Thought/s for the Day

Post by **jingjai** » June 20, 2007, 4:26 pm

I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child
and keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink.

William Butler Yeats

Post by **jingjai** » June 23, 2007, 3:55 pm

The one you serve is inside.

Gurumayi Chidvilasanda

Post by **beer monkey** » June 23, 2007, 7:23 pm

" I have enough money to last me for the rest of my life, unless i have to buy something" .

Jackie Mason.

Post by **beer monkey** » June 25, 2007, 9:23 pm

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

Lord Byron. 1788-1824.

Post by **jingjai** » June 28, 2007, 3:29 pm

Look inside your heart again and again.
In the pure heart there is absolute forgiveness.

Swami Chidvilasanda

Post by **zacatac** » June 30, 2007, 5:49 pm

AND THERE WE WERE BACKS TO THE WALL THREE AGAINST THREE
HUNDRED....gee I felt sorry for those three blokes..

Post by **FrazeeDK** » July 2, 2007, 6:35 pm

Â“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.Â”

Theodore Roosevelt, prescient with a comment on today's consumerism..

Post by **beer monkey** » July 2, 2007, 10:52 pm

its not that i am afraid to die, its that i don't want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen.

Post by **UdonExpat** » July 3, 2007, 6:51 am

Man must first create peace in himself if he desires to see peace in the world; for lacking peace within, no effort of his can bring any result.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Post by **jingjai** » July 4, 2007, 4:33 pm

The greatness that was achieved by the great saints of every country
can also be achieved by every one of you,
because that greatness lives within you all.

Swami Muktananda

Post by **UdonExpat** » July 5, 2007, 2:29 pm

"It is my firm belief that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs."

Sorry, I don't remember where I heard this.

Post by **jingjai** » July 8, 2007, 1:59 pm

The most auspicious moment of your life is when you
make the commitment to know the Truth,
a commitment so firm there is no turning back.

Swami Chidvilasananda

Post by **jingjai** » July 11, 2007, 5:43 pm

"Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome and charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one tiny corner of the globe"

Mark Twain

Post by **jingjai** » July 17, 2007, 3:58 pm

Always be the last half of the water in the glass
so that there is room to learn new things all the time.

excerpt from His Majesty an individual's speech on "Father's Life Map" as the tenet for a happy and contented life.

Post by **UdonExpat** » July 18, 2007, 9:31 am

When man has to choose between his spiritual and his material profit, then he shows whether his treasure is on eath or in heaven.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan-

Post by **papaguido** » July 21, 2007, 12:03 pm

"They got us just where we want them"

LtCol Lewis "Chesty" Puller, USMC (to his men when surrounded by a superior Japanese force on Guadalcanal in 1942)

Post by **BKKSTAN** » July 21, 2007, 12:41 pm

6800 marines killed and 21,000 Japanese killed in one month of fighting on Iwo Jima!Maybe they should have cut their losses in half and quit like many want to do in Iraq where we have 3400 casualties after 4 years!

Post by **mackayae** » July 21, 2007, 1:45 pm

They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in our front of us, they're behind us, they can't get away this time.

Chesty.

Post by **polehawk** » July 21, 2007, 2:33 pm

"Good night Chesty, wherever you are!"

- nightly prayer at Marine Corps bootcamp

Post by **papaguido** » July 21, 2007, 4:25 pm

"Once a Marine, always a Marine!" (MSgt Paul Woyshner, a 40-year Marine, is credited with originating this expression during a taproom argument with a discharged Marine.)