Quotes

O yes I saw that. I did not know the author. I thought it was yours. This was the inconsistency that shocked me: writing this and quoting that.

I guess I understand your angle....

"There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness."

Hafiz

Or another favorite mine:

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

Hafiz

My guess is that he was talking about the bitterness such as coffee or wine, not the viperish bitterness or venomous hatred, and genocide.

Believe the impossible, count the stars, but don't forget to put the kettle over the fire if you want to drink tea.
- Mountain proverb / Jane Lindskold
"When the Gods Are Silent"

"Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, : the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."

Immanuel Kant

"I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold"
Dale Wasserman, Man of La Mancha

There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing - as simply messing about in boats.

- Water Rat (Wind in the Willows)

"My guess is that he was talking about the bitterness such as coffee or wine, not the viperish bitterness or venomous hatred, and genocide."

My guess is somewhat DIFFERENT lol

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Charles Bukowski

Van Gogh cut off his ear
gave it to a
prostitute
who flung it away in
extreme
disgust.
Van, whores don't want
ears
they want
money.
I guess that's why you were
such a great
painter: you
didn't understand
much
else

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Thomas Aquinas

"There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing - as simply messing about in boats.

- Water Rat (Wind in the Willows)"

This brought a smile to my face. My dad quotes Wind in the Willows often. His sister, who was his best friend, died in her mid 20s. It was her favorite book.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

-Dr. Seuss

I don't want to get
to the end of my life
and find that I lived
just the length of it.
I want to have lived
the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

"Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries!!

A.A.Milne.. Winnie The Pooh

In each and every age
joy and sorrow are mingled:
Remain pious in joy,
and be ready for sorrow with courage.
- Robert Schumann
Davidsbündlertänze
Epitaph

"Rather be judged by twelve than carried by six"

Ice Cube

Mystery leaves a space for us when certainty does not.
- Gloria Steinem