posted February 06, 2005 11:10 AM         

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always be a little kinder than necessary"

"Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds"

"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December"

"Heaven for climate, hell for company"

"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else"

"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life"

"Let no one who loves be unhappy...even love unreturned has its rainbow"

"Life is a long lesson in humility"

"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade"

"The best place a person can die, is where they die for others"

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another"

"The most useless are those who never change through the years"

"The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble"

"Those that bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves"

"To die will be an awfully big adventure"

"We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us"

"We never understand how little we need this world untill we know the loss of it"

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies"

posted February 06, 2005 02:46 PM         

"Those that bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves"

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies"

"Life is a long lesson in humility"

posted February 14, 2005 09:04 AM         

Here are some of my own:

Silence is the wisdom of the foolish,
and the folly of the wise.

The words of a wise man never reach the ears of a fool.

Better to fail in pursuit of the absolute, than succeed in pursuit of the particular!

Judgement is the antithesis of understanding.

It is superfluous to judge a man if he is guilty in his own eyes, and ridiculous if he is not.

Not crime, but conscience makes a criminal.
If a man is unfit to judge himself, who is fit to judge him?

I will surely take responsibility for myself, but who will take responsibility for ME?

In order to know him, it is not enough to walk a mile or two in a man’s shoes. One does not come to understand the nature of drunkenness after a single drink.

Humility works hard to satisfy its pride.

Patience isn't waiting for something.

Good men find their greatest pleasure in being virtuous,
while the rest of us find great pleasure a virtue.

The great tragedy of human existence is not that things change, but, that they change before we have an opportunity to get sick of them, and refuse to change long after we have.

Hope is always disappointed, but never disappointing. One must forget that the end is only a means, and the means is an end in itself.

Cause IS Correspondence.

Will is desire unimpeded;
where there's a way, there's a will.

Ignorance does not create error; error reveals ignorance. It is the same with man and his actions; he does not create them, but they reveal him.

The miracle is not that God became a man (that happens every day), but, that a man became God; something far more rare.

To turn the other cheek is just to look the other way, but trading blow for blow is the worst kind of hypocrisy.

Who said, 'There are no contradictions,'? He only spoke half-truths.

Every word is an abstraction.

Man appears to dominate his will, only because he is himself the predominant circumstance to which his will is subject.

Whether or not man may determine his will is of small consequence if he cannot determine the man who wills, and will the man who determines.

Only the inevitable is ever truly possible.

A man who thinks evil is good doesn't know the difference between good and evil; a man who thinks wrong is right doesn't know the difference between right and wrong.

Good men are not free to do evil;
evil men are not free to do good.
A warm heart cannot fail to give warmth,
nor a cold heart chills.

Morality is understood with the heart, not the head. One desires the good in proportion to one's experience of it.

To know the good is to will the good.

The moral sense is strong in some and weak in others. But, even in this, the strong do persecute the weak.

Hatred of evil is the craftiest and least well known of vices, so easily is it mistaken for love of good.

We tend to lose sympathy for a person to the extent that their suffering, having quite overwhelmed themselves, begins to affect us.

We generally reproach a man for the immodesty of his suffering when it is ourselves who will not suffer so much as the suggestion of it.

The term "unconditional love" is redundant;
and "conditional love" is an oxymoron.

Some resist the will of God, and some accept it, - but all obey.

Proposing to reveal Him, religion created the illusion that God is concealed.

Who has everything has nothing to live for.

Who is more unreasonable: The man who possesses no respect for human life, or the man who expects it of him?

Tyrants will teach children,
being judged unfit to govern men.

Sociopaths will enforce the laws they fear to break.

A man who has never known great or prolonged suffering has no real claim upon his happiness. Who is to say it will not abandon him at the first scent of trouble? We are tried by suffering, baptized or burnt, and it is only having passed through its flames that we come to know what we are made of.

Equanimity, in itself, is not a virtue; more often it is the result of weak passions than strong wills. Only strong passions can give birth to strong wills.

The key to happiness?:
Demand nothing of yourself and settle for anything.

When we need a reason to forgive, a reason can certainly be found. The trick is not needing one.

Self-contempt is the highest form of pride.

If a man is not slightly crazy, he is completely mad.

Whether confident or insecure, self-rapport is the same in every man. The self to which we remain attached is always the self that detaches, and never the self from which it is detached.

Flesh is not merely the corruption of Spirit, it is also the Divine Manifestation; the Fall is also the Incarnation. Herein lies the (previously unutterable) mystery and essence of Christian doctrine.

If suicide is cowardly, how much more so is the fear of death?

posted February 14, 2005 09:51 AM         

Patience isn't waiting for something.

I soooo get that but was always unable to put it in words. Looking at it now - it's so simple yet deep.

A man who thinks evil is good doesn't know the difference between good and evil; a man who thinks wrong is right doesn't know the difference between right and wrong.

Morality is understood with the heart, not the head. One desires the good in proportion to one's experience of it.

I believe in that last one so strongly.

Hatred of evil is the craftiest and least well known of vices, so easily is it mistaken for love of good.

OMG!! I know this is a cliche but...that's genius.

Some resist the will of God, and some accept it, - but all obey.

I love that one.

Who has everything has nothing to live for.

A man who has never known great or prolonged suffering has no real claim upon his happiness. Who is to say it will not abandon him at the first scent of trouble? We are tried by suffering, baptized or burnt, and it is only having passed through its flames that we come to know what we are made of.

These two are great. My mind starts to think like that during those strange high "sage" moments after an emotional breakdown. I stop worrying about what others have or how sad I am and start to accepts things happen for a reason - I should learn and grow instead of wallow.

If a man is not slightly crazy, he is completely mad.

LOL, I actually used to think I was crazy because I wasn't "normal" - that makes me feel better

If suicide is cowardly, how much more so is the fear of death?

This one's close to my heart, I wont say why though - don't want anyone to think I'm loony

posted February 14, 2005 03:54 PM         

Urrr...yeah I know my username's kinda strange

I'm kind of sick of it now. I tried that save your username and password thing but it doesn't work for me So now I have to type my stupid info in every time. Maybe I should change it to NM. Thanks for the emotional part, nice to see someone doesn't think I'm detached