My Favorite Quotes

'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.' --Aldous Huxley

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

God gave men a brain and a penis but only enough blood to operate one at a time! (just a quote - no offense intended)

"It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean."

On Love

When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.


Kahlil Gibran

Of all the things I've lost...I miss my mind the most.

nap, those little slices of death....

Treat me like an angel and I'll be your lil' devil.

Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you're up to.

At least I can still smoke in my car

Sweetpepper said:

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now . . . only much, much better


~ W.H. Auden ​

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LOL. Good one.

Life's an Ocean, Sail It.

.....but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Love is like a rose in winter, only the strong survive.

A conclusion is the part where you got tired of thinking.

Careful with that light at the end of the tunnel, it might be another train coming.

Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make.

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.


OUT TO LUNCH: IF NOT BACK BY FIVE, OUT FOR DINNER ALSO

The Art of Peace

If you have not
Linked yourself
To true emptiness
You will never understand
The Art of Peace​

King

A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.