September 2010
9 posts
Professors
A couple days ago my “Buddhism in East Asia Professor” said, “People in the past lived their lives based on lies, and even in modern society we live our lives based on lies”.
Initially this quote gave off a very pessimistic vibe, but after thinking about his words for a while I saw the silver lining.
The bright side of his words was that people continued “to live” their lives. I have no doubt that...
“Don’t live to take up space, but to rather fill it.”
– Inspired from Verizon advertisement :)
“You must shake your own pan when looking for gold”
– When I first saw this quote in my college text book I laughed because it seemed kinda random, but after a couple seconds I thought that this quote was pretty awesome.
“Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking”
M.Neil Browne & Stuart M.Keeley
Funny Things I've heard at college
—“Tupac’s Changes is the Tom Sawyer of rap music!”
—Lab teacher giving a student equipment: “Come back with it or you have to forfeit your first born!”
—One of the last things you’ll hear a college student say as they are going to class “I under slept”
—Lab instructions: “Don’t eat anything in lab, ESPECIALLY if...
Giving
“You can give, what you didn’t get”
“And that isn’t just external either - give to yourself too.”
Post Secrect
(hehe the teddy bear is taking a sip from the cup)
Courage
It takes great courage to ask the question “are you okay?”, but it takes even greater courage to answer that question.
Courage:”the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.” - Dictionary.com
“Life is a miracle. Art is an expression of that miracle. Science is an...”
– The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (quote-book) 