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"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy." -Henri Frederic Amiel "Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking..." -Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz "A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time." -Alfred E. Wiggam "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 5, l. 164-7. "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962) "If God actually listened to me, everything would be damned." -Seann Verde Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth. -Mark Twain "When the load gets tough, the tough get loaded." -Bucky Carter "...tongue and pickle.." - Misquoted at the Bell wedding, originally "slap and tickle" from Christopher RJ Smith "It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest people. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don’t pity them, don’t feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead." -Brutus Hamilton "Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment." -H. Ross Perot "I just want to be dumb and happy; live life like an American." -Mike Kasmer (paraphrasing E.V.) The Secretary of State is giving the President his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, three Brazilian soldiers were killed in combat." "OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's so terrible! terrible! terrible! oh.....so terrible!" His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands. Finally, the President looks up and asks: 'How many is a Brazillion?' "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." -Henry David Thoreau "Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable." -Natalie Clifford Barney "Never give the apprentice a nail gun...he'll just make more mistakes faster." -Chris Kasmer "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." -Albert Camus "God saw my work and it pleased Him. God saw my salary and he turned around and WEPT." -Unknown In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal. Tis true my form is something odd, But blaming me is blaming God; Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole Or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul; The mind's the standard of the man." --Joseph Merrick, AKA "The Elephant Man" "When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter." "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend." "If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life." Have an honorable late December excuse for politically correct and socially condoned economic stimulation while fulfilling a religio-social rite. In response to the question, "So what does he do for Sun?" "Something to do with analyzing synergies or synergizing analogies" -Joe Son I liked this, it's from a sample personal ad: "More about who I'm looking for: 'Someone who nods her head to hip hop, drinks her beer to reggae, cleans her room to punk and writes her autobiography to Emo.'" It don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine. Go find yours and I'll go find mine. Don't hold out too long and don't give in too soon, cause you'll either miss midday or be left with only the company of the moon. thoughts to end the night: why is it we call the romantic hopeless when they're the one who hasn't given up? what about daydreams, are they daydreams if you're planning and working toward making them reality? and what other than time determines the difference between picky/unsatisfied and perceptive/prescient? fight the fight, live to prove you're right. |