My husband recently posted a few quotes on his blog, Cuco Blog y Mas, and I feel obliged to borrow a couple of them and add a few from my own searching. Sometimes quotes can be dull cliches, worn out from overuse. Find the right quotes, though, and they're just the inspiration, chuckle, or mental appetizer you were looking for. I have a feeling there will be more quote-related postings to come in the future on Mosaic of the Mind...
"'A man,'" replied Confucius, 'does not seek to see himself in running water, but in still water. For only what is itself still can instill stillness into others.'"
-Confucius
"Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today."
-Marcus Valerius Marcial
A few that I found today:
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
-Oscar Wilde
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
-Kahlil Gibran
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
-Plato
"The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances."
-Atisha
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
-English proverb
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
-Kahlil Gibran
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
-Oscar Wilde
"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."
-William Faulkner
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
-Oscar Wilde
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
-William Shakespeare
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
-Kahlil Gibran
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