for the faint of heart, it takes courage and determination.
It is easy to be miserable, misery loves company,
and we all want company so we conform to a miserable state.
Happiness stands alone, happiness invites criticism, comparison, envy.
To be happy one must rise above the petty and reach for totality, acceptance of what comes, without judgement.
Be happy, strive to be happy, for why live your life, this moment in misery and bellyaching ... that will not satisfy, not at all."
- SooZen Lee, a.k.a. buddhabitch
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, then you and I will each have one apple. But if you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we exchange these ideas,
then each of us will have two ideas.
-George Bernard Shaw
If you take a sick, starving dog and make him well and prosperous, he will never bite you.
That is the main difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain
WORRY is an old man with a bent head
carrying a sack of feathers he thinks is lead.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains it's original dimension.
The Old Good Quotes:
"The world will end with a whisper, not a bang.
That whisper will be your quiet, daily resignation to the Status Quo."
We are never being punished, only being taught. Everything is a teaching.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Depression is only anger without the enthusiasm.
Freedom comes from not hanging on. You gotta let it go.
I must be myself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 1, scene 4
To strive, to seek, to find, and NOT to yield.
- Tennyson, Ulysses
If only we could prevent our hearts from latching onto things,
then we would not suffer their loss so cruelly.
Pray as if everything depended on a God.
Work as if everything depended on you.
Life is too short to stay squeaky clean. Get some dirt on you.
Live 80% healthy,
80% of the time.
Unwind.
Live a little.
Have a beer and beat-off.
Unless it's a religious thing.
Then just have the beer.
A good friend will bail you out of jail.
But your best friend will be the one siiting beside you saying,
"That was fucking awesome!"