A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." - Stephen Crane
On the other hand, there are limits to that. I'm reminded of Jonathan Swift, who said, "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."
Her landing will make the dogs bark, and the scream . . . No, a voluntary evacuation of the premises is much nicer, and allows for a continuation of your business relationship. Good honest vendors of any product or service should be treasured and encouraged.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote Me, too.
“Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.” - Orrin Woodward "It happens every day. Lord Acton’s famous saying is: Power corrupts and corrupts absolutely. I don’t agree with him. Power cannot corrupt. Power corrupts because corrupted people desire power. They may not have the means right now to do wrong things, but when they gain power they will have means. Then they try to fulfill their wrong desires, their corrupted desires. No, power doesn’t corrupt; on the contrary, beings who are corrupted but have not yet had opportunities are always ambitious about power. Before they attain power they will be saints, but once they attain the power they drop all pretensions, because that sainthood was only to deceive. Their real desire was to gain power. Then they drop all the masks, then they come to their authentic reality, and then you say that the power has corrupted them. No, power never corrupts." - Osho
Mein himmel, finally caught up. Grabbed all the quotes I like and just finished copying all my posted quotes so I don't post repeats...lost that txt file when I reset me tablet. Sore back from sitting for hours and did my WO @2:40am. Weather is dry so riding soon, YAY ! "If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool." - Buddha "On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day, and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him." - Buddha "There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey." - Buddha "The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth." - Ram Dass "The rule of quest physics goes something like this: If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter old resentments, and set out on a truth seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truely willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you." - Elizabeth Gilbert "The longest journey is the journey inward." - Dag Hammarskjld "We don't receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us." - Marcel Proust "The journey towards healing cannot begin until one chooses to detach from one's beliefs." - Alexander Stillwater "Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts." - Marianne Williamson "The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that no longer serve us in the present." - Marianne Williamson "Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them." - Rumi
Just ran across this in A Canticle for Liebowitz: "Sincere– that was the hell of it. From a distance, one's adversaries seemed fiends, but with a closer view, one saw the sincerity, and it was as great as one's own. Perhaps Satan was the sincerest of the lot."
