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RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/12/2008 11:31:42 AM   
J1937

 

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Your "bitte schon" did amuse me - and I forgive you for missing the " on top of the "o", which changes the vowel - bitte schön... (I know your keyboard doesn´t provide for it.)

Did O´Donohue learn German to write his dissertation in it, or was it just for being able to understand Hegel? Probably the latter. The thought need not give you a headache, though. After all English and German were the same language once - admittedly quite a while ago.

Look at this (taken from my teaching materials):

"Any intelligent English man (or American ) should have no problem with:
´In neun Minuten`, sagte der Pilot, ´landen wir in New York`.
And most Germans (or Austrians) would have no problem with ´The passenger on the deck stared at the horizon and saw an iceberg`."

Well, it would not suffice to understand Hegel...

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/12/2008 12:31:28 PM   
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I confess I don't know. I assume he learned German in order to read Hegel in his native language, but he got his PhD from the University of Tubingen, so it is conceivable he also wrote his dissertation in German.

I remember one philosopher I was reading in college who referred to the "brain cracking dialectics of Hegel", and that was after translation. Perhaps that was headache enough. 

I didn't realize that German and English were that similar. Thank you for the lesson.

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/12/2008 3:24:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thankful one, thank you for the fantastic blue pictures and also for the female quotes.
It's amazing how many women have a wish to be men!! I have no such wish as I am perfectly happy that I am a woman. No amount of inequality would make me wish otherwise.
I'm sure you feel the same about being a man..........or maybe you don't.

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/14/2008 8:30:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		Significance of color BLUE in spiritual life

-In China, blue signifies immortality
-In Christianity, blue is the color of hope and signifies the eternal healing presence of Yahweh
-For Hindus, blue is the color of Krishna
-For the Jews, blue symbolizes holiness
-In the Middle East, blue is a protective color

May we all be adrift in the color blue this weekend.

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/20/2008 5:56:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		Today I´d like to share a prayer by Anton Rotzetter.
Thanks are due to Edda, who kindly translated it into English from the German original.

LIVING GOD

From the sleep of security
   awaken us!
 From the death of love
  awaken us!
From laziness in thinking
  awaken us!
From the sleep of self-sufficiency
  awaken us!
From the death of hope
  awaken us!
From the dryness of imagination
  awaken us!
From the sleep of the senses
  awaken us!
From the death of feelings
  awaken us!
From pettiness and narrow-mindedness
  awaken us!

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/20/2008 4:47:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is an inspiring poem that my late father used to quote to me and my brothers when we were growing up.
Anytime he heard one of his children cry,"I can't do it!" he would recite this poem.
It always brought a smile to my face and it still does.
   Mary
It Couldn't Be Done
Edgar Guest

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face.  If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it";
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/21/2008 6:09:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		Dear Mary, Welcome to the forum. Thank you for the poem. It sounds like your father was a very wise man. My admiration goes out to anyone who can truly live this poem.

Blessings on you and your family.

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/22/2008 10:15:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		A prayer for Easter, by Anton Rotzetter, translated by Edda:

I WANT TO RISE UP WITH YOU

Jesus Christ

I want to rise up with you
  against peril and death
  against torture and suffering
  against poverty and misery
  against doubt and resignation
  against suppression and coercion

With you I want to stand up
   against everything that impedes life
With you I want to stand for
  everything that fosters life

Be with me
  that I may rise up with you

                  *
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/23/2008 6:44:17 PM   
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God said NO! 
 
I asked God to take away my habit.
God said, "No".
It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.

I asked God to make my handicapped child whole.
God said, "No".
His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary.

I asked God to grant me patience.
God said, "No".
Patience is a byproduct of tribulations; it isn't granted, it is learned.

I asked God to give me happiness.
God said, "No".
I give you blessings; Happiness is up to you.

I asked God to spare me pain.
God said, "No".
Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares and brings you closer to me.

I asked God to make my spirit grow.
God said, "No".
You must grow on your own, but I will prune you to make you fruitful.

I asked God for all things that I might enjoy life.
God said, "No".
I will give you life, so that you may enjoy all things.

I asked God to help me LOVE others, as much as He loves me.
God said..."Ahhhh, finally you have the idea".


THIS DAY IS YOURS - DON'T THROW IT AWAY
May God Bless All of You Here


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but you know they are always there.
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/24/2008 1:25:26 AM   
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Easter joy for everyone.

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/24/2008 6:23:03 AM   
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/25/2008 11:06:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's hard to not like Mark Twain. Here are some of his quotes.
  • What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
  • There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty: "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend."
  • Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
  • Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
  • Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
  • Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
  • A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
  • Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
  • Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
  • A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.
  • Be good and you will be lonesome.
  • The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
  • Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
  • The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
  • I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
  • The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
  • Let us be thankful for fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
  • The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
  • Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
  • Can we afford Civilization?
  • One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
  • The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
  • There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one -- keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
  • The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
  • In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.
  • I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.
  • History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot.
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
  • We are all beggars, each in his own way.
  • Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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    RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/25/2008 11:22:17 PM   
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    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.
    Pudd'nhead Wilson
    The fool saith, 'Put not all thy eggs in one basket' ... but the wise man saith, 'Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket!'"
    Notebook
    Strip the human race absolutely naked and it would be a real democracy.
    The Prince and the Pauper
    When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
    The Mysterious Stranger
    Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
    The Gilded Age
    No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.
    How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
    The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only -- not from its privileged classes.
    Following the Equator
    The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
    Pudd'nhead Wilson
    Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
    Roughing It
    Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
    The Gorky Incident
    Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason.
    Innocents Abroad
    What is it that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea -- to discover a great thought.
    Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom the harder it is to get rid of it.
    Following the Equator
    By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
    Following the Equator
    Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
    The Lowest Animal
    Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
    3,000 Years Among the Microbes
    Between believing a thing and thinking you know is only a small step and quickly taken.
    Pudd'nhead Wilson
    Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
    Adam's Diary
    After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
    Following the Equator
    We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
    Following the Equator
    The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
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    RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/25/2008 11:30:56 PM   
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    Status: offline     		1. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

    2. There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

    3. One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

    4. The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

    5. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.

    6. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

    7. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

    8. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

    9. Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

    10. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
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    RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/25/2008 11:36:38 PM   
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  • We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
  • Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
  • We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
  • All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
  • The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
  • Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
  • Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

    Which of these quotes do you like?
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    RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/25/2008 11:41:50 PM   
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    Status: offline     		There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."
    - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • "The average man don't like trouble and danger."
    - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • "The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness."
    - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • "Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully."
    - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • "All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised."
    - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • "It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."
    - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • "We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft."
    - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • "Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she done it, just the same--she was just that kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion--there warn't no back-down to her, I judge."
    - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • "I hain't ever seen her since that time that I see her go out of that door; no, I hain't ever seen her since, but I reckon I've thought of her a many and a many a million times, and of her saying she would pray for me; and if ever I'd a thought it would do any good for me to pray for HER, blamed if I wouldn't a done it or bust."
    - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • "Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving."
    - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
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    RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/25/2008 11:44:58 PM   
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    Status: offline     		I  ain't doing my duty by that boy, and that's the Lord's truth, goodness knows. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a-laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He's full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! He's my own dead sister's boy, poor thing, and I ain't got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks."
    - Mark Twain, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
  • "Tom was a glittering hero once more—the pet of the old, the envy of the young. His name even went into immortal print, for the village paper magnified him. There were some that believed he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging."
    - Mark Twain, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
  • "Huck Finn's wealth and the fact that he was now under the Widow Douglas’s protection introduced him into society—no, dragged him into it, hurled him into it—and his sufferings were almost more than he could bear. The widow's servants kept him clean and neat, combed and brushed... He had to eat with knife and fork; he had to use napkin, cup, and plate; he had to learn his book, he had to go to church; he had to talk so properly that speech was become insipid in his mouth; whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot."
    - Mark Twain, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
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    RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/26/2008 4:58:50 PM   
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    Status: offline     		You have done a great job by collecting so many quotes, Thankful One. To answer your question: I will have to think some about most of them to see what my experience says. The two I react spontaneously to are the ones about life and death.

    * All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
    * The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

    To be honest, though: "...at any time" does not apply to me yet. I hope to live long enough to get my house tidied up, having got rid of so much old stuff (especially papers) ... It is my goal, however, to reach the state of mind Mark Twain describes.

    Let me add Mark Twain´s quote on words of affirmation, "I can live on a sincere compliment for two months". (Already mentioned on the book thread).

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    RE: Inspiring quotes - 3/31/2008 10:41:39 AM   
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    Nietzsche is one of my favorite writers and I agree totally with his statement: "    Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.".
     
    And I think a great deal of Mark Twain's writing fits that mold. Which is why my two favorite quotes by him are almost totally contradictory. But some of us have lived in the abyss of life as well as had some joyful moments so we can relate.

    "    There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought. A vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"

    "    Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."


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    RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/1/2008 1:54:43 PM   
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    Thank you for these colorful quotes, which show color not only with regard to their appearance, but also as far as their contrasting content is concerned.

    I share Nietzsche´s statement, and it seems to me that everything people post on these Forums is written with their/our own blood, e.i. coming from deep personal experience.

    Recovering from fatiguing sickness, I resonate with Mark Twain´s joyous quote, inviting all of you to join in the dance... - -

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