Quote Of The Day

[Friday]

“What are you doing?!?”
“I’m unzipping my pants. To make it easier for you to kiss my ass.”

Eli Gold, The Good Wife

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

Several quotes have crossed my path and really reached out and tugged the head and heart strings these last few days...

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." ~Kahlil Gibran

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” ~Anaïs Nin

"I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
How are you?
~Hafiz

"Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul..." ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

 

[The Albatross]

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” ~ Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman

 

[The Albatross]

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” ~ Hunter S. Thompson

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

I dig me some Hunter S. Thompson, @The Albatross . Hope you're doing well.

This grabbed my attention today:

"Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded......we have never seen a totally sane human being." ~Robert Anton Wilson

 

[DharmaGirl]

“PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?

GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.

GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

 

[DharmaGirl]

Another great Tolkien quote:

“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found that it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[Teasel]

ss at bay.

They mean a lot don't they, very best to you @DharmaGirl :)

 

[user27357]

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Paracelsus 1493-1541

Everything in moderation is good, especially the everything part is what I take from this. You can drown in water or drink it to survive , you can drown in scotch or drink just enough to make it not so hard to accept the struggle to keep afloat. I thought of this when I first heard about CBD oils that have the healing power of Marijuana without the high. Whats wrong with the high? If you need so much CBD that you have to have it onboard all the time, I am betting some high might be a good thing? All that money I spent on pot in the 80's, I could have saved some bucks if it had been legal to sell me marijuana with the high but not all the healing powers.

 

[ladee]

We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.

Alicia Garza



If you don't heal what hurt you, you'll bleed on people who didn't cut you.

Chi Gong


Remember: despite how open, peaceful and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you, as deeply as they've met themselves

Matt Kala

 

[Ellabella44]

If you place a thing into the center of your life
That lacks the power to nourish
It will eventually poison everything that you are
And destroy you.
Song : Lion Tamer by Faithless

 

[The Albatross]

“It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.” ~ Anne Lamott