QUOTES

Feeling down? Desiderata has some wonderful advice to set you straight.
Here's a quote about the power of having a positive attitude with which I agree wholeheartedly.

And he went back to meet the fox.
"Goodbye," he said. "Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
"What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
"It is the time I have wasted for my rose--" said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose..."
"I am responsible for my rose," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember."
-From The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exuperey
Shakespeare

Duke Senior:Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy.
This wide and universal theater
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene wherein we play in.
Jaques:Will you sit down with me? And we two will rail against our mistress, the World, and all our misery.
Orlando:I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.
-From As You Like It
Joseph Campbell

As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off.
Life lives on lives.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.

Douglas Adams

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Arthur had jammed himself against the door to the cubicle, trying to hold it closed, but it was ill fitting. Tiny furry little hands were squeezing themselves through the cracks, their fingers were ink- stained; tiny voices chattered insanely.
Arthur looked up. "Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out."

Alan Moore (from The Watchmen)

Stood in firelight, sweltering bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent.
Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in the night.
Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and god was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever, and we are alone.
Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.
Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves; go into oblivion.
There is nothing else.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long.
No meaning save what we choose to impose.
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs.
It's us.
Only us.
Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them.
Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.
Was Rorschach.
Does that answer your questions, doctor?
-Rorschach

But...listen, you've just been saying that life is meaningless, so how can...?
I changed my mind.
But...why?
Thermodynamic miracles...events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son, that exact daughter...
...Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged.
To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold...
That is the crowning unlikelihood.
The thermodynamic miracle.
But...If me, my birth, if that's a thermodynamic miracle...I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world.
Yes.
Anybody in the world.
...But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget...
I forget.
We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.
Come...Dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.
Dry your eyes...
...And let's go home.
-Doctor Manhattan
**Frank Miller (from Batman - The Dark Knight Returns)

It was tough work, carrying two hundred and twenty pounds of sociopath to the top of Gotham Towers, the highest** spot in Gotham City.
The scream alone is worth it.

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