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Our main problem is words and the way words and thoughts are formed - and then once they are formed they become a kind of concrete in the mind.
-ARTelevision |
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
~ Brendan Francis |
When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.
- Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso |
Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.
-- Isaac Asimov |
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
From "Tyger Tyger" |
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
~ Confucius |
"Get busy livin, or get busy dyin." - The Shawshank Redemption
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In the presence of eternity,
the mountains are as transient as the clouds. - Robert Green Ingersoll |
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein |
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Even in the driest hole one can sometimes find water.
- zen saying |
Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
~ Robert Frost |
Once you seep under my skin...
There is nothing in this world that can wash you away. |
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt |
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot |
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
~ Federico Fellini |
I wonder if tongues get bored, there's teeth and lips but nothing to really do stuff with; I guess they have fun with food and drinks.
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
-- William James |
The art of being wise
is the art of knowing what to overlook. -William James |
Never mistake motion for action.
~ Ernest Hemingway |
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
-Andy Warhol |
Don't just do something. Sit there.
-Sylvia Boorstein |
Common sense is not so common.
~Voltaire |
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988) |
Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.
~ Leonardo da Vinci |
Madness is the first sign of dandruff.
-unknown |
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
~ William James |
How the hell did I get here and why am I still alive?
- Dano - |
Winter sucks.
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Private faces in public places
Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places. - W.H. Auden |
Too much talk will include errors.
-Burmese Proverb |
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.
~ Edgar F. Roberts |
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau |
A man is not what he thinks he is.
But what he thinks, he is. |
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
- John Constable |
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
~ Aristotle |
There is no solution, for there is no problem.
- Marcel Duchamp |
Youth has vision. Old age, dreams.
~ Melvin Tolson |
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
- Aesop |
Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these - it might have been.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier |
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
-- General George Patton Jr |
i think that i got to pee
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
-Eric Hoffer |
Perfectionism spells paralysis.
-- Winston Churchill |
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
The beauty of life is seeing the love in a childs eyes
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boobies
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-Bill Cosby |
You are are full of shit
-BKS |
Quote:
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche |
it really sucks getting sick and having a toothache at the same time.. this has not been my week
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The best things in life aren't things.
-unattributed |
Thanks Minx.
A word or two spoken from the heart is worth a thousand novels |
Snowflakes are winter's butterflies
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Don't confuse me with facts; my mind's already made up.
I'm a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I'm perfect. Jesus saves sinners and redeems them for cash and valuable prizes. Take me to a place where the drugs are free, the clubs have no gravity and every shag guarantees an orgasm! |
Poor Fletch. Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
~ Richard Bach (from Jonathan Livingston Seagull) |
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-Albert Einstein |
It is a great thing to know our vices.
~Cicero |
"When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration. "
-Robert Bresson |
We will either find a way, or make one.
~ Hannibal |
All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
-Dale Carnegie |
In New Orleans on Bourbon Street at 11pm on a Tuesday in November there is One Girl for 25 Men.
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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
~ Vince Lombardi |
"Life is what happens when your busy making plans"
John Lenon |
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
~ Benjamin Franklin |
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
-Elbert Hubbard |
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
~ Johann Wolfgang VonGoethe |
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
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The way it was will never happen again becasue the way it was never happened in the first place.
Go ahead with the plan you had before you wanted to be deep and meaningful. |
The problem with individual responsibility is most of us are not individuals.
-ARTelevision |
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
~ Vince Lombardi |
"We all agree that your theory is crazy. But is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr |
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
-- Henry Adams (Source: pg 79, Mitch Albom's "Tuesdays with Morrie", an excellent book I highly recommend) |
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
~ Woodrow Wilson |
Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.
-W.C. Fields |
Faith goes up the stairs that love builds and looks out windows which hope has opened.
~ C.H. Spurgeon |
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
- Kierkegaard |
Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
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"It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes |
I Give Thanks For This World As A Place To Learn,
And For This Human Body That I'm Glad To Have Earned, And My Deepest Thanks To All Sentient Beings, For Without Them There Would Be No Place To Learn What I'm Seeing. The Beastie Boys - Ill Communication. |
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost |
What worries you, masters you.
~ Sophocles |
"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."
-Rotarian |
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
~ Erica Jong |
He who angers you controls you.
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There is no reality, just perception
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a friend just sent this anonymous quote to me and it truly touched my heart, brightened my day. . .
And maybe your chest is an empty shell with ribs of spiraling coral where a perfect pearl of sadness resides but if you ever need an ear i could just come and press it there listen to the sound of the ocean inside |
"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
To perceive is to suffer.
~ Aristotle |
I am the Cory Feldman of the porn industry.
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Poems about food will not feed the starving nations.
- Erica Jong |
I did nothing....and it was everything I ever dreamed it could be.
- Office Space |
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
Laugh
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Greek proverb |
"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."
-Sophocles |
"To thine own self be true."
-- William Shakespeare |
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
~ Helen Keller |
If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
-William Blake |
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