The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. -H.P. Lovecraft
Freedom has no barcode. -J.G. Ballard
RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. -Ambrose Bierce
There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything. -Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Who then is free? The wise man, who is lord over himself, whom neither poverty, or death, nor bonds affright, who bravely defies his passions, and scorns ambition, who in himself is whole and rounded, so that nothing outside can rest on the polished surface, and against whom Fortune in her onset is ever defeated. -Horace
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who will watch the watchers? -Juvenal
It takes a very long time to become young. -Pablo Picasso
Yeah, if you don’t have a quotes page up on FaceBook, how am I going to raid your wit?
From Tracy : Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it’s not ever going to get better than right now–until it gets better right now! ~ Abe-Hicks (5/11/02)
Greg : “All it takes to start an insane asylum is a big room and the right kind of people”
Jennifer : Not really a quote but…I love this line from Robert Frost’s famous poem-
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
And this one by Emerson…
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it … Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Shere : “Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”
–Cree Indian saying
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
–Albert Einstein
Yale : “If it bends, it’s funny. If it breaks, it’s not funny.”
“You know: you have lovely hands — do you moisturize? I swear by it. I try all sorts of lotions. I went through a fragrance-free period last year, but now I’m liking this new brand fortified with rose hip. My sister, you know, she uses the aloe vera with the sun screen built in… You know: they say cinnamon is wonderful for your pores. Read that on the internet. And that ideally you should be wearing gloves to bed, but I find that would interfere with my social agenda. Problem is: I get a reaction to camphor so I can’t use traditional remedies…”
Beth : ’I love you Beth. You always keep me calm when I want to gouge someones eyes out.’ Megan
‘ Censorship is like telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.’ Mark Twain
‘One Day At A Time’
‘Stop then! The deliberate manufacture of your own misery!’
“Listen, kitten….”
“Yesterday is a cancelled check, tomorrow is a promissary note, today is cash in hand.”- also Don B.
Donger : I’m on the top of the pyramid to have you support, but I ‘d like to be the bottom of the pyramid to support you. President Gary D. Forsee - May 27, 2009
Smooth roads never make good drivers
Smooth seas never makes good sailors
Clear Skies never makes good Pilots
Problem and hassle free Life NEVER makes a strong person
Be Strong enough to accept the challenges of Life
Don’t ask Life , ‘Why Me ?
Instead say ‘try Me!’
There, plenty of bits for you to digest. Hey, not going to use up all the wit from friends in one go, these were just near the top of the page in the FB window I had open <grin>
On this note, I leave you with a happy butterfly, and stuff™
Stolen roses, from another friend out on FaceBook. As always no one has to agree, but there are always points to consider . . .
USMC 1811 - For Honorable service
Without tools, man is nothing; with tools he is all.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!
-Samuel Adams
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The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act.
- Orison Swett Marden
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Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.
-Benjamin Franklin
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If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
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“It is not enough that we do our best, sometimes we must do what is required.”
-Sir Winston Churchill
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.” ~ Dr. Seuss
“Our kids learn because they can’t help it! It’s like breathing! Life is Learning … Learning is Life … “and Life Rocks!” ~ Dayna Martin
inspiration, yep
“Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.” ~ Hugh Hefner
“The children desire freedom! And every particle of their being from their Source says, ‘You are free. You are so free, that every thought you offer, the entire Universe jumps to respond to it.’ And so, to take that kind of knowledge and try to confine it in any way, defies the Laws of the Universe. You must allow your children to be free, because the entire Universe is set up to accommodate that. And anything you do to the contrary will only bring you regret. You cannot contain those that cannot be contained. It defies Law. ” ~ Abraham
“The butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)
“It’s not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It’s a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.” ~ John Holt
“Not all those who wander are lost.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkein
“The learners shall inherit the earth while the learned will be beautifully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” ~ Eric Hoffer
“Children are born with the ability to learn whatever they need to know and will do so, as long as they are not hindered by well-meaning people trying to teach them.” ~ John Holt
“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.” ~ The Dalai Lama
“The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.” ~ Wayne Dyer
“On with the dance; let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there’s any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine.” ~ Mark Twain
Hey, I only have so many personal favorites to go around, so it’s always nice to see what others value too.
