Random Quotes
While there are many quotes here – all really – worth noting, I marked a couple aside that I just felt I should. I had to limit myself on marking some aside because this list is limited as is already…
“A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.”
~Siddhārtha
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“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
~Siddhārtha
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“Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; this is good luck.”
~Siddhārtha
“Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.”
~Siddhārtha
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“Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness but only to their benefactor but to everyone’s.”
~Siddhārtha
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“If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue to condemn him for their sake forever.”
~Siddhārtha
“It is within this fathom-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world, and the path leading to the cessation of the world.”
~Siddhārtha
“My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have no given you any set rules; I have not given you a system.”
~Siddhārtha
”Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world”
~Siddhārtha
“Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are there things which renew humanity.”
~Siddhārtha
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“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
~Confucius
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“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”
~Confucius
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
~Confucius
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
~Confucius
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”
~Confucius
“Don’t be concerned others [are] not appreciating you. Be concerned [that] you’re not appreciating others.”
~Confucius
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
~Confucius
“Real love stories never have endings.”
~Richard Bach
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“Love is needed to be loved.”
~John Lennon
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"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
~Plato
"Life must be lived as play."
~Plato
"Love is a serious mental disease."
~Plato
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
~Plato
"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."
~Plato
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
~Plato
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"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."
~Plato
“Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”
~Socrates
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
~Socrates
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.”
~Socrates
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
~Dr. Seuss
“Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway.”
~Elbert Hubbard
“Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.”
~Philippos
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“You don't stop playing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop playing.”
~Anonymous
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“I don’t tell the truth any more to those who can’t make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.”
~Anais Nin
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
~Mother Teresa
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
~Abraham Lincoln
“Love your enemies because they things out the best in you.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Untitled #103
You have no idea how much it meant to me… How much I needed it. With a simple request you saved me. I can say “thank you” a million times, I can do anything and everything for you, but no matter what, it could never be enough. I’m forever in your debt and I love you. I’ve told you before, and you just provided more evidence of it – you really are my angel.
You said things are going to get better and I know they will – but I fear things will get much worse before they get better. And I don’t know what to do… I always know what to do… I always have a plan. I always have an ace up my sleeve. I always have a way… But this time… for the first time… I don’t.
“Keep those that you love the furthest from you, but try to take care of them too.”
I want to… I really do. You’ve done so much and I don’t want you to have to share in my trials and tribulations. I don’t want you to worry. I don’t want you to feel you have to do anything for me or be there for me…
But I don’t think I can do this alone. I’m going to need you to get through this. And when it’s all said and done… I’ll be able to smile once again…
“We’ll get some lighter heads for our heavy hearts. And we’ll share a drink, yeah, we’ll share our fears. And you’ll know how I love you – I’m nothing without your love.”
Recent Updates
I just added a menu item, "Short Stories". You can hover over it to get a list of the short stories I have written and click on one of them or you can just click on the menu link. If you do that, it will provide slight information about the story - like whether it's fiction or non-fiction, etc. I'll be probably adding summaries to the main page soon as well but first things first, I wanted to get them up ^_^
A Response to a Poem
When you look in the mirror what do you see?
Is it those cuts, bruises, and scars
Which were formed so long ago?
Or maybe those tears you have lost?
It's a shame...
It really is...
In Response to a Letter Written Years Ago
Why anticipate the ending? Enjoy the present - Future has yet to come, Past has already came. While both are important, neither matter quite as much as Present. You can't change what happened so why dwell on the subtleties of so called imperfection and/or mishaps, mistakes that might of occurred.
And I would like to believe I know what parts of this writing refer to more so than others, some cryptic writing I know the code to. I wonder what your reflection is on this as you read it today.