“My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon”
Chinese Proverbs
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”
― Henry Miller
"I always say beauty is only sin deep."
H.H. Munro
["Saki"]
@Lustig Andrei,
“The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.” -- Tallulah Bankhead
World War II
"[Richard Boone] was bombed while serving on the Enterprise, torpedoed on the Intrepid, and attacked by kamikaze planes on the Hancock. 'We began to think somebody was trying to kill us,' he says." - Writer Richard Gehman, 1961
"A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose."
Hortense Calisher
“Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.”
― Sir Walter Scott
“I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.”
― Neil Gaiman, Signal to Noise
"Then sing, young hearts. . . with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merrily in tomorrow."
EmilyMiller
I may have done this one before, but it's worth repeating.
The medium is the message:
Marshall Mcluhan. Now I know why I can't make myself read, write, nor paint. It's the computer.
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
― Eugene Victor Debs
"I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it."
-Confucius
“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
@edgarblythe,
“There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.”
― Klaus Balkenhol
“Who you gonna believe, bitch? Me? or your lying eyes?”
― Richard Pryor
@edgarblythe,
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."~ Robert Frost
