Quotes

[Rhiannon]

A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. It’s as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.

Christopher Isherwood

[Shaker]

I Saw

I saw a white bird disappear in the black night
and I knew it wouldn't be long for the light
of my eyes in that same night.

I saw a cloud as small as a man's hand
and I knew, though the first ripples widen in the pond,
that I haven't been able to make anyone understand.

I saw a leaf that fell, a leaf is falling.
Time is short. I am not complaining.

- Robert Mezey

[SteveH]

“A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.”
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The fact is, Squire, the moment a man takes to a pipe, he becomes a philosopher. It’s the poor man’s friend; it calms the mind, soothes the temper, and makes a man patient under difficulties. It has made more good men, good husbands, kind masters, indulgent fathers, than any other blessed thing on this universal earth.”
-”Sam Slick, The Clockmaker”

[Shaker]

"If you meet an asshole in the morning, bad luck - you've met an asshole. If you meet assholes for the rest of the day, chances are you're the asshole." - Unknown American policeman.

[Rhiannon]

Came across an absolute corker from Angela Davis this morning.

'I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.'

[john]

It's never too late to have a happy childhood".

From the Tom Robbins novel Still life with Woodpecker (recommended)

[Shaker]

"There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question." - Carl Sagan

[Owlswing]

Came across an absolute corker from Angela Davis this morning.

'I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.'

A Pagan prayer

Goddess give me with strength to change those things that I cannot accept,

To accept those things that I cannot change

And the wisdom to know the difference between the two.

Please also give me a memory for the places where I have buried the bodies of those who have pissed me off!

[Rhiannon]

If the Universe is continually expanding, what is the point in cleaning above eye level? - Kryten.

[Owlswing]

If the Universe is continually expanding, what is the point in cleaning above eye level? - Kryten.

Touché, my Lady Rhi!

( Translation - Touché = Get that bloody stilletto away from my throat!)

[Shaker]

As difficult as it is to accept that there are no answers in life, it is even more difficult at times to accept that no one holds what we presume are the answers. No one. - Mark Nepo

[Rhiannon]

As difficult as it is to accept that there are no answers in life, it is even more difficult at times to accept that no one holds what we presume are the answers. No one. - Mark Nepo

Interesting. I thought that was a given.

[Shaker]

Interesting. I thought that was a given.

Not to many.

[Shaker]

"... we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer, 'To hell with them'. The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do." - Michael Foot

[Shaker]

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." - Saul Bellow

[Shaker]

It seems to me, now, that death can only enhance life: if it is allowed to. Death is the salt to living: if tomorrow we go into the dark, how achingly poignant is today.

Christopher Leach: Letter to a Young Son.