Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

When you left,
    you thought you'd broken me

I thought you'd broken me.

But actually,
    you just broke the cage I was living in

 That's a good one.

[Lilith7]

"No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate & if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than it’s opposite."

“Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.”

Nelson Mandela

"Oh love is a wonderful cycle of song,
a model of extemporanea.
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Rumania."



"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."


Dorothy Parker

[Bracken]

"Let live. What's the good of being clever and merciless?"

(The Proper Place, by O. Douglas, 1926)

[crafters_corner]

"Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another".

~Nelson Mandela~

[crafters_corner]

Some will be attracted to your Light
Others will fear it
Some will bask in its glory
Others will try and diminish it
Some will walk beside you and expand your Light
Others will try and claim it as their own
Shine anyway...
Your Light is valued
Your Light is needed
Your Light illuminates the World
~ Julie Parker

[Lilith7]

“You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists.”
GK Chesterton

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

"A person with innate talents will bring them into use, somehow or other, sooner or later – nothing on earth will stop him but death itself – for he is the talent & the talent is him, inseparable."
George Mackay Brown

[Lilith7]

"A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights -- which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state."
Gerry Spencer

'A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.'
Malcolm Forbes

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that dogs think humans are nuts."
John Steinbeck

[Lilith7]

" Its like any orthodoxy, let it run for a few centuries & what started as something that came from deep inside the human spirit turns into a set of holy texts that stultify thinking. Then people who yearn after the real experience as you do get palmed off with a set of rigid theological propositions - & all that's left to do is learn to read it"
Marion Molteno


"We have now reached the point where every goon with a grievance, every bitter bigot, merely has to place the prefix, 'I know this is not politically correct, but...' in front of the usual string of insults in order to be not just safe from criticism, but actually a card, a lad, even a hero. Conversely, to talk about poverty and inequality, to draw attention to the reality that discrimination and injustice are still facts of life, is to commit the sin of political correctness. Anti-PC has become the latest cover for creeps. It is a godsend for every curmudgeon and crank, from fascists to the merely smug"
Fintan O'Toole

[crafters_corner]

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), "Drift Wood, A Collection of Essays: Table-Talk," Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1857

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When you are lonely,
I wish you love;
When you are down,
I wish you joy;
When you are troubled,
I wish you peace;
When things look empty,
I wish you hope;
When you feel hopeless,
I wish you faith.

[Lilith7]

Political Correctness Gone Mad - the distress call of the thwarted bigot

'Political correctness' was made up by old Tories and the like to bitch about
the fact that you can't treat dykes, ni**ers, sp*cs, w*gs and shirtlifters the way you used to.’
(Christopher Brookmyre, possibly slightly paraphrased without losing any of the sense

“We have been thwarted at every turn by God. Not the real God. A false one which has been set up by man to expedite his destruction of the earth. He is the gobblegod who bids fair to swallow everything in the name of a totally selfish humanity.
His ten commandments are me first (let me live as I please) , humans first (let all other living things die for my benefit) , sperm first ( no birth control), birth first (no abortions), males first (no women’s rights), my culture/tribe/language/ religion first, (separatism/terrorism), my race first (no human rights), my politics first (lousy liberals/rotten reactionaries), my country first (wave the flag, the flag, the flag, the flag), and, above all, profit first.

We worship the gobblegod. We burn forests in his name. We kill whales & dolphins in his name. We pave prairies in his name. We have retarded babies in his name. We sell drugs in his name. We set bombs in his name. We worship him everywhere. We call him by different titles & commit blasphemies in the name of worship."

Sheri Tepper

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
Oscar Wilde

[crafters_corner]

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

~Marianne Williamson~

[Lilith7]

"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?"
Nietzsche


"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
Albert Einstein

"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of awesome mystical power. We know this because they manage to be invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them."
Steve Eley

[crafters_corner]

Knowing when to walk away is WiSDOM

Being able to, is COURAGE

Walking away with your head held high, is DIGNITY

~

[namtak]

The difference between Hitler and God is that God seems to be more proficient at genocide.

[Lilith7]

"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
Thomas Szasz

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."
Gene Roddenberry

"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."
George Orwell


"I can resist everything except temptation."

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

Oscar Wilde

[Lilith7]

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
Napoleon


"If someone cannot explain some idea in simple terms that you can understand, then you must assume they are full of shit."
Kragus

"You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me."
Anon

"I have learnt that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man only when that man needs help to get up from the ground'.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

[Lilith7]

"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true."

Buddha - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddhartha

It has been estimated that to get the planet back on track over a seven year period would cost $750 trillion. That would include dealing with all the sanitation problems of the third world, all the basic food issues, atmospheric pollution. While it seems a huge amount, it’s what the world collectively spends on defence each year. We’ve got the money. We choose not to do it because it’s not in the best interests of the politicians we have.
Peter Russell.


old age

"Old Age, I decided, is a gift. I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I sometime despair over my body, the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback by that old person that lives in my mirror (who looks like my mother!), but I don't agonize over those things for long. I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly.

"As I've aged, I've become more kind to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant. I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging...

Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60&70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love - I will. I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They, too, will get old .I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things."

Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver. As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore I've even earned the right to be wrong.

So, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day. (If I feel like it)..."

[Lilith7]

"An excess of reason is itself a form of madness."
Tibetan Buddhist

"Women's virtue is men's greatest invention"
Cornelia Otis Skinner

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic, it is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness -- and if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now, as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself, a marvellous victory."
Howard Zinn

[Lilith7]

"Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life. "
Sophia Loren

'At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytising zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.'
Aldous Huxley

"If you can conduct yourself in a way that is not detrimental to others or that does not impinge on their freedom, then you are behaving according to dharma."
Sai Baba

[Lilith7]

"There are two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein

"The ultimate work of civilisation is the unfolding of ever deeper spiritual understanding."
Arnold Toynbee


Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
Charlotte Bronte