Tag: quote
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Where to?
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else. — Alfred Adler (1870-1937), Austrian psychiatrist
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Just sayin’
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. — Anthony J. D’Angelo
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Mountains and molehills
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-44), French writer
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Still happily self-indulging
August 24, 2005 “We are all failures–at least, the best of us are.” — Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), British writer http://www.quoteworld.org/
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Yikes, Jung.
From quotez: “The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.” -Carl Jung Not sure I’d stretch it to ‘all’ mental illness (though, y’know, out of me & Jung, pick the famous psychologist type. So … ), but I’d pay this one. Avoidance is a mental ouroboros. A green-eyed monster that…
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Note to self
From http://www.quoteworld.org/ “The greatest power is often simple patience.” — E(li) Joseph Cossman (b. 1918), American writer, author
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Fire is want and surfeit
All things are an exchange for Fire, and Fire for all things, even as wares for gold and gold for wares. — Heraclitus
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Or just damn good fun
“But so it is, that there is a secret affinity, a hankering after evil in the human mind, and that it takes a perverse, but a fortunate delight in mischief, since it is a never-failing source of satisfaction. Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love…
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When weekends go missing, do they partner up with missing socks?
“Have I been idle, or have I nothing to shew for all my labour and pains? Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in…