Quote Of The Day

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"I'd rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned." ~Richard Feynman

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." ~Jodi Picoult

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden." ~Minnie Aumonier

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, "What the hell am I doing here?"" ~George Harrison

“Just look at your mind for a few minutes. You will see that it is like a flea, constantly hopping to and fro. You will see that thoughts arise without any reason, without any connection. Swept along by the chaos of every moment, we are the victims of the fickleness of our mind.” ~Sogyal Rinpoche

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ~Haruki Murakami

"...Don't feel guilty about being happy during this difficult time. You don't help at all by being sad and without energy. It helps if good things emanate from the Universe now. It is through joy that one resists...." ~White Eagle

“Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing: that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.” ~Annie Lamott

 

[Rainman8772]

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” — Sigmund Freud”

 

[shatter eyes]

"Don't be afraid to start over again. This time you're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience."

"Face your fears, by creating a plan. We are usually afraid of the unknown, so expose it, plan it and conquer your fears."
– Unknown

 

[Rani G2]

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.” ...

R.D Laing

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

“There is something about ritual that resonates deep in the bone. It is a ‘language older than words,’ relying not so much on speech as on gestures, rhythms, movements and emotion. In this sense, ritual addresses something far more primal than language.” ~Francis Weller

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Whatever you do be gentle with yourself. You don’t just live in this world or your home or your skin. You also live in someone’s eyes." ~Sanober Khan

 

[shatter eyes]

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping'."
– Mister Rogers

 

[The Albatross]

"Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models." ~ Will Self

"Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen." ~ Will Self

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. ~ James Baldwin.