When going through hell keep going

au pays des aveugles les borgnes sont rois...

(on poker)

"if you can't spot the sucker in 30 minutes, you are the sucker"

Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. .The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty.

Bo Lozoff
Cofounder of the Human Kindness Foundation

"the worst will happen....... Always" ~ an old friend

abeunt studia in mores...

Keep your heart clear and transparent
And you will never be bound.
A single disturbed thought, though,
Creates ten thousand distractions.
Let myriad things captivate you
And you'll go further and further astray.
How painful to see people
All wrapped up in themselves.

- Ryokan

There is no way to Happiness. Happiness is the way

Unknown

Uncle Phil, since you speak french, what does this mean?

Je suis un chien mais je ne suis pas un chien

i may be a dog, but i ain't ugly...(i am a dog, as in animal, but i am not a dog, as in ugly...)

"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

ars longa, vita brevis...

Uncle Phil, actually, " je suis un chien" is ( 'suis' from verbe 'suivre' means 'to follow'). A lot of French people it messed up too.

I follow a dog but I am not a dog

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Woodberry

You must just acknowledge deep in your heart of hearts that people are supposed to fuck. It is our main purpose in life, all those other activities--playing the trumpet, vacumming carpets, reading mystery novels, eating chocolate mousse--are just ways of passing time until you can fuck again.
-Cynthia Heimel, Sex Tips For Girls

Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.

-Anonymous

The penis mightier than the sword.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

-Mark Twain

I would sooner have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy- Tom Waits

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)

Pain is just fear leaving the body.

If you dust off old junk sometimes you come up with a gem.

Bill Veeck (1914-1986)
Baseball team owner

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
~ Confucius

bis dat qui cito dat...

kimmytr - je suis is first person singular for both verbs...

Uncle Phil - Exactly, je suis (I follow)
je suis (i am)

It all began with Adam. He was the first man to tell a joke--or a lie. How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
-Mark Twain

NEVER tease a pregnant armidillo

My life has been the poem I would have writ, but I could not both live and utter it.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm not afraid to die I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

cedant arma togae...

If you always follow the lead dog, your only view is ass
.... or something like that. You get the idea.

-A poster on my old English teacher's wall

Life itself is the proper binge.

Julia Child
Chef

cogito, ergo sum...


- rene descartes

Spring has its hundred flowers,
Autumn its many moons.
Summer has cool winds,
Winter its snow.
If useless thoughts do not
Cloud your mind,
Each day is the best of your life.

- Wu-Men-Hui-Kai (1183-1260)

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

~Irv Kupcinet

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

~unknown

Eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind

-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness. And, once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant, is to say yes to all of existence.

-Waking Life

In three words I can sum up
everything I learned about life.
It goes on.

Robert Frost

"If you always do what you always did, then you'll always get what you always got. So if nothing ever changes, nothing ever will change."

Dunno who said it, but I'd say it's damn good advice.

I hope this thread keeps going. Very insightful words to be found here.

Some more:

Man wants chaos. In fact, he's gotta have it: depression, strife, riots, murder, all this dread. We're irresistably drawn to that almost orgiastic state created out of death and destruction. It's in all of us; We revel in it.


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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.