iam-ido: July 2009

Sunday, July 19, 2009

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Poverty in any form is a state of mind, not the state of your circumstances.
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
The final obstacle is the belief that there is an obstacle.
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
When the going gets tough, the tough relax.
Nothing happens until money changes hands.
On the way up, pay attention to your strengths; they’ll be your weaknesses on the way down.
Take your work seriously. Yourself, not so much.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other; but in looking together in the same direction.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Love is the answer; but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
To escape criticism—say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
It takes two to speak the truth—one to speak, and another to hear.
If suffer we must, let’s suffer on the heights.
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
You must render: never report.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Ninety percent of inspiration is perspiration.
We must speak to the eyes, if we wish to affect the mind.
Language. . . is not outside the mind, but is the outside of the mind.

Talking at people will create disconnection while talking with people will create connection.
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
All generalizations are lies.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
When you have nothing to do, you do what you ought not to do.
You think that because you understand ONE, you understand TWO because one and one make two. But you must understand AND.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based on doing or being.
Budha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself.
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
The time is always right to do what is right.

We see only what we know.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Funny how we don’t really know what we want until we don’t get it.
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
You can have everything you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what your are.
If you want to know yourself, see how others behave; if you want to understand others, look in your own heart.
It is no great accomplishment to hear a voice in your head. The accomplishment is to make sure that it is telling you the truth.
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap . The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten t h e rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the word s so that I can talk with him?