"Submission, when used in the form of compromise to gain interests or prevent loss, is cowardice; but when given on one's initiative, and out of one's own will, is power."
Life is the riddle
Of which we're caught in the middle.
A couple of lucky ones
Tangled up in too much love
~cowboy junkies
"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change thier situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit than a secure future. The very basic core of a person's living spirit is his pasion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."
"There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance one of these days. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart."
Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
"All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
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.
Robert Frost
US poet (1874 - 1963)
procrastination is like masturbation, you're only screwing yourself in the end.
2003 Mansfield III 2004 Boston I 2006 Boston I 2008 Bonnaroo, Hartford, Mansfield I 2010 Hartford 2013 Worcester I, Worcester II, Hartford 2016 Bonnaroo, Boston I, Boston II 2018 Boston I, Boston II 2021 Sea.Hear.Now 2022 Camden 2024 Boston I, Boston II
noted these down recently off a couple posts in the MT forum. pertinent to the subject being discussed, and just wise words all around. see you can learn a thing or two on MT.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
~ Voltaire
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
~ Noam Chomsky
..if a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. And that is incompatible with a secular democracy.
~ Flemming Rose
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. - George Carlin
Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green
"No man is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry"
love it.
i am sure i may've posted some, if not all, of these before....but lost in pages and pages here. just really thinking of the wisdom and thought in these words, and wanted to share again...
Hope is a waking dream.
~ Aristotle
Go comfortably in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
~ French Proverb
"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet" (Roger Miller).
"Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try" (Homer Simpson).
"I'm not drunk, I'm just a little not sober" (Rocko from Undergrads).
Don't let the world bring you down, not everyone here is that fucked up and cold. Remember why you came and while you're alive, experience the warmth before you grow old.
Best two days of my life: Oasis at MSG and Pearl Jam at the Gorge.
You will not grow if you sit
in a beautiful flower garden,
but you will grow if you are sick,
in pain, experience losses,
and if you do not put your head in the sand,
but take the pain and learn to accept it,
not as a curse or punishment
but as a gift to you
with a very, very specific purpose.
~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
'It doesn't depend upon where you are in time, but rather how your own being is. It can't change by setting, it must change by one's own will.'
"Everyone wants to be the sun that lights up your life, but I'd rather be your moon so I can shine on you during your darkest hour when your sun's not around."
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
In every moment, the quality of your life is on the line. In each, you are either fully alive or relatively dead.
~ Dan Millman
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I've got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations.
~ George Bernard Shaw
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
- Archibald MacLeish
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."
- Niels Bohr
"If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ‘I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.’ If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane."
- Ramtha
"The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one."
- The Upanishads
"Everyone wants to be the sun that lights up your life, but I'd rather be your moon so I can shine on you during your darkest hour when your sun's not around."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind."
~ Emily Dickinson
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
******************************** "Forgive every being, the bad feelings it's just me"
Comments
Of which we're caught in the middle.
A couple of lucky ones
Tangled up in too much love
~cowboy junkies
~Christopher J. McCandless
Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
Robert Frost
US poet (1874 - 1963)
2004 Boston I
2006 Boston I
2008 Bonnaroo, Hartford, Mansfield I
2010 Hartford
2013 Worcester I, Worcester II, Hartford
2016 Bonnaroo, Boston I, Boston II
2018 Boston I, Boston II
2021 Sea.Hear.Now
2022 Camden
2024 Boston I, Boston II
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
~ Voltaire
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
~ Noam Chomsky
..if a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. And that is incompatible with a secular democracy.
~ Flemming Rose
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green
love it.
i am sure i may've posted some, if not all, of these before....but lost in pages and pages here. just really thinking of the wisdom and thought in these words, and wanted to share again...
Hope is a waking dream.
~ Aristotle
Go comfortably in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
~ French Proverb
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet" (Roger Miller).
"Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try" (Homer Simpson).
"I'm not drunk, I'm just a little not sober" (Rocko from Undergrads).
Best two days of my life: Oasis at MSG and Pearl Jam at the Gorge.
love that one.... !
~ Ice Queen
in a beautiful flower garden,
but you will grow if you are sick,
in pain, experience losses,
and if you do not put your head in the sand,
but take the pain and learn to accept it,
not as a curse or punishment
but as a gift to you
with a very, very specific purpose.
~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
LP
~ Ice Queen
have to be a horrible warning.
-Catherine-
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes
because I know I'm not dumb -- and I'm also not blonde.
-Dolly Parton-
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
In every moment, the quality of your life is on the line. In each, you are either fully alive or relatively dead.
~ Dan Millman
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I've got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
"A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses" -H.L. Mencken
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Ice Queen
No body makes me bleed my own blood.
- Archibald MacLeish
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."
- Niels Bohr
"If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ‘I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.’ If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane."
- Ramtha
"The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one."
- The Upanishads
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind."
~ Emily Dickinson
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Forgive every being,
the bad feelings
it's just me"