quotes aplenty
"People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly."
"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'"
(goes with the THT seminar :D)
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
"Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis."
"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."
"Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't."
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
"After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone."
"There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart."
"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."
(I couldn't pass that one up because Ice T said it. actually Ice T's an inside joke that no one knows or remembers.)
"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
and last but not least:
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
^heh, I'm laughing at myself^
"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'"
(goes with the THT seminar :D)
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
"Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis."
"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."
"Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't."
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
"After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone."
"There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart."
"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."
(I couldn't pass that one up because Ice T said it. actually Ice T's an inside joke that no one knows or remembers.)
"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
and last but not least:
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
^heh, I'm laughing at myself^