A "quote" for all occasions..(did I spell that right?)

[Angel Down]

One has just to be oneself.
       That's my basic message.

The moment you accept yourself
as you are
     all burdens,
         all mountainous burdens
              simply disappear.

Then life is a sheer joy,
        a festival of lights.


Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (The Sound of One Hand Clapping)



Life has a bright side and a dark side,
for the world of relativity
is composed of light and shadows.

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil
you yourself will become ugly.

Look only for the good
in everything
that you absorb
the quality of beauty.

Paramahansa Yogananda (Sayings of Paramahansa Yogananda).

[AxlsMainMan]

"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Perigord

 

[russkwtx]

All of us learn to write in the second grade...most of us go on to greater things.

Bobby Knight
(winningest coach in college basketball)

[AxlsMainMan]

"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."

 - William F. Buckley Jr.

[Vicious Wishes]

"Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the 'Y' becomes silent."--anonymous

"Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand."--unknown

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."--Erica Jong

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."--Robert A. Heinlein

[russkwtx]

The stronger the state, the freer the individual.
Vladimir Putin

[AxlsMainMan]

"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Perigord

[Jim]

""Some people find trees or flowers beautiful but I find women especially beautiful. I don?t give them any credit for that. I give God credit for that." He believes? "Yes. Atheists say they don?t love God but if they love music they love the person who composed the music and therefore they love God." I would have thought that since he thinks life is so bad, he would find it hard believing in a creator of such awfulness. Sadowitz looks at me. "I didn?t say He wasn?t a c***."

No thunderbolt strikes the table in the ensuing silence. Sadowitz says his belief is intuitive and intellectual. "If I do a magic trick and fool you, you think you have been fooled because of magic powers. But there are no magic powers. There is a method to that magic but you are not allowed to see the method. I see no problem with the argument that we see and live the effect but we don?t see the method.""

From an interview with Jerry Sadowitz.

[Drew]

"The tragedy of life is not so much what we suffer, but rather what we miss." - Thomas Carlyle

[AxlsMainMan]

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

- John F. Kennedy

[journey]

The philosophy of things is always interesting. What is beauty?, what is real love?, etc...

This is a quote I like by Diotima. Supposedly she was a student of Socrates.

A quote on the philosophy of love by Diotima:

"If man's life is ever worth the living, it is when he has attained the vision of the very soul of beauty. And once you have seen it, you will never be suduced again by the charm of gold, of dress, of comely bodies: you will care nothing for the beauties that used to take your breath away and kindled such a longing in you -- so you would be content, to deny yourself bodily pleasures so long as you were with the soul of beauty. He whose eyes have been opened to the vision of the soul of beauty, and who has gazed upon it in true contemplation until it has become his forever, he shall be called the friend of god, and if ever it is given to man to put on immortality, it shall be given to him."

[AxlsMainMan]

"I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.?

 - Marilyn Manson

[Drew]

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough." - Frank Crane

[Rapunzel]

A man is at his tallest when he stoops to help a child (fortune cookie)

[Drew]

"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories." - Stanislaw J. Lee

[AxlsMainMan]

You've got to go through hell before you get to heaven

- Steve Miller

[Rapunzel]

We are what we think
All that we are
Arises with our thoughts
With our thougths we make
the world

Speak or act with a pure mind
and happiness will follow you
as your shadow
unshakeable

(The Dhammapada)


OR

You should always
be aware that your
head creates
your world.

[fuckin crazy]

The worst piece of ass that I ever had was GOOD - my dad

[AxlsMainMan]

One generation plants the trees, another enjoys the shade

- Chinese Proverb

He who has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep

- Chinese Proverb

[Adam Bomb]

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

--Jack London--