Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

“You know, they’ve got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don’t like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don’t like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. ‘Now I just have to polish these off, and everything will be Ok.’ Life is a box of chocolates.”
Haruki Murakami

“Letters are just pieces of paper,” I said. “Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”
Haruki Murakami

[Lilith7]

“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for — and to do it so unconsciously.”
Haruki Murakami

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past" -
George Orwell "1984".

[Lilith7]

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
Seneca

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde

[zqwerty]

"Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship."

Erich Fromm

[Lilith7]

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
Emilie Buchwald

[Lilith7]

“This happens today; if the investments in the banks falls slightly...a tragedy, what can be done? But if people die of hunger,, if they have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing. This is our crisis today. A church that is poor & for the poor has tofight this mentality.”
Pope Francis

“Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful & nests for those in need of a home.”
Glenda Millard

[Lilith7]

“Since armies are legal, we feel that war is acceptible. We have been brainwashed. War is monstrous. It's very nature is one of tragedy & suffering.”
Dalai Lama

“Where your fear is, there is your task.”
Carl Gustav Young

[Lilith7]

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type.
Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbor that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.”
Oscar Wilde

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

[Lilith7]

‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’
(Twelfth Night Act 2, Scene 5)
Shakespeare

‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’
(Julius Caesar Act 2, Scene 2)
Shakespeare

[Lilith7]

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’
(King Lear Act 1, Scene 4)
Shakespeare

‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’
(Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5)
Shakespeare

[heisenberg]

dont stick your dick in crazy

[Lilith7]

“This above all else: to thine own self be true & it must follow as day follows night, thou can'st be false to no man.”
Shakespeare

“Today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion & inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion. Can we continue to stand by when food is thrown away while people are starving? This is a case of inequality'.
Pope Francis

[Lilith7]

“All religions are paths to reach god. They're to make a comparison – like different languages, different dialects, to get there. But god is god for everyone. If you start to fight saying 'my relifion's more important than yours, mine is true & yours isn't', where will this lead us? There's only one god & each of us has a language to arrive at god.
Some are Sheik,Muslim, Hindu,Christian; they're different ways to god.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“Never judge others easily;everyone's journey is different.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

[zqwerty]

"In [the United States] such concepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believed in. They may be illusions, but they are very powerful illusions."--George Orwell

[Lilith7]

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller

“The purpose of our life is happiness. It is the real meaning of our life. Materialistic happiness is only on a sensorial level. Seeing something nice, hearing beautiful some music, & taste & smell & touch, including sex, these are materialistic happiness, on a material level.These are short lived, not long lasting happiness. Long lasting happiness must develop on a mental level.”
Dalai Lama

[Lilith7]

“Change takes place only through action. Frankly speaking, not through prayers or meditation, but through action.”
Dalai Lama

“I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then I look in the mirror & see an old bastard & realise it's me.”
Dave Allen

[Lilith7]

“Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”
Albert Einstein

“There is nothing amazing about being highly educated; there is nothing amazing about being rich. Only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.”
Dalai Lama

[Lilith7]

“In nature nothing is perfect & everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, & they're still beautiful.”
Alice Walker


“Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free & independent labour organisations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.”
Harry Truman

[Lilith7]

“The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, & they know how separate they are.
They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark race who were the original posessers of the island, who never mixed with the invaders coming later from the east, but were slowly driven into the western mountains.”
Laurie Lee

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe', a part limited in time & space. He experiences himself, his thoughts & feelings, as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires & to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures & the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein

[zqwerty]

poem by Lord Byron, inscribed on a monument in memory of his own dog...

Near this Spot

are deposited the Remains of one

who possessed Beauty without Vanity,

Strength without Insolence,

Courage without Ferosity,

and all the virtues of Man without his Vices.

This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery

if inscribed over human Ashes,

is but a just tribute to the Memory of

Boatswain, a Dog

who was born in Newfoundland May 1803 and died at Newstead November 18th 1808.

When some proud Son of Man returns to Earth, Unknown to Glory but upheld by Birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rests below. When all is done, upon the Tomb is seen Not what he was, but what he should have been. But the poor Dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his Masters own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnotic'd all his worth, Deny'd in heaven the Soul he held on earth. While man, vain insect! hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.

Oh man! thou feeble tenant of an hour, Debas'd by slavery, or corrupt by power, Who knows thee well, must quit thee with disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust! Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, Thy tongue hypocrisy, thy heart deceit, By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye! who behold perchance this simple urn, Pass on, it honours none you wish to mourn. To mark a friend's remains these stones arise; I never knew but one — and here he lies.