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I still collect quotes..
“Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond.â€
~Robert Horry
“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.â€
~Arnold H. Glasgow
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom is knowing the right path to take… Integrity is taking it.
~M. H. McKee
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
~Frank Howard Clark
I will stop at 5.. I have about 100, that I really like.
“Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond.â€
~Robert Horry
“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.â€
~Arnold H. Glasgow
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom is knowing the right path to take… Integrity is taking it.
~M. H. McKee
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
~Frank Howard Clark
I will stop at 5.. I have about 100, that I really like.
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"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, airless-it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
There's another home somewhere,
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Where is that from, Kirsten?"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, airless-it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."
C.S. Lewis
"Only for today, I will devote 10 minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul." -- Pope John XXIII
Awesome quote!"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, airless-it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."
C.S. Lewis
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Don't remember, exactly -- I'll have to ask my mother. It was on the back of a C.S. Lewis book I got her for Christmas a couple of years ago. I bought it largely because I liked the quote so much.Where is that from, Kirsten?"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, airless-it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."
C.S. Lewis
ETA: From The Four Loves.
There's another home somewhere,
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
You be shedding too much light Lue! Dumb it down.
You make them want to do right Lue! Dumb it down.
....They're getting self-esteem Lue! Dumb it down.
These girls are trying to be queens Lue! Dumb it down.
They're trying to graduate from school Lue! Dumb it down.
They're starting to think that smart is cool Lue! Dumb it down.
They're trying to get up out the hood Lue! Dumb it down.
I'll tell you what you should do - dumb it down.
Listen G, they told me I should come down cousin,
but I flatly refuse, I won't dumb down nothin
Gunny and his thoughts on First Earth:
"I've been in the poem of many a poet
and I reside in the art of many an artist.
Some of your smartest have tried to articulate
my whole part in this, but they're fruitless in their harvest.
I am the American Dream, the rape of Africa,
the undying machine, the overpriced medicine,
the murderous regime, the tough guy's front,
and the one behind the scenes.
I am the safehaven for the rebel, runaway, and the resister,
the trusted misleader, the number one defender"
and I reside in the art of many an artist.
Some of your smartest have tried to articulate
my whole part in this, but they're fruitless in their harvest.
I am the American Dream, the rape of Africa,
the undying machine, the overpriced medicine,
the murderous regime, the tough guy's front,
and the one behind the scenes.
I am the safehaven for the rebel, runaway, and the resister,
the trusted misleader, the number one defender"
Gunny and his thoughts on First Earth:
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*Insert hilariously accurate quote about the way the world works and a tad sexist about woman, that 99.9% of the forum wont laugh at, but Ill rofl for hours at*
such is me and my humor.
such is me and my humor.
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"Mr Charles, can you tell us anything else about the case?"
"Yes, it's got me way behind on my drinking!"
- THE THIN MAN (detective movie)
"Yes, it's got me way behind on my drinking!"
- THE THIN MAN (detective movie)
"Only for today, I will devote 10 minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul." -- Pope John XXIII
"I read where you were shot five times in the tabloids!"
"It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids."
I love that movie sooooo much.
"The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a dry martini you always shake to waltz time. "
"You know, that sounds like an interesting case. Why don't you take it?"
"I haven't the time. I'm much too busy seeing you don't lose any of the money I married you for."
"Is he working on a case?"
"Yes he is"
"What case?"
"A case of Scotch. Pitch in and help him."
"It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids."
I love that movie sooooo much.
"The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a dry martini you always shake to waltz time. "
"You know, that sounds like an interesting case. Why don't you take it?"
"I haven't the time. I'm much too busy seeing you don't lose any of the money I married you for."
"Is he working on a case?"
"Yes he is"
"What case?"
"A case of Scotch. Pitch in and help him."
So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.
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"You always know you're in for a good night when there's a polar bear bleeding on the label."
Aaaaaand the whole rest of Black Books.
Aaaaaand the whole rest of Black Books.
"Only for today, I will devote 10 minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul." -- Pope John XXIII
“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?†- Samuel Johnson, 1775 (How is it that the loudest yelps for corporate tax relief come from those who aren’t paying much in the first place?)
So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
I need to read this author's stuff; I've read one book and discovered I love her quotes while looking for some from the book I did read.
Curtis Sittenfeld:
Curtis Sittenfeld:
There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.
You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?
But what I did care about, what I wanted most fervently, was for her to understand that hard work paid off, that decency begat decency, that humility was not a raincoat you occasionally pulled on when you thought conditions called for it, but rather a constant way of existing in the world, knowing that good luck and bad luck touched everyone and none of us was fully responsible for our fortunes or tragedies.
I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold – I wanted my life to start – but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will--that is the part that's almost unbearable.
I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.
So raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways, all my underdogs.
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-Matched, CondieIt's hard to know which ways to be strong.
Simple but it resonates.
ETA:
Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday.
That's how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have.
Se paciente y duro; algún día este dolor te será útil.
On a recent read of EIE
I am quite tired of idiots. And shallow people. The world would be a better place without them.My needs are simple and few. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And no idiots.
Late at night when the world grows still, and a peace upraises from your soul, I take that chance to blend myself, with all of nature as a whole.
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"I find people with moustaches to be particularly dishonourable beings. Hitler, Tom Selleck, being cases in point."
- Dirk Gently
- Dirk Gently
"Only for today, I will devote 10 minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul." -- Pope John XXIII
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New favorite poem on the bittersweetness of life:
Try to Praise the Mutilated World
Try to praise the mutilated world.
Remember June's long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You must praise the mutilated world.
You watched the stylish yachts and ships;
one of them had a long trip ahead of it,
while salty oblivion awaited others.
You've seen the refugees heading nowhere,
you've heard the executioners sing joyfully.
You should praise the mutilated world.
Remember the moments when we were together
in a white room and the curtain fluttered.
Return in thought to the concert where music flared.
You gathered acorns in the park in autumn
and leaves eddied over the earth's scars.
Praise the mutilated world
and the gray feather a thrush lost,
and the gentle light that strays, and vanishes
and returns.
~~Adam Zagajewsky, trans. from Polish by Clare Cavanagh
Try to Praise the Mutilated World
Try to praise the mutilated world.
Remember June's long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You must praise the mutilated world.
You watched the stylish yachts and ships;
one of them had a long trip ahead of it,
while salty oblivion awaited others.
You've seen the refugees heading nowhere,
you've heard the executioners sing joyfully.
You should praise the mutilated world.
Remember the moments when we were together
in a white room and the curtain fluttered.
Return in thought to the concert where music flared.
You gathered acorns in the park in autumn
and leaves eddied over the earth's scars.
Praise the mutilated world
and the gray feather a thrush lost,
and the gentle light that strays, and vanishes
and returns.
~~Adam Zagajewsky, trans. from Polish by Clare Cavanagh
There's another home somewhere,
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
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"I celebrate myself and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
~Walt Whitman
God, I admire his exuberance. And his fearlessness in celebrating himself and singing himself.
I am not feeling celebratory of myself right now. It's nice to read that.
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
~Walt Whitman
God, I admire his exuberance. And his fearlessness in celebrating himself and singing himself.
I am not feeling celebratory of myself right now. It's nice to read that.
There's another home somewhere,
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
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"That is the substance of remembering--sense, sight, smell: the muscles with which we see and hear and feel--not mind, not thought: there is no such thing as memory: the brain recalls just what the muscles grope for: no more, nor less: and its resultant sum is usually incorrect and false and worthy only of the name of dream."
--William Faulkner; Absalom, Absalom
This is the first Faulkner I've ever read. I don't know how I feel about it.
"That is the substance of remembering--sense, sight, smell: the muscles with which we see and hear and feel--not mind, not thought: there is no such thing as memory: the brain recalls just what the muscles grope for: no more, nor less: and its resultant sum is usually incorrect and false and worthy only of the name of dream."
--William Faulkner; Absalom, Absalom
This is the first Faulkner I've ever read. I don't know how I feel about it.
I used to hate gravity because it would not let me fly. Now I realize it is gravity that lets me stand.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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"Biting is excellent. It's like kissing, only there's a winner."
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"Roland was staring at Tiffany, so nonplussed he was nearly minused."
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For Kelly:
The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating - in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life
-Anne Morris
The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating - in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life
-Anne Morris
Yay, I'm a llama again!
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