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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    "Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed" ~Dwight Eisenhower
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    "There never was a good war or a bad peace" ~Ben Franklin

    "Do we hate our enemies more than we love our children?"~ Unknown

    "Noone would be foolish enough to choose war over peace, in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons" ~Croesus of Lydia
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    Happiness is the only good.
    The place to be happy is here.
    The time to be happy is now.
    ~ Robert Ingersoll


    One day at a time - this is enough. Live in the present and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
    ~ Ida Scott Taylor


    Don't run through life so fast that you forget where you've been and lose where you're going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored every step of the way.
    ~ Kobi Yamada
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    No, forgive me.

    If you no longer live,

    if you, beloved, my love,

    if you have died,

    all the leaves will fall on my breast,

    it will rain on my soul night and day,

    the snow will burn my heart,

    I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow,

    my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but

    I shall stay alive,

    because above all things

    you wanted me indomitable,

    and, my love, because you know that I am not only a man

    but all mankind.

    ~ Pablo Neruda
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    Know the true value of time; snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it.
    ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope


    The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I expected.
    ~ Hugh Prather


    Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.
    ~ Dorothy Thompson
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
    ~ Charles Spurgeon


    Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything and everyone you have right now...and then, somehow got them all back.
    ~ Kobi Yamada


    That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
    ~ Doris Lessing



    Merry Christmas everyone. :)
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • SoLATisA
    SoLATisA Posts: 215
    "where's the beef?"

    - Clara Peller
  • who's_pearljam?
    who's_pearljam? Posts: 2,104
    What you need to become a guitarist is:
    5 strings, 3 fingers, two hands and an asshole.

    Keith Richards
    Be kind, man
    Don't be mankind. ~Captain Beefheart
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  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    Those who are afraid to ask are afraid to learn.
    ~ Proverb


    If you are willing, great things are possible to you.
    ~ Grenville Kleiser


    No one but yourself can make your life beautiful. No one can be pure, honorable and loving for you.
    ~ J.R. Miller
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    "There's a fire that's just waitin' for fuel" Ani Difranco
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • LoveGoatCaptain
    LoveGoatCaptain Posts: 6
    "bust a nut inside your eye to show you where i cum from"
    I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
  • Louis
    Louis Posts: 9
    "One day you are going to wake up and you aren't going to recognize yourself"
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    Be willing to relinquish the life you've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for you.
    ~ Joseph Campbell
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    Don't seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
    ~ Basho


    The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed in the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
    ~ Charles Morgan


    How simple it is to see all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
    ~ Gerald Jampolsky
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • Cree Nations
    Cree Nations Posts: 2,247
    Band Aid - Do They Know Its Christmas Lyrics
    recorded on November 25, 1986

    It's Christmas time
    There's no need to be afraid
    At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade
    And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy
    Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time

    But say a prayer

    Pray for the other ones
    At Christmastime it's hard, but when you're having fun
    There's a world outside your window
    And it's a world of dread and fear
    Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears
    And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging
    chimes of doom
    Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you

    And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time
    The greatest gift they'll get this year is life
    (Oooh) Where nothing ever grows
    No rain nor rivers flow
    Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

    (Here's to you) raise a glass for everyone
    (Here's to them) underneath that burning sun
    Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

    Feed the world
    Feed the world

    Feed the world

    Let them know it's Christmas time again

    Feed the world
    Let them know it's Christmas time again

    repeat then fade
    >>>>
    >
    ...a lover and a fighter.
    "I'm at least half a bum" Rocky Balboa

    http://www.videosift.com/video/Obamas-Message-To-American-Indians

    Edmonton, AB. September 5th, 2005
    Vancouver, BC. April 3rd, 2008
    Calgary,AB. August 8th, 2009
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
    ~ Annie Dillard


    Never lose your sense of wonder.
    ~ Joe Battan


    There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion for life.
    ~ Frederico Fellini


    The first step to getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
    ~ J. Pierpont Morgan


    The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift of life is yours; it is an amazing journey; and you alone are responsible for the qualtiy of it.
    ~ Dan Zadra


    Make each day your masterpiece.
    ~ John Wooden


    Let us live while we live.
    ~ Phillip Doddridge
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Cree Nations wrote:
    Band Aid - Do They Know Its Christmas Lyrics
    recorded on November 25, 1986

    It's Christmas time
    There's no need to be afraid
    At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade
    And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy
    Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time

    But say a prayer

    Pray for the other ones
    At Christmastime it's hard, but when you're having fun
    There's a world outside your window
    And it's a world of dread and fear
    Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears
    And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging
    chimes of doom
    Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you

    And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time
    The greatest gift they'll get this year is life
    (Oooh) Where nothing ever grows
    No rain nor rivers flow
    Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

    (Here's to you) raise a glass for everyone
    (Here's to them) underneath that burning sun
    Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

    Feed the world
    Feed the world

    Feed the world

    Let them know it's Christmas time again

    Feed the world
    Let them know it's Christmas time again

    repeat then fade

    Thanks for that much needed perspective. Hail, hail the lucky ones...
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Ayedavanita
    Ayedavanita Posts: 1,443
    Rules For Being Human...

    1. YOU WILL RECEIVE A BODY. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around.

    2. YOU WILL LEARN LESSONS. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

    3. THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, ONLY LESSONS. Growth is a process of trial and error: Experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works."

    4. A LESSON IS REPEATED UNTIL LEARNED. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.

    5. LEARNING LESSONS DOES NOT END. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

    6. "THERE" IS NO BETTER THAN "HERE." When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."

    7. OTHERS ARE MERELY MIRRORS OF YOU. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.

    8. WHAT YOU MAKE OF YOUR LIFE IS UP TO YOU. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

    9. YOUR ANSWERS LIE INSIDE YOU. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

    10.YOU WILL FORGET ALL THIS.



    Cherie Carter-Scott
    "You think I got my eyes closed but I'm lookin' at you the whole fuckin' time..."
  • vmfury
    vmfury Posts: 1,091
    Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

    ~ Aristotle
    We’ll meet again, but not yet…not yet. 
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
    ~ J.B. Priestley


    Oh, the experience of this sweet life.
    ~ Dante



    one of my all-time faves.........


    The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, divinely aware.
    ~ Henry Miller
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me

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