Heres a thread to express yourself through words and make a thoughtful quote about you life, society, marijuana, or anything on your mind. This is not a rant thread but was made to get a view of yours out there. "The difference between a good and bad relationship with anyone is stepping in their shoes, we use it as an expression but it is more to see things out of your own mind."
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. Theodor Geisel
I have not so much a personal quote, but a sentiment I've recently been carrying with me. Awhile back I was at a local history museum. One of the displays was a large 17th century culverin cannon used aboard a Spanish Galleon. On it, is emblazoned the words "Semper Vincit" which means "always conquer" in latin. In the context of the cannon, these words were meant to inspire a fighting espirit de corps among the gun crews. These are men that would live, basically, in floating prisons. They faced disease, death and discomfort every day of their lives. On the best day, they could hope to eat a few meals, get shitfaced drunk and not suffer the excruciating pain of a number of diseases that were rampant among their suffocatingly claustrophobic and unhygienic conditions. On the worst of days, these men would be expected to load and fire these heavy bronze cannons. Scorching heat, suffocating smoke and back-breaking fast-paced labour would define their battle experiences. They would be lucky not to be maimed by a shattered timber, or cut in half by grape shot and die a painful miserable death, without anybody shedding them a tear. I think of these men, who likely had few illusions of nationalistic pride or religious fervor. They did this because their homeland had nothing else to offer them. Taken out of context, I think of the words of Semper Vincit as a motto we can use to face our own trials and loss. "Always conquer" means to face down the worst of all possible conditions and triumph - because the alternative is to give up.
"You are only as fast as the person in front of you. But if you break free from the pack, you can choose your own speed." "Clouds are just an obstacle for light. Yet, the sun always finds it way through. Keep enduring, it all works out in the end."
"Success in life may come to anyone at any level in any walk of life, but whatever the degree or the profession, one's success is shaped by the help of a multitude of other people -- a team effort. Recognizing this fact, the haves should help the have-nots." Dr Ahmed Zewail, Voyage through Time - Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. T. E. Lawrence
In his book Man's Search for Meaning, Holocaust survivor and psychatrist Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) says that he asks his depressed patients, "What's stopping you from killing yourself?" I ask myself this often, and I always immediately feel better. Speaking of the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel wrote that when he arrived to Auschwitz he saw men throwing live infants into a fire. Bringing to mind that thought always throws my problems down toward the earth at light speed.
Read through this a little bit... http://forum.grasscity.com/general/493588-five-important-lessons.html#post5999080