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Corran Antilles |
Jedi Wisdom |
Lead | |
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Everything, that sounds as if a Jedi would say it...
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Corran Antilles |
Wisdom # 1 | ||
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Focus,
not on the rudenesses of others, not on what they've done or left undone, but on what you have & haven't done yourself Dhammapada |
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Molly Gibson |
Words to live by: | ||
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There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein |
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Tacita |
Here you go.. | ||
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All we are is dust in the wind.
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. *flees* |
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Natai |
How about a classic? | ||
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Who's the more foolish-the fool, or the fool who follows him?
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Corran Antilles |
Courage | ||
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill |
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Corran Antilles |
Faith | ||
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I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move.
The Bible, Matthew 17:20 |
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Sith Lord Coridian |
Yoda's famous words: | ||
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Do or do not, there is no try
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Corran Antilles |
Confidence | ||
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Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too.
Joseph Storey |
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Corran Antilles |
Help | ||
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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Corran Antilles |
Appearance | ||
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The arrow is straight but cruel; the lute is crooked but sweet.
Therefore, judge men by their acts, not their appearance. Tirukkural |
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Corran Antilles |
A healthy mind in a healthy body | ||
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Since your mind is not physical,
No one else can destroy it. But because of its attachments to the body, It is harmed by physical suffering. Bodhicharyavatara |
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Corran Antilles |
It's a miracle? | ||
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One of his followers urged the Buddha to perform a miracle in order to attract some nonbelievers. The Buddha replied: "I detest and will not undertake the so-called miracles of magic power and divination. I and my followers attract non-believers only by the miracle of truth."
Digha Nikaya |
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Corran Antilles |
Who is the bigger fool? | ||
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To be shameless, uninquisitive, loveless and uncaring
Are the fool's four failings. No fool is more foolish than one who eagerly expounds His learning to others while failing to follow it himself. Tirukkural |
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Corran Antilles |
You'll make it | ||
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Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII |
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Josefina Cbaoth |
Friendship. | ||
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Everyone is always a potential friend, just as everyone is a potential enemy.
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Corran Antilles |
Facts | ||
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley |
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Corran Antilles |
Fight the evil | ||
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Be quick in doing
what's admirable. Restrain your mind from what's evil. When you're slow in making merit, evil delights the mind. Dhammapada, 9, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. |
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Corran Antilles |
Living for others | ||
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
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Corran Antilles |
Universe | ||
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The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts |
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Corran Antilles |
Battlefields | ||
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There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
Lt Gen Alfred M. Gray |
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