It's A Quote

[Gwaithmir]

“Should schools teach atheism? No. There’s no need to teach atheism. It’s the natural result of education without indoctrination.” (Ricky Gervais) 

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘isthereanythingicandotohelp?no?ok.i’llbeinthegardencallmewhenitsready.’ - my wife, sprinting through the kitchen while I’m cooking.

Boru

[Gwaithmir]

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." (White Elk) 

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^’Why do we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Because we are not the part involved.’ - Twain

Boru

[Angrboda]

“The Gita,” says Mahatma Gandhi, “is not a historical discourse. A physical illustration is often needed to drive home a spiritual truth. It is the description not of war between cousins, but between two natures in us – the Good and the Evil.” Volumes have been written about the battle which is said to have taken place on the field of Kurukshetra, located north of Delhi, but for the spiritual aspirant, the battle described in the Bhagavad Gita is not limited to a particular historical setting. Sri Krishna’s message is as valid today as it was centuries ago, and it will continue to be so tomorrow, for it describes the eternal truth of life that the fiercest battle we must wage is against all that is selfish, self-willed, and separate in us. Today when the world is being torn asunder by war, when violence stalks our streets and invades our homes, when anger disrupts our relationships and separateness pervades our consciousness, Sri Krishna’s immortal words, given to us in the Gita, are of urgent practical value. The violence we see about us is a reflection of the anger and self-will burning deep within us. Most of us carry a conflagration around with us in the depths of our consciousness, and many of us are skilled tacticians in guerilla warfare right in our own homes. The war the mystics of all the world’s great religions talk about is not the one erupting in the Middle East or in Southeast Asia that makes newspaper headlines; it is the one erupting from the fierce self-will afflicting all of us, estranging individuals, families, communities, races, and nations.

Easwaran, Eknath. The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Vols 1–3 (The End of Sorrow, Like a Thousand Suns, To Love Is to Know Me) (The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, 1) (pp. 23-24). Nilgiri Press. Kindle Edition.

[Fake Messiah]

It’s rare for anyone to be able to describe a near-death experience. Let me say first what did not happen. There was nothing supernatural about it. No “tunnel of light.” No feeling of rising out of my body. In fact, I have rarely felt so strongly connected to my body. My body was dying and it was taking me with it. It was an intensely physical sensation. I have never believed in the immortality of the soul, and my experience at Chautauqua seemed to confirm that. The “me,” whatever or whoever it was, was certainly on the edge of death along with the body that contained it.

~Salman Rushdie

[Angrboda]

“A leader without followers is simply a man taking a walk.”

John Boehner

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'A lie will travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its boots on.' - Variously ascribed, definitely NOT Mark Twain

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

"I will never see any Star Wars films, because I resent that I know so much about them and the characters."

Jim Jarmusch

[Fake Messiah]

I always remember that in the time of the French Enlightenment the enemy in the battle for freedom was not so much the State as the Church. The Catholic Church, with its arsenal of weapons—blasphemy, anathema, excommunication, as well as actual weapons of torture in the hands of the Inquisition—was in the business of placing its rigid limiting points on thought: This far and no further. And the writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment made it their business to challenge that authority and break those restrictions. Out of that struggle came the ideas Thomas Paine brought to America and which formed the basis of the essays Common Sense and The American Crisis, which inspired the independence movement, the Founding Fathers, and the modern concept of human rights.

~Salman Rushdie