"Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit - the cosmos? The universe would be incomplete without man; but it would also be incomplete without the smallest transmicroscopic creature that dwells beyond our conceitful eyes and knowledge."

"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."

-John Muir

My world expands and contracts according to the amount of courage I have.

Love is the form, mover, and root of the virtues.

Thomas Aquinas (c. 1224-1274)

Sanity is madness put to good uses.
--George Santayana

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
--Henry Ward Beecher

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
--Mark Twain

Easy is what’s bad to do,
what’s harmful to oneself.
But what is good, of benefit,
is very hard to do.

-The Dhammapada

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

Time changes the meaning of events, and its passage allows all things to shift in the minds of humankind. Todays trial is tomarrows valuable lesson.

It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
--Hannah More


Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
--John Dewey


Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
--A. Powell Davies

Quote of the day...add yours tomorrow...
 

9/3/07....."If you feed the poor,you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor,you're a communist"

xoxoxoo

9/10/07

"I think a life spent in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to."

Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007)

9/11/07

"You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands."
-- Hunter S. Thompson

9/14/07

"You get some nice fat frogs. Then you put them in a big pot of cold water over the burner. Next you turn on the fire and wait. The water just feels fine to the frogs until they wind up unexpectedly dead.

That's how you make frog soup. And you are the frogs. "

True happiness renders men kind and sensible; and that happiness is always shared with others.

Montesquieu [Charles Louis de Secondat] (1689-1755)

9/16/07

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
- Ambrose Bierce
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Eric Hoffer
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
- Booth Tarkington

10/1/2007



"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -
-- Albert Einstein

Sorry, don't have a contribution, just wanted to say thanks for teh quotes....I've had to write a couple of them down ;)

-Will

carry on...

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I think we should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt. As long as the tenderness is there but also please let some of the contempt be there, because we know what we're like, we know how we hustle and bustle and shove and push, and you sometimes use grand words to cloak it.


Dennis Potter (1935-1994)
Dramatist and screenwriter

A man is not what he makes of himself, but what he makes of his surroundings.

-Will

nice one TARZAN, thanks!

Art

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov

This hits home because I am working for a cancer center and sometimes it's so hard to watch the downward spiral of people in general.

"By the time it was all said and done, I spent almost $200,000 on my college education. By the time it was all said and done, the U. S. government spent $2,435.98 on my ceramic body armor, Kevlar helmet, and flak jacket. As the cadence says, 'I love working for Uncle Sam/Lets me know just who I am.' It also lets me know what I think I'm worth and what they think I'm worth."

- a 25-year-old USMC 1st Lt., Camp Fallujah, Iraq

"Those days are long gone. We are not emotional Deloreans, equipped to time travel back into the past to relive a life once lived. To do so would be to face the peril of being stranded in the Wild West or at the very least force an inching crawl toward whatever happy future we may have in our own individual Hill Valley. If at this point, it turns out that she was my only love and that I was now to spend the rest of my life as an isolated loveless bastard, I am ecstatic that at least I had that experience. That I had her. That we had something true." - P.D.

"Paranoia is just another kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love." - Charles Manson

"I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget." - Marcus Cicero

"Women should always wear tight clothing and men should have powerful handguns." - random Calvin & Hobbes comic

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth,
so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless
one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created
by the quaility of laughter
that the audience takes home with it. - James Thurber

Merry Christmas.

"You wake up in the morning, your paint's peeling, your curtains are gone, and your water is boiling, which problem do you deal with first?! None of them, the building's on fire!"

So often we treat our problems as if they are not connected, failing to uproot the real disturbance. The similarity to all your problems: you.

New day, new thought.

If you can't be good, be good at it.

An eye for an eye,
makes the whole world blind. - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

A friend got me to thinking about this.

"Much that is to be seen now of a distressing nature in the world
can be directly traced to the wrong manipulation of mental matter" -

Djwhal Khul

I am not young enough to know everything.

-Oscar Wilde

A meaningful victory? Get real. After my deployment to Iraq ('03-'04), the mission over there reeked of one thing: damage control for a bad choice and no way out.

- Crompsin

Where there is love there is life.

Gandhi

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.


Jacques-Joseph Duguet

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.

Mario Fernandez

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

The story of a love is not important--what is important is that one is capable of love.

Helen Hayes
(1900-1993)

“When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over”

Sappho

ARTelevision,

This one says a lot! Great one!

We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love.

Sigmund Freud

"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today." - Malcolm X

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep,
bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand"

Kurt Vonnegut