Favorite saying

Posted by captboat @captboat, Aug 30, 2025

My wife and I were having a discussion and we came to a mutually satisfying agreement. I was reminded of this saying: “A good understanding is like the ‘whistle’ and the whistle always blows on time.” ( the “whistle” in reference here is the old fashioned factory whistle: the whistle starts the work day, blows for lunch, and blows again to end the work day, and the whistle is always on time)

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zenren14 | @zenren14 | May 28 1:24am

"It is not the length of life, but the depth."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

geekygirl9 | @geekygirl9 | May 28 4:02am

"You are a human being, not a human doing."
-My mom

gravity3 | @gravity3 | May 28 5:29am

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.
Pema Chödrön

kayraymat | @kayraymat | Jun 7 8:57am

"We 're all just trying to make sense of things, and you must take meaning
wherever you can find it. " p. 125 in Richard Osman's THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE .

It meant something to me as I am still trying to fill the "existential vacuum" since
my husband died. K

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zenren14 | @zenren14 | Jun 12 2:40am

Dance like nobody's watching.

terrybarton123 | @terrybarton123 | Jun 13 8:43am

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

gravity3 | @gravity3 | Jun 13 9:50am

Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

zenren14 | @zenren14 | Jun 18 2:58am

Don't believe everything you think.

gravity3 | @gravity3 | Jun 18 4:12am

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.
Terence McKenna