Quotable quotes

[Alistair]

“Just as a low resting heart rate is the byproduct of intense exercise, low anxiety is the byproduct of intense self-examination.”

― Naval Ravikant

I don’t know about that one. Even thinking about self-examination gives me anxiety

 

[Alistair]

 

[opinterph]

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”

― Voltaire

 

[PalacePaul]

 

[Dargelos]

Henry George;
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in times of peace what enemies seek to do to us in times of war.

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Time in its aging course teaches all things.”

― Prometheus

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Lightning struck a while ago​

Blazing much too fast​

But give it rain of waiting time​

And it will surely pass …​

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And it's happening so quickly​

And I feel the flaming time​

And I grope about the embers​

To release my stormy mind …​

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Shaken this has left me​

And laughing and undone​

With a blinding bolt of sleeplessness​

That’s just begun​

And a windy crazy running​

Through the nights and through the days​

And a crackling​

Of the time burned away”​

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― David Byrne, Songs from Liquid Days​

 

[Rand]

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

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[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

― Carl Gustav Jung

 

[opinterph]

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

 

[Alistair]

 

[Norri]

As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods, they kill us for their sport.

W. Shakespeare

 

[opinterph]

“The waves were crazy big and coming from different directions all at the same time. I’d never seen it quite like that. I found a sand bar and waded way out until my toes left the sand with each bulge of the water. Soon thereafter I noticed a giant wave forming in the water offshore. It was much bigger than the rest. I tried to estimate where it would break as it rolled toward shore and quickly realized it would crash directly over me. I watched it swell and grow as I took deep and repeated breaths. I locked in one last great gulp of air and dived upward directly into the wave as hard as I could.

Once underwater I had no clue as to which way was up. I concentrated on holding my breath assuming that I would eventually float to the top. It took longer than I would have preferred. I surfaced about a quarter mile further out to sea and drifting. And it was an angry sea. I realized that my predicament was one of those situations where you have to focus. Steady slow pace, while continuing to look back over my shoulder to see if another monster might be forming.”

― opinterph

 

[pornoboy]

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[Alistair]

“We were meant to explore this earth like children do, unhindered by fear, propelled by curiosity and a sense of discovery. Allow yourself to see the world through new eyes and know there are amazing adventures here for you.”

– Laurel Bleadon Maffei

 

[opinterph]

“We come from the Earth. We return to the Earth. It happens over and over and over. You might say, we are the Earth. We’ve only to step away from our world of plastic and concrete to understand.”

― Scott Stillman, Wilderness, The Gateway To The Soul: Spiritual Enlightenment Through Wilderness

 

[cityboy-stl]