Insignificant ramblings: November 2010

"take criticism, smash it into dust, add color & use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking thru endless fields of greatness."

-matthew grey gubler

Quotes

"By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, Undying.
Lady make a note of this,
One of you is lying."

"Give me but one firm spot to which to stand, and I will move the earth."

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by frost."

"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."

"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

"To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn."

"Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less."

"People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

"Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"Finish everyday and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Quotes

"I am not above it; I am beyond it." -Grams

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
-Augusten Burroughs

"From my rotting body,
Flowers shall grow
and I am in them
and that is eternity.
-Edvard Munch"

"Trust is needed to be open to love, but a so-called act of love that expects some return to the giver, even when implied versus stated, is not love, but a social exchange with costs."
-Steven Bailey

"The intensity of a man's emotions is a greater driving force than the sum total of his education, his money, or the size of his brain."
-Dr. Bronner

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
-H.L. Mencken

"Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it, since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live."
-Charles Colton

"I prefer a short life with width to a narrow one with length."

"I think that it can be stated without denial that no man ever saw a man he would be willing to marry if he were a woman."
-George Gibbs

"The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that. And maybe Sleeping Beauty is dead."
-Chuck Palahnuik

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"Must a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?"

"Truth is never pure, and rarely simple."

"All great truths being as blasphemies."

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