I go, I take you with me!
Even though I've fed my hunger, Even though I've named my fear,
I'll never understand it, How the journey led me here,
But I have made a promise, That I intend to keep!
...... My love, wherever you go, I take you with me!"
   - Melissa Etheridge ("I Take You with Me")

"I want to go. I want to fight. I want to rush. I want to run.
I want to see you again until the setting sun.
......We will kiss. We will laugh.
We will be a part of what is set to be a union of the heart.
Love is just the only thing that helps me live through all my pain."
   - from "Running Three" (in the movie "Run Lola Run")