If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
--Ellie Wiesel

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
--George Bernard Shaw

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
--Helen Keller

Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented.

Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Painter

My new signature...from one of my greatest heroes.

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." — noam chomsky

Vivre Memento.

"FUCK YEAH, SLAYER"

-Timothy Kunkle


"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

-Aldous Huxley

To think I almost dropped him.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Alfred Adler
(1870-1937)
Psychiatrist

Slinky Gumby

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott (1938-1996)
Psychiatrist and writer

A man never describes his own character so clearly as when he describes another.

--Jean Paul Richter

'Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.'
-- Mark Twain

Love that one, reconmike!

"If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain the whales?"
~anonymous~ (which means I don't remember)

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
--Rene Dubos

The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected.

~Stephen Lacey

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
--Barbara Bush

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
--Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. -
Katherine Dunn

That's the thing about death. Either you die, or you don't.

Hank Hill

Cthulhu ftagn! A question abou "Nancy" of teenfuns:
Did she ever graduate to hard? Or are we always left wondering?

"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

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

- Larry Hardiman

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."

- Abraham Maslow

"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges."

-Isaac Newton

do the different colored M&M's have different flavors?

“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.”

Pope Gregory VII

"This is like deja vu all over again."

Yogi Berra

"Radicals always see matters in terms which are too simple--black and white, good and evil, them and us. By addressing complex matters in that way, they rip open a passage for chaos."

"The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it."

"Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right."

"Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of the power."

"Religion always leads to rhetorical despotism...it feeds deliberately on twisted meanings to discredit opposition."

Frank Herbert - (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986)

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. - Marlene Dietrich

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"You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door."

Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

"Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form."

Stephen Nachmanovitch

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it through not dying."

Woody Allen

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Laurie Anderson

"One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass."

Etty Hillesum

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“Shit is the tofu of cursing.” - David Sedaris

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"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."

Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. - Dorothy Allison

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Nowadays people say, "Well, you certainly can't explain the creation of the universe without invoking God," and I want to say, "Don't bet against it."

- Caltech physicist Sean Carroll

Too bad I'm such a slow learner.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Helen Keller

:)

In a former life, in the construction industry, we had 2 favourite sayings (and a corollary) to deal with mistakes:

1) The only people who don't make mistakes are those who do nothing.

2)If you keep making different mistakes, you're learning.
The corollary to this was: If you keep making the same mistake, you're stupid.

So... it's not the speed at which you learn that's important... it's the fact that you learn!

"When the student is ready, the master [teacher] appears.”

Buddhist Proverb

“If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it.” - Tori Amos

The first thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is... stop diggin' - The Cowboy's Guide to Life

"I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia

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(Shameless plug by a life-long UCLA/Los Angeles Lakes fan follows!!)

I learned more from Lewis Alcindor about man's inhumanity to man than from anybody else. - John Wooden

(Lewis Alcindor is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the greatest basketball player of all time, who will be appearing on Celebrity Jeopardy tonight playing for $1 million for charity)

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

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Frank Zappa

...couldn't decide which one to use.

"Excuse me please one more drink. Could you make it strong cause I don't need to think"

Dave Matthews

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices."

William James (1842 - 1910)

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"Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum."

Frank Herbert - Chapterhouse Dune

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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."

Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"

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"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner

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"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear."

Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

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"The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up."

Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 07-12-09

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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

Fernando Pessoa

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Sarah Vowell, writer and humorist
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"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everything starts from a dot.

Wassily Kandinski

If you must drink and drive, drink Pepsi. - Bumper Sticker