Food for Thought

When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature’s rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It’s that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature’s intelligence to flow through us without interfering. - Deepak Chopra

You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly – that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp. - Anne Lamott

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don’t fit into their box are weird. But I’ll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance. - C. JoyBell C.

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Humorous Quotes

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. - Douglas Adams

So, now I've been to see a drug counsellor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs. - Libby Bray

I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel showing two-year-olds in the wild, where they belong. - Ray Romano

Men and women are natural enemies, like cat and dog – only more so. They are forced to live together for a time, or this wonderful race couldn't go on. - Neith Boyce

If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly. - Sandra Byrd

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde

Luck is looking for a needle in a haystack and coming out with the farmer's daughter. - Phyllis Martin

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world. - Glen Duncan

A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t. - Rhonda Hansome

I don’t believe in the afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. - Woody Allen

The difference between two men is usually a woman. - Evan Esar

I’ve never lost a game I just ran out of time. - Michael Jordan

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Death

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth. - John Quincy Adams

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it. - Jean de La Bruyere

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways. - T.S. Eliot

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough. - Jose Saramago

Death is a creditor that is never ignored. - Edward Counsel

Death is a distant rumour to the young. - Andy Rooney

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one. - Theodore Roosevelt

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. - William Penn

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in. - George Bernard Shaw

Death is just – to the just. - Edward Counsel

Death is never convenient, no matter what the circumstances. - Peter Watts

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor. - Michael Marshall

Death is release, if you've lived all right. - Edward Albee

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose. - Cesare Pavese

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell. - Henry Ward Beecher

Death is the end of every worldly pain. - Geoffrey Chaucer

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt. - Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time. - Dean Koontz

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life! - Irvin D. Yalom

Death one appointment we must all keep, and for which no time set. - Charlie Chan

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Quote Worthy

The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities. - Rodolfo Costa

It is never wise to seek or wish for another’s misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. - Charley Reese

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else. - Stephanie Klein

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. - Bruce Feirstein

If you live off a man’s compliments, you’ll die from his criticism. - Cornelius Lindsey

Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy. - Franz Schubert

It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself. - Don Delillo

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. - Confucius

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. - Seneca

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Jokes

My wife said to me: ‘If you won the lottery, would you still love me?’ I said: ‘Of course I would. I’d miss you, but I’d still love you.'

A woman ran after the garbage truck, yelling, “Am I too late for the garbage?”
The garbage man yelled, “No, jump in.” -

Phoebe: I guess we’re oil and water.
Dan: I’d say we’re more like gasoline and a blowtorch.

My mother texted me “What does IDK, LY & TTYL mean?”
I answered: “I don’t know, love you, talk to you later.”
Mother: “OK, I’ll ask your sister.”

Buy a sheep. Name it Relation. Now you have a Relationsheep.

Some asshole looked at my beer belly in the bar last night and sarcastically asked, “Is that Budweiser or Heineken?”
I said, “There’s a tap underneath it, taste it.”

Food for Thought

The essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things – the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal. - Dan Simmons

Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out. - Unknown

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person – without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other. - Osho

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Dreams

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. - Colin Powell

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. - Farrah Gray

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass – to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that. - Anthon St. Maarten

Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt. - David Bower

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. - H.F. Hedge

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week. - William Dement

Dreams are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. - Henri Amiel

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. - Dale Turner

Dreams are the seedlings of reality. - Napoleon Hill

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely. - Erma Bombeck

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion. - Theodor Wiesengrund

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. - Harriet Tubman

Every morning we have a choice – forget our dreams or live them. - Seth Gabel

Everyone has dreams. But it is what you do with these dreams that is important. Dreams, once you make the decision to act on them can become reality. - Glynis Nunn

Everything starts as somebody’s daydream. - Larry Niven

Follow your dreams, they know the way. - Kobe Yamada

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true. - Unknown

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person. - Hugh Hefner

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Humorous Quotes

If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex? - Glenn Beck

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. - Norman Mailer

It's been projected that Americans will spend over $13 billion this Valentine's Day. And guys who forget Valentine's Day will spend over $100 billion. - Conan O’Brien

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does. - Bertrand Russell

When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch. - Bette Davis

The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it. - Woody Allen

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine was hit by a truck. - Unknown

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods. - Louisa May Alcott

If a glass of wine is good for you, just imagine what a whole bottle could do. - Unknown

A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need advice. - Bill Cosby

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. - Gore Vidal

In our family we don't divorce our men – we bury them. - Ruth Gordon

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Success - Quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. - Joseph Addison

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. - George E. Allen

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win. - Og Mandino

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. - David Rockefeller

Success isn't outscoring someone, it's the peace of mind that comes from self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best. Success is a journey, not a destination – half the fun is getting there. - Gita Bellin

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility… In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility. - Michael Korda

Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious. - Samuel Smiles

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Quote Worthy

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones. - Abraham Lincoln

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, through ignorance the fish devours the bait, we men know well the foes that lie in wait, yet cannot shun the meshes of desire. - Bhartrhari

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. - Napoleon Bonaparte

When you fully trust someone without any doubt, you finally get one of two results: A person for life or a lesson for life. - Unknown

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. - Douglas Adams

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system. - Marie Lu

What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability. - Charles Bukowski

If you focus on the hurt, you will continue to suffer. If you focus on the lesson, you will continue to grow. - Unknown

Everything important has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. - Alfred North Whitehead

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. - Warren Buffett

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains! - Alice Caldwell Rice

The greater idiot ever scolds the lesser. - Herman Melville

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