Inspirational quotes

**Tribe** · 11th July 2014, 08:07

I will start this off with this lovely piece of advice from Max Ehrmann

“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love – for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment is it perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”

― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

**Sooz** · 11th July 2014, 08:37

Takes me back to my high school days. We all knew that poem off by heart.

I had a poster of the words on my bedroom wall.

Those words were in a popular song back then.

Maybe that's why the older ones are here agitating for change.

Mind control? Perhaps for balance and to see who wins.

**KosmicKat** · 11th July 2014, 11:57

I've been amused to see a van parked next to a construction site in town recently with the legend on the back (where following drivers will be exposed to it):

"Do, or do not. There is no try."

**norman** · 11th July 2014, 13:02

Hi Tribe, this one is more of an inspirational warning. I hope it's not off topic, you can bin it if it is.

It's Theodore Roszak, in the foreword to his 1970 book "The Making of a Counter Culture".

...........If the resistance of the counter culture fails, I think there will be nothing in store for us but what anti-Utopians like Huxley and Orwell have forecast - though I have no doubt that these dismal despotisms will be far more stable and effective than their prophets have foreseen, for they will be equipped with techniques of inner-manipulation as unobtrusively fine as gossamer.

Above all, the capacity of our emerging technocratic paradise to denature the imagination by appropriating to itself the whole meaning of reason, reality, progress and knowledge will render it impossible for men to give any name to their bothersomely unfulfilled potentialities but that of madness, and for such madness, humanitarian therapies will be generously provided...........

**Moonlight** · 12th July 2014, 02:25

**Tribe** · 12th July 2014, 08:14

Originally posted by KosmicKat

I've been amused to see a van parked next to a construction site in town recently with the legend on the back (where following drivers will be exposed to it):

"Do, or do not. There is no try."

This one keeps cropping up at essential times of my life , like you Kk i see it unisual places and it really kicks me up the wotsit

its a great mantra ! Xx

**Moonlight** · 12th July 2014, 13:02

**ronin** · 12th July 2014, 14:23

for those walking the path especially in winter.

where that path has been tread by many before you.

take heed.

never eat yellow snow.

**Tribe** · 12th July 2014, 14:48

**Moonlight** · 13th July 2014, 00:04

Originally posted by ronin

for those walking the path especially in winter.

where that path has been tread by many before you.

take heed.

never eat yellow snow.

Dreamed I was an Eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
Under my boots and around my toes
The frost that bit the ground below
It was a hundred degrees below zero...

And my mama cried
And my mama cried
Nanook, a-no-no
Nanook, a-no-no
Don't be a naughty Eskimo
Save your money, don't go to the show

Well I turned around and I said "Oh, oh" Oh
Well I turned around and I said "Oh, oh" Oh
Well I turned around and I said "Ho, Ho"
And the northern lights commenced to glow
And she said, with a tear in her eye
"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow"
"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow"

F. Zappa

http://youtu.be/TLIppgE45wM

**Moonlight** · 13th July 2014, 18:55

**Altaira** · 14th July 2014, 05:42

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**ronin** · 14th July 2014, 16:36

never judge your neighbor until you have walked a mile in his moccasins.

some old american Indian guy.

**ronin** · 14th July 2014, 16:45

i,m tired of dying now i want to live.

me.

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