Sayings Or Quotes Of The Day.....let's Hear Yours.....

For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall

 

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;

 

'Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.' - Raymond Queneau.

 

'It isn't happiness I am concerned with but experience.' - Raymond Queneau.

 

Something I always say,but nobody listens to me anyway..I keep this posted on my door.

 

I've always liked this

“He spoke about cognition.”
“Is that all you know? Don’t you remember anything?”
“I remember the verses he interpreted.”
“Whose verses?”
“I don’t know.”
“Let me hear.”
“Ahriman knows not
The secret of God’s unity.
Ask Asaf, he knows.
Can a sparrow swallow the mouthful of the Anka-bird?
Can a single jug take in
The waters of a great sea?’”
“Those are the verses of Ibn Arabi.They say that the perception of God’s wisdom is possible only for the chosen, only for a few.”
“And what remains for us?”
“To comprehend what we can. If a sparrow cannot swallow the mouthful of the Anka-bird, it will still eat as much as it can. You cannot scoop up the whole sea with a jug, but whatever you scoop up is also the sea.”

 

Yep, one has to in life.....If it makes you happy ...whatever it is...if it makes you miserable...not so good...lol

 

“On the day of my death, when they carry my coffin,
do not think that I will feel pain for this world.
Do not cry and say: it is a great loss!
When milk sours, the loss is greater.
I shall not vanish when you see them lay me in the grave.
Do the sun and moon vanish when they set?
This seems like a death to you, but it is a birth.
The grave seems like a prison to you, but the soul has been freed.
What grain does not sprout when it is put into the ground?
So why do you not believe in the grain of men?” ​

 

Bismilahir-rahmanir-rahim!
I call to witness the ink, the quill, and the script,
which flows from the quill;
I call to witness the faltering shadows of the sinking evening,
the night and all she enlivens;
I call to witness the moon when she waxes, and the sunrise when it dawns.
I call to witness the Resurrection Day and the soul that accuses itself;
I call to witness time, the beginning and end of all things - to witness that every man always suffers loss.

 

oldie but goodie

 

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

Thomas Jefferson

I don't necessarily agree with the quote, but I think it begs a deeper discussion.

 

'I like to walk in the rain, because nobody can see my tears'.

My friend Sanjaye said this, and I thought it was nice.

 

"Life is larger than any principle. Morality is an idea, but life is what we live. How can we fit it into this idea without damaging it? More lives have been ruined in attempts to prevent sin than because of sin itself.”
“Should we live in sin then?”
“No. But prohibiting it doesn’t help at all. It creates hypocrisy and spiritual cripples.”
“So what should we do?”
“I don’t know."

 

' We are not meant to solve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.'

And

' The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.'

- William Blake.

 

A tear is an intellectual thing - also William Blake

 

Maybe I am a Neal Gaiman person

 

"Her elevator doesn't quite reach the top."