What Else? Writers Quotes! And stuff.

[heartfelt7]

Love is the only freedom in the world
because it so elevates the spirit
that the laws of humanity
and the phenomena of nature
do not alter its course.

from: "The Broken Wings" by Kahlil Gibran

[glenn]

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

~~Robert Frost

[heartfelt7]

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[glenn]

A wind has blown the rain away
and blown the sky away
and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand.

I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

~~e. e. cummings

[glenn]

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.


~~Eden Ahbez

[heartfelt7]

We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good, and at the same time capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful, in the knowledge that by some miracle of grace we can change, as those around us can change too.

- Mairead Maguire

[glenn]

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent;
We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

R. Tagore, excerpt from The Gardener

[heartfelt7]

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

- Rabindranath Tagore

[glenn]

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

~~John le Carre

[heartfelt7]

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or stars.

- Confucius

[glenn]

Sincere penance does not consist in perpetuating grief for the wrongs, but in resolving to avoid in future those deeds which call forth remorse.

~~Meyer Baba

[glenn]

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields, and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief?

~~Kahlil Gibran

[glenn]

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

~~Kenneth Tynan

[glenn]

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

~~Krishnamurti

[glenn]

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.

~G.B. Burgin

[glenn]

"We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal."

~~Carl Bernstein, U.S. journalist. Guardian (London, June 3, 1992)

[glenn]

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

~ Soren Kierkegaard

[glenn]

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

~~Soren Kierkegaard

[glenn]

“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -- But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”

~~Hilary Stanton Zunin

[glenn]

“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”

¯ Paulo Coelho

[glenn]

" Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

~~Kahlil Gibran

[heartfelt7]

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself."

- D. H. Lawrence

[glenn]

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

~~Charles Mingus

[heartfelt7]

"Opinion has caused more trouble on this earth than all the plagues and earthquakes."

- Voltaire

P.S. Hmm. Voltaire must have visited places similar to Florida.

[anirbas]

hehe...your opinion of Florida is sooooo funny, sweet Heart!!!!!!! rofl
plus, I loves me some Voltaire!

[heartfelt7]

It's not funny anymore since the embassy violence in Libya - all incited by the nutty guy in Florida. I won't even call him a pastor. I have many choice names, but that would just be my "opinion."

[anirbas]

As usual, perception is everything...When I read your line about Florida, I assumed you were poking fun at the the political campaigning in progress there during the last hurricane, etc...Blind as a bat, me!

I have a tendency, to get on the worksleepworksleepwork track and like a blinkered draft horse, am unaware of anything else going on about me. I hadn't the slightest idea the violence in Libya on Tuesday was associated with a silly film that lasted less than fifteen minutes.

I just looked the film up on Youtube and sat through it to the end. It is an opinionated, satirical piece of sh*t, but, I do not feel it should have been used as an excuse for what transpired on Tuesday, in Libya.

[heartfelt7]

Nor do I. The Voltaire quote is perfect for the conventions! I can totally understand why you went there.

[glenn]

Troubling times, these.

Canada recently closed its embassy in Iran because of fears of attacks. Then the insane attack on the US embassy in Libya. Over a film no-one would have paid any attention to had not the attacks on the embassy happened.

Sometimes it makes me worry that worse things are coming. Things can sometimes spiral out of control over incidents such as these.

Hard to know what to make of it.

[heartfelt7]

"We are to practice virtue, not possess it."

--Meister Eckhart