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Some Interesting Quotes
Jul 12 2009

I’ve seen a few interesting quotes recently and thought I’d share.  On another note, on Friday I was talking about wanting a sno-cone and yesterday (Saturday) I took the kids to one of my son’s friend’s birthday parties and they had a sno-cone machine!  I chalked up the fortuitous coincidence to the Law of Attraction (wikipedia).  One of my online friends, Edward Mills, blogs and coaches on the Law of Attraction.  I’m not sure he would agree that having a desired sno-cone show up in my life is the best example, but still.

Now for some quotes:

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer.  From a Deepak Chopra Center for Wellbeing newsletter I get occasionally.

“At the age of 20, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn’t thinking of us at all.” – unknown.  From a birthday party evite from a friend who is turning 40.  I’m looking forward to 40 only for that reason.

The following quotes are from a guy named Jeffrey Fry who I honestly can’t remember how I know.  He sends out a daily quote/tidbit email and since I find many of them interesting, I have stayed subscribed to his list.

“You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.” – Jeffrey Fry

“Change only happens when the status quo becomes unbearable.” – Michael Drapkin. I recently heard a speaker on the topic of understanding people and he had another twist on this quote that goes something like this “Nothing changes until the pain of remaining the same is worse than the pain of changing.”

“Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.” – Dustin Hosterler

“I must not fear.  Fear is the mind-killer.  Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.  I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.  Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.  Only I will remain.” – Frank Herbert

Love is the highest bliss that man can attain to, for through it alone he truly knows that he is more than himself, and that he is at one with the All. – Rabindranath Tagore. Interestingly, I have a cousin named after Rabindranath

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4 Comments on “Some Interesting Quotes”

  1. 1 Shelly said at 12:24 PM on July 12th, 2009:

    I put this one in the header of maybethinking.com

    “Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.” – Dustin Hosterler

    Thanks!
    .-= Shelly´s last blog ..Creative Questionairre =-.

  2. 2 Aruni said at 7:26 PM on July 12th, 2009:

    @Shelly – glad you liked it! Kindness goes a long way and you are one remarkably kind person. 🙂

  3. 3 Erin Defosse said at 9:13 AM on July 13th, 2009:

    It seems to me that “Kindness is the oil…” and “I must not fear…” go hand in hand because if you fear you are unlikely to be kind and if you are not kind you might be perpetuating the fear. Interesting and “timely” quotes. 🙂
    .-= Erin Defosse´s last blog ..Multilingual and international pop music =-.

  4. 4 Aruni said at 7:44 PM on July 14th, 2009:

    @Erin – yes, that’s true. Maybe being kind reduces fear?