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09/04/08 7:58 PM

IRONICALLY...This is what's stuck to my montirs:

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made silently" ~Agnes DeMille

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things 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

"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality" ~Les Brown

"Before you speak ask yourself, is it kind, is it true, does it improve on the silence"~Sai Baba

 

09/04/08 8:17 PM

Thank you to the kind, gentle, sweet soul of the "fellow traveler" on the blog who pointed me in the direction of these:

Out-worn heart in time out-worn,
Come clear of the nets of wrong and right.
Laugh heart again in the gray twilight
Sigh, heart, again in the dew of morn.

~William Butler Yeats, "Into the Twilight"

The way to the goal seems chaotic and interminable at first,
and only gradually do the signs increase that it is leading anywhere.
The way is not straight but appears to go round in circles.
More accurate knowledge has proved it to go in spirals.

~C.G. Jung
(I have found this particularly true in the last year delving deeper into NIN and blogging. The reasons, meanings and lessons behind this year (what lead me back here and why I stayed), while hard to fathom/swallow at times, are now begining to make sense, finally)

Rage Rage against the dying of that light ~Dylan Thomas

If you bring forth what is within you,
what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you,
what you do not bring forth will destroy you
~ St. Thomas

I have many others but I won't take up the whole forum smiling smiley

 

09/04/08 7:52 PM

"The basis of action is lack of imagination.
It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream"


Oscar Wilde

 

09/05/08 2:13 AM

"The most dangerous person to any government is the one who is able to think things out.. without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
--H.L. Mencken

 

09/05/08 1:51 AM

Her lift doesn't go to the top floor grinning smiley

 

09/05/08 2:00 AM

"You shot your imaginary friends? With what?"
" With an imaginary gun of course."-Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison

Nothing is True Everything is Permitted.

My log doesn't judge.

 

09/05/08 2:15 AM

"An old man dies. A young girl lives. A fair trade."
- Hartigan (Sin City)

"How many lives do we live? How many times do we die? They say we all lose 21 grams... at the exact moment of our death. Everyone. And how much fits into 21 grams? How much is lost? When do we lose 21 grams? How much goes with them? How much is gained? How much is gained? Twenty-one grams. The weight of a stack of five nickels. The weight of a hummingbird. A chocolate bar. How much did 21 grams weigh? "
- 21 Grams

"Yippie-kay-yay, motherfucker."

 

09/05/08 2:21 AM

"Just as long as everyone does what I say, my communication skills are just fine" -Jesse James

 

09/05/08 5:13 AM

"Feeling is a subversive act. Expressing it is rebellious" - Jeff Buckley
"I don't do drugs. I am drugs." - Salvador Dali
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/05/2008 05:14AM by silverphoenix.

 

09/05/08 8:55 AM

"Every time you see a rainbow, God is having gay sex"

 
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