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PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, rocks about 2" in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The students laughed. The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. "Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognise that this is your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, your children - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else, the small stuff. If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinnerparty and fix the disposal. Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand." "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. " "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. " "His ignorance is encyclopedic" "If a man does his best, what else is there?" "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. " "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. " "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. " "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. " "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. " "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. " "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. " "Assassins!" "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. " "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." "If you are going through hell, keep going." "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." "He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them." "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." "Facts are the enemy of truth." "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." "I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right." "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." "Black holes are where God divided by zero." "I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." "Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working." "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." "Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street." "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." "It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance" "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." "A clever man commits no minor blunders." "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." "A witty saying proves nothing." "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." "It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion." "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." "I'll sleep when I'm dead." "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." "If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." "The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head." "Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together." "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" "While we are postponing, life speeds by." "Luck is the residue of design." "Wit is educated insolence. " "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. " A Prayer... Hello, I woke up today to hear the first of the string of tragedies that has fallen upon the United States. I must say that I am still in shock over this. I'm watching the news right now and shaking my head in disbelief over the in-your-face footage of the tragedies and pointing fingers as they try to figure out who is behind this so that they may have justice. Although I am not what you would term religious, I still feel that a small prayer and blessing is greatly needed: God (or whoever/whatever is out there), please keep Your hands and eyes upon the world and please be with those who are in Your need during this tragic time. I pray for the survival and well-being of those who are injured. I pray for the well-being of the United States of America and the rest of the world. I ask all of you to please sit back, close your eyes and take a moment to remember the thousands of people who have been killed or injured, as well as their family and friends. Send your love and goodwill out to them as they are badly in need of it...I know that they will receive your good blessings whethr you believe in this or not, I wish there was more I could do right now, but I guess I'll just sit and watch the events unfold. If you feel the same way I do: sad, scared, restless, wishing you could help, please forward this to as many people as possible, and add to it as you feel necessary. New York Sin has sought the same thing forever This is not a empty promise What more do we need to see, feel, hurt, die We wait for Him to do Shaun Salen What a Mystery What awe and obedience displayed Who can understand His love Yes, the wonders of this world may live Who can understand His love "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. " "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." The only way to have a friend is to be one. The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." To be great is to be misunderstood. "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." "Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." "It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." "Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." "The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette." "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." You must do the thing you think you cannot do." "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." "I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win--if you don't, you won't." "The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them." " Style is when you steal from yourself" Come over here, babe Sweetheart, come In the swirling, curling, storm of desire Whether it be across the sea Holding one in four black American brothers God is watching us play our ghetto wars "God has put in place everything for us too success as a people and a planet. If we turn to him and seek his way of things and not our own we will have a desirable end." Sunday Cleansing Today I felt that I needed a change, so I shaved off my goatie. It is a system of cleansing. Cloud I used to think that money would buy me happiness. I ate a cloud and then I woke up. Farming and Self - Loathing Swollen roots of dollar bill fields are getting bigger and smarter. One of these days we are going to have to dig them up. Face it You are afraid. There are pesticides we can use. Right? The day we pick them all is the day that they turn on us. What is that smell? There is decay under my feet. Don't worry, it is not my shoes. Storm Warning I watched the lightning from " May you have the hindsight to know where you've been "Everything has its beauty but "I don't do big things The problem with perfection is that it has no limit's. Normally, once you obtain perfection, you realize how it could be better. have I been wrong have I been blind |
"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. " "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. " "Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. " "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. " "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. " "Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. " "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. " "We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" "When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. " "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. " "I would have made a good Pope. " "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. " "The mistakes are all waiting to be made. " "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. " "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. " "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. " "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. " "There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. " "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. " "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. " "A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. " "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. " "Logic is in the eye of the logician. " "No one can earn a million dollars honestly. " "Everything has been figured out, except how to live. " "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. " "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. " "It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. " "When ideas fail, words come in very handy. " "In the end, everything is a gag. " "The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. " "You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. " "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. " "He who hesitates is a damned fool. " "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. " "University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. " "You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. " "Behind every great fortune there is a crime. " "I am not young enough to know everything. " "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. " "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. " "There is no sincerer love than the love of food. " "I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. " "I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. " "Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. " "Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. " "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. " "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. " "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. " STREETLIGHT My intuitions, preconceived notions and With only three fingers it prepares us. TOGETHERNESS HOLLYWOOD SYNDROME ONE DAY BEAUTY JUST RADIATES LANGUAGE NEW WAY OPEN WINDOW PROPHETS/PROFITS BED OF LIFE The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked When that happens, do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby's face of love Explore every corner of my brain. Take my cells, if necessary, and let them Burn what is left of me and scatter my ashes to the winds to help the If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weaknesses and all Give my sins to the devil; give my soul to God. If, by chance, you wish to ATTITUDE "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes." THE ULTIMATE SUCCESS FORMULA All people who succeed consciously or unconsciously utilize the same formula for success. Use these four simple steps to achieve whatever you desire. 1) Decide what you want. (Be precise! Clarity is power.) Passion or coincidence What is happening to me "The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforseen incidents, meeting and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help" "Don't let the things you can't do get in the way of the things that you can do" To the soul's desires What the spirit seeks "When you're down, then kicked a few more times until you're bleeding, and your teeth are out then you only have up to go. It's beautiful to be down there. IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!" Grace,it's a name for a girl "You must decide if you're valuable and not how valuable you are" "You're the Engine and only you can fuel it" I could not see for the fog in my eyes Yesterday is history That's why it's called the PRESENT The candles are lit. The curtains are drown "Only living stop's you from getting old" "I dreamt I was a Hershey bar in my dad's back pocket LOVERMAN L is for LOVE, baby All the jackoffs at the office " For those of us who don't pretend "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid" "Don't be so humble - you are not that great" "The artist is nothing without the gift, "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have" "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right" "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed" I Want to Crash a Car: What do you want to do before you die? I want to save somebody's life and not be a hero, I want to win a war after losing a friend, I want to take the road less traveled, Before I die I want to disappear into oblivion and not come back. I want to crash a car. I bet you are flying inside I Scare myself and I don't mean lightly Let me love you true, let me rescue you ....these are the killing fields my friends, where into the killing fields again Tie a yellow ribbon round your heart Many people reach a crossroads in life. The You say You and I won't lose our head's When love breaks down Give me back my broken night Makes you feel much older It wrecks me how they justify their acts of war |
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