the mighty seek to secure their position with blood (police), with cunning (fashion), with magic (pomp).

walter benjamin, arcades project, [e5a, 7]

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin (1924-1987)

Look upon every day as the whole of life, not merely as a section; and enjoy and improve the present without wishing, through haste, to rush on to another.

Jean Paul Richter

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen."
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Robert Jarvik (1946-) U.S. physician and inventor - designed the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in 1972.

Look upon every day as the whole of life, not merely as a section; and enjoy and improve the present without wishing, through haste, to rush on to another.

Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Edward de Bono

Go to nature

-Bill Hicks

To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.

A. P. Gouthey

Doubt is the dark beast of the imagination
creativity, it's angelic other.

-BK Lee

One should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away.

Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821) Memoirist

if the music is loud enough, you cant hear the world collapse

derek jarman

Most of the critical things in life, which become the starting points of human destiny, are the little things.

Robert P. Smith

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope."
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Winston Churchill (1874-1965) English politician - Prime Minister (1940-45,1951-55); rallied British people during World War II; awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (1953).

The mind should be at peace but the heart debauches it perpetually.

~Marie de Sévigné

Supple Cow, good one. Thanks.
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The recipe for well-being, then, requires neither positive nor negative thinking alone, but a mix of ample optimism to provide hope, a dash of pessimism to prevent complacency, and enough realism to discriminate those things we can control from those we cannot.

David G. Myers
Psychologist and educator

There is always something somewhere that needs to be done. Work is never ending. Grab a shovel and get busy. When you think your finished you have just stopped looking. I salute those who toil in any profession and those who recognize that the relentless pursuit of excellence in toil on a daily basis is the foundation for success in whatever you choose to endeavor. Work. Don't let them tell you that it can't be done.

:thumbsup:

Naïveté is not a failure to understand that things go wrong when your heart and mind are not in the right place; it is the belief that if they are in the right place, things won't go wrong anyway.

Supple Cow

everything is always the same except composition and as the composition is different and always going to be different everything is not the same.

gertrude stein

Good one rb. GS is a quotemine!
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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999)
Writer and editor

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.



Annie Dillard

Our dreams are a second life.
-Gerard de Nerval

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

~Nietzsche

heh, good one, guccilvr.

"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad."
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Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) U.S. naturalist and author - won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Wandering Through Winter (1965).

The living language is like a cow-path: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay.

~E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)

Some great quotes lately, Supple Cow! Thanks.

One element of maturity is the realization that we don’t get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Hugh Prather

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

Two thoughts about aging...

"If you are young and are not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old and are not conservative, then you don't have a brain."

Winston Churchill


Also...

"When I was younger, I admired smart people. Now that I'm older, I admire kind people."

...unable to find who said this, sorry

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

~Antonio Porchia, writer (1886-1968)

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

-Federico Fellini (1920-1993)

after having held up the departure of a whole army because of a childish whim to make the trip from paris to brest in a litter, she now had to put her mind to more important things.

alejo carpentier, "the kingdom of this world"

fine fellini quote, art.......

Thanks roachboy, I agree. It's a good one.
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"Pressure makes diamonds."

General George Patton (1885-1945)

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

"Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees."
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Karle Wilson Baker (1878-1960)
U.S. poet - essayist, short story writer and teacher; her poetry collections include Blue Smoke (1919) and Burning Bush (1922); wrote novel Family Style (1937).

"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it as I shall not pass this way again."

- William Penn

We have two ears, but only one mouth, so that we may listen more and talk less.

-Zeno (c. 334-262 B.C.)

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.


Christopher Reeve

"When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks. "

-Bob Dylan