Wat’s Carbon Water-N-Stuff Thread - Concepts In Iron And Wood!!!

No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

-Dogen



Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

~ Epictetus



Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson




It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

~ George Washington Carver
 
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Congrats! You’ve officially leveled up to Professional Annoyer. Next level is: World Peace Disturber. Keep up the good work!


Thank you. It seems that all I have to do is say the word "violence" and the multit000ds proceed to foul themselves. It must be tragic to be that fragile. However, I wouldn't know from personal experience.


Next stop: Galactic Triggerer.
 
Thank you. It seems that all I have to do is say the word "violence" and the multit000ds proceed to foul themselves. It must be tragic to be that fragile. However, I wouldn't know from personal experience.
You've been such a good little boy since Lit admin last trimmed your wings.
 
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.




There simply is nothing to which we can attach ourselves, no matter how hard we try. In time, things will change and the conditions that produced our current desires will be gone. Why then cling to them now?


~ Master Hsing Yun




The learned grow by what they acquire day by day, but the wise grow by what they lose.

~ Lao Tzu



What you are looking for is already in you…You already are everything you are seeking.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh
 
Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.

~ Kathleen McDonald



I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and no longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary world, some imaginary vision of perfection, but to leave it as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it.

~ Hermann Hesse
 
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