Favorite Quotes Discovered In SL

[Sequoia Sojourner]

I love to read profiles and discover interesting quotes. I've received quite a few from various groups in SL too. What are some of your favorite quotes --quotes with insight, funny ones, or plain odd & bizarre quotes.

This is a favorite of mine from Einstein (although debated regarding exact accuracy) I picked up in a SL group and pasted into my saves of lovely quotes:

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Edited October 31, 2023 by Sequoia Sojourner

[Caitlin Tobias]

‘May your life be as awesome as you pretend it to be in your profile’ - unknown

[Orwar]

   "People who try to define themselves by quoting others probably don't have much interesting to say."
   - Orwar Furlgrimr

[Shining Sun]

one of the best, given to me by a SL sis and worthy for my profile

"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys."
- Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation

[Rowan Amore]

"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity." ~ Andre Gide

[Luna Bliss]

Oh I've got some good ones on my profile, but too sleepy atm to log in and find them.

I do remember one on my Profile that I wrote myself, dealing with accepting death, and rejoicing in both my 2nd & 1st life gardens,  and my inner Self garden as well:

"May the end find me unafraid and happy in my unfinished garden" ~~~ Luna Bliss

[ballparkdogg]

Don't  tell me I am a priority and treat me like an option.

[Paul Hexem]

That one about "can't handle me at my worst, don't deserve me" that basically warns everybody that you're an insufferable shrew always makes me laugh. 

[Zalificent Corvinus]

 "I shop, therefore I rez"

René "Add To" Descartes

[Carolyn Zapedzki]

"Second Life is what you are, what you would like to be and what you could be." Knup' Wanweird

[Luna Bliss]

3 hours ago, Paul Hexem said:

That one about "can't handle me at my worst, don't deserve me" that basically warns everybody that you're an insufferable shrew always makes me laugh. 

haha...when i see some such thing in a Profile I ruuuuuuuunnnnn...especially when they describe their 'worst' in detail..

[Luna Bliss]

4 hours ago, ballparkdogg said:

Don't  tell me I am a priority and treat me like an option.

I see that one a lot...in various forms..

[Ceka Cianci]

Student: Why is there so much suffering in the world?

Teacher: No reason

[Unity Evermore]

2 hours ago, Ceka Cianci said:

Student: Why is there so much suffering in the world?

Teacher: No reason

It's because life is suffering. That's the first of the four noble truths taught by Buddha.

[Luna Bliss]

38 minutes ago, Unity Evermore said:

2 hours ago, Ceka Cianci said:

Student: Why is there so much suffering in the world?

Teacher: No reason

It's because life is suffering. That's the first of the four noble truths taught by Buddha.

 

[Rat Luv]

My favourite one from a profile was something like - "99.9% of quotes on the internet are made up" - Abraham Lincoln 

I bet if the Buddha's pet hamster bit his hand, he wouldn't think suffering was optional 

[Unity Evermore]

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.  
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Mervin

  

[Scylla Rhiadra]

7 hours ago, Paul Hexem said:

That one about "can't handle me at my worst, don't deserve me" that basically warns everybody that you're an insufferable shrew always makes me laugh. 

Tell me you were born in the 16th century without telling me you were born in the 16th century.

[Luna Bliss]

1 hour ago, Rat Luv said:

I bet if the Buddha's pet hamster bit his hand, he wouldn't think suffering was optional 

haha...yeah he might not have been so enlightened as was claimed!

I remember when I first discovered the difference between pain and suffering when I had a severe cold. I just would not accept that I had this illness with all the painful symptoms that accompanied it-- I was resisting against it.  Once I stopped resisting or fighting against it I felt amazingly better!  I still felt pain, but I was not suffering anymore, and actually felt kind of good in a strange way.

Can't always do that, but I do try. No need to feel worse than I need to.

[Unity Evermore]

34 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

8 hours ago, Paul Hexem said:

That one about "can't handle me at my worst, don't deserve me" that basically warns everybody that you're an insufferable shrew always makes me laugh. 

Tell me you were born in the 16th century without telling me you were born in the 16th century.

Try to stay on topic. Do you have a favorite quote?

[Scylla Rhiadra]

3 minutes ago, Unity Evermore said:

Try to stay on topic. Do you have a favorite quote? .

"You are not actually a mod here, you know, nor a forum cop."

-- Scylla Rhiadra

Edited November 1, 2023 by Scylla Rhiadra

[Paul Hexem]

52 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Tell me you were born in the 16th century without telling me you were born in the 16th century.

[Unity Evermore]

13 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

16 minutes ago, Unity Evermore said:

Try to stay on topic. Do you have a favorite quote? .

"You are not actually a mod here, you know, nor a forum cop."

And you discovered this on someone's profile in-world? Seems like a strange thing to have in a profile because there are no forums in-world.

Edited November 1, 2023 by Unity Evermore

[Scylla Rhiadra]

2 minutes ago, Unity Evermore said:

And you discovered this on someone's profile in-world? Seems like a strange thing to have in a profile because there are no forums in-world.

https://gyazo.com/38450cbde6d39f78992eec49967e74c7

[Eddy Vortex]

23 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

"You are not actually a mod here, you know, nor a forum cop."

-- Scylla Rhiadra

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