"Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966~
It is not the books you read that make you intelligent, rather the thoughts aroused by those books. -Durchii Never make an attempt to reason with your shortcomings, for they will never be resolved with excuses. -Durchii Replace 'Coal in your stocking' with 'An Eternity in a burning hell' and you would still believe in Santa Claus, would you not? -Durchii They come to me randomly, I suppose. Enjoy.
Foolish optimism is redundant. -Me When one accepts life, that is when it truly ends -Me I don't subscribe to logic, so I'm free to say as I wish. -take a guess The last one isn't wholly true, just something I like to say when arguing to frustrate people
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received. - Tom Robbins
ill just post some that i used to use as a sig on some older forums. "Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people." "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place." "One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."
*Upon having a friend roll in dog feces* Me: Dude, holy shit! Friend: SHIT! Me: Shit! You just rolled in shit! Friend: Jesus! There's shit! SHIT! And now for a realistic quote... Me: If the Universe can't be made out of nothing, how can God just be out of nothing? Me: We're the biggest threat to ourselves.
'I am not, I will not be. I have not, I will not have. This frightens all children, And kills fear in the wise.' Nagarjuna, on Sunyata and the nature of reality.
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. -Hunter S. Thompson
The only obstacle to happiness is reality. -Anonymous No one has faith in God, they only have faith in those who have told you of God. - youngandstupid
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"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God" --Epicurius--
"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means." ~Robert Louis Stevenson~
