Wednesday 31 July 2013

Love


Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business. What we are asked to do is to love and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbours worthy. - Thomas Merton

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. - Paulo Coelho

Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself. - Paramahansa Yogananda

The best love is the one that makes you a better person, without changing you into someone other than yourself. - Unknown

Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I really need it. - Swedish  Proverb

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. - Unknown

Tuesday 30 July 2013

Quote Worthy


Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputation is who people think you are. - John Wooden

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. - William Arthur Ward

Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere; and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself. - Unknown

Sometimes the universe doesn’t give us exactly what we want when we want it, because there’s something better down the road. - Sandra Anne

The short term pain of accepting the truth is much better than the long term pain of believing an illusion. - Unknown

Day is over, night has come. Today is gone, what’s done is done. Embrace your dreams through the night. Tomorrow comes with a whole new light. - Unknown

You are  not responsible for other people’s behaviour. You are only responsible for how you behave in response to other people’s behaviour. - Unknown

As you grow older, you gradually realize the precious things in life. You know what you need and what to leave behind. - Brigitte Nicole

Pity - Quotes

He best can pity who has felt the woe. - John Gay

If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; but if in guise of Love, chase her away. - Richard Garnett

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity? - Italian Proverb

It is only at first that pity, like morphine, is a solace to the invalid, a remedy, a drug, but unless you know the correct dosage and when to stop, it becomes a virulent poison. The first few injections do good, they soothe, they deaden the pain. But the devil of it is that the organism, the body, just like the soul, has an uncanny capacity for adaptation. Just as the nervous system cries out for more and more morphine, so do the emotions cry out for more and more pity, in the end more than one can give. Inevitably there comes a moment when one has to say 'no', and then one must not mind the other person's hating one more for this ultimate refusal than if one had never helped him at all. - Stefan Zweig

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. - George Eliot

Pity is a hierarchical concept. It implies a looking down upon another. It is condescension. Pity arises out of the maintenance of distance between people. It has nothing of the adventure of intimacy and commitment that are essential to compassion. - Andrew Purves

Pity is more spectator-like than compassion; we can pity people while maintaining a safe emotional distance from them. - Aaron Ben-Ze’ev

Pity the laden one; this wandering woe may visit you and me. - George Eliot

The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption. - Dean Koontz

Those who do not complain are never pitied. - Jane Austen

To be the object of pity is a situation very humiliating. For although Pity is said to be fitter to love, and a certain degree of tender affection is always mixed with it, there is no doubt at the same time such an inferiority in being pitied as is not consistent with dignity of character. - Unknown

Monday 29 July 2013

Glorious Insults


These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. Some of them anyway.

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The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She said, "If you were my husband I'd poison your tea."
He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response

He had delusions of adequacy. - Walter Kerr

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Winston Churchill

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.. - Oscar Wilde

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. - Billy Wilder

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts.. . for support rather than illumination. - Andrew Lang

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. - Mae West

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. - Mark Twain

I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here. - Stephen Bishop

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. - Forrest Tucker 

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. - Groucho Marx

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde 

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? - Mark Twain

Sunday 28 July 2013

Plans / Planning - Quotes

A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow. - George Patton

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there. - H. Stanley Judd

All time management begins with planning. - Tom Greening

Any plan is bad that cannot be changed. - Italian Proverb

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. - Napoleon Hill

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints. - Napoleon Hill

Failing to plan is planning to fail. - Alan Lakein

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace, it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. - Unknown

If you do not plan, it is all right – just as long as you are not surprised when you finally fail. - Unknown

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. - Edward Everett Hale

If your plans have failed, ask yourself if there is a better plan waiting to be discovered. - Unknown

It is a bad plan that cannot be changed. - Publilius Syrus

Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small. - Lao-tzu

No one plans to fail, many fail to plan. - Unknown

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan. - Larry Winget

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 Seneca

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow. - Ibn Gabirol

Plan for tomorrow but live for today. - Unknown

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. - Alan Lakein

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter Drucker

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. - Pliny The Elder

The most intelligent man living cannot succeed in any undertaking without plans which are practical and workable. Just keep this fact in mind and remember, when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure. It may only mean that your plans have not been sound. Build other plans. Start all over again. - Unknown

The purpose of planning is to reduce the uncertainty of the future. It is not meant to eliminate it. - Unknown

You can never plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke

You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens. - Mandy Hale

Saturday 27 July 2013

Sorrows - Quotes

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. - Arthur Schopenhauer

All sorrows are less with bread. - Miguel de Cervantes

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life. - Unknown

I am grieved at your sorrow, although it will hereafter be a source of joy unto you. The purest water runs from the hardest rock. - Walter Savage Landor

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to expect it. - Abraham Lincoln 

No sorrows befall him who has nothing. - Unknown

Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. - Jean Paul Richter

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. - Cormac McCarthy

The sorrows of other men seem to us like clouds of rain that empty themselves in the distance, and whose long-travelling thunder comes to us mellowed and subdued; but our own troubles are like a storm bursting right overhead, and sending down its bolts upon us with direct plunge. - Henry Ward Beecher

There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome. - Jacqueline Carey

There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.  - Dante Alighieri

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope. - George Eliot

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. - Alfred De Musset


Two thirds of all sorrow is home-made and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. - Aldous Huxley

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other. - Emile Zola

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. - Confucius

Friday 26 July 2013

Quote Worthy


We are slaves of the law so that we may be able to be free. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. - Unknown

There is always something you can be thankful for – just to be alive is one. - Unknown

We cannot go ahead without leaving something behind. - Lemuel K. Washburn  

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. - Flora Whittemore

Don’t fear pressure, for pressure is what turns rough stones into diamonds. - Unknown

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Unknown

Oil all the wheels on your wagon, not just the squeaky one. - Gladiola Montana

To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it. - Timothy Childers

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. - Francis Bacon

Thursday 25 July 2013

Play - Quotes

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. - John Cleese

Man’s most serious activity is play. - George Santayana

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with objects it loves. - Carl Gustav Jung

This combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. - Albert Einstein

To retain the simple playfulness of childhood through one’s riper years is what opens a person up to the creative possibilities within a situation. - Denise Shekerjian

Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture. - Italo Calvino

Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Gustav Jung

Retirement - Quotes

Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. - Samuel Johnson

Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life. - Harold G. Koenig

I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that just need to be working, and useful, or have a job of some kind, in order to be happy. Otherwise they are neurotically barking, scratching, or tearing up the sofa. A working dog needs to work. And I am a working dog. - Martha Sherrill

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave. - Hugh Hefner

I want to do something for a living that when it comes time to retire and I can stop doing it, I’ll want to continue doing it in my free time. - Jarod Kintz

If we wait until retirement to enjoy ourselves, there may not be enough of ourselves to enjoy it. - Mike Hammar

In the wealthy nations of the world we face nothing less than a thorough redefinition of retirement. To be sure, people will continue to retire from their jobs. But, retirement will no longer be the twilight of life, focused on rest, recreation, and recuperation; it will now be a time in which people will marshall their experience and intelligence to create entirely new lives for themselves. - Peter Schwartz

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement. - Gregory Maguire

Life begins at retirement. - Unknown

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. - Dwight L. Moody

Retirement can and will be a glorious time in your life. You'll love the freedom and ability to try new things. It's a new phase of life; a chance to be a beginner again. - Richard Carlson

Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money. - Unknown

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. - Jonathan Clements

Retirement is not the closing of an old door, but the opening of a new one. It is an exciting approach to an infinite variety of new testing of a man’s ability, new stretchings of his mind, new releases for his energies and abilities. All that is required is that he must recognize new challenge when it presents itself, and accept it zestfully. If he has been doing this all his life, it will be easier for him in the later years, but in one form or another the opportunity awaits everyone, if he will only seek it. - Clarence Randall

Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within. - Ernie J. Zelinski

Retirement is when you stop living at work and start working at living. - Unknown

Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. - Gene Perret

Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it. - Abigail Charleson

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. - Malcom Forbes

Retirement life is seven day weekends. - Unknown

Retirement only means that it is time for a new adventure. - Unknown

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work. - Nora Roberts

Retirement: It’s nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. - Gene Perret

Retirement? You're talking about death, right? - Robert Altman

The concept of freedom is never truly realized until one settles into retirement mode. - A. Major

The difficulty of retirement planning is its parameters – an undetermined amount of money, to last an unknown length of time, in a highly volatile financial environment including fluctuations in the stock market, the cost of living, medical care, taxes, and Social Security. - Ellie Williams

The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things. - Susan Miller

There is no fixed or ideal pattern to respond to the circumstances of retirement. Each solution is a personal one and can be endlessly modified to suit your wishes and desires. That's the fun of it. - Robert Kelley

To fear retirement is to fear life. - Ernie J. Zelinski

What people miss most in the early months of retirement is structure. Their daily routine has suddenly disappeared and they feel adrift. - Robert Kelly

When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you’re still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired. - Unknown

Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous – don’t be a burden on others. - Ernie Zelinski

Wednesday 24 July 2013

Life


If you don’t like where you are headed …  you are always free to choose another path, to change your mind, to take a detour, to turn around or forge ahead in a new direction. It’s time to realize that YOU are in command as the driver of your own vehicle on the freeway of life. Get comfortable behind the wheel and enjoy the journey… love your life. - Unknown

A meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated, or being perfect. It is about being real, being humble, being strong, and being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others. It is only then that we could have a full, happy and contented life. - Mar Razalan

The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love. - Unknown

Tuesday 23 July 2013

Quote Worthy


Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. - Gandhi

Don’t be too shy that your presence isn’t noticed or too bold that your absence isn’t felt. - Unknown

Never forget what someone says to you when they’re angry because that is when the truth comes out. - Unknown

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is wonderful stroke of luck. - The Dalai Lama

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows. - Unknown

It helps if you remember that everyone is doing their best from their level of consciousness. - Deepak Chopra

Drama does not just walk into your life. You either create it, invite it, or you associate with people who love to bring it into you life. - Unknown

It’s good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. - Rumi

Play-writing - Quotes

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready-made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail. - Aristotle

He who would write for the theatre must not despise the crowd. - Clayton Hamilton

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do – then go ahead and do it with ease. Don't maul, don't suffer, don't groan till the first draft is finished. A play is a pheonix and it dies a thousand deaths. Usually at night. In the morning it springs up again from its ashes and crows like a happy rooster. It is never as bad as you think, it is never as good. It is somewhere in between, and success or failure depends on which end of your emotional gamut concerning its value it approaches more closely. But it is much more likely to be good if you think it is wonderful while you are writing the first draft. An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected. - Tennessee Williams

I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays. - Graham Greene

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think. - Eugene Ionesco

In a play, from the beginning, you have to realize that you’re preparing something which is going into the hands of other people, unknown at the time you’re writing it. - T. S. Eliot

Society is inside of man and man is inside society, and you cannot even create a truthfully drawn psychological entity on the stage until you understand his social relations and their power to make him what he is and to prevent him from being what he is not. The fish is in the water and the water is in the fish. - Arthur Miller

The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built – story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame. - Brander Matthews

The difference between a live play and a dead one is that in the former the characters control the plot, while in the latter the plot controls the characters. - William Archer The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them. - Eugene Ionesco

The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH – which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied – prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done. - David Mamet

What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don’t bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can. - Tennessee Williams

Monday 22 July 2013

Sunday 21 July 2013

Pleasures - Quotes

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Gagehot

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure. - David Hume

As a grim skull lies covered beneath the fairest face; so does an abyss of torment lie beneath the surface of the glittering sea of sensual pleasure and dissipation. - William Scott Downey

As an experience, pleasure is ... a filling up of the cup, the supplying of a need. And the deeper the draft upon vital resources, the greater the fulfilment of desire. - William Ernest Hocking

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come. - Chinua Achebe

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jeffeson

During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. - Jean de la Bruyere

Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain. - Danilo O’Dell

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain. - Horace Mann

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

How much pleasure will you allow yourself? Many people have an invisible quota in their minds for the amount of joy they will permit themselves to experience. They become so busy living life that they view pleasure as a luxury they simply do not have time for. Things like lovemaking or playing take a back-seat to the everyday motions of living. However, your life simply will not work as well when you deny yourself pleasure. The old adage of all work and no play making you dull is quite true; you may find yourself living a rather colorless life if you do not pause every now and then to indulge your senses. Pleasure is like the oil that keeps the machine of your life running smoothly. Without it, the gears stick and you will most likely break down. - Cherie Carter-Scott

If by giving up small pleasures, great happiness is to be found, the wise should give up small pleasures, seeing the prospect of great happiness. - The Buddha

If pleasure is what you want, do not suppress the desire. Seek it intelligently. - Huston Smith

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. - Honor De Balzac

Man will endure a lot of pain to obtain a little pleasure. - Unknown

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. - Benjamin Franklin

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. - Russell Baker

Past pleasures are of as little comfort to a man as the money in his neighbour’s pocket. - Abraham Miller

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. - Iago

Pleasure and pain seem to have been accidentally cast in the same mould. - Lewis F. Korns

Pleasure is a harmony – that is, a fitting together – a fitting of an external object with a mood or want within ourselves. - Herbert Maxwell

Pleasure is a hedonistic reflex, a burning impulse to abandon rational thought altogether and immerse oneself in the moment. - Gene Wallenstein

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. - Eckhart Tolle

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much. - William Cowper

Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old. - Fluke Greville

Pleasure is the flower that fades, remembrance is the lasting perfume. - Bruce Lee

Pleasure is the physical manifestation of joy. - Cherie Carter-Scott

Pleasure is the sun of the morning, the cloud of the meridian, and the storm of the evening. - William Scott Downey

Pleasure is the structure of society. From childhood until death we are secretly, cunningly or obviously pursuing pleasure. So whatever our form of pleasure is, I think we should be very clear about it because it is going to guide and shape our lives. It is therefore important for each one of us to investigate closely, hesitantly and delicately this question of pleasure, for to find pleasure, and then nourish and sustain it, is a basic demand of life and without it existence becomes dull, stupid, lonely and meaningless. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance. - Samuel Johnson

Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. - Richard L. Evans

Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man. - Muhammad Ali

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. - Samuel Johnson

Pleasure to me is wonder – the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty. - H. P. Lovecraft

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition. - Epictetus 

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. - Seneca

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

The excess of delight palls our appetites rather than pleases. - Wellins Calcott

The fact that all animals and men pursue pleasure is some indication that it is in some way the highest good. - Aristotle

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil. - Aristotle 

The more a man finds his sources of pleasure in himself, the happier he will be. . . . The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The pleasure of any incident, whether it is of a sunset, or sexual, or any sensory pleasure, is recorded and thought over. So thought as pleasure plays a tremendous part in our life. Something happened yesterday which was a most lovely thing, a most happy event, it is recorded; thought comes upon it, chews it and keeps on thinking about it and wants it repeated tomorrow, whether it be sexual or otherwise. So thought gives vitality to an incident that is over. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. - Eric Hoffer

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight. - Epictetus

The pleasure-pain mechanism in the body of man – and in the bodies of all the living organisms that possess the faculty of consciousness – serves as an automatic guardian of the organism's life. The physical sensation of pleasure is a signal indicating that the organism is pursuing the right course of action. The physical sensation of pain is a warning signal of danger, indicating that the organism is pursuing the wrong course of action, that something is impairing the proper function of its body. - Ayn Rand

They that seldom take pleasure, seldom give pleasure. - Fluke Greville

True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest. - John Lubbock

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast. - Horace Mann

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. - Alan Watts 

When happiness was a matter of pleasure, and pleasure a matter of taste, one could be happy simply by rolling in filth. - Darrin M. McMahon

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. Jane Austen

Your body can be one of the greatest sources of pleasure when you open your five senses fully and experience the physical wonder of being alive. Pleasure can come in the form of sight, like when you see a magnificent sunset, or taste, like when you eat a favourite food. It can come as a glorious musical sound or the soft touch of a lover. The only secret to learning the lesson of pleasure is to make time and space for it in your life. - Cherie Carter-Scott

Saturday 20 July 2013

Soul - Quotes

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways – by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. - Plato

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. - William R. Alger

Emotions are the colors of the soul. - WM. Paul Young

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. - Benjamin Disraeli

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. - Orison Swett Marden

Happy is the soul that has something to look backward to with pride, and something to look forward to with hope. - Oliver G. Wilson 

In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves. - Saul Bellow

Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evil. - William Scott Downey

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury. - Edwin Hubble Chapin

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. - Edwin Hubble Chapin

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. - Vincent van Gogh

Only by much searching and mining, are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul. - James Allen

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. - Thomas Carlyle

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals. - Sallust

The soul that is within me no man can degrade. - Frederick Douglas

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. - William Rounseville Alger

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. - Frederick William Faber

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it. - Rene Descartes

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate. - Seneca

Friday 19 July 2013

Quote Worthy


The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work. - William Feather
 
We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn. - J.Todd Ferrier 

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. - Tryon Edwards 

Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. There is no need to explain or make sense of it. Just trust what you feel. - Unknown

Sometimes all you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe, and have faith that everything will work out for the best. - Unknown

Thursday 18 July 2013

Revenge - Quotes

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. - Francis Bacon

A man who desires revenge should dig two graves. - Unknown

Ah, what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms. - Herman Melville

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. - Confucius 

He that has revenge in his power, and does not use it, is the greater man. - Wellins Calcott

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself. - Aesop

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. - Francis Bacon

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter. - Isaac Barrow

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing. - J. R. R. Tolkien

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness. - Thomas Fuller

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst. - Walter Weckler 

Revenge is a fervour in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse – a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. - Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past. - Bernard Crick

Revenge is a virus which eats into the very vitals of the mind and poisons the entire spiritual being. - James Allen

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded. - Frank Herbert

Revenge is like a ghost. It takes over every man it touches. Its thirst cannot be quenched until the last man standing has fallen. - Vladmir Makarov

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. - Emil Cioran

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. - Austin O’Malley

Revenge is private and personal, and so readily gets out of hand. - Ernest Lucas

Revenge is the law of the outlaws. - Laura Blumenfeld

Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world. It ruins the avenger while more firmly confirming the enemy in his wrong. It initiates an endless flight down the bottomless stairway of rancour, reprisals, and ruthless retaliation. - Tim Lahaye & Bob Phillips

Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. - Max Lucado

Revenge is, to him who is possessed with it, a continual anguish, and an excruciating pain; it is an eating canker at the heart, a biting plague, that gnaws and incessantly preys upon the very soul. The revengeful man wears in his breast a torment greater than any he can inflict on the person his malice aims at the destruction of, and has often the additional misery to see his enemy smiling in ease and security, while his own heart is burning and torn to pieces within him, for the miscarriages of his designs against him. - Unknown

Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils. - John Milton

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell. - Walter Scott

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind. - Juvenal 

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. - Albert Schweitzer

The best revenge is always to just happily move on and let karma do the rest. - Unknown

The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury. - Marcus Antoninus

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil. - Tim Lahaye & Bob Phillips

The pleasure of revenge is like the pleasure of eating chalk and coals. - Jeremy Taylor

The impulse to revenge is an impulse to justice, but it is a primitive one, and although its intention is to restore balance, its personal and emotional basis always threatens to make it too harsh and punitive, therefore inviting further revenge. - A. C. Grayling

The very design of revenge is troublesome, and puts the spirits into an unnatural fermentation and tumult. The man that meditates it is always restless, his very soul is stung, swells and boils, is in pain and anguish, hath no ease, no enjoyment of itself, so long as this passion reigns. The execution of it may perhaps be attended with some present pleasure, but that pleasure is unreasonable and brutish, momentary and short, like a flash of lightning, which vanisheth in the twinkling of an eye. - Isaac Barrow

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. - Francis Bacon
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. - Phaedrus

To admit wanting revenge is to admit you have been crushed and need to be rebuilt. Few are comfortable admitting that, even to themselves. - Laura Blumenfeld

Universal though the instinct for revenge may be, it is much stronger in some of us than others. And those who have it in abundance apparently pay something of a price. - Ellis Cose

Very often actual revenge is beyond our means, and we are driven to indulge in prospective, circuitous, and imaginary retaliations, from thence deriving a few drops of satisfaction in the ideal form. - Alexander Bain

Very often when people speak of justice, they are not referring to some abstract concept of law, or an ethereal vision of divine justice, but rather the more earthly idea of responding to a temporal wrong. They simply want to make sure that he who has caused suffering ends up suffering himself. The only way for the wrongdoer to know the pain that he has caused is by experiencing his own pain. That's why the seeking of revenge is an understandable human impulse, precisely because, to the revenge-seeker, the result feels like justice. It speaks to the underlying raw hurt, the primal sense that some life-altering event had taken place, and that the perpetrator must be made to feel the same sense of deprivation and loss. - Thane Rosenbaum

We live today in a world wracked by revenge. Nations at sword's point. Peoples against peoples. Hate brewing in men's hearts. And yet we hear it said "Revenge is sweet." We everyday folk are often infected by that hoary sophism. But it misstates the dangerous side of a fundamentally noble trait of human nature, self-defence. Unbridled revenge is about the bitterest thing on earth. - Garret Smith

When violence hurries on too fast, and caution does not keep pace with revenge, people generally do themselves more harm than the enemy. - Wellins Calcott

When we take revenge against another, we lose some of our innocence. - Patrice Redd Vecchione