Some Fun Quotes
Here are a few fun quotes. I’m gonna post my favorites and then write a little bit about them – just cause I feel like writing today.
When I was a few years younger, I would read quote books everyday. They actually really shaped my life in a lot of ways… SOOO I urge you, that if any of these call out to you, please print them out and stick them on the bottom of your computer screen, or on your bathroom mirror and read them out loud everyday. When you hear yourself say something enough, you actually start to believe it, and believing it is the only way to really live it.
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” – Abraham Lincoln
Haha. I just find this rather funny but sad at the same time. I see this often where a person will call something one thing, and then expect others to accept it as that. This is pretty much the root of all manipulations. If you can convince someone that it’s not what they think it is, or that the problem is them, etc etc… well that’s what people do to manipulate others… but like it says, a leg is a leg, and truth is truth, no matter how you try to hide it.
“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.” – Adrienne Rich
Oh I just really like this one. It’s basically like attracts like, or to take it a step further, Karma. What you reap, so shall you sow.
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” – Anais Nin
Wow this is just awesome if you apply it to anything, even ourselves. If we just accept ourselves the way we are, we give up on growing. If we just accept that relationships they way they are, we give up on growing, etc etc. Religion is defined as a set of beliefs. Its just simply something one believes in and in that aspect, this can be applied to everything in our lives. What are our beliefs? Is that the life we want to live? When we do not challenge what we believe (in any aspect of life), we cease to grow.
“What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires — desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.” – Bertrand Russell
Wow this one is awesome. It’s kind of funny to see it in action, but again, sad at the same time. This to me speaks clearly of the art of “projection”. Right? I’ve had an experience recently where I was talking about one thing, but the other person was hearing something completely different. They were simply looking for evidence of ‘their myth’ and when they think they find it, the ears just close right up. As it says, “if he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance with his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.” Damn, I can’t even add to that… its perfect.
“You always admire what you really don’t understand.” – Blaise Pascal
This can totally be taken in many different ways I think. On one hand, you don’t understand what you don’t know and sometimes admiration is just a lack of knowing who someone really is, etc. That is, once you know them better, the admiration stops. But also, sometimes you admire someone or something because you do not understand how someone acts in ways that you are not sure how to act… someone does things that you are not sure how to do… and someone is a person that you are not sure how to be.
“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.” – Blaise Pascal
Wow another great one by him. Truth is what’s in our hearts, everything else is fear, shame, and laziness.
“Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.” – Brad Holland
Hahahaah.. I just think this is hilarious. Especially studying psychology like I do. The sad part is that its kind of true. Emotions are happening, but that doesn’t make them real. I could be angry, but am I really angry? Probably not, I’m probably hurt or scared or feeling guilt or shame. Lets take it further and say I feel fear… is that real? I mean I AM feeling it, but does it make it ‘truth’. Absolutely not. Fear is the least truth you can get. It’s completely based outside of the moment… The thing about emotions is you are entitled to them, but you should not be governed by them. If your feeling of fear tells you to lie, do you lie? If your insecurities tell you that someone doesn’t love you when in reality they really do, does that make it true? You can see how this form of thinking can easily lead to a world full of fucked up people who won’t address their issues…. Pardon my French…. Or English, I think that was English.
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Hahahahaha. This is classic. I love it. I think it relates to what we were just talking about on the last one. But even moreso, let’s say you think I’m a jealous person. Does that make me a jealous person? Hell no… I love that saying, opinions are like assholes, everybody has one. I just think it fits well here.
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” – Demosthenes
Wow awesome again. This goes back to the “personal myth” about you. Self Deceit is a very difficult one to address though. It’s full of projection and miscommunication. It’s really hard to address issues when someone doesn’t even believe they are there you know? So it’s easy Demosthenes, but how do we stop it? Maybe he will know…
“There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.” – Dorothy Thompson
A-Fucking-Men. I’m super big on understanding why things happen, especially between people. If you have a tiff in a friendship or relationship, I think the only way to find solutions is to analyze the cause. If you can do that, then you can probably solve it. The only problem is sometimes the cause was something much deeper than a surface issue. It’s a serious issue that one or both people need to address within themselves. This is what makes relationship one of the best ways to actually grow, but you need to be ready to address your inner self… most people are horrified of their inner demons you know. That’s why they are so persistent at refusing to address the causes.
“The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.” – Feliz Adler
Awh I like this one. A long long long time ago I decide that I wouldn’t lie or do things of that nature, not for anyone else, but for myself. First off, if you aren’t honest you judge yourself. People who lie, either by omission, by action, or by words are bound to think badly of themselves. You cannot do bad things and deep down feel good… Secondly, if things don’t workout the way you had hoped or expected them to work out, but you were honest through it all, then you don’t have regrets. You can say to yourself, ‘hey at least I was honest’. Anyway, that seems to have proven true time and time again for me. No regrets in relationships, and I actually really like myself as a person! I think this was one of the biggest things that led me to feeling that way.
“[I]t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.” – George Elliot
So true. I find it rather hard to get people to discuss their feelings. For me I’ve spent so long analyzing myself that I blurt out right when I feel something and can even tell you why. But that’s so rare for most people that when they hear me say it, they actually think its not true cause in their minds, they could never know their feelings that well, so how could I?
“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem
Bhahahahahahahahahhahahahaha. Hahahahahaha. Oh that was funny. Things that are totally true are funny to me. I hate laughing at people too when it happens but man I’m so over getting dragged into other peoples drama that I find it amusing to watch them deny what is so so so so so clear to everyone else who knows them.
“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
Hell yeah, like I said earlier. You can lie by omission, like it says here, you can lie with your actions (which is common in people who project one thing but are actually thinking or doing another), and you can lie by a falsehood which is by far the easiest spotted… as far as I’m concerned they are all lies. If it has its roots in deception, sneakiness, falsehood, manipulation, etc., it’s an outright lie.
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” – Henry Ward Beecher
Man no one likes to hear their faults. I think sometimes as a friend you need to just say something… but I always think there is a level of readiness. Someone will hear something when they are ready you know? Sometimes, they just aren’t ready to hear the truth. You should tell them, but know that they may not hear you.
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” John F. Kennedy
Man I love that guy. Especially after Zeitgeist; in my book he’s someone that can talk about truth cause he obviously was on his way to telling it when he was killed. Anyway, this again talks about the myth you know… our personal myths, however created, are what keeps us from truth. Lies are blatant, myths are much more difficult to discover, and much harder to accept as false.
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can’t add to that… he was just a powerful man. Wooo. I have chills reading it over again.
Yay thanks for playing the quote game today. Like I said earlier, please print out anything that speaks to you and read it everyday…
Love you guys…
