Quote of the Day

[Mistress M]

If there's a quote that defines your mood on a given day, or just one you like, post it here.

My quote of the day: “In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.” --Dalai Lama

[ElizabethX]

One day maybe you will see the land, touch skin with sand. You've been swimming in a lonely sea with no company... You've gotta tie yourself to the mast, my friend, and the storm will end. -- The Verve

[Louis85]

"We the unmotivated, led by the unqualified, have done so much with so little for so long that we now attempt to do the impossible with nothing." -Anonymous

and

"Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation." - Stephen King

[wendyful04]

"Life is so brief, and time is a thief when you're undecided." -Rod Stewart

[Mistress M]

"We the unmotivated, led by the unqualified, have done so much with so little for so long that we now attempt to do the impossible with nothing." -Anonymous


I really like that one :clap:

[Twisted.Mellow]

I really like that one :clap:

Werd.

[Mistress M]

"It nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect."

-Richard R. Powell on the aesthetics of Wabi-Sabi

[Louis85]

Here's one from Mr. George Burns mentioned in the other post:

"The key to this business, son, is sincerity. Once you learn how to fake that the rest is easy!"

:)

[Mistress M]

Bwahahahahahaha Louis :lmao:

[Mistress M]

"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all." ~Emily Dickinson

[wendyful04]

"Tell people what they want to hear, and then do whatever you want."
-Paris Hilton

[Bonkman]

"Take life by the balls....then grow some." ~unknown

[Mistress M]

Oh, that would be a Paris Hilton quote :rolleyes:

:lmao: Bonkman!

"Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty." - Paramahansa Yogananda

[LumtheMad]

Here's a nice J.D. Salinger one....

“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”

[Louis85]

"Never overestimate your own popularity." -Louis85

[wendyful04]

"Try not giving a fuck" - Jon LaJoi

Hey, why not?

[Mistress M]

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." -Lao Tzu

[wendyful04]

"Abstinence Only until marriage; then get divorced and do whatever you want." -Wendy B

[Louis85]

"Some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue."

or

"Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the hydrant."

both Unknown

[Mistress M]

Louis -- do I want to know what prompted that being your quote of the day? ;)

Wendy - bwahahahahaha! :rofl:

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little; and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick; and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." - Buddha.

[Louis85]

Just a normal day at work, unfortunately. "I hate this place."

[ElizabethX]

Those who injure me are really impelled by my actions. For this they will go to the realms of hell. Surely it is they who are harmed by me? -Santideva

[Louis85]

Nice quote. In my case those=relatives.

[xtristessax]

"don't make me smack you in the face with my giant donger of knowledge." - me

[wendyful04]

"That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?"
-T.S. ELIOT

[Mistress M]

"That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?"
-T.S. ELIOT

Whoa. That's heavy-duty. And creepy!

[Mistress M]

“Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth” – Lucy Parsons

[Mistress M]

“Emancipation from the fast-food nation and an end to da racist exploitation, been da same shit thru da ages, black men made to work for slave wages” – In store graffitti, McDonald's

[Louis85]

Today's quotes from Satchel Paige (one of my favorite quoters):

"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

"The only change is that baseball has turned [me] from a second class citizen to a second class immortal."

"Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money."

[wendyful04]

Whoa. That's heavy-duty. And creepy!

Yeah, guiltiness is a bitch.

[wendyful04]

Awesome quotes today, guys.:clap:

[Bonkman]

“Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth” – Lucy Parsons

^^^ Ain't that the brutal, honest truth?

[wendyful04]

"...and If you're not in debt, they bring the bombing and the tanks..."
-MASONICCHRONIC

[Louis85]

2 more from Satchel:

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."

"Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man."

[ChrisLDog]

This one's from the QuotationsPage.com quote of the day:

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers." - Richard Feynman

[wendyful04]

2 more from Satchel:

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."

"Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man."

I've never heard of Satchel before, yet I live by these.

[wendyful04]

"In America, you consider yourself the greatest forces, but you're living off other countries' resources." -W.O.M.B. in "Lebanon"


I guess I'm an excellent man, btw.

[Louis85]

Satchel Paige was the most famous Negro-League pitcher for the Kansas City Monarchs, who eventually got called to play in the majors (after Jackie Robinson and well-past what would have been considered his prime pitching years).

http://www.satchelpaige.com/


"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."

[wendyful04]

"If you can see the lie in your head, you'll be able to convince anyone that it is true, even yourself." -Wendy B

[wendyful04]

Satchel Paige was the most famous Negro-League pitcher for the Kansas City Monarchs, who eventually got called to play in the majors (after Jackie Robinson and well-past what would have been considered his prime pitching years).

http://www.satchelpaige.com/


"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."

cool page
cool person

[Bonkman]

"...'Cause when you're lied to like I'm lied to
All that can connect you is your love..." -the one and only

[ElizabethX]

I think Spike Lee named one of his kids Satchel. I think maybe it was a girl, though?

[ElizabethX]

That wasn't a quote. But this is.

[xtristessax]

"If you can see the lie in your head, you'll be able to convince anyone that it is true, even yourself." -Wendy B

this is absolutely true.

[wendyful04]

"I appreciate the fact that you need neither stress nor worry to lead a Good Life." -Wendy B

[Louis85]

Success and Failure

"People think success and failure are opposite. They are not. They're companions--the hero and his sidekick." - Lawrence Shames

"Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal." -Mike Ditka

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Chinese proverb

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." -Unknown

[ElizabethX]

Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace. -Eckhart Tolle

[Mistress M]

“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.” -- Donald Miller

[ElizabethX]

That's so true.

[wendyful04]

Here's one from Mr. George Burns mentioned in the other post:

"The key to this business, son, is sincerity. Once you learn how to fake that the rest is easy!"

:)

:clap:

[Louis85]

"It they knew better, they'd do better." -Anonymous

[wendyful04]

"If you can't enjoy spending time alone then you must not like who you've become." -Wendy B

[Mistress M]

"If you can't enjoy spending time alone then you must not like who you've become." -Wendy B

Oh that is profoundly true...:rock:

[ElizabethX]

"It they knew better, they'd do better." -Anonymous

VERY interesting.

[DJ Detroit Butcher]

"if you can't enjoy spending time alone then you must not like who you've become." -wendy b

circle gets the square!

[Louis85]

Two non-related quotes today:

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down." -Robert Charles Benchley


"I do not want to die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown." -Kathe Kolliqitz

[wendyful04]

Two non-related quotes today:

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down." -Robert Charles Benchley

Is he being funny or does the "three times before lying down" have to do with sleeping around?



"I do not want to die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown." -Kathe Kolliqitz

I like this. That's a very odd way of putting it, though.

[Mistress M]

Is he being funny or does the "three times before lying down" have to do with sleeping around?

Only Wendy would see that :lmao:

[ElizabethX]

Wendy: I like this. That's a very odd way of putting it, though.
Me: You really think so?

Mistress: Only Wendy would see that
Me: Nuh uh!

[wendyful04]

"Be curious, not judgmental. " -Walt Whitman

[Louis85]

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something." -Saul Bellow

[Mistress M]

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something." -Saul Bellow

Haha, too true, too true :clap:

[Mistress M]

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." -- Benjamin Disraeli

[Louis85]

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." -- Benjamin Disraeli

This is a personal philosophy for me, and it has always gotten me into trouble.

[Twisted.Mellow]

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something." -Saul Bellow

I like that!

[Bonkman]

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." -unknown

[Cozmo D]

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." -unknown

:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

[Louis85]

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. -Dorothy Bernard

[hart]

"I could not, for anything in the world, live in a country like the U.S.A., whose conceptions of life are inspired by the most grasping commercialism and which does not love any of the loftiest expressions of the human spirit such as music."
-Adolf Hitler

[Louis85]

Boy was he clueless.

I guess he would not consider the invention of Jazz and Rock N' Roll music. And where was his country's love of expressions of human spirit when they decided to terminate Jews, Gays, Gypsies, etc.?

[wendyful04]

We are reading our first (of two) novels based on the Holocaust in one of my classes. We are also watching Uprising in 20 minute segments every day. Hitler was brilliant and had much luck on his side. He was still a complete moron, though. Fuck him.

As we read our second novel (Night), we will also begin watching segments of The Pianist.

We also do a mini-unit on Religion.

My students NEVER take history lightly after being with me for three years straight.

[ElizabethX]

Louis-- he only loved good German music. Hitler has had some points on things, though... not that I really care. Everyone is right once in a while.

History is great.

[wendyful04]

I wish I actually taught history class.

"Fit in or be singled out." -Wendy B

[hart]

Boy was he clueless.

I guess he would not consider the invention of Jazz and Rock N' Roll music. And where was his country's love of expressions of human spirit when they decided to terminate Jews, Gays, Gypsies, etc.?

The Nazi response to Jazz clubs in Germany is reflected upon in this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6asMGoX2DY) wonderful Leonard Cohen song.

[Louis85]

The Nazi response to Jazz clubs in Germany is reflected upon in this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6asMGoX2DY) wonderful Leonard Cohen song.

That was bizarre. I actually liked the track behind this song. But his rappin'/singin' was kinda lame.

[Mistress M]

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." ~John Kenneth Galbraith

[ElizabethX]

Yes! Especially true and timely, now...

[hart]

"Try not giving a fuck" - Jon LaJoi

Hey, why not?

Tried it. NEVER works.

[Louis85]

These two are cool.

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." -Hubert H. Humphrey

"It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience." -Lawana Blackwell

[ElizabethX]

The last one is something that seems to me happens a lot.

[wendyful04]

I suspect a theme lately, Louis.

[wendyful04]

Tried it. NEVER works.

works for me all the time

[Louis85]

I suspect a theme lately, Louis.

Actually, the only theme is picking the quotes that I can relate to.

[hart]

"If you don't know what you're looking at, an eye avulsion looks better than a vagina."
-Anonymous Medical Observer

[Twisted.Mellow]

Ain't nothin' that looks better than a vagina. Unless it has a severe medical problem. Then we can look at candidates.

[Mistress M]

"Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.” -- William E. Simon

[wendyful04]

"Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.” -- William E. Simon

:cheers:

[hart]

"The United States of America is the only nation to plunge from barbarism to degeneracy with no culture in between." --Oscar Wilde

[Harmeister]

"The United States of America is the only nation to plunge from barbarism to degeneracy with no culture in between." --Oscar Wilde

Dude, drop the Anti-US trip.

[Louis85]

"I'm not the type to waste my time living life on hope or hype, I only live life in the reality of the results." -Louis85

[Mistress M]

"Tonight, we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope." -- President Elect, Barack Obama

[wendyful04]

"I'm not the type to waste my time living life on hope or hype, I only live life in the reality of the results." -Louis85

sweet

[hart]

Dude, drop the Anti-US trip.

"It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I'm junk but I'm still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A."
-- Leonard Cohen

[wendyful04]

"Sitting around, waiting for things to stay the same will drive you mad, if unchecked." -Wendy B

[Louis85]

"Sitting around, waiting for things to stay the same will drive you mad, if unchecked." -Wendy B

Do we hope for things to change or are we better off if they stay the same?

[ElizabethX]

Do we hope for things to change or are we better off if they stay the same?

We must stand our ground when we know inside the proper path. If we hold back a little, it could come out in a positive burst of energy from waiting for so long. Then we can take our place in the universe and fulfill our truest destinies. This is the rate at which our determination becomes power.

[wendyful04]

Do we hope for things to change or are we better off if they stay the same?

I guess it's a cross between making sure you keep in mind that things will ALWAYS (eventually) change and also realizing that just sitting around and waiting for them not to (but complaining when they do) can do you harm. It can drive you into bitterness, madness.

[wendyful04]

We must stand our ground when we know inside the proper path. If we hold back a little, it could come out in a positive burst of energy from waiting for so long. Then we can take our place in the universe and fulfill our truest destinies. This is the rate at which our determination becomes power.

background?
I mean, what lead you to this statement?
explain, please

[ElizabethX]

I have no background to offer you. But it makes sense.

[hart]

"Well behaved women rarely make history."
-Maria Shriver

"But they do make dinner."
-Hart Deer

[Mistress M]

"Well behaved women rarely make history."
-Maria Shriver

Maria Shriver was quoting that from Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. It's actually very ironic how this statement got picked up by the feminist movement becuase it's the first line of an article in a historical journal that's all about well-behaved women in the Colonial Era. :think:

[wendyful04]

"Without fear, anyone's moral code is bound to crumble." -Wendy B

[ElizabethX]

That doesn't sound right...

[hart]

"Without fear, anyone's moral code is bound to crumble." -Wendy B

How about, without morality, anyone will give way to fear?

[Bonkman]

It does, if you understand that "fear" drives us as humans.

The fear of going hungry. The fear of not having money to "live". The fear or death. Of failure. Of unacceptance. Of love..or not being loved. And so on....

[wendyful04]

fear of being caught
fear of negative consequences

[Cozmo D]

"Without fear, anyone's moral code is bound to crumble." -Wendy B


fear of being caught
fear of negative consequences

Speak for yourself. My morality is not driven by fear, but by love.

[wendyful04]

think harder

[wendyful04]

Speak for yourself. My morality is not driven by fear, but by love.

opposite sides of the same coin

[Wheeljak]

"I’ve seen a heap of trouble in my life, and most of it never came to pass."

-Mark Twain

[Louis85]

So true, Wheel.

[ElizabethX]

think harder

think less!

[ElizabethX]

opposite sides of the same coin

I don't know, Wendy... I tend to believe that love is truth, and fear is not... and not necessarily existing in the world of opposites, where everything has to have the "other side". :think:

But, I think I might understand what you guys are trying to say about fear...

My sense of morality (to me) comes from love, also.

[hart]

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

-C. S. Lewis

[ElizabethX]

Nice...

[Mistress M]

Good one, Hart!! :clap:

[Wheeljak]

"The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell."




--Saint Augustine
"Confessions"

[Louis85]

"In the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself." --Albert Camus

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." --Thomas Jefferson

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. " --Thomas Moore

[Bonkman]

"...But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are. There are, for example, so many different religions — each of them claiming to have the truth, each saying that their truths are clearly superior to the truths of others — how can someone possibly take any of them seriously? I mean, that's insane. ...Though I sometimes call myself a crypto-Buddhist, Buddhism is not a religion. Of those around at the moment, Islam is the only one that has any appeal to me. But, of course, Islam has been tainted by other influences. The Muslims are behaving like Christians, I'm afraid."...

"Any path to knowledge is a path to God — or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use."...

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."...

"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here."

All quotes from one of my favorite authors - Arthur C. Clarke

[ElizabethX]

Those are awesome, Bonk.

[hart]

"Either this wallpaper goes or I do."
-Oscar Wilde's last words

[wendyful04]

"Everyone believes in something, 'though we give it different names. You could search the world for that one thing, but it's all the same." A.D.


Wheel, name that writer.

[Wheeljak]

"Everyone believes in something, 'though we give it different names. You could search the world for that one thing, but it's all the same." A.D.

Ani DiFranco?
Haha!

[ElizabethX]

I think she means Alana Davis (sp?)....

[ElizabethX]

Oh, you knew that.

[ElizabethX]

Oh, and she asked.

[Wheeljak]

Oh, and she asked.

Looks like she cracked your code, Wandy.

[Mistress M]

"Even I am disgusted by the cliche my life has become..." -- Me.

[wendyful04]

"Even I am disgusted by the cliche my life has become..." -- Me.

....and knowing is half the battle....

[Mistress M]

....and knowing is half the battle....

:lmao:

[Mistress M]

"Having champagne tastes on a moonshine budget is much harder, psychologically speaking, than just sipping on the moonshine and dreaming of a Budweiser future." -- Me.

[Louis85]

That's very good, Mistress. Personally, I would have used Kool-Aid budget, but that's just me. ;)

[hart]

"If Othello and Hamlet had switched places, everything would have turned out fine."
-Isaac Asimov

[Louis85]

That's good Hart. I doubt a brotha would let his uncle mack on his mama, so the quote is probably true.

[Mistress M]

That's very good, Mistress. Personally, I would have used Kool-Aid budget, but that's just me. ;)


Haha, then what would you move up to? Grape juice? :haha:

[syxxpm]

today....its monday...slither down the greasy pipe ...so far so good no one saw you...hover over any freeway.....you will be like your dreams ...tonite...you get up and sleep...you get up and sleep...joe the lion....made of iron.....(bowie(joe the lion) @1977

(im feeling abit disorganized today (its not even monday....tee hee...)

[ElizabethX]

....and knowing is half the battle....

"Step 2 is washing it off."

who said that?

[Mistress M]

"Step 2 is washing it off."

who said that?

I don't know, but I'm going to guess it was someone in a porn movie...

[wendyful04]

oh the girls are crazy this week

[hart]

"I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sweep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own"
-Coldplay

"That's because when you steal other people's music, they take your money away."
-Satriani

[ElizabethX]

Come on people, it's from Tommy Boy!

Wendy, that's a really cute picture of you and DJ (it is him, right?).

[Louis85]

"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. " -Cyril Connolly

[ElizabethX]

Wow, that's very true.

[Louis85]

"The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. " Elmer Davis

[Mistress M]

"The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. " Elmer Davis

:clap: Ok, I'm in love with this one. I'm going to borrow it. :rock:

[hart]

"Ugly is bad, and bad is wrong, and wrong is sinful, and sin leads to eternal damnation, and hot burning fire, and screams of agony."
-Frank Zappa

[Louis85]

2 for today:

"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open." - Shakti Gawain


"One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present." - Stephen Covey

[ElizabethX]

Those are beautiful.

[Louis85]

No quote I have ever posted hits home, at my company, as well as this one:

"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman." --David M. Ogilvy

[wendyful04]

No quote I have ever posted hits home, at my company, as well as this one:

"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman." --David M. Ogilvy

the downfall of being a teacher
we don't generate immediate profit
we just (collectively) give people the info. they need to make themselves rich

[Wheeljak]

the downfall of being a teacher
we don't generate immediate profit
we just (collectively) give people the info. they need to make themselves rich
Two-word remedy:
Seminar circuit.

[Louis85]

"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. " - Millicent Fenwick

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? " - Dr. Robert Schuller

[eternals layre]

I always wanted to be a dancer, but I could never get the shit off my shoes.
....quote from Crazy Paul

[Wheeljak]

Friendship often ends in love;
but love in friendship - never.

-Charles Caleb Colton

[syxxpm]

"time wounds all heals".....john lennon after fighting the government for his greencard

[Louis85]

"Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night."

[hart]

"Don't sign your pity on the running kine."
-Pootie Tang

[Wheeljak]

"Don't sign your pity on the running kine."
-Pootie Tang

You ain't watched enough Pootie, Hart.

Pootie Tang said the exact opposite of that.
"I'mo sine yo pitty on the runny kine."

[hart]

You ain't watched enough Pootie, Hart.

Pootie Tang said the exact opposite of that.
"I'mo sine yo pitty on the runny kine."

I like to think that after the events of the movie, he rethought his personal philosophy and realized that sining pitty is wrong.

[wendyful04]

“Don’t compare your life with others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.” - I Don't Know

[dreamrib]

I was talking to my 8 year old newphew. Somehow someone brought up bra's. he threw up his hands saying i don't quite get it, why women where bra's. I was trying to be diplomatic so I said well you where underwear...it keeps you in, so thats what bra's do for women. he nodded his head like it was the answer to life. Oh ok now it all makes sense. I had to laugh.

[eternals layre]

I was talking to my 8 year old newphew. Somehow someone brought up bra's. he threw up his hands saying i don't quite get it, why women where bra's. I was trying to be diplomatic so I said well you where underwear...it keeps you in, so thats what bra's do for women. he nodded his head like it was the answer to life. Oh ok now it all makes sense. I had to laugh.

More to keep us out, I think

[Louis85]

I'm not so sure I agree with this one.

"Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. " - Harriet Lerner

[Wheeljak]

I'm not so sure I agree with this one.

"Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. " - Harriet Lerner

I guess it depends on what the author meant by "intimate".
It is a tricky word, particularly since today most people seem to connect an inescapably sexual connotation to it.

[wendyful04]

I guess it depends on what the author meant by "intimate".
It is a tricky word, particularly since today most people seem to connect an inescapably sexual connotation to it.

exactly

I agree with that quote.

[Louis85]

well said Wheel.

[Louis85]

"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation." - William Hutton

[Louis85]

"The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it." -Al Batt

[Louis85]

"Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone. " - Carlos Castaneda

[wendyful04]

Here are two that I feel good about hearing and reading. They are at odds with each other, but in a way that still allows me to feel that both views are correct.

From Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda (Thank you for the book, DJ):

"You think about yourself too much......And that gives you a strange fatigue that makes you shut off the world around you and cling to your arguments. Therefore, all you have is problems."


From my Kriya Yoga teacher, Brahmachari Vidyanandaji, to me during my Initiation weekend:

"The moment we speak, we have created our enemy."

[Louis85]

"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. " -Earl Warren

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." - Aesop

[wendyful04]

:clap:

[wendyful04]

"Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner of his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present hapiness." -?

[Louis85]

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. " - Helen Keller

"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. " - Marcus Valerius Martialis

[wendyful04]

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

[Louis85]

nice :clap:

[xtristessax]

"And now I understand that all we did not understand was not taken from us but on the contrary entrusted to us to keep in the shelter of a non-understanding that conserved future treasures frozen until our spiritual coming of age. All that remained painful closed, foreign, is in truth our dowry. A lode of torments, we think, mistaken. There comes the day when these sleeping clots wake into revelations."

- Helene Cixous

[ElizabethX]

Wendy & Kristen have winners.

[Louis85]

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. " - Mother Teresa

[wendyful04]

''This is a crisis that was caused by white people with blue eyes. And before the crisis, they looked as if they knew everything about economics.''
-Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

[ElizabethX]

haha nice.

[Bonkman]

"I understand... That is the most important statement anyone can ever make. The whole key to life is understanding..." -Nicole des Jardins Wakefield, The Garden of Rama [Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee]

[ElizabethX]

That's a great one.

[Louis85]

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. " --Henri Bergson

[wendyful04]

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. " --Henri Bergson

excellent

[xtristessax]

"the man of action gets what he desires." - me

i used to use that one as a cue for the dude to make his move on me. i don't think i am paraphrasing something else, but i can't say for sure.

[Bonkman]

"the man of action gets what he desires." - me...

And I would then ask myself, "What is it really, that I desire?"

And then I would ask you, "What is it you desire?"

[ElizabethX]

And then I would be all... ugh.

[xtristessax]

hahaha :haha: yeah i admit me and all my friends are mellow dramatic and talk pretentiously. it makes life like poetry. albeit sometimes bad poetry.

[wendyful04]

"If people can't handle you, don't even worry about it." -wendy b

[ElizabethX]

I didn't think that, Kristen. :)
Wendy... yes. I should take that philosophy to heart more.

[wendyful04]

"In the song “Imagine”, John Lennon questions all the major foundations that those in true political power rely on. He questions political power, military might, the authority of religions, and the importance of personal possessions. All of these things make up the base used by those in power on this planet." -noahnow

"Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. If you could reason with religious people there would be no religious people. I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get. Wake up America, you are being raped by religion" - the_blueyed_shark (commenter, Miami Herald)

[xtristessax]

I didn't think that, Kristen. :)
Wendy... yes. I should take that philosophy to heart more.

yeah i know, it's all good. i was just reflecting on myself, but lol it was the truth!

[Louis85]

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. " -- James A. Froude

[wendyful04]

"Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful" -??

[Louis85]

Yeah, I'd like to see you throw that tax form out the window.

[wendyful04]

Yeah, I'd like to see you throw that tax form out the window.

that qualifies as useful

[wendyful04]

pro'lly used it on you guys before.....

"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid" -King Basil

[wendyful04]

I received this one from the daily quotes I get from my ashram:

"You should be conscious of your delusion, and question yourself every day, if you are to overcome it and proceed towards Truth. But first of all, you must have the deepest desire." - Parahamsa Harihanananda

How can one who is having delusions be conscious of them when they, deep down, feel their delusions are reality?

[xtristessax]

How can one who is having delusions be conscious of them when they, deep down, feel their delusions are reality?

in some cases, i think we they start to see the same problem in others...in actuality they are recognizing aspects of themselves in others.

[Bonkman]

"We've learned from history that we do not learn anything from history" - unknown

"Nothing succeeds more often than failure" - unknown

[wendyful04]

in some cases, i think we they start to see the same problem in others...in actuality they are recognizing aspects of themselves in others.

that's a good quote

[xtristessax]

ha, well, thank you, but it should say 'when they', not 'we they'...lol!

[Louis85]

"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. "

"He who laughs, lasts!"

--Both by Mary Pettibone Poole

[Wheeljak]

I received this one from the daily quotes I get from my ashram:

"You should be conscious of your delusion, and question yourself every day, if you are to overcome it and proceed towards Truth. But first of all, you must have the deepest desire." - Parahamsa Harihanananda

How can one who is having delusions be conscious of them when they, deep down, feel their delusions are reality?

I asked the same thing when I read that.
Maybe the quoter means that questioning myself daily will allow me to discern reality from fantasy. Maybe the main point is that truth can withstand endless questioning, but falsehood cannot. Dunno... just taking a stab.

[wendyful04]

I asked the same thing when I read that.
Maybe the quoter means that questioning myself daily will allow me to discern reality from fantasy. Maybe the main point is that truth can withstand endless questioning, but falsehood cannot. Dunno... just taking a stab.

I like that explanation better

[ElizabethX]

I received this one from the daily quotes I get from my ashram:

"You should be conscious of your delusion, and question yourself every day, if you are to overcome it and proceed towards Truth. But first of all, you must have the deepest desire." - Parahamsa Harihanananda

How can one who is having delusions be conscious of them when they, deep down, feel their delusions are reality?

It's about waking from the dream.

I think the truth is that delusions are always surface, and that the "deep down" is actually the understanding of their falseness.

[ElizabethX]

I asked the same thing when I read that.
Maybe the quoter means that questioning myself daily will allow me to discern reality from fantasy. Maybe the main point is that truth can withstand endless questioning, but falsehood cannot. Dunno... just taking a stab.

Yes... but what it points to also is that the darkness of illusion (or delusion) cannot withstand the light of your consciousness. So, you may actually eliminate your delusion by constantly being aware of it and being more conscious. In short... wake up! Pay attention!

[Vasilius Konstantinos]

God does not play dice- Albert Einstein

[wendyful04]

"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual." - Walt Whitman

[Louis85]

"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. " --Martin Luther King, Jr.

[wendyful04]

God is Science. -Wendy B

[Twisted.Mellow]

In memorum: (s'cuse the spellings)

"I'll have the Friggin' Chickasee - I mean, the Chicken Frigasee".
Dom.

[Etherspin]

Tolstoy: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

[Louis85]

"Everything in life has to be beaten into submission." -Louis85

[syxxpm]

"you can stuff a weasel into a jet engine but that wont make your tires squeak"...debbie boone...

[wendyful04]

"The absolute truth is that we do not have control even over our next breath. So why worry at all? " -SUMA VARUGHESE

[Vasilius Konstantinos]

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
- Thomas Jefferson

Sorry. The Libertarian in me is screaming right now.

[Louis85]

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Wheeljak]

"Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil.
They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?"

Sister Miriam Godwinson
[fictitious character in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]

[ElizabethX]

good one, DJ. We've been talking about that one lately in my house.

[Wheeljak]

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

Friedrich Nietzsche

[ElizabethX]

Another excellent one! A theme in my life.

[Louis85]

"I'm not sure if it's me vs. the world or if it's me vs. myself. The only thing I know for sure is that I'm losing." - A friend of Louis85

[wendyful04]

"Follow your bliss and the Universe puts doors where once there were walls" Joseph Campbell

[syxxpm]

"music should be like flight.... while thousands of elephants are stampeding on the ground" ...iggy pop..

[Louis85]

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." -James Thruber

[wendyful04]

ODES TO HAPPINESS:

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Hemingway

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton

Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs. -Moliere

[wendyful04]

I found these quotes on http://stories.barackobama.com/healthcare.

James from Phoenix, AZ:
"...I find it incredible that those who are leading the charge against national health insurance are often closely aligned with the religious community. How can they wail about the elimination of a clump of fetal cells but stand by idly while there [sp] fellow humans suffer. "

DJ, Olympia, WA:
"...Canadians pay no more taxes than we do here in the U.S. .... and they are 100% covered for health care. These same Canadians have voted the man who designed their health care system as the greatest Canadian who ever lived! There's something wrong here in the U.S. ... and it's spelled PROFIT..."

Anne, Lansing, MI:
"...If the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and many other progressive nations, can have a health care system that is fair to all patients, doctors, and professionals, so can the United States. What are we waiting for? The only reason why this hasn’t yet passed is because of the lobbying that takes place by the owners of our healthcare system, big pharma and the insurance companies. They are the problem don’t want you to change they way they line their shareholders’ pockets..."

The stories are endless.

[Chief]

Not sure I trust the gov't to run healthcare....all I need to do is look at the VA hospitals to glimpse into that scenario....

[wendyful04]

Yeah. My dad goes to the VA twice a week. He was in-patient there for a few months, too.
However, I believe an overhaul of every aspect of our health care system is long overdue. As far as I have learned, that's what's planned.
Here's my take: they will spend countless dollars on often-unnecessary tests (to cover their asses) and then, once you are diagnosed with something, it's deny, deny, deny as far as treatment goes.
The cost of uninsured masses going into public facilities to try and get care and not being able to pick up the tab gets paid by ?????
Everyone anyhow, good answer.

Preventative care is almost non-existent, particularly for those without health insurance, but even for those with insurance.
Pharmaceutical companies donate major cash and books, etc to many medical schools.

" So what's the solution? So what do we do? Just be aware of the problem and then learn to be true. Don't hide under your pillow. Don't hide under your bed. Stand up fight for what's right in your head.Trust in your spirit. The spirit of the world." -Masonicchronic

[Cozmo D]

Not sure I trust the gov't to run healthcare....all I need to do is look at the VA hospitals to glimpse into that scenario....

Then keep your private healthcare. If I have NO healthcare and would rather have government healthcare than NONE why would you deny me?

[Chief]

Then keep your private healthcare. If I have NO healthcare and would rather have government healthcare than NONE why would you deny me?

Cuz Im a dick...

[ElizabethX]

lol

Wendy, those quotes were perfect.

[Cozmo D]

Cuz Im a dick...

BINGO!!! :clap: :lol:

[wendyful04]

We almost entered Firing Line territory. Too bad we didn't. I miss that.

"Fuck the system where we're idealized. Fuck idols. Fuck Fame. Fuck the system that makes you listen to corporate rock. Fuck the labels that want to make a fast buck. Fuck MTV who sold out to Top 40. Fuck VH1. Fuck everyone. Fuck musicians that make music just for greed. Fuck the system that breeds greed." -"Fuck Fame", Marta Wiley

[Chief]

Here ya go then Wendy......

Why should I have to cover anybody else's health care?

[wendyful04]

Well.... I guess if you think that you are not paying the price for an unhealthy country already, then you're good, aren't you?
argument finished then

[Chief]

mmmmmmmmmkkkkkkkkkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy...is that all you have?

[wendyful04]

I laid down a few good ones back there. (That came out weird.) So you agree, wholeheartedly?

[Chief]

Moved to Firing Line.....

http://www.pmdawnonline.com/forum/showthread.php?p=74286#post74286

[wendyful04]

Moved to Firing Line.....

http://www.pmdawnonline.com/forum/showthread.php?p=74286#post74286

I love you, too.

[wendyful04]

"The greatest trick that the Devil has ever pulled is convincing us that he doesn't exist." (or something like that) -heard on The Usual Suspects movie

[wendyful04]

"Recent events reminded me, however, that truth is paradoxical, that it is always stranger than fiction. We invent fiction either to distract ourselves from the world - and thus from the truth of things - or to explain the world to ourselves, but we cannot invent truth, which simply is. Truth, when we recognize it, always surprises us, which is why we so seldom choose recognize it; we abhor profound surprises and prefer what is familiar, comfortable, undemanding, and pat."
-from Relentless by Dean Koontz

[Louis85]

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." -Thomas H. Huxley

[wendyful04]

"In the hearts of modern men and women, there is an inescapapble awareness that something is wrong with this slice of history they have inherited, that in spite of the towering cities and the mighty armies and the science-fiction technology made real, the moment is fragile, the foundation undermined." -from Relentless by Dean Koontz

[Bonkman]

Thanks, Wendy...I haven't read the book yet. :/

Love that Dean Koontz, tho. Just picked up his third Frankenstein book and rereading the previous two.

[wendyful04]

Apparently, I came home just in time, cuz the 3rd book just arrived today.

[wendyful04]

BY RAFAEL A. OLMEDA AND RACHEL HATZIPANAGOS
Sun Sentinel
"A Miami-Dade man who underwent penile-implant surgery to treat his erectile dysfunction wound up with an infection that cost him his penis."

[Bonkman]

...and they call it...irony.