“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“A crazy certainty had arisen in his mind: a hand - or perhaps a claw - was going to swim up from the grayness of the Kindle's screen, grab him by the throat, and yank him in.”
― Stephen King
“Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around... Just get lost and get saved!”
― Israelmore Ayivor
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson
@argome321,
And how he treats animals.
@argome321,
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.”
—Dean Koontz
"Silence is safer than speech."
--Epictetus
(After speaking those words, he died.)
“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Stephen King
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
― Milan Kundera
@vonny,
vonny wrote:
“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Stephen King
That reminded me of this:
@argome321,
Sorry, but that's a fake Buddha quote. I'd post the link to the site, but when I tried I got a page saying that they'd been hacked and are rebuilding.
@FBM,
Quote:Sorry, but that's a fake Buddha quote. I'd post the link to the site, but when I tried I got a page saying that they'd been hacked and are rebuilding.
hmm, I didn't know that. But, never the less the sentiment is still nice and I like it.
try this quote site
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/wisdom?page=2
@argome321,
Gracias. That looks like a good source.
As for the Fake Buddha Quotes page, maybe they'll recover from the hacking incident soon:
http://fakebuddhaquotes.com/you-yourself-as-much-as-anybody-in-the-entire-universe-deserve-your-love-and-affection/
@FBM,
"The absence of all enhancements and enforcements of authority left the real thing plain.
There are people of inherent authority; some emperors actually have new clothes."
--
Buddha
--Ursula K. Le Guin,
The Dispossessed
