Famous Quotes by Dee Cohen LCSW

Famous Quotes

Quotes from Western and Eastern Thinkers on Relationships, Work, Self-Growth and Truth by Dee Cohen LCSW

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“A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.”

- The Talmud

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Buddha’s doctrine: man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent. Chief among these things is his own person, for this is his means of isolating himself from the rest of life, his castle into which he can retreat and from which he can assert himself against external forces. He believes that his fortified and isolated position is the best means of obtaining happiness; it enables him to fight against change, to strive to keep pleasing things for himself, to shut out suffering and shape circumstances as he wills. In short, it is his means of resisting life. The Buddha taught that all things, including his castle, are essentially impermanent and as soon as man tries to possess them they slip away; this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

~ Alan Watts ~

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If I try to be like him, who will be like me?

~ Yiddish Proverb ~

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The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

~ Ram Dass ~

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I took a walk. Suddenly, I stood still, filled with the realization that I had no body or mind. All I could see was one great illuminating Whole- omnipresent, perfect, lucid and serene.

~ Han Shan ~

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If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.

~ Shunryu Suzuki ~

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He who sees all beings in his own Self and his own Self in all beings loses all fear.

~ Upanishads ~

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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

~ Spinoza ~

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

~ Albert Einstein ~

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Birth is not one act; it is a process. The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born. To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

~ Eric Fromm ~

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I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

~ Confucious ~

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If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

~ Francois de la Rochefoucauld ~

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The man who views the world at fifty the same way he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

~ Muhammad Ali ~

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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

~ Buddha ~

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

~ Thomas H. Huxley ~

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Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

~ George Sand ~

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Mulla Nasrudin’s face lit up as he recognized the man who was walking ahead of him down the subway stairs. He slapped the man so heartily on the back that the man nearly collapsed, and cried, “Goldberg, I hardly recognized you! Why, you have gained thirty pounds since I saw you last. And you have had your nose fixed, and I swear you are about two feet taller.” The man looked at him angrily. “I beg your pardon,” he said in icy tones, “but I do not happen to be Goldberg.” “Aha!” said Mulla Nasrudin,

“so you have even changed your name?

~ Osho ~