paul carruthers Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 "Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace." - Mike Ditka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weslgarlic Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 (edited) “My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglassWith the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tigerMy wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitudeWith the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earthWith the tongue of rubbed amber and glassMy wife with the tongue of a stabbed hostWith the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyesWith the tongue of an unbelievable stoneMy wife with the eyelashes of strokes of a child's writingWith brows of the edge of a swallow's nestMy wife with the brow of slates of a hothouse roofAnd of steam on the panesMy wife with shoulders of champagneAnd of a fountain with dolphin-heads beneath the iceMy wife with wrists of matchesMy wife with fingers of luck and ace of heartsWith fingers of mown hayMy wife with armpits of marten and of beechnutAnd of Midsummer NightOf privet and of an angelfish nestWith arms of seafoam and of riverlocksAnd of a mingling of the wheat and the millMy wife with legs of flaresWith the movements of clockwork and despairMy wife with calves of eldertree pithMy wife with feet of initialsWith feet of rings of keys and Java sparrows drinkingMy wife with a neck of unpearled barleyMy wife with a throat of the valley of goldOf a tryst in the very bed of the torrentWith breasts of nightMy wife with breasts of a marine molehillMy wife with breasts of the ruby's crucibleWith breasts of the rose's spectre beneath the dewMy wife with the belly of an unfolding of the fan of daysWith the belly of a gigantic clawMy wife with the back of a bird fleeing verticallyWith a back of quicksilverWith a back of lightWith a nape of rolled stone and wet chalkAnd of the drop of a glass where one has just been drinkingMy wife with hips of a skiffWith hips of a chandelier and of arrow-feathersAnd of shafts of white peacock plumesOf an insensible pendulumMy wife with buttocks of sandstone and asbestosMy wife with buttocks of swans' backsMy wife with buttocks of springWith the sex of an irisMy wife with the sex of a mining-placer and of a platypusMy wife with a sex of seaweed and ancient sweetmeatMy wife with a sex of mirrorMy wife with eyes full of tearsWith eyes of purple panoply and of a magnetic needleMy wife with savanna eyesMy wife with eyes of water to he drunk in prisonMy wife with eyes of wood always under the axeMy wife with eyes of water-level of level of air earth and fire” ― André Breton, Poems Edited March 10, 2013 by weslgarlic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepscoda Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 " religion is the opiate of the masses " - strider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weslgarlic Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepscoda Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 Never confuse motion with action. - Benjamin Franklin ( Kim Jong-un should take note ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weslgarlic Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 (edited) To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down. WOODY ALLEN Edited April 1, 2013 by weslgarlic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 " religion is the opiate of the masses " - strider. 'Communism is the opiate of the asses!'---redrum :^) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjin-san Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Yeah,Karl was a great guy,not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Yeah,Karl was a great guy,not! Yah....Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Pol Pot, Castro. Quite the humanitarians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weslgarlic Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 A proverb is to speech what salt is to food.Arabic Proverb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles J. White Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Well as luck may have it, I met her! Was out with my son and daughter shopping for some polar fleece sweaters and long sleeve shirts at Old Navy and as luck would have it, she was there. At first I got the feeling she noticed me before I noticed her and I went out of my way to say hello and be extra positive with her and told her how well things were going. I asked her what she had been up to (knowing full well, she had been given the boot and was working real estate now), it felt really great as I looked her in the eye and told her it was too bad she couldn't make it and had to do something else. For the rest of the afternoon I was on cloud 9. The universe unfolded as it should, and I feel all the better for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DropDown Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize you, remember they're telling you their story, not yours - Cynthia Occelli The key to success in life is to fall in love with what you do, then sell the love - Dr. Wayne Dyer Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended when they realize there are other views - William F. Buckley, Jr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul carruthers Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pottedplant Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyThrottle Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 “Patience – A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.” ― Ambrose Bierce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyThrottle Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Yah....Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Pol Pot, Castro. Quite the humanitarians. all perverted marx , like faith has been perverted by religious organisations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepscoda Posted December 1, 2013 Author Share Posted December 1, 2013 (edited) All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. Ronald Reagan Edited December 1, 2013 by zepscoda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingzoso Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 (edited) "Yes there are Two Paths You can go by, But in the Long Run, There's Still Time to Change the Road Your On..." Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. 1970. "Let the Music be Your Master, Will You Heed the Master's Call? - Robert Plant circa 1972 - 1973... (Houses of the Holy). If these are not considered Motivational or Inspirational quotes, I do not know what would or could qualify. Edited December 1, 2013 by kingzoso Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepscoda Posted December 1, 2013 Author Share Posted December 1, 2013 “The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.” ― Carl Sagan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DropDown Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Work and friendship don't mix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepscoda Posted December 5, 2013 Author Share Posted December 5, 2013 All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Edger Allan Poe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lipslikecherries Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow. Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail. A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live. When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.” - Herman Hesse I found that interesting and insightful. I'm glad this thread is here so I could post it somewhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepscoda Posted July 2, 2014 Author Share Posted July 2, 2014 In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Benjamin Franklin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lipslikecherries Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. - Anton Chekhov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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