Random Quotes

[SYates]

I know we had similar threads before ;-) but I can't find them ;-( and as I just found this quote/saying, I wanted to share it. Feel free to add your own. Buen Camino, SY

"Life doesn't mean to wait until the storm has passed, but to dance in the rain."

Source unknown (to me)

 

[SabsP]

Here you go...

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/he-said-she-said-they-said.43320/#post-446191

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/motivational-quotes.33927/

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

two, sorry they are long winded (but from me what else could be expected?)

Y si acaso no supieres
donde me hallaras a Mi,
no andes de aqui para alli,
sino, si hallarme quiesieres
a Mi buscarme has en ti.
(my apologies for lack of accents, I can't get my computer to cooperate)
--from Buscando A Dios, St. Theresa of Avila

and the similar
The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along
--From Music Master, Rumi

 

[Bradypus]

"Life doesn't mean to wait until the storm has passed, but to dance in the rain."

I read that just yesterday on a board in the garden of the Albergue Verde in Hospital de Orbigo!

 

[SabsP]

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

 

[AcrossTheWater3008]

Hey...., just to remind us women, how great we are! Received this quote today that I had read many years ago....Golding is one of my favourite authors.

And, this...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...erit-inheritance-genetics-genes-a7345596.html

 

[SYates]

Another one:

Take time to dream, it is the way to the stars.

 

[SYates]

I read that just yesterday on a board in the garden of the Albergue Verde in Hospital de Orbigo!

I just read it on a non-Camino German website and translated it. Another tiny Camino miracle, SY

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Y si acaso no supieres
donde me hallaras a Mi,
no andes de awui parar alli,
sino, si hallarme quiesieres
a Mi buscarme has en ti.

Fuller quote and English translation: https://books.google.com/books?id=3...q=Teresa+Avila+"Y+si+acaso+no+supieres"&hl=en

 

[Annette london]

I know we had similar threads before ;-) but I can't find them ;-( and as I just found this quote/saying, I wanted to share it. Feel free to add your own. Buen Camino, SY

"Life doesn't mean to wait until the storm has passed, but to dance in the rain."

Source unknown (to me)

Think this going to be an interesting thread.
I have two favourites

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make,who would you call and what would you say?
And what are you waiting for??(Stephen Levine)

And

If I had my life to live over again......
Next time I'd find you sooner,so I could love you longer
(Seen on a card)
(Second one is a bit soppy I know!!)

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

"Life doesn't mean to wait until the storm has passed, but to dance in the rain."

I went for a walk in the rain twice today. If I had Summer as a partner I might have danced.

 

[JennyH94]

Great thread SYates! I love a great quote and I collect them.

I have three random quotes to add.

The first quote is a well-known Rumi quote (part of one of his poems) which I first read several years back in Ailsa Piper's beautiful Camino memoir "Sinning Across Spain" ... this quote falls into the random category as it literally fell out of a magazine she had picked up in the lounge at the airport on her way to Spain. I've seen the quote quite a few times since - even in the movie about Princess Diana a few years back - which is a further testament to its randomness! BTW - One of our Forum members has the quote as their signature. The quote is :

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."

The second quote is one of Rainer Maria Rilke's quotes and it's from The Duino Elegies. I saw this quote recently in the opening credits of a delightful and touching movie "The Space Between" - an Italian/Australian co-production. The quote is:

"Strange not to go on wishing one's wishes - Strange to see what was once in place so loosely floating in space".

The last quote is so random and I don't remember where I first read it but I smile each time I read it. The quote is by Sue Servatus and it is:

"Remember that power tools are very unforgiving".

Cheers - Jenny

 

[linkster]

 

[linkster]

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

@SabineP Thanks. I just sent this quote to my freshman in college. He is there with several friends from high school. I think he has become complacent and is not reaching out to make new friends. He is surrounded by opportunity. All of the freshman are away from home, many for the first time, all he has to do is strike up a conversation.

 

[SabsP]

@SabineP Thanks. I just sent this quote to my freshman in college. He is there with several friends from high school. I think he has become complacent and is not reaching out to make new friends. He is surrounded by opportunity. All of the freshman are away from home, many for the first time, all he has to do is strike up a conversation.

Ah give him some time. I was a bit of the same during my uni-time. Some of us are " late-bloomers ". Took me till my late twenties to " get there". Will be fine. Ultreia!

 

[Priscilla NC]

One of my favorites is from Anais Nin:
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

 

[Wokabaut_Meri]

I should be content
to look at a mountain
for what it is

and not as a comment on my life.….

David Ignitor: News of the Universe

 

[AJ]

"Deep in the ocean there are treasures without compare but if you seek safety; it is on the shore."

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Feel free to add your own.

Drive safely.

Want more: http://www.miniwebtool.com/random-quote-generator/

 

[KinkyOne]

An old one:
"If you're not part of the solution then you got to be part of the problem."

 

[AcrossTheWater3008]

 

[AcrossTheWater3008]

 

[andy.d]

there can be times when the full wisdom of this becomes apparent

 

[alexwalker]

Good decisions come from experience.
Experience comes from bad decisions.

+ the quotes in my signature...

 

[Wokabaut_Meri]

This one just landed in my inbox:

To walk is to learn and meditate. Your soles may be in pieces but your soul will be at peace.
Paul Coehlo

 

[gerardcarey]

Getting fit is all about mind over matter.
I don't mind, so it doesn't matter.

Adam Hargreaves

 

[AcrossTheWater3008]

 

[MichaelB10398]

I enjoy collecting quotes. There are so many good ones. Here are a few:

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich." Tao Te Ching

"Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son." ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself." Gabriel García Márquez

 

[JamesGeier]

I love this quote, and have used it on the Camino Forum before. It really sums up my feelings about the Camino and why I was not as elated as many when I reached Santiago...reaching Santiago meant that much of the journey was over, and for me, the journey was more important than the destination:

The last line in the book “Up Country” by Nelson DeMille:

The journey home is never a direct route; it is, in fact, always circuitous, and somewhere along the way, we discover that the journey is more significant than the destination, and that the people we meet along the way will be the traveling companions of our memories forever.

The Camino was and my life has been an amazing journey. And my journey continues: I'll be in Chiang Mai, Thailand for a month in January to do yoga and break in a new pair of hiking boots in preparation for my returning to walk the Camino Frances next April.

--jim--

 

[AcrossTheWater3008]

 

[DurhamParish]

But mousie, thou art no thy lane, (not alone)
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best-laid schemes of mice and men
Gang aft aglay, (often go awry)
And leave us naught but grief and pain,
For promised joy.

Still thou art blessed compared with me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But och! I backward cast my e'e, (eye)
On prospects drear!
And forward, tho I canna see,
I guess and fear!

- Robert Burns - To A Mouse (On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough, November 1785) - The last two verses

 

[Icacos]

"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened."

(Cora Harvey Armstrong)

 

[Kanga]

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
― Jack London.

 

[David]

My own, that I made up, is "never take moderation to excess"

and I do really like this -

 

[AcrossTheWater3008]

 

[Jeff Crawley]

"Insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result"

Attributed to Einstein but applicable to anybody who has walked the Camino more than once!

 

[petro]

It always seems impossible until it's done. Nelson Mandela

 

[linkster]

@Seabird has this as her valediction on her posts, and I really like it.

 

[SabsP]

Sufi poet Hafiz

 

[GRR]

Let's not forget the forever inspirational wall taggings we see along The Way.

 

[Mark Lee]

Let's not forget the forever inspirational wall taggings we see along The Way.

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uh, yeah....nothing says inspiration like illegally defacing someone else's property with graffiti paint

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

may I add another?(even if not spray painted on someone else's wall...or worse...I cannot believe that @Mark Lee, I would have been livid if that were there when I walked)

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
--Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), John Lennon

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

uh, yeah....nothing says inspiration like illegally defacing someone else's property with graffiti paint
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this unbelievably ill-behaved tagger should be found and marched up to this every other week to clean up any paint or trash...for oh, about three years. 70 or so climbs should help them understand what it is to be an adult member of society.

 

[GRR]

A place called Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo Texas.

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

A place called Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo Texas.View attachment 29663

Stanley Marsh encouraged the graffiti of those ten cars planted on his land, and tolerated the stripping of them of parts...I don't think the same could be said for the alto de perdon.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

may I add another?(even if not spray painted on someone else's wall...or worse...I cannot believe that @Mark Lee, I would have been livid if that were there when I walked)

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
--Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), John Lennon

Imagine.

Two of a series:

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

I will apologize at this point and steer this back to positive quotes.

 

[Mark Lee]

Imagine.

Two of a series:
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Yeah, saw those on the Camino. Made me wonder what John Lennon would have thought about his song lyrics being spray painted on the side of public garbage containers.
I like the song, but just didn't get the significance and beauty of it on a plastic bin full of rubbish.

 

[Mark Lee]

may I add another?(even if not spray painted on someone else's wall...or worse...I cannot believe that @Mark Lee, I would have been livid if that were there when I walked)

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
--Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), John Lennon

Yeah, that was when I walked the CF the first time. Was such a beautiful, warm day and I gotta admit a bit disappointing to see the graffiti tagged on the pilgrim sculptures.
Could only shake my head and wonder what kind of idiot does stuff like that. I mean it took some planning of sorts. Intent and deliberation. Bringing a spray can up there and thinking doing that is acceptable. I think the same thing at all the graffiti tagged Camino kilometer markers.

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

Yeah, that was when I walked the CF the first time. Was such a beautiful, warm day and I gotta admit a bit disappointing to see the graffiti tagged on the pilgrim sculptures.
Could only shake my head and wonder what kind of idiot does stuff like that. I mean it took some planning of sorts. Intent and deliberation. Bringing a spray can up there and thinking doing that is acceptable. I think the same thing at all the graffiti tagged Camino kilometer markers.

well, so far (fingers crossed) this sort of nonsense hasn't made it to the corner of the world I now call home...and I think maybe @Rick of Rick and Peg took the pictures because he also thought it out of place (sorry if I assume wrong)...so if either of you make it to the central coast I will spring for a good dinner and California wine, graffiti-free. I owe it to you both since my trip was sans-graffiti (except for the "free the Basques" on the Norte)...I admit I saw it on the mile markers near SdC (I picked up the trash, and tried to wipe off the graffitti)
exit, feeling a little guilty

 

[Mark Lee]

well, so far (fingers crossed) this sort of nonsense hasn't made it to the corner of the world I now call home...and I think maybe @Rick of Rick and Peg took the pictures because he also thought it out of place (sorry if I assume wrong)...so if either of you make it to the central coast I will spring for a good dinner and California wine, graffiti-free. I owe it to you both since my trip was sans-graffiti (except for the "free the Basques" on the Norte)
exit, feeling a little guilty

Hey, much thanks for the offer. I'm a native son. Born in La Jolla.
I got some photos of Camino graffiti I can't even post on here, ha ha.

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

Born in La Jolla.

I no longer feel sorry for you

 

[Mark Lee]

this unbelievably ill-behaved tagger should be found and marched up to this every other week to clean up any paint or trash...for oh, about three years. 70 or so climbs should help them understand what it is to be an adult member of society.

ha ha...yeah
I can just imagine had I done something like that when I was a youth and my dad found out. Dios mio! He would have had me humping scrapers and wire brushes, soap and water up that hill in the midday sun to clean that nonsense off the sculptures.

 

[Mark Lee]

I no longer feel sorry for you

ha ha
Different La Jolla way back then. Dad was stationed in San Diego when my brother and I were born there.
Nowadays I cannot afford to live where I was born, ha ha.

 

[SYates]

Let's not forget the forever inspirational wall taggings we see along The Way.

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Is tu vida es una mierda ... Cambia la!

Or, polite translation/extension into English:

If your life is shit - Use it as compost!

Buen Camino, SY

 

[SYates]

On a more 'somber-sophisticated note' this one struck me today:

"It takes a lifetime to learn how to die."

Nation, Terry Pratchett

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I think maybe @Rick of Rick and Peg took the pictures because he also thought it out of place (sorry if I assume wrong)

I took the pictures because, like it or not, it was part of the camino experience.

This inspirational quotation could have been done by a walker and directed towards pilgrims but with elections being held at the time it could also have been done by a local party enthusiast directed toward voters.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

so if either of you make it to the central coast I will spring for a good dinner and California wine, graffiti-free.

Thank you (unless it is required that we walk there.)

 

[Kanga]

I just came across this on Goodreads. It seems too good not to share:

“Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t. And that’s the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy.
There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.”
- Charlotte Eriksson

And this one, which I am hoping will apply to me:

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

 

[Pilgrim Paul]

"With a peter full of everything on my back, and a billy full of nothing at my hip, I set out from Inverness on All Fools Day in search of things that would never happen had I only gumption enough to bide at home."

Matt Marshall. 'The Travels of a Tramp Royal.' Published 1932.

 

[Icacos]

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

Yogi Berra

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Seen this morning in the Sunday funnies: Bil Keane's The Family Circus is entitled "Grandma's Quotes." Grandma is hugging the grandchildren and instructing them to "Remember -- the best things in life are not things."

 

[Granniesruntoo]

Or my daughter's favourite after a very bad year: Don't sweat the small stuff.... and it is mostly small stuff.
This has helped me through lots of supposedly stressful situations,

 

[Aidan21]

Just a few of my favorites:

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou



It’s not your job to like me. It’s mine.

Byron Katie



No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[Michael Caleigh]

Imagine.

Two of a series:
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This is on the Primitivo?

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

This is on the Primitivo?

I don't think so...it appears he walked the Frances and Finisterre-Muxia
but as we know, there is nothing worthwhile to see on the Primitivo, not even graffiti
shhhh....
Primitivo, keep the secret

 

[Alan Pearce]

"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a puzzle to be solved" - unknown

Alan

Be brave. Life is joyous.

 

[Michael Caleigh]

I don't think so...it appears he walked the Frances and Finisterre-Muxia
but as we know, there is nothing worthwhile to see on the Primitivo, not even graffiti
shhhh....
Primitivo, keep the secret

Now I seem to remember that this is after Melide before you get to the beautiful Casa Verde where the shirts hang from the ceiling.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

This is on the Primitivo?

As @Smallest_Sparrow wrote it was on the Camino Frances, somewhat before Salceda. I passed a number of other verses to Lennon's Imagine before snapping those two pictures. They all were farther apart than you would think.

Edit: This morning on a TV show I saw a sign inside a house with words that could fit the subject of this thread.
What if the hokey pokey is really what it is all about?

 

[JennyH94]

The other day, while taking a walk along our local beachfront, I saw this quote:



I thought "ouch" when I read it!

Cheers - Jenny

 

[Sheffield James]

Please ignore if already posted:

"Be the person your dog thinks you are!" (Unknown)