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A Quote Thread....

one will remain the same until doing so is greater then the pain of change...unknown
then the one below......
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Sometimes it can be very liberating just to accept what hand we've been dealt as being the way things are instead of having to fix everything...Deep
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"the key that opens up a thousand doors of mystery unlocks a basement full of fears. start to unravel in it, you might as well be blind" - shadow gallery
"old man on the corner, laughing like a child
clinging to the bottle, broken eyes wild
keep on laughing, the people turned away
but he knows something we dont, he's living for today" - thunder
"doomed to cruble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication" - tool
"everything has a crack in it, that's how the light gets in" - leonard cohen
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me, the Devil and God are engaging in a threesome
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"You and me, even after everything. You're the queen and I'm the king, nothing else means anything."
-Trent Reznor
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The only real drug problem is scorin real good drugs -- aim: Diskchucker
 
Just some of my favorite random quotes and reflections:
If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead go where there is no path and leave a trail.
Whoever knows himself knows God.
Yield. Accept. Become. Eperience.
Know yourself. Discipline yourself. Be yourself. Give of yourself.
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Take this moment and make it the most pleasant experience of your life!
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenly, divinely aware.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is impossible to find it elswhere.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men of old, seek what the sought.
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewrop on the grass.
Do not be in a hurry to get 'there'. There are only 'here's'. Stay with the now. Cherish the experience. Concentrate on the wonder of each moment.
The only zen you find on the tops of mountains is the zen you bring up there.
The government that governs best, governs least.
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshipped and admired by all mankind.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster it's renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
You will find as you look back on life that the moments when you truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
In three word I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
 
"That's what you get.
That's what you get.
That's what you get
When you mess with US!"
-Radiohead, Karma Police
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Honour your mistakes for their hidden intentions
Brian Eno, I think, from his Oblique Strategies card index
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You are real, but only in the sense this sentence is
 
'foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds' -ralph waldo emerson
'three can keep a secret if two of them are dead' -ben franklin
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"we must be the change we wish to see in the world." -gandhi
 
L O V E L I F E: You never cease to amaze me with your deep thoughts, m'dear. Waters run deep and all that stuff.
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Silly.
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"I am no prophet -- and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid."
--TS Eliot
"I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices woke us, and we drown."
--TS Eliot
"Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
You shall possess the good of the earth and sun -- there are millions of suns left,
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides, and filter them from yourself.
I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,
But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
There was never more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now."
--Walt Whitman
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Carpe Diem <--- simple, but very powerful.
Weep not sad soul, nor forget, that sunrise never failed us yet <--my favorite quote
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Each dead child coiled, a white serpent,
One at each little
Pitcher of milk, now empty.
She has folded
Them back into her body as petals
Of a rose close when the garden
Stiffens and odors bleed
From the sweet, deep throats of the night flower.
- Taken from 'edge' by Sylvia Plath
True love is priceless,
For true love you pay a price.
- Ben harper
Not sure who these ones are from:
A man turns to the universe and says 'I exist'. The universe turns to him and says 'Yes, but it creates in me no sense of obligation.'
The truth will set you free.
'Good art is a mirror, in which the viewer can see parts of themself reflected, but not realise their significance.'
We are quickly using up the world's supply of wood. Frantically we hammer nails into planks and huge pillars, to build physical structures. We draw up plans in order to create structures which are 'ideal'. However, we can do whatever we choose with this wood. We can make love to wood. We can treat wood as living, and care for it as our life-long partner. We can admire its sometimes stark tangibility against the soft summer sun and warm breeze.
Amongst all this wood, people talk and create images, ideas, words and actions which sometimes really 'hit the nail on the head'. They touch people deeply. They embody beliefs or views. There are a lot of nails being hammered and belief systems subtly or powerfully being constructed, using wood as a metaphoric construction tool.
People take their word hammers and picture hammers and character hammers and they hit nails, which are really people's hearts and minds. The wood is what we think makes us up....what we consist of. We think it's all we have. The nails hold us together and keep us going. People hit our nails every now and again to make sure they are still ok. Some people have desensitized nails which feel slim to no pressure at all. these are the walking dead.
I live in water. I know not sound nor sight nor nails as you know them...and have no need for them.
You can use the wood in this world to make yourself into a beautiful structure, with shining nails. Or you can let your wood rot and your nails rust, and lose yourself to come and live with me, in my world.
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Have a nice day!
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Rien ne soit plus important que l'amour.
 
a correction: FoX, I think its Joani Blank, not Johanne (who else gets the GV catalog? wOOt!)
So here's my new favorite quote for ya, thanks to Walt Whitman:
"Resist much, obey little."
 
If hope is dimished fear not for I shall always be with you, no matter who turns on you, I will be there, no matter what my trouble you, I will be there, forever.
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its all fun and games till someone looses an eye.
then its just fun and games you cant see
-Tyler Durden-
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The greatest love is when your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
-Dalai Lama-
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love is what can be felt. not told, its whats given, not said. it comes when you least expect, it leaves when you most need it. so treasure you love
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"Will You Be Stoned Today?"
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have no brain power to conjure up anything reasonable atm
So.. please... Feel free to kiss my ass!
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I sold my soul to the devil, and the price was cheap
 
"experience is the name we give to our mistakes"
"a ship in the harbour is safe,
but thats not what ships are for"
 
Some more I like:
At times it helps to believe in evolution, and that man is not quite done yet.
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he attained liberation from himself.
This lifes dim window of a soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye
I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
Tis better to have love and lost
Than never to have loved at all
There is noting more notable in Socrates than that when he was old he found time to learn about music and dancing and found it time well spent.
Let us not look back in anger, or foward in fear, but around in awareness.
To set up what you like against what you don't like, this is the disease of the mind.
Technological progress has only provided us with a more effecient means of going backward.
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where do you expect to find it?
Love takes off masks we fear we cannot not live without and know we cannot live within.
Looking back, I have this to regret,that to often when I loved, I did not say so.
They may forget what you said, but they'll never forget how you made them feel.
 
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