“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter. ~Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 1657, translated from French
@edgarblythe,
This is a very clever statement. I've heard something very similar in an opening to a speech. Now I know where it came from.
"We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife."
"...scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past."
Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin
@edgarblythe,
That's the Kierkegaard?
I'm going to have to read more from him.
Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. ~Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)
“I know it’s risky because it could come off as corny to some people,” he said. “So my new name is Love, aka Brother Love. I will not be answering to Puffy, Diddy, Puff Daddy, or any of my other monikers.”
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. ~Somerset Maugham
Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
– Bruce Lee
Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don’t get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what’s sexy and what’s feminine and that’s bullshit. At the end of the day, it’s not about equal rights, it’s about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. — Beyoncé
@edgarblythe,
That applies to racial equality, also.
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. — Malala Yousafzai
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame.
Religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
I actually knew this joke in the early 60's.
“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, Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay
@edgarblythe,
I wish I could live yesterday over again, and again, and again....
@cicerone imposter,
I would also love to go back and go at it again.
"It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim."
--FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE (1952) by Isaac Asimov
@edgarblythe,
They married late in life. As a matter of fact, Medicare paid for their honeymoon.
Mr Berle
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
