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"Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us." --Marcus Aurelius |
the lesson of the moth
by don marquis i was talking to a moth the other evening he was trying to break into an electric light bulb and fry himself on the wires why do you fellows pull this stunt i asked him because it is the conventional thing for moths or why if that had been an uncovered candle instead of an electric light bulb you would now be a small unsightly cinder have you no sense plenty of it he answered but at times we get tired of using it we get bored with the routine and crave beauty and excitement fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while so we wad all our life up into one little roll and then we shoot the roll that is what life is for it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty our attitude toward life is come easy go easy we are like human beings used to be before they became too civilized to enjoy themselves and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself archy |
Because I'm a Dork, that's why.
The invisible man and the invisible woman got married and had a few children. Their kids were nothing to look at.
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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength."
~Ralph W. Sockman |
Not all scars show, not all wounds heal Sometimes you can't always see The pain someone feels |
Growing old is like being increasingly punished for a crime you did'nt commit.
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Campers: Nature's way of feeding mosquitoes.
~Author Unknown |
"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you." ~ Maya Angelou
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Only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves. -Paul Auster, novelist and poet (b. 1947)
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STRAWBERRIES
There were never strawberries like the ones we had that sultry afternoon sitting on the step of the open French window facing each other your knees held in mine the blue plates in our laps the strawberries glistening in the hot sunlight we dipped them in sugar looking at each other not hurrying the feast for one to come the empty plates laid on the stone together with the two forks crossed and I bent towards you sweet in that air in my arms abandoned like a child from your eager mouth the taste of strawberries in my memory lean back again let me love you let the sun beat on our forgetfulness one hour of all the heat intense and summer lightning on the Kilpatrick hills let the storm wash the plates. ~ Edwin Morgan http://www.strawberryplanters.net/rw...ing%20pots.jpg |
Wisdom from Kobi's Book Of Duh
Try not to confuse enjoying attention with enjoying the person providing it. :| |
"Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have." - Unknown |
"You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you’ll find – you’re never sorry you were kind." - Anonymous |
"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love." - W. Somerset Maugham |
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."
~Friedrich Nietzsche |
Listen up, now.
"Don't go into Papa Smurf's lab without permission." - Smurfette, et al. |
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
- Stephen R. Covey |
“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
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one of my most favorite poems
One Art
By Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. --Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster. |
"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." ~Harold Wilson |
"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer." ~Shunryu Suzuki |
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps. ~Euripides, Hecuba |
Il Maestro...
The visionary is the only true realist.
~Federico Fellini |
"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."
— bell hooks |
"The Fountain does tests you, Gibbs. But better to not know which moment may be your last, every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all. And whose to say I won't live forever, eh? Discoverer of the Fountain of Youth. I have no saying it, Gibbs. It's a pirate's life for me. Savvy?"
Captain Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Carribean - On Stranger Tides |
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
~Albert Einstein |
Whoever undertakes to set himself [or HERself] up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
~Albert Einstein |
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850), Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845 |
The great lesson...is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard. ~Abraham Maslow
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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." - Oscar Wilde |
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens |
"Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine... Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery." - Buddha |
I so love this one!
Look, if you want to torture me, spank me, lick me, do it. But if this poetry shit continues just shoot me now please.
~ Lori Petty in Tank Girl |
Here is the test to find whether or not your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't. ~ Richard Bach
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-Being present lets us experience each moment in our lives in a way that cannot be fully lived through memory or fantasy-
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Como un vaso albergaste la infinita ternura, y el infinito olvido te trizó como a un vaso. ~ Pablo Neruda
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A favorite movie quote...
"Who's the bitch now"
The New Guy (playing on the tv when I got to work, dorky movie but it makes me laugh lol) |
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
~John Lilly |
One of my favorite poems...
"The Abandoned Valley"
Jack Gilbert Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope? |
"It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you." --Hector Berlioz |
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