What I don't understand is say you owe a bookie some money and say said bookie shoots off one of your toes...you still owe the bookie the money. It just doesn't seem fair.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

-Donald Trump

What you get out of an experience is directly proportional to what you put in. If you're lucky, it's proportional to what you put in squared... unless what you put in was nothing.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

I was recently watching Kill Bill II when i realized something. The reason I love Tarentino movies is that he makes every single one like it will be the only movie he ever makes

I truly believe this

On April 20th 2005

Bob Marley was smoking weed in heaven
not any regular "earth" weed
but Heaven Weed, the best in the universe
grown by Hippy Angels

and the Rastafarian Devils are pissed!!!!

Bob doesn't wanna pass it down to the flaming pit for 'em.

"The wastebasket is a writer's best friend."
----
Isaac Bashevis Singer

"You teach best what you most need to learn."


Richard David Bach

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Good experiences come from good judgement. Good judgement comes from bad experiences. Bad experiences come from bad judgement."

once every day there is a coming where cows are.

gertrude stein

Supple Cow:

... the last word in mass media mind control:

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

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Thanks so much for that quote. I will always recall it.

You're quite welcome, Art. In a similar vein:

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."

~Thomas Pynchon, writer

~ All though it's just a memory, some memories last forever ~

Neil Pert
-=RUSH=-

Loneliness... is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

~Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938)

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

~John Locke

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

~Alan Kay

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason
and imitation without benefit.

~George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

not sure if any of these were used previously, but here are my favorite:

"I say that it is the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day and those other things about which you hear me conversing and testing myself and others, for the unexamined life is not worth living for man" - Socrates

"Religion is opium to the people" - Karl Marx

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness" - Chuang-Tzu

"Think for yourself. Question authority. Through out human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing, fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos. [It] has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who have attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations. Informing, forming in our minds, their views of reality. To think for yourself, you must question authority, and learn how to put yourself in a state of vunerable, open mindedness, chaotic, confused, vunerabilty to inform yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority." - Beggining of Third Eye, by Tool. Off of Salival (I think that's Timothy Leary (is that the right name?))

"You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't think drugs have done some good things for us, go home and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CDs and burn them. You know what? The musicans who made all that great music that has inhanced your lives through out the years, [we're] real fucking high on drugs." --- "Today a young man on Acid realized that all matter is really energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we all are one concisousness and are expirencing ourselves subjectivly, there is no such thing as death, Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather." - Beggining of Third Eye, by Tool. Off of Ænima.

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."
- Og Mandino

I did a lot of thinking today. In a little more than a week I will basically be out on my own for good... no more summer vacations and winter breaks away from college mooching off of my dad. I'm very scared, but I have a feeling I can make it through. :)

I also decided that it's time to put my beliefs about the way I should be living and my views on myself to work. No more of this trying bullshit. Time to do something... for the sake of my sanity and my happiness.

"Hey! Wait! Knock me down and I'll get up again.
Oh! Pain! A remedy that can erase your sting.
I'll keep holding, and I'll keep trying.
I feel this fight, it is slowly dying now but I feel painless... " -Mae

"Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loth them."
E.A. Poe

I realized today with the help of this thread that while my personal motto has always been
"do what makes you happy"
you don't necessarily need to 'do' or 'think' anything.
I love life.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

~Thomas Jefferson

Everyone needs to go back to basics now and then.

If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.

~Samuel P. Ginder, US navy captain

amateurs built the ark... professionals built the Titanic
- unknown

We have not inherited the Earth from our parents. We are borrowing it from our children.

~ Native American saying

don't take life too seriously ............................. nobody gets out alive anyways!

"Death is a natural part of life."- Yoda

Life observations
 

When something goes so right, something else goes to pieces quite spectacularly.

Anyone else got a profound statement to make?

I always feel that the person who rescues you is also the one most likely to kill you.

Shit happens.

If you wear what you're comfortable in you'll look the best.

real friends stab you from the front

When you think you have it all figured out, something happens to humble you back into human form.

Find a job you like and you'll never work a day in your life.

MoJo

"I probably won't kill myself, and for all the wrong reasons."

Hunter S. Thompson

If you need somebody you can trust? trust yourself!

Bob Dylan

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

~Ayn Rand

"If you don't ask, you don't recieve."- My Papa