John Saward's Sandbox

Random Quote

You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wondrous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul.

— Dr. Wayne Dyer

Twitscoop



Do it for fun

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

— Walt Disney

Make something

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

— Muhammad Ali

More sayings

Energizer Bunny arrested; charged with battery.

A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.

A pessimist's blood type is always B-Negative.

My daughter really likes to make pottery, but to me it's just kiln time.

Dijon vu: the same mustard as before.

Practice safe eating: always use condiments.

I fired my masseuse today. She rubbed me the wrong way.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.

I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded.

Limits

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What would you like them to say when YOU die?

A Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, and a rabbi are discussing what they would like people to say after they die and their bodies are on display in open caskets.

Priest: I would like someone to say "He was a righteous man, an honest man, and very generous."

Minister: I would like someone to say "He was very kind and fair, and he was very good to his parishioners."

Rabbi: I would want someone to say "Look, he's moving."

Collective stories

People have collective stories which are mental perspectives and mental positions. Of course, when they explain it to you, it sounds absolutely right. Then you go to the other story, and they explain it to you, and that sounds absolutely right. Both are so entrenched in their narrative, their mental positions and their identifications with mental positions that they cannot see anything else. That really symbolizes the very thing that lies at the core of human dysfunction.

— Eckhart Tolle [http://groups.gaia.com/living_metaphysics/conversations/view/429364]

Know your worth

When all the peoples on this earth
know deep inside their precious worth,
when every soul is free,
we'll earn the name Humanity.

— Anon, first verse of 'The Gathering Hymn' at St Michael's Melbourne.

Mathematics

A banker got confused about mathematics, so he asks his secretary:

"If I give you $3 million less 17%, how much would you take off?"

She replies: "Everything sir, the dress, the shoes, bra and g- string."

Curiosity

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

— Albert Einstein

Art of progress

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. -

— Alfred North Whitehead