Quotes (again)

I believe in the freedom of the open road and my motto is the same as ever...

Lana del rey

After a storm there's always a rainbow
but if you've never witnessed one, you'll never know.

When was the question a question;
when was it a clue,
and when was a question
the answer you already knew?

Passersby unnoticed, friend unidentified, real meaning unthought-of!

The way to happiness is to be happy on the way...

Anonymous

Things are happening and we're going to happen along with them whether we like it or not. But we don't matter ... Once you lose yourself, you're pretty okay, Just get you out of the way."

Jim Carrey

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

Max Planck

When you hide behind the beauty of your masks
what you mask, masks your beauty!

If you can't be anything be kind

I am sure by that you mean true kindness. Because sometimes people just are kind out of convenience, because it looks good, because it is beneficial to themselves not to others . These kinds of kindness are regardless to their subject.
True kindness is the act of charity, helping others, not rotting them by pampering their self importance.
True kindness implies often gently, and occasionally forcefully ( if it is absolutely necessary), letting others to know the facts of their realities, instead of submerging them in their illusions and fancies. The second ones look good for us, the first ones might seem harsh, but in fact they are the real kindness, the kinds of kindness that sacrifice people's recognitions for the sake of authentically helping them. The ones that do not entice any cheering and often backfire.

Hmm what you described above ... to me... means caring for others well-being. Which can be shown with kindness (gently) or rudeness (harsh per se).

We can be kind and not care about others. We can be rude and care for others.

I just have to say that I dislike how the word “true” is being used. It just makes me cringe... and it pierces me deep inside.... It just makes me want to say please, please humanity, “Stop using it that way.” But then I remember that that’s my own problem... and so I’ll step away from this thread.

I prefer to differentiate between nice and kind, not kind and truly kind. You can be nice without being kind, and kind without being nice. I try to be both.

And then of course people can be altruistic.

It is good differentiation.
Every monotonic sound lacks the stereophonic aspects of our hearing ability. When we grow to that monotonicity, we do not hear some sounds and that creates anxiety in comparison to ones who can hear them.

Give 1000 poets a poetry challenge with a riged layout, theme and key words to be included and not one poem will be the same. Each person will have put their own interpretation on it.

Ask a thousand people what the word "Truth" means to them and they will describe it maybe in similar core terms but certainly quite a few differences. Ask them to write a poem about truth and not one will be the same.

The reality is that every belief or thought that we have is because of our experiences, emotional drivers, imagination, intellect levels and circumstance.

This is why the word "Truth" has caused so much controversy on this discussion. There will never be a right or wrong answer because each person has their own truth and each person has the right to their own opinion so long as they don't try and ram it down others throats :)

Words exist to communicate and unless they are traditionally swear or offensive words that wouldn't be suitable for main stream communication then I don't believe anyone has the right to deny another the use of it.

I think someone mentioned earlier that writers should write in a way that cannot be misunderstood by the reader. An almost impossible task because each person interprets what they read or see differently dependant on how they feel at time of reading, experience, mood etc.

Thats what makes humans so diverse and interesting. That ability to see and process things in different ways. Unfortunately it also causes a lot of conflict.

So without being too provocative

"True wisdom comes from peaceful observation, listening, understanding and compromise"

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
? Flannery O'Connor

Well put Milly

If we allow people to deem ordinary worlds obscene and undesirable, in their own terms or as they please, we can not engage in any discourse what so ever. Maybe this is what we are aiming at. We have come a long way in this site, we've learned to be so KIND with one another and pamper each other with niceness that now we do not have any stomach for any dialogue except complimentary ones . I dare you guys to leave any constructive yet critical comment on others writings and see how fast you will lose your support and friendship that is so indicative of the current P&Q’s state of affairs. We throw so many complimentary words such as: genius, outstanding, SPEACHLESS ..., at each other that we do not have any vocabulary left, if once, the real cases of genius, outstanding, SPEACHLESS, ... come along.
This state of affair is so apprized, encouraged and exhorted by the nice recent administration of this site, for it suites their personality, that it has generated corresponding genre of current members. Now everything is so good and dandy, at least there is no fight or argument, and less job, for the moderators.
The environment is very monotonic, and mostly, there is no room for any (multiple) non-monotonic vibrating sounds, in the state of our resilience. There are no real parents around here to tell us: Too much sweet, even though so pleasing to your senses, is not really good for you, is childish, or life really needs BALANCE. Life and real 'good foods' are the fusion of different tastes, smells, temperatures... ( any culinary school would teach us that) to entice different parts of our nerves system, brain includes.
And honestly when we greaten to adulthood, don't we replace the sweet with bittersweet as our senses grow more sophisticated, as we learn to put opposite together?

In such monotonic state, some come along who do not have even tolerance for the word TRUTH, neither figuratively nor literary. Now some might object: Everlasting did not reject the word, she did the way the word was used. But that is even more unsettling. Why? because how else could I distinguish between the two kinds of KINDNESS that was the subject of my argument, except by ranking the on without the hidden self-serving agendas, TRUE? I chose it because it was an okay word. Nobody ranked it as bad, obscene, or rude or condescending before. Maybe I should check my writing with Everlasting before posting everytime, then, she could correct them to whatever suits her state of tranquility and calm, so she does not have to suffer:
"how the word “true” is being used." or: " It just makes me cringe... and it pierces me deep inside.... It just makes me want to say please, please humanity, “Stop using it that way.” (quoted from her)
Or maybe we should make a list of the vocabularies that we do not like to be used, predominantly in P&Q, or by ddavidd and send it to the administration. I know they be delighted and obliged to consider.

But if still anyone think I were at fault I apologise for using the word TRUTH. I grew up in wrong neighborhoods that these kinds of foul language were used.

I wasn’t going to comeback to this thread not because I were offended, because i wasn’t offended. . . I have an issue with how the word “true” is used (not just on this thread, I see it a lot or I used to see it a lot of times) and i think everyone who read this thread can figure that one out. So I preferred to stayed away from it until I figured out the root of the problem. I didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feeling like I did with Ben. Hence, I wrote “then I remember that that’s my own problem ...” or something along that line.

So far, the only truth that I have come to accept is that we all are ignorants. And that in order to create one must first destroy. (Though this one might be a good debate, perhaps?)

And nah, there’s no need to apologize. the word is not Obscene.

Sorry for the troubles caused by my issued.

The discussion of words like 'kind' and 'truth'' has given me much to mull over. There is one thing I love, and it's when people make me think and self reflect. Even though it wasn't for me, thanks to everyone who contributed to the discussion above. Thought-provoking stuff. Anyway, back to quotes!

"If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry." - Edgar Allen Poe

"If they respect you, respect them. If they disrespect you, still respect them. Do not allow the actions of others to decrease your good manners, because you represent yourself, not others." - Mohammad Zeyara

It is as amoral for them to throw themselves at the feet of those who're in power
as for those who're in power, to abuse what has been thrown at them.
Morality often is reciprocal.

"...throw roses into the abyss and say 'here is my thanks to the monsters who did not succeed in swallowing me alive.' "
- Friedrich Nietzsche

" Sugar is the worst drug. Lucifer sugarcoats our relations to make us addicted to the drug of ourselves: vanity!" Don John matus

Lucifer: "Vanity is my favorite sin" Devil's advocate movie

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency." Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance." Samuel Butler

“In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary”
 Kathleen Norris

These are intriguing words of the late Robin Williams in an episode of Law and Order:

"But we're all in danger of being sheep. Blindly following the herd, never questioning authority. It was the great American poet, Wendell Berry, who said it best when he was describing the perils of bowing at the altar of conformity. Your mind will be punched in a card and put away in a little drawer. And when they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for (their) profit, they will let you know. So friends, each day do something that won't compute.

~~Brackets are from me ~~

Ddavidd: and
When you do things that do not compute, those whose backs are congealed and deformed now, outcast you as alien because you do not conform to such bowed uniformity.

Sculpture sculpts itself, sculptor is just a medium.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin

The point is well taken.
I agree with Darwin to the certain extend but considering the "Intelligent Design" (not the teleological argument ). Thing with great extend of adaptability, if they do not adapt to the intelligence, the design, would soon or late be subjected to distinction.
Specially human specie's evolution, has more determinative appetency towards the intelligence than mere survival.

Don John Matus divides human characteristics to two. One he calls, Stalking ( it comes from hunters who become master in observing the huntees in order to trap them) and the other, Dreaming. Every human has the dominant tendency of one of these two in his/her character. The Stalkers are the adaptable. They stalk the situation and accustom themselves, but dreamers are searching for a rightful truth, the platonic intelligence. They always give up their position, their comfort, their lives... because they never acclimate themselves to "political correctness"
In short term the stalkers, politicians, pragmatists, win the battles in hand. But never one could defeat a righteous dream for good.
For example anything unintelligent and useless that only have market value, thing that only correspond to fake popularity and display, in the design of a radio (as an example) parishes in long term and gives room to real intelligent functionalities.
Compare nowadays radios with the old fashion ones, you see, after all, the intelligence and functionality, has either expelled or coexisted, with the marketability but has never been defeated in the long term.
Another example: the popular culture, e.g. popular music or movies, they all be gone in few years, but Mozart, Beethoven, would last the exasperation of time due to their correspondence with the intelligent design.

Haha I hope I made some sense here :) :)

The moment is gone
but we still are here!

“There is no document of civilization which is not also a document of barbarism.”
Walter Benjamin

Who you thought I was is the man I want to be.
- John Watson, “the lying detective” (David Moffat, writer)

Never judge people when they are in a situation you have never been at!

No hero would ever emerge from calm waters!

Never argue with ignorants!

You would never learn form those who always agree with you!

Never get in front of a bull, behind a jackass, and anyplace near a fool!

~ Anonymous Wisdom~

Ohana means family and family means no one gets left out or forgotten...

I just came across this today, left by someone who's 19 year old sister had been killed in a car crash. When I googled the saying it seems it came from a film by Lilo & Stitch so....I'm not sure of the quote or the movie to be honest but...I think I would like to have this tattooed 'somewhere' on my body so just want to check that I've got everything A1 ok??

I watched that movie with my kids several times, but not in the past few years. Love that concept.

... I've never seen Lilo & Stitch. Is it that good!?

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney

Lilo & Stich is great!

The theme of not forgetting family is also at the heart of Coco. (Golden Globe recipient & likely Oscar winner).