Quotes

[biancataylor]

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

~Maya Angelou~

 

[biancataylor]

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

~Bruce Barton~

 

[biancataylor]

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

~Confucius~

 

[biancataylor]

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

~Douglas Adams~

 

[biancataylor]

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

~Rita Mae Brown~

 

[biancataylor]

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

~John W. Gardner~

 

[maxwellsmart]

"Trying is the first step on the road to failure" Homer Simpson

 

[Scenicdrive]

Isn't my heart holy, more full of life's beauty,
since I fell in love? Why did you like me more
when I was prouder and wilder, more full
of words, yet emptier?

Well, the crowd likes whatever sells in the
marketplace; and no one but a slave
appreciates violent men. Only those who
are themselves godlike believe in the gods.

~Friedrich Hölderlin, Poem, Human Applause~

 

[Viewer]

With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.

~Chuck Mangione

 

[Scenicdrive]

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

~e. e. cummings~

 

[Scenicdrive]

Love's Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle;--
Why not I with thine?

See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven,
If it disdained it's brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;--
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?

~Percy Bysshe Shelley~

 

[Viewer]

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

~ Walt Whitman

 

[KassandraSky]

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King Jr

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X

 

[friendz4evr]

Cogito ergo sum

 

[Viewer]

Escorto ergo fun

 

[Scenicdrive]

The Buddhist Conception of Causality/Reality/Samsara/Nirvana

Pratitya-samutpada

~Mahayana Buddhism~

 

[lasslicker]

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

 

[friendz4evr]

I don't sit at home and knit on Friday nights.

B. Stronach

 

[biancataylor]

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

~Sissela Bok~

 

[biancataylor]

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

~Sissela Bok~