Temperament quotes (please add)

[Goodrum]

[Amor est vitae essentia]-Love is the essence of life.

-(Robert B MacKay, 1950 Australian Analyst)


It is a glorious privilege to live, to know, to act, to listen, to behold, to love.
To look up at the blue summer sky;
To see the sun sink slowly beyond the line of the horizon;
To watch the world come twinkling into view, first one by one, and the myriads that no man can count and lo!
the universe is white with them; and you and I are here.

-(Marco Morrow)


All that I have to say to the world and to mankind is contained in the notion, reverence for life.

-(Albert Schweitzer)


Love is life. All everything I understand, I understand only because I love.

-(Leo Tolstoy)


*Every action of our lives touches some chord that will vibrate in eternity.*

-(Edwin Hubbel Chapin)


*Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
Every moment is a golden one for him [or her] who has the vision to recognize it as such.*

-(Henry Miller)


Solitude and nature are absolutely necessary for the proper development of a human being.
It is an admixture of natural life, lived in solitude, amid beautiful surroundings of nature and what we call an arboreal life, which is absolutely necessary for the poise and harmony of the human mind.

--(Gopi Krishna)


I have started on a new journey which, I know, will take me further than before towards the perfect life I was instinctively seeking.
I began this journey by exploring the unmapped territory of my own mind...
This endeavour is as vast as life itself because it requires the analysis of our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual being...

--(Ella Maillart, explorer-traveler-writer, Cruises and Caravans)


O world-ignorance,
AlthoughYou have shackled my feet,
I am free.
AlthoughYou have chained my hands,
I am free.
AlthoughYou have enslaved my body,
I am free.
I am free because I am not of the body.
I am free because I am not the body,
I am free because I am the soul-bird
That flies in Infinity- Sky.
I am the soul-child that dreams
On the Lap of the immortal King Supreme.

-(The Soul Bird~ Sri Chinmoy).

Audio Video Disco....I hear, I see, I learn.

-(Me).

[ShayShay]

"If I could leave you with only one thing,
It would be small, foldable, and made from trees,
with a few careless words,
scribbled in blue;
Take a minute to learn me,
take a moment to love me,
because I need your love to live,
and without it,
I am nothing."

"I can count on the sun to shine.
Dedication takes a lifetime,
but dreams only last for a night."

"Before you ask which way to go,
remember where you've been."

"I've never told a lie,
and that makes me a liar.
I've never made a bet,
but we gamble with desire.
I've never lit a match,
with intent to start a fire,
but recently the flames,
are getting out of control.
Call me a name.
Kill me with words.
Forget about me.
It's what I deserve.
I was your chance,
to get out of this town.
But I ditched the car,
and left you to,
wait outside.
I hope the air will,
serve to remind you,
that my heart is as cold,
as the clouds of your breath.
And my words are as timed as,
the beating in my chest."

All lyrics are written by Alexander William Gaskarth, an ENFP. That's Alex and myself in my avatar pic.

I am, personally, touched MUCH more by lyrics to songs than I am by poems that lack musical instruments. And I'm not much for short little quotes...except for the one in my siggy. (:

[ShayShay]

Love is life. All everything I understand, I understand only because I love.

-(Leo Tolstoy)

I love this one!

[keirsey]

Ok, now for some Rational Quotes

Never accept an idea as long as you yourself are not satisfied with its consistency and the logical structure on which the concepts are based. Study the masters. These are the people who have made significant contributions to the subject. Lesser authorities cleverly bypass the difficult points.
Satyendranth Bose

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein (Architect Rational)

Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
Neils Bohr (Mastermind Rational)

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes (Mastermind Rational)

[ShayShay]

"Power is made by power being taken" - John Mayer

[Goodrum]

I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside

~(Jelaluddin Rumi - 13th century )

[eodbailey50]

I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside

~(Jelaluddin Rumi - 13th century )

This is a good one!!! Now, if your an Idealist you may ask another question and keep going round and round chasing your tale... Rationals at this point will laugh at the revelation and set out to put the gained knowledge to use...?

[Goodrum]

Eodbailey:

Now, if your an Idealist you may ask another question and keep going round and round chasing your tale

Yeaarh...but.....never underestimate the "fun" had in chasing tails....long ones, short ones, hairy ones, stumpy clipped ones, bald ones, flecked ones, what if I discover a 1000 other things while chasing that tail.....what if it is a wagging tail...what if it is a tail to another species, an undiscovered species..

[eodbailey50]

Then we find another species...

I think Idealists are the secret society behind everything good and bad. They are the spontaneous self-combustion of man-kind. I'd like to see a CT of the Idealist brain. It would probably look like a blinking Christmas Tree or a disco rave party...

[Goodrum]

....or, it maybe.. simply... the illusion of a tail.