In light of the divisions our country is experiencing, I thought I'd lend a quote to think about in trying times.
"Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can."
--John Wesley
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas or feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing is further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health. The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. ~Erich Fromm
A conversation between the two:
Albert Einstein: "What I most admire about your art is your universality. You don’t say a word, yet the world understands you!"
Charlie Chaplin: "True. But your glory is even greater! The whole world admires you, even though they don’t understand a word of what you say."
Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”
Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. ~Timothy Leary
Do you love Me? Alice asked.
No, I don't love you! replied the White Rabbit.
Alice frowned and clasped her hands together as she did whenever she felt hurt.
See? replied the White Rabbit.
Now you're going to start asking yourself what makes you so imperfect and what did you do wrong so that I can't love you at least a little.
You know, that's why I can't love you.
You will not always be loved Alice, there will be days when others will be tired and bored with life, will have their heads in the clouds, and will hurt you.
Because people are like that, they somehow always end up hurting each other's feelings, whether through carelessness, misunderstanding, or conflicts with themselves.
If you don't love yourself, at least a little, if you don't create an armor of self-love and happiness around your heart, the feeble annoyances caused by others will become lethal and will destroy you.
The first time I saw you I made a pact with myself: "I will avoid loving you until you learn to love yourself."
From ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Sometimes you gotta say "What the F—-", make your move. Every now and then, saying "What the F—-", brings freedom. Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future. Miles in Risky Business
Dunno where it's from, but I've witnessed the truth of it
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
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“Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.” Bilbo Baggins
^^^ Liked because I like the quote, and say it often. But, I hope it doesn't really describe how you are feeling.
It's close... I'm pretty much shot. But I know when I'm 80 I wish I felt like I do today, so I'm not going to complain.
Too late.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
"Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom."
--Leonardo da Vinci
In light of the divisions our country is experiencing, I thought I'd lend a quote to think about in trying times.
"Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can."
--John Wesley
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I don’t have to agree with you to like and respect you.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Men get married thinking she won't change and she does; women get married thinking he will change and he doesn't.
I heard that at a marriage retreat but never heard who it was attributed to.
"Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice"
--Thomas Paine
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas or feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing is further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health. The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. ~Erich Fromm
A conversation between the two:
Albert Einstein: "What I most admire about your art is your universality. You don’t say a word, yet the world understands you!"
Charlie Chaplin: "True. But your glory is even greater! The whole world admires you, even though they don’t understand a word of what you say."
Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”
Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. ~Timothy Leary
Do you love Me? Alice asked.
No, I don't love you! replied the White Rabbit.
Alice frowned and clasped her hands together as she did whenever she felt hurt.
See? replied the White Rabbit.
Now you're going to start asking yourself what makes you so imperfect and what did you do wrong so that I can't love you at least a little.
You know, that's why I can't love you.
You will not always be loved Alice, there will be days when others will be tired and bored with life, will have their heads in the clouds, and will hurt you.
Because people are like that, they somehow always end up hurting each other's feelings, whether through carelessness, misunderstanding, or conflicts with themselves.
If you don't love yourself, at least a little, if you don't create an armor of self-love and happiness around your heart, the feeble annoyances caused by others will become lethal and will destroy you.
The first time I saw you I made a pact with myself: "I will avoid loving you until you learn to love yourself."
From ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Well fvck me! Some guy
Charlie don’t surf.
~ Col. Bill Kilgore
My all time favorite movie.
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
Sometimes you gotta say "What the F—-", make your move. Every now and then, saying "What the F—-", brings freedom. Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future. Miles in Risky Business
Welcome back @MoleRat
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
Susurratio Linguarum Est Proditio
Whispering Tongues Are Treachery
@silvermouse might know where that's from.
Psalms?
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
No.
Dunno where it's from, but I've witnessed the truth of it
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
~Dion Giolito
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings": Helen Keller
Psalms 52 is close 😉
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.