"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
...Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing...What it ...is, as far as I can see, is the capital-T Truth, with a whole lot of rhetorical niceties stripped away … The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have
to keep reminding ourselves over and over: "This is water." "This is water." It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world.
-dfw, Kenyon College
"Beware the Anger of a Patient Man"
"Burning Embers are Easily Kindled"
"Everyone is Wise until they Speak"
"A New Broom Sweeps Clean, but an Old One knows the Corners"
"No matter how long the Day, the Evening will Come"
"The Man with Boots, does not have to worry about where to Step"
"Every Dog is Brave on his own Doorstep"
"A Friends Eye is a Good Mirror"
"If you Know the Way, Walk slowly"
Well that's just my opinion, fuck it if you don't like
Well that's just my opinion, sorry if you don't like.
BigDaddyRich
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne,
"The god of drunkenness had become the god of beauty. Such is also the path of art." Kazantzakis
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....
Martin Luther
"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.” Paulo Coelho
"Sometimes you have to believe in someone else's belief in you before the belief in yourself kicks in"
"Sometimes you have to believe in someone else's belief in you before the belief in yourself kicks in" ~Les Brown
Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got.
Love it with a passion,
because life truly does give back, many times over,
what you put into it.
Maya Angelou
The people who make a difference in your life
are not the ones with the most credentials,
the most money, or the most awards.
They are the ones that care.. Author unknown
"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?" - High Fidelity
"Whoooooa."
-Joey Lawrence.
'It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong.' - Voltaire
'A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents
and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents
eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.' - Max Planck
'Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.' - Bertrand Russell
'To punish me for my contempt for authority, nature made me an authority myself.' - Albert Einstein
'The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.' - George Bernard Shaw
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
"Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand." - Woody Allen
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
mine is my signature...
"If you have nothing worth dying for, then you don;t have anything worth living for"
I don't know who said it, but i love it and repeat it.
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night - Galileo
I'm having this tattooed down my ribcage this week, actually.
Lovely, isn't it?
"The joy is in the discovery."
The character Calvin Tower in Stephen King's Wolves of the Cala.
"As through this world you ramble, you'll meet lots of funny men: some will rob you with a shotgun, some with a fountain pen."
Woody Guthrie
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwords. -- ROBERT HEINLEIN
Better to MUGS than SMUG. Ian Dury (Singer, poet, and all round diamond geezer, sadly missed).
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - )
If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs,
he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.
"Something of Value - Robert Ruark
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"So don't cry to me.
If you loved me,
You would be here with me.
Don't lie to me,
Just get your things.
I've made up your mind."
--Evanescence
Here are a couple of my favorites:
"The boy who assays to carry a cat home by the tail stands to gain a world of knowledge he isn't likely to otherwise. He isn't likely to do it again, either. But I say if he WANTS to do it again, let him."
Mark Twain
"Rub her feet." R.A. Heinlein
"Bombing to end war is like fucking to reduce population" bumper sticker, during the Vietnam War Era
"There's only three tempos: slow, medium and fast. When you get between in the cracks, ain't nuthin' happenin'." Ben Webster
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr.
"EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND." - Ghandi
"LIFE ISNT ABOUT WAITING FOR THE STORM TO PASS, ITS ABOUT LEARNING TO DANCE IN THE RAIN!" - Anon
"SCIENCE IS INTERESTING, AND IF YOU DONT AGREE, YOU CAN FUCK OFF!" - Richard Dawkins
"AN OPTIMIST BELIEVES THE WORLD IS IN THE BEST POSSIBLE SHAPE IT CAN BE. A PESSIMIST THINKS THE OPTIMIST IS RIGHT..." - Anon
"MARV, WHY THE HELL DID YOU TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF?"
"HARRY, WHY THE HELL YOU DRESSED LIKE A CHICKEN!?"
