THOUGHT I THINK

THOUGHT I THINK

Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by The Muse in The Muse

Dear Reader,

As one of the many sleepless nights - insomnia-, I often find myself awake while the rest of the world is sound asleep. Have you ever wondered what insomniacs do when others are in rest mode. I don’t know about the million others out there but I tend to do one of three things; listen to music, watch tv or read and some night i do all three though never at the same time. But strangely I actually hate reading, I just like reading thoughtful quotes which make me ponder lifes infinities through the night. So I have decided to share some of my favourite thoughts and quotes some of which i have no idea where they originated.

If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?

When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?

If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?

Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?

When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?

Our lives begin and end in the time it takes the universe to blink.

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~ Lee Segall

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~ Andre Gide

There’s more to the truth than just the facts and figures

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~ Polish Proverb

When the student is ready, the master appears. ~ Buddhist Proverb

Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~ Zen Buddhist Proverb

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~ Charles C. Finn

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 the 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 words so I can talk with him? ~ Chuang Tzu

By daily dying I have come to be. ~ Theodore Roethke

If you Think like a man of action, you will act like a man of thought. ~ Henri Louis Bergson

You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~ Navajo Proverb

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. ~Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad

How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body? ~ Laurel Hoodwrit….tried this line on a girl once….works like a charm :-)

Alice came to a fork in the road. “Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat.
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.” ~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ~ Bertrand Russell

The obstacle is the path. ~ Zen Proverb

No man ever crosses the same river twice, for he is not the same man and it is not the same river (this one takes a while to get)

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. ~ Robert Brault, (so true)

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~ Niels Bohr

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! ~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! ~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Be proud in defeat and humble in victory

We all die but not everyone get to truly live

The sweet is not so sweet until you have tasted the sour

The only comprehensible thing about the world is that it is incomprehensible

In this world there are really and truly only two tribe, the rich and the poor ~ by a poor unknown kenyan farmer

And lastly, Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~ Robert Brault,

Have a lovely day

The Muse

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