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26taurus
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posted June 11, 2008 12:39 AM
 
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~Wayne W. DyerNobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit. ~Jewel Kilcher, Pieces of You
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841
Never assume the obvious is true. ~William Safire, Sleeper Spy
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. ~Marshall McLuhan
They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong. ~Kin Hubbard
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,
By reiteration chiefly.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh IP: Logged |
26taurus
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posted June 11, 2008 12:40 AM
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive - a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society - a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question. ~Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 IP: Logged |
26taurus
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posted June 11, 2008 12:41 AM
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
~Stephen King
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26taurus
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posted June 11, 2008 01:07 AM
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ~Albert Camus
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ~Christopher Morley, Human Being
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. ~Aldous Huxley The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ~Don Marquis Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978
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26taurus
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posted June 11, 2008 01:48 AM
"Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of."
~D.M. Thomas
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26taurus
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posted June 11, 2008 01:50 AM
...did you know that overall, women have better night vision and a wider peripheral vision than men?  IP: Logged |
MysticMelody
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posted June 11, 2008 02:32 AM
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"Where? Where are you?" almost frantic in my haste I dash around, the search renewed, new hope and initiate faith The other calls "I would know your soul, caress your face" I sing back to her of gentle love, of sadness in her absence Of dreams I hold, of visions sought, of journey undertaken I know remember, the vision clears, I am never lost and alone And to you my friend, I will gladly sing, my songs of love and longing
 that piece is wonderful I also very much like the quote about escaping from others as an escape from yourself.
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