“I want to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees.”
– Pablo Neruda
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Sit ups – Muhammad Ali
“I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count”.
– Muhammad Ali
Be cheerful, sir.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air.
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself –
Yea, all which it inherit – shall dissolve,
And like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
– William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“They did not know it was impossible so they did it”
― Mark Twain
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
– Tom Bodett
“When you’re happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.”
– Frank Ocean
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Hammer – Tony Horton
“The hammer doesn’t build the house.”
– Tony Horton
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Theory and practice – Unknown
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is.”
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Life – Unknown
“Life is like a camera; Focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if it goes wrong, take another shot”
– Unknown
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Rhetorical joke – Unknown
“What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?”
“I drink to make other people more interesting”
– Ernest Hemingway
“We men ask ourselves and each other for the following: the right to be vulnerable, to be uncertain, to be wrong, to be intuitive, the right not to know, to be flexible and not to be ashamed.”
– Grayson Perry
Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.
The professor watched the overflow until he could no longer restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”
“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your up?”
― Nyogen Senzaki
“I don’t think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
– Norman Mailer
“Life is never so bad that it can’t get worse.”
– Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes