Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leals thee to war thyself.
People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.
The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Hangovers come with love, yet love's the cure for hangovers.
Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going bally.
Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.
I look into your eyes and see the universe not yet born.
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Khalil Gibran Quotes
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Faith is knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, though the sword hidden amon his pinions may wound you.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Faith is knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, though the sword hidden amon his pinions may wound you.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Listening
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them." - Ralph Nichols
"Effective listeners remember that 'words have no meaning - people have meaning.'. The assignment of meaning to a term is an internal process; meaning comes from inside us. And although our experiences, knowledge and attributes differ, we often misinterpret each other's messages while under the ilusion that a common understanding has been achieved." - Lary Barker
"Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen." - Ambrose Bierce
"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." - Dick Cavett
"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening." - Franklin P. Jones
"There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation." - James Nathan Miller
"Listening looks easy, but it's not simple. Every head is a world." - Cuban Proverb
"To Listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music', but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knowws, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning." - Peter Senge
"Big egos have little ears." - Robert Schuller
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." - Dr. Joyce Brothers
"The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust." - Josh Billings
"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves." - Albert Guinon
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood." - Stephen R. Covey
"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen-not just money, but respect." - Harvey Mackay
"Effective listeners remember that 'words have no meaning - people have meaning.'. The assignment of meaning to a term is an internal process; meaning comes from inside us. And although our experiences, knowledge and attributes differ, we often misinterpret each other's messages while under the ilusion that a common understanding has been achieved." - Lary Barker
"Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen." - Ambrose Bierce
"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." - Dick Cavett
"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening." - Franklin P. Jones
"There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation." - James Nathan Miller
"Listening looks easy, but it's not simple. Every head is a world." - Cuban Proverb
"To Listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music', but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knowws, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning." - Peter Senge
"Big egos have little ears." - Robert Schuller
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." - Dr. Joyce Brothers
"The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust." - Josh Billings
"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves." - Albert Guinon
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood." - Stephen R. Covey
"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen-not just money, but respect." - Harvey Mackay
Xoxo
Friday, October 8, 2010
Sisters
She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child.- Barbara Alpert
A sister smiles when one tells one's stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added. - Chris Montaigne
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. - Marion C Garretty
Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister. - Gail Sheeny
A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you -- who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything. - Pam Brown
Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there. - Amy Li
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. - Marion C. Garretty
You can kid the world. But not your sister. - Charlotte Gray
What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it? - Jenny DeVries
If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma." - Linda Sunshine
I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones. - Author unknown, attributed to a 4-year-old named Lauren
When mom and dad don't understand, a sister always will. - Author Unknown
To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. - Clara Ortega
Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk. - Susan Scarf Merrell
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. - Pam Brown
One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself. - Betsy Cohen
We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school. - Charlotte Gray
Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends. - Deborah Moggach
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories. - Deborah Moggach
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Love
Love is what you've been through with somebody!
There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Solutions
If you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem.
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.- Henry Louis Mencken (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. - Frank A. Clark
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.- Henry Louis Mencken (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. - Frank A. Clark
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Problems
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about. - Ashleigh Brilliant
The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
The solution of every problem is another problem. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. - Richard Bach
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. - Scott Adams
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about. - Ashleigh Brilliant
The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
The solution of every problem is another problem. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. - Richard Bach
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. - Scott Adams
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Reality
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
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
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.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Music
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Music is what feelings sound like.
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. - Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Music is love in search of a word.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Music is what feelings sound like.
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. - Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Music is love in search of a word.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Computers
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot." ~ Dave Barry
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ~ Mitch Ratcliffe
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.
In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
Rebooting is a wonder drug - it fixes almost everything.
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
What boots up must come down.
A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.
Jesus saves! The rest of us better make backups.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot." ~ Dave Barry
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ~ Mitch Ratcliffe
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.
In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
Rebooting is a wonder drug - it fixes almost everything.
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
What boots up must come down.
A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.
Jesus saves! The rest of us better make backups.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Dance
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~ Agnes De Mille
Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. ~ Martha Graham
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger.
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~ Agnes De Mille
Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. ~ Martha Graham
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger.
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Doctors
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. - George Carlin
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
Time is generally the best doctor.
Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
The more things doctors are able to do, the more likely that at least a few doctors won't do them. And the result will be more people suing for negligence.
The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.
A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office.
I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription.
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Sleep
I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill.
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. - Mark Twain
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Sometimes the most productive thing one can do is to sleep.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
People who snore always fall asleep first.
Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
O bed! O bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill.
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. - Mark Twain
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Sometimes the most productive thing one can do is to sleep.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
People who snore always fall asleep first.
Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
O bed! O bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Sense
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Art is a sense of magic.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
If you sense there must be more, there is more.
What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all! - Calvin Klein
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Art is a sense of magic.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
If you sense there must be more, there is more.
What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all! - Calvin Klein
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
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