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"We are all ghosts," Morris Klapper said at last, "We are conceived in a moment of death and born out of ghost wombs, and we play in the streets with other little ghosts, chanting ghost-rhymes and scratching to become real. We are told that life is full of goals and that, although it is sadly necessary to fight, you can at least choose your war. But we learn that for ghosts there can only be one battle; to become real. A few of us make it, thus encouraging other ghosts to believe that it can be done."
"What is it like?" Mr. Rebeck asked. "To be real, I mean."
Morris Klapper's laugh was like the faint sound of an hourglass being turned over. "Good God, I don't know. I never made it."
"oh," Mr. Rebeck said. Then he said, "Your wife loved you. Isn't that one way of becoming real?"
"Will you get love off your mind?" Morris Klapper demanded. "Love guarantees nothing. Anyway, Gertrude never loved me. She loved the man she wanted me to be. It was like having a stranger in the house. We were quite happy together, all three of us, but it was not the sort of love that makes a ghost real. I think the only way to become real is to be real to yourself and to someone else. Love has nothing to do with it."
- Peter S. Beagle from the book "A Fine and Private Place"


the biggest cult of all: culture
-?

the psychological problem is how to make all people aware that whether they like it or not, the earth is becoming a single community.
-jerome frank

The exploration of the higher reaches of human nature and of its ultimate possibilities and aspirations...has involved for me the continuous destruction of cherished axioms, the perpetual coping with seeming paradoxes, contradictions and vagueness and the occasional collapse around my ears of long established, firmly believed in and seeming unassailable laws of psychology.
-abraham maslow

if you bring forth what is within you
what you bring forth will save you
if you do not bring forth what is within you
what you do not bring will destroy you
-the gospel of thomas

you have done worse things in your house. The only thing you never did was to shine your spirit.
-don juan

you are so goddamn important that you feel justified to be annoyed with everything.
-don juan

when a man decides to do something he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
-don juan

meow
-schlitz my cat

if you're not happy, here and now, when will you be?
- i forget

what is to die but to stand naked in the sun and melt into the wind...
-Kahlil Gibran

you must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Gandhi
 
Einstein's quote goes something like this:

"You think you have math problems? Trust me, yours are no comparison to the ones I suffer."

I'll look it up later and update it. Something like that. ;)
 
The world is big and I am so inconsequential. The world has always been big, it just hasn't always been round...me, my signature.
 
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -Plato

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." iBenjamin Disraeli

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein
 
Smile it's the second best thing you can do with your mouth. Anon

Your only young once but you can be immature forever. Anon
 
"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decisions, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." goethe

(my emphasis)

alasdair
 
If there be anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.
-- Julain of Norwich
 
"And if you do something stupid, so what?"
- Neil Gaiman (as expressed through The Sandman)
 
"Survival of all or none.
One raindrop raises the sea.
Weapons are enemies even to their owners.

Give more, take less.
Others first, self last.
Observe, listen and learn.
Do one thing at a time.

Sing every day.
Exercise imagination.
Eat to live, dont live to eat.
Dont pee in the bath."


-Dinotopia

Lol, was a very kool book with a good overall message. Simple, succinct and understandable.
 
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
~Jung

"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help."
~Calvin

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it"
~Yogi

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
~Einstien

"I know one day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star, but in somebody elses sky, but why can't it be mine?"
~Vedder

"Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion"
~Donnie Darko
 
"There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." - Max Planck

"In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe." - David Bohm
 
shakespeare

Highly overlooked:

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. "


William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
 
"I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.”

final letter of Thomas Jefferson, American revolutionary, June 24, 1826

-he died on the following July 4th
 
The following quotes are from the novel Sophie's World

"The world became a dream, and the dream became reality." (Novalis)

"Nature is visible spirit, spirit is visible nature. Matter is slumbering intelligence." (Schelling)

"What matters our creative toil, when at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?" (??)
 
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