A truth thats told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent
William Blake
I had a wrath with my friend i told my friend my wrath did end, i had a wrath with my foe i told him not my wrath did grow
William Blake.....again
Truth is what stands the test of experience
Albert Einstein
Food for thought indeed Morti!!!
I'll add another one to your list:
"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option"
- Mark Twain
It certainly resonated with me when I read it recently.
A man who does not think for himself does not thin at all
Oscar wilde
Alcohol the cause of and solution to all of lifes problems
Homer Simpson
"Experience is the name we give to the mistakes we have made in the past..."
Mr. Oscar Wilde
'Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.'
― Mark Twain
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations ~Faith Baldwin
It's never too late to be what you might have been ~ George Elliot (a fav)
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power - Anon
Whether you believe you can or you can't. Your right
A closed fist can never receive
'A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.' Walter Winchell
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley
Music washes my soul clean from the dust and dander of everyday life...from the wrinkles of fear.....from the mess and dress of attempted finesse. Shower in it, swim in it, sink in it....in a beautiful melody I'll just disappear.
- CM
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions ~ Dalai Lama XIV
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears ~ John Lennon
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination ~ Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
Sometimes you have to stand alone to prove that you can stand.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
all things must pass....george harrison
Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions ~ Tony Robbins
When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch ~ Anon
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it ~ Jonathan Winters :thumbup:
Why fit in when you were born to stand out? - Dr Seuss
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.'
Alex Tan ....
The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid
Terry Pratchett
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars
Oscar wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yeild to it
Oscar wilde
Kill em all, let god sort it out
duke nukem
An idiot, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way
the dictionary
Those who punch above their wieghts are not worth punching back, they cry too easy.
Me!
Better to be thought a fool and stay quiet, than to speak out and confirm it.........
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement
Gandalf,
'My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit myself
Jerry Hall
'Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.'
Steve Jobs
Is it a strange quirk of capitalism or sober irony that the people who know which cash machines are working or not are the homeless?
- A mate of mine
We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together. - Terence Mc Kenna
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.- Terence Mc Kenna
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.- Hunter S. Thompson
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Paula Cole quotes