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Your Favorite Quotes..............

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“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

“Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.”
 
I am in a Gatsby/Fitzgerald mood today, so:
"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart"
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."
"That is part of the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You Belong."
 
These are quotes that have made more to me than anything else.

"Don't thank what is true"

"Try to be the person your dog thinks of you to be"

"The definition of the word insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result"

I have a lot more that have the meaning deep inside me, just 4 days sober, feels awkward.
 
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try to win one a nothers money. Idiots!

Schopenhauer
 
"And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter...does anybody remember laughter?"
Led Zeppelin.

Not very original but it just means so much to me <3
 
“Oscar was not into serious street-fighting, but he was hell on wheels in a bar brawl. Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach - but when the alleged Mexican is in fact a profoundly angry Chicano lawyer with no fear at all of anything that walks on less than three legs and a de facto suicidal conviction that he will die at the age of thirty-three-just like Jesus Christ - you have a serious piece of work on your hands. Specially if the bastard is already thirty-three and a half years old with a head full of Sandoz acid, a loaded.357 Magnum in his belt, a hatchet-wielding Chicano bodyguard on his elbow at all times, and a disconcerting habit of projectile-vomiting geysers of pure red blood off the front porch every thirty or forty minutes, or whenever his malignant ulcer can’t handle any more raw tequila.”
 
"I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist. It is, at the end of the day, the individual moments of restlessness, of bleakness, of strong persuasions and maddened enthusiasms, that inform one’s life, change the nature and direction of one’s work, and give final meaning and color to one’s loves and friendships.”
 
"Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won’t have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free."
 
^but if you chose not to worry about any of that you would also be free and you could still choose between a walk in the fog along the cliffs or staying under the covers with your book or any number of other things that might elicit that delicious sensation of being fully and perfectly, if temporarily, alive. <3
 
Suicide is a terible act to inflict upon ones self and upon ones family. It is perhaps however, the most definative statement that a person can make—a statement that cannot be revoked. It leaves in its’ wake a lifetime of questions, which in turn lead to a lifetime of regret, for actions taken, or not taken and for things said, and left unsaid.
 
Many of us think that we can run from the demons that plague us, and I have tried. In reality, the demons come upon you, and follow you till the ends of the earth. Run as you may, you will not escape. They haunt the recesses of the soul, and lurk in the shadows of the living. There is no corner from whence they will not seek you out, and destroy you if they can. Many think that they will go with time, and fade as a dream fades with the light of mornings dawn. There are some of us who know better. Our only hope lies in their acceptance, only through knowing our demons may we seek to gain mastery over them. For to know the demons is to know ourselves.
 
herbavore said:
^but if you chose not to worry about any of that you would also be free and you could still choose between a walk in the fog along the cliffs or staying under the covers with your book or any number of other things that might elicit that delicious sensation of being fully and perfectly, if temporarily, alive. <3
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Your response here has really struck a deep chord with me Herb. I'm finding it very powerful. It's that mindfulness thing again I keep hearing so much about isn't it. I really must get off my arse and make more efforts to investigate this kinda take on things. I have all the real-life resources available nearby that would allow me to do that, loads of Buddhist groups in Leeds, retreats available a short bus or train ride away but something's kept me from fully reaching out to them just yet. That's really gotta change.
 
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