Quotes

[BSM1]

"The main thing is, not to get excited."

A guy I use to work for many years ago. Always said this when a job wasn't behaving.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

"A man is necessary, a man is a piece of fatefulness, a man belongs to the whole, a man is in the whole; there is nothing that could judge, measure, compare, or sentence his being, for that would mean judging, measuring, comparing, or sentencing the whole. But there is nothing besides the whole. " - Nietzsche

 

[Exhibitkris]

Get the fat off your ***, get mad at the pain, and get out there. –H.Rollins


This isn’t meant to last, this is for right now. -T Reznor

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Rebooting this with a personal quote:

"If people didn't have sand in their crevices we'd never get pearls of wisdom."

 

[Leftimies]

"By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?"

- Hagakure (In the Shadow of Leaves), by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, noted samurai.


I.e, how can you expect to improve someone, if you constantly ridicule him for his failings?

 

[DreadFish]

I've lately been a fan of "Keep calm and carry on".

I think it's a good reminder to keep on truckin' and not let tough times get you upset.

 

[Nooj]

mara i see you

 

[Secret Chief]

"Choiceless awareness"

- Krishnamurti.

 

[bobhikes]

An Essay on the Principle of Population

The resurrection of a spiritual body from a natural body, which may be merely one among the many operations of nature which we cannot see, is an event indefinitely more probable than the immortality of man on earth, which is not only an event of which no symptoms or indications have yet appeared, but is a postitive contradiction to one of the most constant laws of nature.


I am glad I am rereading this, it is funny and still comtemporary. I doubt I got the humor in High School.