“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
– Cicero
Habit – Cicero
- Post author By SS
- Post date July 17, 2014
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Author: SS
My good friends tell me I'm genuine, kind, intelligent, wise, and funny. But I wouldn't take their word for it, they're mainly idiots (an example of me trying to be funny).
"I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman
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Symbols – Alan Watts
“Civilization, comprising all the achievements of art and science, technology and industry, is the result of man’s invention and manipulation of symbols – of words, letters, numbers, formulas and concepts, and of such social institutions as universally accepted clocks and rulers, scales and timetables, schedules and laws. By these means, we measure, predict, and control the behavior of the human and natural worlds – and with such startling apparent success that the trick goes to our heads. All too easily, we confuse the world as we symbolize it with the world as it is.”
– Alan Watts
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”
– Maya Angelou
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Character – Japanese proverb
“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”
– Japanese proverb
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Benefit – @TheTweetOfGod
The entire universe was created for the benefit of those members of one species on one planet who correctly believe in an invisible entity.
– @TheTweetOfGod
“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
– Mary Higgins Clark
“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
– Oliver Sacks
“I’m not okay, you’re not okay, and that’s okay.”
– William Sloane Coffin
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”
– John Lubbock
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God save us – Vikram Seth
“God save us from people who mean well.”
– Vikram Seth
“The near enemy of loving-kindness is attachment. At first, attachment may feel like love, but as it grows it becomes more clearly the opposite, characterised by clinging, controlling and fear.
The near enemy of compassion is pity, and this also separates us. Pity feels sorry for that poor person over there as if he were somehow different from us.
The near enemy of sympathetic joy (the joy in the happiness of others) is comparison, which looks to see if we have more than, the same as, or less than another.
The near enemy of equanimity is indifference. True equanimity is balance in the midst of experience, whereas indifference is a withdrawal and not caring, based on fear.”
– Jack Kornfield
“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
– Amy Bloom
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Sea and the stars – Finn Butler
“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.
And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes
you cannot even breathe deeply, and
the night sky is no home, and
you have cried yourself to sleep enough times
that you are down to your last two percent, but
nothing is infinite,
not even loss.
You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day
you are going to find yourself again.”
– Finn Butler
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
― Sholem Aleichem