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četvrtak, 20.01.2011.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

In 1968 the party rebounded and won a narrow victory with party stalwart Richard Nixon over Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, who was handicapped by disaffection over the Vietnam War.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Never eat more than you can lift.

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
I'd learned my lesson.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'

četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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