Quotes and Stuff

[Ocean's Edge]

Brought to mind by another thread, but didn't want to intrude on anyone's grief..

From a different tavern in a different time and a different place, but still no less a truism

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy

[Gravdigr]

"More things are never tried because they are impossible than are tried because people believe in them." She reached for her stick to stir the fire. "And what kind of world would we have if people believed in the impossible? Think of what we could do. Now, there's a Dream for you."

~ White Calf in "People of the Fire" by W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear

[xoxoxoBruce]

"The old scholar was watching the noisy young people around him and it suddenly occurred to him that he was the only one in the whole audience who had the privilege of freedom, for he was old. Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public, or of the future. He is alone with approaching death and death has no ears and does not need to be pleased. In the face of death a man an do and say what pleases his own self."
--Milan Kundera, from "Life is Elsewhere"

[Gravdigr]

Mmm, mmm. You smell like the inside of my mama's purse.

~Family Guy

[limegreenc]

or your grandmas' bra...

[Old Bunyip]

Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public,

"When I was 20 I worried about what people thought about me.
When I was 40 I couldn't care what they thought of me.
Now I am 60 and I realize they were not thinking about me at all."

Just a joke, but has its own wisdom

[BigV]

Welcome to the cellar Old Bunyip!

[Old Bunyip]

Thank you Big V.
I think I have lurked long enough.
I like your Marcus Aurelius signature, too.

[BigV]

:-)

Thanks for your kind words about my signature, I try to live up to it each day; I confess I am confused a bit about your signature. I find trust to be a necessary part of love. I don't think I can love anyone I don't trust. The converse is true of course, there are many I trust but do not love.

Lastly, I am happy to have you paddle while I steer.

[Old Bunyip]

Now you are getting tricky, Big V!
I have had a pretty rugged life where many people who loved me (and I loved) let me down. Proved not worthy of my trust but I loved them for what they were. They did what they thought was best.
Now I try to love or have compassion for "many" but am aware that only "few" are really trustworthy in regard to me.
Hence the "paddling of my own canoe" = I go my own way, not someone else's.
Which means, kind Sir, if you came aboard,you would paddle while I would steer

[Clodfobble]

I'm with Bunyip--there are plenty of people whom I love and accept as flawed individuals, but that doesn't mean that they have my own best interests at heart as well. I don't trust them to do the right thing in certain situations, or maybe even any situation, but I love them nonetheless.

[Flint]

Love many. Trust few.
Always paddle your own canoe

I couldn't agree more, and couldn't have said it better.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It's not personal...

[Flint]

The Great Society asks not how much, but how good;
not only how to create wealth but how to use it;
not only how fast we are going but where we are headed.

--Texas Native, Lyndon Baines Johnson, "LBJ"


He is one of only four people who served in all four elected federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President.

[Gravdigr]

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

~Hugh Leonard