Quotes on humor and truth

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

- Leo C. Rosten

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Kahlil Gibran

Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.

- Henry David Thoreau

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.

Sir William Hamilton, Scottish metaphysician, 1788-1856

“Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels.
The trouble-makers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules,
and they have no respect for the status-quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them,
glorify, or vilify them.
But the only thing
you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do.”

-Apple, Inc.

"Think Different."

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Unknown

“Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic?
A: Someone who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog.”

Groucho Marx

“I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure”
Groucho Marx

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

whisper wrote:

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

How can you post that quote and then say you can't stand teachers, who help people 8 hours a day, seven days a week, often on our own time?

In every belief there is a lie.

Swami Venkatesananda

nevermore wrote:

whisper wrote:

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

How can you post that quote and then say you can't stand teachers, who help people 8 hours a day, seven days a week, often on our own time?

What you describe sounds like a very dedicated teacher. I wish I had one like that in grate school.

whisper wrote:

nevermore wrote:

whisper wrote:

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

How can you post that quote and then say you can't stand teachers, who help people 8 hours a day, seven days a week, often on our own time?

What you describe sounds like a very dedicated teacher. I wish I had one like that in grate school.

Every teacher I work with is like that.

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

Bumper sticker

If you can read this in English, thank a soldier.

Unknown

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

- Kahlil Gibran

Yup, that's us, to a tee!!

The horrors which we have seen, and the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable people are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile people.

- George Bernanos

BohemianSpirit wrote:

The intersection between your head and your ass should be a null set.

- Anon.

Not to mention physically very difficult, if not downright impossible . . . .

OK, that cracked me up!

“Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels.
The trouble-makers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules,
and they have no respect for the status-quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them,
glorify, or vilify them.
But the only thing
you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do.”
One quilt at a time!!

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A winner never QUILTS...and a QUILTER never wins!! Fudgemeister

Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of (our) total being. They all are united in the act of faith.

- Paul Tillich

“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”
Marcel Marceau

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
Gloria Naylor

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior,

- Martha Nussbaum

"True humility is contentment."
- Henri Frederic Amiel

"The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach."
- Lin Yutang

Peter McWilliams
Come to the edge,' he said.
They said, 'We are afraid.'
'Come to the edge,' he said.
They came.
He pushed them...
And they flew.