Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind?
What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch. ~Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, 1985, performed by Lily Tomlin
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their "agreement," as falsity means their disagreement, with "reality."
How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Eyes
The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.
My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.
In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell.
Anyone can look at other's eyes, but Lovers can see into each other's souls through the eyes.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
The soul that can speak through the eyes, can also kiss with a gaze.
All our souls are written in our eyes.
If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
You never know how you look through other people's eyes.
Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.
My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.
In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell.
Anyone can look at other's eyes, but Lovers can see into each other's souls through the eyes.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
The soul that can speak through the eyes, can also kiss with a gaze.
All our souls are written in our eyes.
If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
You never know how you look through other people's eyes.
Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Relationships
Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Risk
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~ Pablo Picasso
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
To win you have to risk loss.
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ~ Samuel Johnson
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~ Pablo Picasso
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
To win you have to risk loss.
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ~ Samuel Johnson
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Friday, August 7, 2009
Self
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it.
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed. ~The Sickness Unto Death
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you.
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
I am my own heaven and hell!
We must be our own before we can be another's.
Only you can set you free.
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it.
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed. ~The Sickness Unto Death
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you.
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
I am my own heaven and hell!
We must be our own before we can be another's.
Only you can set you free.
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Prayer
Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.
There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Pray, and let God worry. - Martin Luther
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
The greatest prayer is patience.
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
All prayers are answered if we are willing to admit that sometimes the answer is "no".
Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me. - Lewis Carroll
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Pray, and let God worry. - Martin Luther
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
The greatest prayer is patience.
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
All prayers are answered if we are willing to admit that sometimes the answer is "no".
Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me. - Lewis Carroll
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Driving
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
While I'm fully aware that money can't buy happiness, I wouldn't mind being known as that melancholy gal who drives the red Lamborghini Reventón.
For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?
Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere! - Author unknown, as seen on a shirt
Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.
Driving a brand new car feels like driving around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window.
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. - Larry Lujack
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
Walking isn't a lost art - one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.
Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.
While I'm fully aware that money can't buy happiness, I wouldn't mind being known as that melancholy gal who drives the red Lamborghini Reventón.
For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?
Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere! - Author unknown, as seen on a shirt
Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.
Driving a brand new car feels like driving around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window.
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. - Larry Lujack
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
Walking isn't a lost art - one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.
Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.
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