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silverwhisper
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i love this thread but have nothing to contribute just yet...
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bailadora
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“When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. - Sherrilyn Kenyon, Devil May Cry
ambiguityperson
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From Robert Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land:
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy — in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy — in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
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Another Heinlein, this one from Time Enough For Love:
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful —just stupid.)
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful —just stupid.)
fire_breeze
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Great men are not born - they make themselves great.
fire_breeze
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn (and love) as if you were to life forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (the addition mine, if he doesn't mind
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~ Mahatma Gandhi (the addition mine, if he doesn't mind
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fire_breeze
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I am currently reading An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield, and it is filled with one inspiration after the next.
This one stands out though:
“Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.”
This one stands out though:
“Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.”
circa 1987
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My favourites.
From the most wonderful Oscar Wilde
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely do they ever forgive them."
"The only thing worst than being talked about it not being talked about."
From The Star Book by Ben Okri
"Many are the moments when the moon speaks a strange tongue to the eye, when it is half eaten by the sun or the dark, when it is red, or too blue, or flecked with diverse images that perplex the mind, or riddles with letters of an obscure alphabet, or cracked, or chewed at the edges by a cosmic mouse, as if at cheese prophetic, or when its face is pitted with signs, or when faces old and strange, the face of one’s grandfather or of a stranger glimpsed in a crowd, or of a face that betrays an emotion too complex for the human mind to comprehend appears on the moon’s visage, above our bewildered superstitious gaze."
"Rare beauty, rare things must be ephemeral, that is a part of its charm lest it lose the quality of rarity."
From The Art of Fiction
"What kind of experience is intended, and where does it begin and end? Experience is never limited and is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider’s web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle of tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind."
From the most wonderful Oscar Wilde
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely do they ever forgive them."
"The only thing worst than being talked about it not being talked about."
From The Star Book by Ben Okri
"Many are the moments when the moon speaks a strange tongue to the eye, when it is half eaten by the sun or the dark, when it is red, or too blue, or flecked with diverse images that perplex the mind, or riddles with letters of an obscure alphabet, or cracked, or chewed at the edges by a cosmic mouse, as if at cheese prophetic, or when its face is pitted with signs, or when faces old and strange, the face of one’s grandfather or of a stranger glimpsed in a crowd, or of a face that betrays an emotion too complex for the human mind to comprehend appears on the moon’s visage, above our bewildered superstitious gaze."
"Rare beauty, rare things must be ephemeral, that is a part of its charm lest it lose the quality of rarity."
From The Art of Fiction
"What kind of experience is intended, and where does it begin and end? Experience is never limited and is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider’s web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle of tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind."
LaRascasse
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Something from Salinger
“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
Athalia
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There was indeed another thread on this topic, over at the Authors' Hangout:
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=409906
But here's one for this thread:
"War is over! (If you want it.)" -- John and Yoko Lennon
I've been thinking about that a lot this holiday season. It's so simple. When people stop wanting war, war will stop.
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=409906
But here's one for this thread:
"War is over! (If you want it.)" -- John and Yoko Lennon
I've been thinking about that a lot this holiday season. It's so simple. When people stop wanting war, war will stop.
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They say if you love someone you gotta let them go and if they return to you that's surely how you'll know
- Mike Ness
- Mike Ness
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Im a kid, really. You get into Studio Two at Abbey Road, you're sitting there with Paul McCartney and your guitar is plugged in. You think thats an ordinary days works, but of course it isn't its magical! Managing to persuade him to sing I Saw Her Standing There at the Cavern, with me doing the John Lennon parts, was absolutely fantastic. I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that, motherfucker!
- David Gilmour talking about some of his session work
- David Gilmour talking about some of his session work
remy_lebeau8
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I agree. One of my top inspirations and the reason I play a strat
bailadora
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A room without books is like a body without a soul. (This has been attributed to Cicero, but really, who knows).
******
“What is REAL?” asked the Velveteen Rabbit one day… “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”
“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.
“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand… once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.” - Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
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“What is REAL?” asked the Velveteen Rabbit one day… “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”
“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.
“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand… once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.” - Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
haurni
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"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." - Tom Lehrer
"...Hell is reserved exclusively for them that believe in it. Further, the lowest Rung in Hell is reserved for them that believe in it on the supposition that they'll go there if they don't." - HBT; The Gospel According to Fred 3:1, Principia Discordia
Not an inspirational quote or anything, just some amazing writing:
"Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
It is that flat and spectral non-hour, awash in limbic tides, brainstem stirring fitfully, flashing inappropriate reptilian demands for sex, food, sedation, all of the above, and none really an option now.
Not even food, as Damien's new kitchen is as devoid of edible content as its designers' display windows in Camden High Street. Very handsome, the upper cabinets faced in canary-yellow laminate, the lower with lacquered, unstained apple-ply. Very clean and almost entirely empty, save for a carton containing two dry pucks of Weetabix and some loose packets of herbal tea. Nothing at all in the German fridge, so new that its interior smells only of cold and long-chain monomers.
She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage."
- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
"...Hell is reserved exclusively for them that believe in it. Further, the lowest Rung in Hell is reserved for them that believe in it on the supposition that they'll go there if they don't." - HBT; The Gospel According to Fred 3:1, Principia Discordia
Not an inspirational quote or anything, just some amazing writing:
"Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
It is that flat and spectral non-hour, awash in limbic tides, brainstem stirring fitfully, flashing inappropriate reptilian demands for sex, food, sedation, all of the above, and none really an option now.
Not even food, as Damien's new kitchen is as devoid of edible content as its designers' display windows in Camden High Street. Very handsome, the upper cabinets faced in canary-yellow laminate, the lower with lacquered, unstained apple-ply. Very clean and almost entirely empty, save for a carton containing two dry pucks of Weetabix and some loose packets of herbal tea. Nothing at all in the German fridge, so new that its interior smells only of cold and long-chain monomers.
She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage."
- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
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"Sweep the leg, Johnny."
