what's your memorable quotation?

"The map is not the territory." -Alfred Korzybski

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
–unattributed

Water which is too pure has no fish.
-Ts’ai Ken T’an

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
-Lao Tzu

Not sure who said this:

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

I know this defied the law of gravity. But you see, I never studied law………..Bugs Bunny

Cheer up, nothing is so bad it can't get worse (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman)..

"though we may be sleeping,
there is an inner wakefulness
that directs the dream,
and that will eventually startle us back
to the truth of who we are."

RUMI

(and if you think that's not the heart of yoga.... )


"Enlightenment, peace & joy will not be granted by someone else.
The well is within us & if we dig deeply in the present moment
the water will spring forth."

THICH NHAT HANH

(I guess the last one should be in the bad gurus thread....)

They sicken of the calm, who know the storm
Dorothy Parker

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Jung

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.
George W Bush

"the last meal is history, its the next one that's important"
(Garfield.....the cat)

I used to work in a profession where people regularly peppered their speech with quotes from Shakespeare, Aristotle, Sun Tzu, etc - and I used to drop that one in occasionally (a real quote stopper - sort of the anti-quote)

"We are all part time saints only"

discovered in a radio discussion about climate change, flying and changing of habits

This too shall pass

I do not know the source though

A personal favorite, indeed. It is said to be a Hebrew saying, derived from a Jewish folk tale involving King Solomon (he apparently wore it engraved on a ring as a cure against somberness. It is worn on rings by people still.) According to several sources it was popularized in the modern West due to a speech by Abraham Lincoln, commemorating the same story.

Thanks Mach for sharing the origin. I try to remind myself of it when I feel completely blue and also when I am on the top of the world!

.. and under some circumstances, may go along nicely with my quote.

eeks, yuck and the like, is all I can say Captain!