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[Dec. 17th, 2009|03:46 pm] |
"All I wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing... and then made me mute. Why? Tell me that. If He didn't want me to praise him with music, why implant the desire? Like a lust in my body! And then deny me the talent?"
- Salieri |
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| william shedd |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|07:46 am] |
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A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
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| Happiness |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|09:40 am] |
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If Happiness had a form, what would it look like?
It might be something like glass..
..because one wouldn’t notice it normally.
However, it is actually there.
As proof, if you change the angle you look at it,
The glass will reflect light.
It will state its presence and existence more eloquently than any other thing in this world.
Even if it’s tainted by sadness,
It still possesses a transparent, glass colour.
It’s still there, for you, for me, for everyone.
-Lelouch, Code Geass. |
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[Dec. 17th, 2009|12:45 am] |
"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken." -Orson Scott Card
"Talk talk talk. We talk about nothing. Cucumbers, butterflies, bruises. It’s nothing." -Jonathan Safran Foer
"Live or die, but don't poison everything." -Anne Sexton
"So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache" -Pablo Neruda
"How am I supposed to recover when I don’t even understand my disease?" -Girl, Interrupted
"You can wear the face of a tyrant, but if you have no joy in this, your life is not worth the shadow of a puff of smoke." -Sophocles
"I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That’s how much I loved you. That’s how much." -Rabih Alameddine: I, the Divine
"I am said to have a bad heart, a very bad one indeed; but is that fault really mine? Or is it not rather from Nature we have our vices as well as our perfections?” -Marquis de Sade |
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[Dec. 16th, 2009|07:58 pm] |
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"There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light." "-Jodi Picoult |
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[Dec. 17th, 2009|12:28 am] |
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Lies are a tool - they can be used either for good or- no, wait, I've got a better one: Lies are like children: hard work, but they're worth it because the future depends on them. |
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| Dark love |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|11:15 am] |
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“I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain dark things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”
~ Pablo Neruda |
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| Quotes! |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|10:14 am] |
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We are never prepared for what we expect. ~James A. Michener, Caravans
I imagine that yes is the only living thing. ~e.e. cummings
Night and morning are making promises to each other which neither will be able to keep. ~Richard Shelton
Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. ~Juan Ramon Jimenez
As I was walking up the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.
~Hugh Mearns
The first step... shall be to lose the way. ~Galway Kinnell
You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. ~Alexander Pope
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[Dec. 16th, 2009|10:01 am] |
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they are always there.
- Norman Vincent Peale |
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[Dec. 15th, 2009|02:53 pm] |
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"I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet." - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider |
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| Primal Fear quotes. |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|02:43 pm] |
Martin Veil : On my first day of law school, my professor says two things. First was; "From this day forward, when your mother tells you she loves you - get a second opinion."
Jack Connerman : [chuckles] And?
Martin Veil : "If you want justice, go to a whorehouse. If you wanna get fucked, go to court."
Martin Veil : Why gamble with money when you can gamble with people's lives?
Just to bring a few smile and laughs :)
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[Dec. 15th, 2009|03:15 am] |
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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[Dec. 14th, 2009|03:44 pm] |
"Promise me you will always remember this: you are braver than you feel, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think..." -Christopher Robin to Pooh (A. A. Milne) |
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| Quotes! |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|09:14 am] |
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Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. ~Murphy's Law
If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I tell you this, and I tell you plain:
What you have done, you will do again;
You will bite your tongue, careful or not,
Upon the already-bitten spot.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ~Will Rogers
Never do anything that you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics. ~Author Unknown
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[Dec. 14th, 2009|11:11 am] |
"Stress is like waves on the ocean. Unprepared every wave is a disaster. For the skillful surfer every wave is exhilaration."
~Deepak Chopra |
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[Dec. 13th, 2009|01:24 pm] |
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“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” — ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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| Some random quotes |
[Dec. 13th, 2009|12:50 pm] |
"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.” -Winston Churchill
"There's nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged, only to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."-Kurt Vonnegut
"I recognize in all humility that I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is...But I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about." -Dostoevsky |
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[Dec. 13th, 2009|09:46 am] |
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
-Howard Thurman |
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[Dec. 13th, 2009|09:45 pm] |
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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. ~John Milton
Merry: I don't know why he's so upset. It's only a couple of carrots.
Pippin: And some cabbages. And then those three bags of potatoes we lifted last week, and, and, the mushrooms, the week before.
Merry: Yes, Pippin, my point is, he's clearly overreacting. Run!
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.--Harlan Ellison
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.--Aldous Huxley
"Time passes in moments, which, rushing by, define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards it's end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why all things happen?" Dana Scully, The X-Files
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." Dumbledore
The enemy of man is not a palpable evil, nor is it materialism. It is spirituality divorced from tolerance and patience. - Author Unknown (at least to me)
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[Dec. 12th, 2009|10:03 pm] |
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“A mind is like a parachute. If it doesn't open, you're fucked!” -- Don Williams, Jr |
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