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

[MCT]

A rehash for someone special:

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

--H. L. Mencken--
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

--Albert Camus--

[MCT]

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they beheld dreams or realities.

--Virginia Woolf/excerpt from, "Night and Day"--

[Drew]

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever..." -  Isak Dinesen

[Elrothiel]

"I am very tired.
To bed I shall be going.
Goodnight everyone!"

- Myself.

[journey]

"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it."

"The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you."


 - Osho

[MCT]

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.

--William Shakespeare/excerpt from, "Othello"--

[Drew]

"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery. He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole." -  Thornton Wilder

[MCT]

Some bold adventurers disdain
The limits of their little reign,
And unknown regions dare descry:
Still as they run they look behind,
They hear a voice in every wind,
And snatch a fearful joy.

--Thomas Gray/excerpt from, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"--

[Drew]

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus

[Sin Cut]

I got one "Never ask a lighter 4a.m. from a guy bigger than you"

[Elrothiel]

"In politics, absurdity is NOT a handicap!" - Napoleon Bonaparte

[MCT]

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

--Laurence J. Peter--

[Drew]

"Illusion is not something that doesn't exist. It exists but is not real." - Anonymous

[MCT]

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

--Oscar Wilde--

[Drew]

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Goethe

[MCT]

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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

--Kahlil Gibran--

[Drew]

(About Love) "I can't carry this in my heart ... for it's tearing me apart" - Anonymous

[MCT]

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

--Ed Macauley--

[Jim]

'You're right,' he said, 'they are sceptical. And they do have a point, though not as important a point as they imagine. The story about Thermistocles is relevant here-how when the man from Seriphus was rudely saying that his fame was not due to his own merits but to his city, he replied, ''It's true that I wouldn't have become famous if I were a Seriphian, but it's also true that you wouldn't if you were an Atehnian''.'

Plato/Socrates, The Republic

[Drew]

"Pairless souls wander the earth in search of a companion. They search in places that are empty and pointless. The best place to look is right in front of you. Love is an intriguing thing. But searching for it will get you no where. Let it come to you. If you are patient enough and keep an open mind and heart, then love shall apear before you in its simplest form: another soul."

- Anonymous