Hello everyone. I am inspired today to write a lot on the board (could be because my classes are cancelled for today) and I was thinking about all the wonderful quotes Linda Goodman has given us through "Gooberz" and "Venus" and all her other books. And I was thinking about all the beautiful sentiments that I've read from others here on the board. And I was thinking about all the wonderful song lyrics that are poignant to me...and other poems and such. So I decided to begin a thread devoted to quotes. Now in the subject heading, what does "jellicle" mean, you ask? It's one the words in my own vocabulary. Those of you familiar with musical theatre, namely "Cats", might now the word from that. Indeed, my definition was inspired by that show. I just loved the word "jellicle" and it just harmonized with me. I was 17 and decided to modify the meaning a bit and use it in my vocabulary. So...you use jellicle when something is just too beautiful and meaningful to express and you can't think of a single word to use. For instance, this website is jellicle. The interactions I've made with people here is jellicle. Linda Goodman certainly is the epitomy of jellicleness!!!! Her books are oh-so-jellicle!! So without further ado, let's start posting our favorite quotes and sentiments!

I'll start...

"Truth is discovered alone, in silence, before it can be shared with others through words"
Linda Goodman, "Gooberz" (the dedications in the beginning).

I do love that quote...I think Linda said that someone else said it, but I'm not sure. (perhaps Ruth Cook or Nona Stodart, I don't recall).

LMB, I love this idea! This is one of my favorites:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. You were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-Nelson Mandela

"Everybody is talented, original, and has something important to say" --Brenda Ueland, author of IF YOU WANT TO WRITE

"Where there is great love there are always miracles." --Willa Cather

"No human can rise higher than the highest which is in each of us, and no human can fall lower than the lowest which is in each of us." --a paraphrase of Linda Goodman quoting Kahlil Gibran

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Brilliant idea

And I have to say I just might adopt the word Jellicle for those moments when words just can't convey..........LMB you are JELLICLE.

Here is a special quote of mine........

"The measure of a man, is not where he stands during comfort and convenience...... but where he stands during controversy and challenge."
Thank you......Martin Luther King

And here are some I hear on a daily basis from Crystal Bush what beautiful little gems I gather.......

"Do what is right when NO-ONE is looking!"

"Never compromise on great principles!"

Keep posting this is fun

Love and Laughter,
Kelly-Anne

Kelly-Anne,

*haha* Do you WANT me to burst into happy tears in this computer lab in front of all these people??
Thank you for the wonderful compliment. In fact, on my meter, that is the best compliment I can ever receive.

LMB

"Common-looking people are best in the world; that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them" - Abraham Lincoln

Quotes by Glenn Ridless:
"When I think of all the stars in the sky, and all the grains of sand on the earth, my problems seem to fade away."

"When I slow myself down I speed up my awareness."

"All things do not need meanings. Some things just are."

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Hiii LMB!!!

Gorgeous idea!!!im just feeling so ....profound reading all these wonderful,beautiful words!!It could make u so thoughtful!

Some of my quotes,that have allways helped me in life at a given time,were written by....i dont know!!But whoever wrote it was the most human person as well as spiritual.
here goes...

"Do your best...and leave the rest to god".

"Theres a silver lining to every dark cloud"

"Its always darkest before dawn"

"Everything happens for the best"

"love...is everything"!!

love
shagun.

Yes. Thanks for reminding me, Shagun, I think special attention needs to be placed on Linda Goodman's wise wise quote...

LOVE IS ALL

I feel it holds many secrets and mysteries within it.

LMB

Hi everyone,
Shagun, you hit the bullseye!! I love "It's always darkest before dawn." From my own experiences, I have found that to be very true and it in essence started me on my own spiritual quest!!!
I have this embroidered and framed and look to it each and everyday:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
-The Bible

Oh yes, the serenity prayer is a MUST. I have repeated it MANY times in my life. I consider it to be one of the building blocks of our psychological, spiritual and just all-around life foundation...or at least it should be.

And there's always the Golden Rule that I remember my mother pounding into my head as a child, if nothing else: treat others the way you'd like them to treat you.

LMB

One of my favorite quotes comes from my favorite musical and piece of theatre of all time - "Les Miserables" (I have a deep-seeded obsession with this and have seen it 8 times)...

"To love another person is to see the face of God"
I try to remember this when I get fed up with the human race. It reminds me of universal unconditional love...and also reminds me to appreciate those I love even more.

LMB

Yesterday is History,
Tomorrow is a Mystery,
Today is a Gift,
That's why we call it The Present
-Genie for Astronet

One of my all time favorites with such a powerful message,
"Seek the truth and it shall set you free".

May we all find comfort in the truth

Amen, Karen, Amen!

LMB

"Impossible means I'm Possible!"
--SARK

"No statement is true, including this one."

"I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than to be 70 and watching tv in some GD chair." - Janis Joplin

"Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse." - John Belushi

"You have to find what you like and let it kill you." - Frank Sinatra

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!" - Homer Simpson

Women are fickle, and men have no morality.
A woman could tell a man to wear green ears, and he'd wear 'em, all the while thinking he's being his own man. Which, incidentally, is my view of American marriage. A women sees a man, she likes him. Now, she rides this thing to some kind of a standstill, and to the very extent that she does, she gets bored of it. Women need a sense of danger in a man." - Jack Nicholson

"In Hollywood, there are two groups of people. One is Jack, and the other is the rest of us." - Robin Williams

"Maybe another day, I will come up with some slightly more jellicious quotations, yet, today is my day off, and I was feeling a bit saucy!" - Carlo, having Leo issues yet again

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"...and who would ever guess...the powers that you possess...and who would be stunned to see you prove...there's more to us than surgeons can remove! So much more than we ever knew...so much more we were born to do. Should you draw back the curtain, of this I am certain...you'll be impressed with you! On a clear day, rise and look around you...and you'll see who you are. On a clear day how it will astound you...when the glow of your being outshines every star!"

...Linda sang this to her first Adept on New Year's Day 1970 in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel...

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Summer

And you go, Summer!

Hey, watch those Leo planets, kid!

Leo doesn't scare a Scorpion!

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Yes, I know, although I can always try!

rrrrrrrrrrooooooooooaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr!

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Eeek. I mean, "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!"

Is that what you wanted? Feel better now?

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Summer

Yes, that's much nicer. Are you happy to be a Member now? You can thank me and pat my mane, if you like, I won't bite.

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Good Kitty. Now please get out of my lap, I have to go play in my garden!

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Summer

Cool, and please make sure you plant some catnip for me!

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Just stay away from my birds, WitchBoy.
And my catnip, you don't need anymore today!

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Summer

Oh yes I do! How about a fat catnip blunt!?

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Oh my.

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Summer

More Jellicle Tips from Martha Stewart...

Old telephone books make ideal personal
address books. Simply cross out the names
and addresses of people you don't know.

Fool other drivers into thinking you have
an expensive car phone by holding an old TV
or video remote control up to your ear and occasionally swerving across the road and
mounting the curb.

Lose weight quickly by eating raw pork and rancid tuna. I found that the subsequent
food poisoning/diarrhea enabled me to lose 12
pounds in only 2 days.

Avoid parking tickets by leaving your
windshield wipers turned to fast wipe whenever you leave your car parked illegally.

No time for a bath? Wrap yourself in
masking tape and remove the dirt by simply peeling it off.

Apply red nail polish to your nails before
clipping them. The red nails will be much
easier to spot on your bathroom carpet.
(Unless you have a red carpet, in which case
a contrasting polish should be selected).

If a person is choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a jug of boiling water down their throat and presto! The blockage is almost instantly removed.

Save on booze by drinking cold tea instead of whiskey. The following morning you can create the effects of hangover by drinking a thimble full of dish washing liquid and banging your head repeatedly on the wall.

(Thx for the funny email Summer!)

Blessings,

Carlo

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Hi everyone,

Here is my contribution..

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

-Teddy Roosevelt-

Well, there's guite a little banter going on here, eh?

Kathleen's qoute about fear made me think of something one of my acting professors once said:

FEAR:

F@#k Everything And Run or
Face Everything And Recieve

No don't run, stay and FACE YOUR FEARS. It's the only way to eliminate them. Boo! And they will melt away...and courage too, roar!

As you can see, taking oneself too seriously is something to avoid. And a Leo comment is that all the world's a stage, and we are merely players...each the other's audience.

Blessings,

Carlo

Some wonderful LG quotes (and others afterward):

"And I wonder, does God cry? Jesus wept..."

"Maybe you should stop hurting me, Gooober, and I should stop hurting you...there's so little Time left...to spread Light on Earth and so much healing to do." (This one holds special meaning for me)

"Some people love with restraint as if they were to someday to hate, but we hated gently, carefully, as if were someday to love."

"I must go now...don't hold me with your eyes and reach your heart across the room like that or my own will break.
Love you? Of course I love you. That's why I have to go...before you know how much."
(something we all could learn)

"Camelot was never a myth, but a reality in a never-recorded past."

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"Look to love
you may dream,
and if it should leave
then give it wings
But if such a love
is meant to be;
Hope is home and the heart is free."
--Enya

"I do not know everything yet many things I understand."
-- Madeleine L'Engle

"Suddenly I knew
that you'd have to go
Your world was not mine
your eyes told me so
Yet it was there
I felt the crossroads of Time
and I wondered why..."
--- Loreena McKennitt

"All is still yours when all of this is dust, for love is my pen and my pen's word your trust."
--- Kyril Demys

"Strife comes from trying to fill the Void. Peace comes from letting the Void fill itself."
--- Mary Summer Rain

"Never underestimate the power of thought, the energy of a wish when we put it out there."
--- Crystal Bush

"Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love."
--- Evelyn Underhill

"We don't build states to worship the exceptional life, we build then to remind ourselves what is possible in our own."
--- Timberland advertisement.

"O the mind, mind has mountains..."
--- Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Cluster together like stars"
--- Henry Miller

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
--- Anais Nin

"I'm not afraid of storms for I am learning to sail my own ship."
--- Louisa May Alcott

"Yes is a world and in this world of yes live all worlds."
--- e.e. cummings
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Phew! Hope you liked them. They are all very important to me, like little prayers.

LMB

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LMB,
What wonderful quotes.....it certainly makes me think
And thank you for putting in Crystal's quote from Relationship Signs but there is one very important word missing and that is "under"

"Never UNDER estimate the power of thought, the energy of a wish when we put it out there."

But you keep going girl..... oh! and by the way I just adore Enya.....haunting, mystical music!

Love and Laughter,
Kelly-Anne

"Mind over matter: If you don't mind it doesn't matter!"
Unknown (to us at least)
However Linda made a reference to it in Star Signs.

"The best things in life are free"
- They may be be free for you, but somebody else is paying for them-
Anton LaVey, "The Devil's Notebook."

"Only a fool mistakes laughter for humor and fashion for style."
Anton LaVey, "Satan Speaks."

"A comfortable falsehood will always win out over an uncomfortable truth."
Anton LaVey. "Satan Speaks."

Kelly-Anne,
That's the way I had it written (the right way) but for some reason I typed it wrong. Thanks for correcting me - a very vital correction, indeed.

I'm going home for break, I'll talk to you all when I return.

Be well,

LMB

Jelliclicious, LMB...and Anais Nin, too!

Here's a poem for y'all:

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

-Rumi

Hi everyone,

Some fabulous quotes from you all.

Here is another for the collection which I think you'll all enjoy!

Always remember there is no I in the word TEAM!

Together
Everyone
Achieves
More

*Aries* Kate

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For those in long-distance relationships:

"Distance is to love what wind is to a flame. If it is a little flame, the wind will blow it out. If it is a big flame, the wind will fan it and make it grow hotter."

--quoted in "Dear Abby" today

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definately commits oneself, then Providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man would have dreamed could come his way.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

GOETHE

KJS-
Thank you, you have found words that read my heart (regarding the Dear Abbey quote).
I do love someone who is far away indeed...but I am going there in May!! (COLORado!)

LMB

My utmost ambition is to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of.

- Robert Frost

If only that had been his "road not taken."

(But really, I'm only kidding.)

KJS

"I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details."--Albert Einstein

"You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny."
--Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5

"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
...And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth....
--Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Karen is divine, and I am gonna chase her in this lifetime and beyond.

- Carlo

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts"
--unknown

"The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way"
--unknown

Hi Folks...

some Jellicle quotes for us...

Today - 24th - the love-day, I have found some works on Love by Osho Rajneesh...decided to share them on this thread :

"Remember, "duty" is a four letter word. Love knows no duty. It does may things, but it loves to do them - it is not duty."

"In all the of the world, stragnely enough, people use the phrase "falling in love." Without any exception, in all the languages people say, "I have fallen in love."
But why should you fall ?
Why can't you rise in love ?"

"Wheneveer you understand that you have missed life, the first principle to be brought back is Innocence. Drop your knowledge, forget your scriptures, forget your religions, your theologies, your philosophies.
Be born again, become innocent - and it is in your hands. Clean your mind of all that is not known by you, of all that is borrowed, all that has been given to you by others - parents, teachers, universities. Just get rid of it.
Once again be simple, once again be a child.
And this miracle is possible by Meditation."

Well, well, thought-provoking - ain't it ?

love
druid.

I love this thread so much! Okay, I'll put some of my favourite quotes here,

Pursue not the outer entanglements,
Dwell not in the inner void;
Be serene in the oneness of things,
And dualism vanishes by itself.
Seng-t'san

Here are some quotes from the legendary series Xena: Warrior Princess

We all eventually become
what we pretend to be

Only fools and profiteers
ask for war

My body doesn't make me who I am.
My deeds do.

Hard times make hard people

No one should pass up their dreams

Maybe I will never be
All the things that I'd like to be
Now is not the time to cry
Now's the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
- - - Oasis "Live Forever"

That's all from me for now.
Seamistress

More Jellicle Quotes ;

"When mind is silent, time disappears
because mind is time."

"I want you to accept yourself as you are.
That's how existence wanted you to be.
You have not created yourself; naturally the whole responsibility goes to existence, and there must be a need for a person like you - otherwise, you would not exist.
Existence needs you as you are"

"The word "sin" in its roots means
forgetfulness. it has nothing to do with sin as we have come to understand it.
To forget yourself is the only sin.
And to remember yourself is the only virtue."

love
druid

Hi Gregory,
I would love it if you could lock this baby up....I have started a new one.

Thanks!

Done!