All the bright people, stopped in the midst of life, looking with forced smile into the lenses, then to be filed away, their colors fading as the years pass, caught there in slide trays, stack loads, view cubes, until one day the camera person dies and the grandchild says, “Mom, I don’t know any of these people. Or where these were taken even. There are jillions of them here in this big box and more in the closet. What will I do with them anyway?” “Throw them out, dear.” - John D. MacDonald
"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if pac-man affected us as kids we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive music." - I don't know who said that but it's genius.
It's very Bill Hicks.... I'm gonna google it. eta Nope it's Marcus Brigstocke if the net's to be believed (small time (usually unfunny fella)) from over here (Blighty). It's too good for him.
"My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer." - Psalm 45:1
"Shame is that dark, powerful feeling that holds us back. Yes, shame can stop us from acting inappropriately. But many of us have learned to attach shame to healthy behaviors that are in our best interest. In dysfunctional families, shame can be tagged to healthy behaviors such as talking about feelings, making choices, taking care of ourselves, having fun, being successful, or even feeling good about ourselves. Shame may have been attached to asking for what we want and need, to communicating directly and honestly, and to giving and receiving love. Sometimes shame disguises itself as fear, rage, indifference, or a need to run and hide. But if it feels dark and makes us feel bad about being who we are, it's probably shame. We are learning to identify shame. When we can recognize it, we can begin to let go of it. We can love and accept ourselves - starting now. We have a right to be, to be here, and to be who we are. And we don't ever have to let shame tell us any differently." - Melody Beattie
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. - Og Mandino
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. - William Shakespeare
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? - William Shakespeare (Henry VIII)
That's exactly what the movie "Groundhog Day" is about, only in the movie, it's the MC that dies every night. It's only when he realizes that he has to live only for that day, and plans his life around it, that he "breaks the spell," so to speak. Harold Ramis, in the commentary track to the DVD, says that he was unsettled to find that Buddhists and Hasidic Jews were picketing the theater where it opened, only to find that these groups were out there endorsing the film for that very lesson it taught.
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. - William Gibson, Count Zero