LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP:
True
Love can't be found where it truly doesn't exist, nor can it be hidden
where it truly does
- Foucault
faiths corrolary:
"Roller coasters are better
than sex."
note: i am not precisely sure of that one, but damn, roller coasters have got to be the next thing. if sex isn't any better than roller coasters, than whats the point?
"Love is letting go of fear"
- Gerald G. Jampolsky
"Love is composed of one soul
inhabiting 2 bodies.
-
Aristotle
"Do you love me because I am
beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?"
- Cinderella
"Absence from whom we love is worse than death" - William Cowper
"Absence is to
love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small,
inflames the
great"
- Roger De Bussy
Ratbutin
"To love someone
is to see them as God intended them"
- Dostoevski
"Find him whose hands
make satin of burlap. He is the one for you."
- Bridget Harrison
"Do
not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
- Spinoza
"After all
my erstwhile dear
My no longer
cherished
Need we
say it was not love
Just because
it perished?"
- "Passer
Mortuus Est",
Edna St.
Vincent Millay
"Love is a forgiving
thing like spring"
- Sarah Masen
"A person hears what you say. A friend listens to what you say. A Best Friend listens to what you don't say."
"If all my friends were to go and jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I would be at the bottom to catch them."
"If you lived to be 100,
I would want to live a 100 minus one day, so I would never have to live
a day without you."
-Winnie the Pooh
"Sometimes, Piglet, people
care too much. I think it's called love."
- The New [bootleg]
Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
"You're the bravest
of hearts, you're the strongest of souls. You're my light in the dark,
you're the place I call home. You can say it's all right, but I know that
you're breaking up inside. I see it in your eyes. Even you face the night
afraid and alone. That's why I'll be there."
- Celine
Dion
Snowflakes are one of nature's
most fragile things,
but just look at what they
can do
when they stick together.
--Vesta M. Kelly
[this is so true]
Don't pray when it rains
if you don't pray
when the sun shines.
--Satchel Paige
[ie, dont use someone...]
Beauty:
Though we travel the world
over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. Emerson, Journals, 1836.
Beauty is eternity gazing at
itself in a mirror. But you are eternity
and you are the mirror
- Kahlil Gibran
when you stop seeing beauty you start growing old - u2
Beauty and sadness always go
together.
Nature thought beauty too
rich to go forth
Upon the earth without a meet
alloy.--George MacDonald
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.--Roy R. Gilson
Everything has it's own beauty,
but not everybody sees it
Confucius
"...Its hard to stay mad when
there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it
all at once, and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's
about to burst. Then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to
it, and then it flows through me like rain, and I can't feel anything but
gratitude for every single moment of my life." - American Beauty
NATURE
"Autumn - A second
spring when every leaf is a flower"
- Albert Camus
" To see the summer
sky
Is poetry, though never
in a book it lie -
True poems flee - "
- Emily Dickinson
"And Finally
I stopped for a breath in
the evening
And suddenly
I was caught by the scenery
Painting a picture of You
"
- Sarah Masen
"Study nature as the countenance
of God"
- Kingsley
"Let your life lightly dance
on the edges of time, like the dew on the
tip of a leaf"
- Rabindranath Tagore
WRITING AND INTELLECT
"A genuine poem can communicate
before it is understood."
- Dante Aligheri
this is so incredibly
true that it makes me want to cry
"We must take care not to make
intellect our God - it has, of course,
powerful muscles, but no personality."
- Albert Einstein
"A true writer is not one who
imitates nobody, but one who nobody
can imitate"
- Chauteaubriand or somthin
like that
"Nihil dictum quod non dictum
prius"
[Nothing is said which has
not been said before]
- Terence
" I dread writing poetry...
a poem is a terrible journey... the writing of
a poem brings one face to
face with ones own personality with all its
familiar and clumsy limitations.
In every other phase of existence,
one can exercise the orthodoxy
of a conventional routine... in poetry,
one is wrestling with a god.
"
- Stephen Spender
The poet's job is to put into
words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet
so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way that people
cannot live without it. -Jane Kenyon
"All good books are alike in
that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are
finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards
it all belongs to you, the good and the bad, the ecstacy, the remorse and
sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get
so that you can give that to pwople, then you are a writer. "
- Ernest Hemingway
[a note from me: if you have
never felt like this after reading a book, then you need to read The
Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. It is amazing.]
"The most essential gift for
a good writer is a built in, shock proof shit detector. This is the writers
radar and all great writers have it."
- Ernest Hemingway
DEBATE:
"The difficult part in an argument
is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it."
André Maurois
"It is not he who gains the
exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy- but he who has shown
the better temper."
Samuel Butler
"Information, usually seen
as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
Christopher Lasch
A good debater knows the topic.
A great debater knows the judge.
- paraphrased
"Ability is not a necessity.
Passion is."
- From my birthday poster,
thank you Amanda and Chris!!
Education is making people
easier to to govern but impossible to enslave.
--Henry Peter Brougham
[thats my answer to social
control, bitch...]
"The most savage controversies
are about matters as to which
there is no good evidence
either way."
--Bertrand Russell
"How many a dispute could have
been deflated into a single
paragraph if the disputants
had dared to define their terms."
--Aristotle
"There's only one thing worse
than the man who will argue
over anything, and that's
the man who will argue over
nothing."
--Laurence Peter
"The breakfast of champions
is not cereal, it's the
opposition."
--Nick Seitz
"If you can talk brilliantly
about a problem, it can create
the consoling illusion that
it has been mastered."
--Stanley Kubrick
"Silence is one of the hardest
things to refute."
--Josh Billings
RANDOM STUFF:
I do not want the peace that
passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller
"Why can't they have gay people
in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand bulit
gay guys with M16s going, 'Whod' you call a faggot?"
- John Stewart
"I say, embrace the total geek
in yourself and just enjoy it. Life's too short to be cool."
-Shirley Manson
I myself have never been
able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people
call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me
from a doormat.
~Rebecca West, 1913
[quoted an awful lot, but that's ok, still good]
"You could move."
~Abigail Van Buren,
"Dear Abby," in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was
moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve
the neighborhood
"I want you to just let a wave
of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over
you.
Yes, hate is good ... if a
Christian voted for Clinton, he sinned against God. It's that simple. Our
goal is a
Christian nation. We have
a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country..."
-Randall Terry, former leader
of Operation Rescue
he got a divorce, because
he wanted to go to Vertmont and preserve the sanctity of marrige. That's
so funny I don't know whether I should laugh or cry.
Spank Spank.
- Nathan
We don't see things as they
are, we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
I've realized slowly
that I *am* a passionate person inspite of being quite
introverted. I'm passionate
for the truth.
- Dave Ross from my
mailing list
amen, brother
Not all who wander are lost
- J. R. R. Tolkein
If you're insecure, the last
thing you want to see is a mirror.
- Ani Difranco
If A is success in life, then
A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X, Y is play and Z is keeping your mouth
shut.
-Albert Einstein
Certainly there are things
in life which money can't buy,
But its very funny -
Have you ever tried to buy
them without money?
- Ogden Nash
Millions long for immortality
who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
--Susan Ertz
(hey....whatcha wanna do....
I donno, what you wanna do... hehehe chris)
A dream is the mind's way of
answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.
- Fox Mulder
- i stole this quote
from jackie, hope she doesnt mind...
"Only two things are infinite;
the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
--Albert Einstein
"Was it for this I uttered
prayers
And sobbed and cursed and
kicked the stairs
That now, domestic as a plate
I should retire at half past
eight?"
"Grown Up", Edna St. Vincent
MIllay
"A politician is an arse upon
Which everyone has sat except
a man"
- e.e.cummings
"Some circumstantial evidence
is very strong, as when you find a
trout in the milk"
- Henry David Thoreau
"You say he's a faggot, arent you afraid you're just the same?" - Jewel
"Man created a vengeful God
out of his own bigotry, and the devil out of his own hell."
- Inherit The Wind
I have never made but
one prayer to God, a very short one:
"O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous."
And God granted it.
-- Voltaire
"I'm lost
I've gone to look for myself.
If I should return before
I get back,
Please ask me to wait."
- quote on a classroom
wall in vestavia somewhere
thanks amanda!
"Humankind
Canot bear very much
reality"
- T.S. Eliot
"Whats the difference between
an orange?
A horse, because it doesnt
have any handlebars!"
- from some guys profile on
AIM
[... I used to have
one of those, but then the wheels fell off...]
"...Your living thing, do you
wonder what that is? It is that which causes you to laugh,
and to cry; to hurt and to
care. It is that which makes apples crunchy and tells your
nose to tinkle on a crystal
winters morning. Its kept in your left ear, you know."
- Puff The Magic Dragon
"Nothings gross if you put
enough ketchup on it."
- Daniel Foti
- Amanda Reed would
certainly agree -EVERYTHING'S gross if you dont put enough ketchup on it?
(:
"A penny saved is a penny
earned, but a penny placed in hydrochloric acid is lost."
- Nathan Petrarca
"He who looks one way while
crossing the street will never know what hit him."
- Andrew Maroney
"Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam
omnem mihi dabis ad capul tuum saxum immane mittam."
[I have a catapult.
Give me all the money or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.]
- someones signature
on cross-x.com
"If I
were a piccolo, would sandpaper be my friend? Could I wash cars, with lemon
scented
stars, and ringdings too?"
-
Chris Sorrentino
Genius is an African who dreams
up snow.
--Vladimir Nabokov
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