Quotes for Travelers in This Crazy Time
Dec 29th, 2004 | 08:01 PM
#121
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Daily Guide To Happiness
Pray: It is the greatest power on earth
Love: It is a God given privilege
Read: It is the fountain of wisdom
Think: It is the source of power
Be Friendly: It is the road to happiness
Give: It is too short of a day to be selfish
Play: It is the secret of prepetual youth
Laugh: It is the music of the soul
Work: It is the price of success
Save: It is the secret of security
Pray: It is the greatest power on earth
Love: It is a God given privilege
Read: It is the fountain of wisdom
Think: It is the source of power
Be Friendly: It is the road to happiness
Give: It is too short of a day to be selfish
Play: It is the secret of prepetual youth
Laugh: It is the music of the soul
Work: It is the price of success
Save: It is the secret of security
Dec 30th, 2004 | 05:51 AM
#122
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>Message: Life is uncertain ... Eat dessert first!
I've seen this in a book called "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long", by Robert Heinlein. It was a book of quotes, supposedly by the main character of many of his scifi books, Lazarus Long.
Some others by him (the character lives about the year 4000AD):
I suspect that our race's tragedy has been played endless times. It may be that an intelligent race has to expand right up to its disaster point to achieve what is needed to break out of its planet and reach for the stars. It may always -- or almost always -- be a photo finish, with the outcome uncertain to the last moment. Just as it is with us. It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail...
Take life in big bites! Moderation is for the monks.
In a society in which it is a mortal offense to be different from your neighbors your only escape is never to let them find out.
A rational anarchist believes that concepts, such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame.. as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and _nowhere_ else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world.. aware that his efforts will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure.
What are the marks of a sick culture? It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the county and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.
And, finally, (I can't believe noone has yet posted this one!), I believe it was Samuel Johnson: "The man who is tired of London is tired of live"
I've seen this in a book called "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long", by Robert Heinlein. It was a book of quotes, supposedly by the main character of many of his scifi books, Lazarus Long.
Some others by him (the character lives about the year 4000AD):
I suspect that our race's tragedy has been played endless times. It may be that an intelligent race has to expand right up to its disaster point to achieve what is needed to break out of its planet and reach for the stars. It may always -- or almost always -- be a photo finish, with the outcome uncertain to the last moment. Just as it is with us. It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail...
Take life in big bites! Moderation is for the monks.
In a society in which it is a mortal offense to be different from your neighbors your only escape is never to let them find out.
A rational anarchist believes that concepts, such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame.. as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and _nowhere_ else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world.. aware that his efforts will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure.
What are the marks of a sick culture? It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the county and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.
And, finally, (I can't believe noone has yet posted this one!), I believe it was Samuel Johnson: "The man who is tired of London is tired of live"
Jan 3rd, 2005 | 08:05 AM
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Beatchick: Well, if you're a parent, you prolly said it enough times it very well could have been your own!!!
Between that little nugget and a few choice others I couldn't have raised my kids! ('sit up straight'; 'don't talk with your mouth full'; 'did I hear a please with that request?'; 'remember who you are and what you are'; 'a bath is not an incarnation of the devil'; 'please take your foot off your sisters throat'; etc.) hehe
Between that little nugget and a few choice others I couldn't have raised my kids! ('sit up straight'; 'don't talk with your mouth full'; 'did I hear a please with that request?'; 'remember who you are and what you are'; 'a bath is not an incarnation of the devil'; 'please take your foot off your sisters throat'; etc.) hehe
Jan 3rd, 2005 | 10:29 PM
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There's gotta be a way! (?)
'"Be prepared!" Girl guide motto
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (?)
Don't sweat the small stuff. (?)
Most challenges in life are not in our control. It's how we respond that decides our worth. (?)
If it isn't illegal, immoral or life threatening, let them learn from the consequences. (Barbara Coloroso)
A life unexamined is a life not lived. (?)
Do it now. Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery. All we have is now. (?)
From those who have much, much is expected. (?)
The ? means I know that I learned these from someone else, but can't cite the source. And I apologise for the paraphrasing.
'"Be prepared!" Girl guide motto
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (?)
Don't sweat the small stuff. (?)
Most challenges in life are not in our control. It's how we respond that decides our worth. (?)
If it isn't illegal, immoral or life threatening, let them learn from the consequences. (Barbara Coloroso)
A life unexamined is a life not lived. (?)
Do it now. Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery. All we have is now. (?)
From those who have much, much is expected. (?)
The ? means I know that I learned these from someone else, but can't cite the source. And I apologise for the paraphrasing.
Jan 7th, 2005 | 01:33 PM
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My favorite quote of all time:
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow - what a ride".
I'm not sure who said it... Anyone?
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow - what a ride".
I'm not sure who said it... Anyone?
Dec 21st, 2006 | 06:29 PM
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Amelia Earhart
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself"
"After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the esthetic appeal of flying."
“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
"Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price."
"Not much more than a month ago I was on the other shore of the Pacific, looking westward. This evening, I looked eastward over the Pacific. In those fast-moving days which have intervened, the whole width of the world has passed behind us -except this broad ocean. I shall be glad when we have the hazards of its navigation behind us."
-- Amelia Earhart, several days before she left for Howland Island and disappeared
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself"
"After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the esthetic appeal of flying."
“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
"Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price."
"Not much more than a month ago I was on the other shore of the Pacific, looking westward. This evening, I looked eastward over the Pacific. In those fast-moving days which have intervened, the whole width of the world has passed behind us -except this broad ocean. I shall be glad when we have the hazards of its navigation behind us."
-- Amelia Earhart, several days before she left for Howland Island and disappeared
Dec 21st, 2006 | 07:49 PM
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Courtesy of Eric Idle
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way".
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
n this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Cheers all
Steve
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way".
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
n this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Cheers all
Steve
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