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.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Gossip
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~ Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. ~ Barbara Walters
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
Who brings a tale takes two away.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
~Edward Wallis Hoch
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~ Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. ~ Barbara Walters
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
Who brings a tale takes two away.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
~Edward Wallis Hoch
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Teddy Bears
To a child, Teddy is a bridge between a human and an animal. He doesn't mind being dressed in ridiculous hats, or even being read to. You can blame him for anything, and he won't deny it. His marvellous face expresses anything a child wants to feel or hear.
Teddy Bears are like keys . . . They're always in the first place you think they'd be, and the last place you look.
In a world where everyone seems to be larger and louder than yourself, it is very comforting to have a small, quiet companion.
A bear teaches us that if the heart is true, it doesn't matter much if an ear drops off.
Wake in the deepest dark of night and hear the driving rain. Reach out a hand and take a paw and go to sleep again.
Bears sleep by day. At night they stay awake to chase away bad dreams.
A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.
One never quite gets over a lost bear.
Teddy Bears are like keys . . . They're always in the first place you think they'd be, and the last place you look.
In a world where everyone seems to be larger and louder than yourself, it is very comforting to have a small, quiet companion.
A bear teaches us that if the heart is true, it doesn't matter much if an ear drops off.
Wake in the deepest dark of night and hear the driving rain. Reach out a hand and take a paw and go to sleep again.
Bears sleep by day. At night they stay awake to chase away bad dreams.
A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.
One never quite gets over a lost bear.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Dream
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
The best love affairs are those we never had.
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C.S. Lewis
I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Life is never easy for those who dream.
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
The best love affairs are those we never had.
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C.S. Lewis
I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Life is never easy for those who dream.
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Mountain
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain.
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between.
In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”
The mountains are calling and I must go.
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between.
In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”
The mountains are calling and I must go.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
God
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.
God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.
God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.
There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.
One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.
God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.
God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.
There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.
One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.
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