Curvyedge Tenets

"In reference to important things, whose knowledge amounts to more than a consciousness of ... ignorance? Yet what more refreshing and inspiring knowledge than this?" --Henry David Thoreau

"Confess your hidden faults. Approach what you find repulsive. Help those you think you cannot help. Anything you are attached to, let it go. Go to the places that scare you." --Machik Labdron

"I continue to believe the advice of the poet who told me not to take seriously anything that does not make me laugh." --Eduardo Galeano

"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace." --attributed to Albert Einstein

"The majority is always in the wrong. Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it's time to reform." --Mark Twain

"My mother is the best and the worst thing that ever happened to me." --Jorge Lu�s (Cuban psychiatric patient, Colors #47)

"I once considered writing a book called I'm Not Okay and You're Not Okay, and That's Okay." --Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, / I am most faithless when I am most true." --Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls." --Thoreau

"I have never since I was born for so much as one moment expressed the truth." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There's two kinds of loneliness: loneliness with a man, & loneliness without a man." --Lorraine Hansberry

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." --Immanuel Kant

"My illness is the medicine I need." --Jorge, 37 (Cuban psychiatric patient, Colors #47)

"Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation." --Edward R. Murrow

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -- Emerson

"Anywhere. Anywhere as long as it is out of this world." --Charles Baudelaire

"I don't want to belong to a club that will accept me as a member." --Groucho Marx

"When I see the red signal--I can't help forging ahead." --Agatha Christie

"I will take you to the bridge made of waters." --Nobody (character in the film "Dead Man")

"I started out with nothing... and still have most of it left." (greeting card)

"The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean." --Emerson

"Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid." --Mohandas Gandhi

"I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone." --Lord Byron

"Step toward anything./Its distance grows/in a new way." --Zorika Petic

"The secret of Zen is just two words: not always so." --Shunryu Suzuki

"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge." --Mikhail Bakunin

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." --William Faulkner

"Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow." --Rita Mae Brown

"Tonight... I will set the record crooked." --Hanif Kureishi

"The straight line is a sin." --Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Everything You Know is Wrong --Firesign Theater (album title)

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow." --Ursula LeGuin

"Extremes meet: there is no straight line." --Emerson

"Silence alone is worthy to be heard." --Thoreau

"The fish's restaurant serves worms." --Sparrow

"When failing is my goal I cannot fail." -- Andrew Boyd

"Irreverence is my only sacred cow." --Paul Krassner

"Where the way is hardest, there go thou." --Dante

"Deep down I'm pretty superficial." --Ava Gardner

"Resistance is the secret of joy!" --Alice Walker

"Lose something every day." --Elizabeth Bishop

"Be unwise.... Dismiss prudence." --Thoreau

"Truth is always paradoxical." --Thoreau

"The beginning is the end." --Heraclitus

"Elitism for everybody." --Morris Berman

"God has no religion." --Gandhi

"Yield and overcome." --Lao Tsu

"I'd rather be." (Bumper sticker)

"Ugly Beauty" (Thelonious Monk song)

"Try softer." --Lily Tomlin

A U-turn a day keeps the doctor away.

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

Every funeral needs a good laugh.

Give me heresy or give me death.

Pray for a devil's advocate.

Aphorisms are frivolous.

Self-rule is liberating.

Live in the past later.

Business as unusual.

Celebrate sobriety.

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