quotes from Seticat
"Live simply, love generously,
care deeply, speak kindly,
leave the rest to the cat."
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Mal: But it ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flyin' is? Well I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say.
River: I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Mal: Love. You can know all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
River: Storm's getting worse.
Mal: We'll pass through it soon enough.
~ "Serenity"
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Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them... he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?" God said, "I did do something. I made you."
~ a Sufi Teaching
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ~ Confucius
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back."
~ Alice Walker, "The Color Purple"
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“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
~ Albert Einstein
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"Grieve not,
nor speak of me
with tears,
But laugh and
talk of me
As if I were
beside you.
I loved you so -
‘twas heaven
here with you."
-Isla Paschal Richardson
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"Mourning never ends."
-- "'Illuminatus!" ~ Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
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A Veteran - whether active duty, retired or reserve - is someone who at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "My Country and it's people", for an amount of "up to and including my life."
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A fight to the death between zombies has a few inherent problems.
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"I'm gonna base this moment on who I'm stuck in a room with. It's what life is. It's a series of rooms. And who we get stuck in those rooms with adds up to what our lives are."
` Eve, 'House MD' "One Day, One Room"
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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gilbran
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" Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't
mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."
~ 'Harry Dresden' - "Storm Front" by Jim Butcher
care deeply, speak kindly,
leave the rest to the cat."
* * * * * * * * *
Mal: But it ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flyin' is? Well I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say.
River: I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Mal: Love. You can know all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
River: Storm's getting worse.
Mal: We'll pass through it soon enough.
~ "Serenity"
* * * * * * * * *
Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them... he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?" God said, "I did do something. I made you."
~ a Sufi Teaching
* * * * * * * * *
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ~ Confucius
* * * * * * * * *
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back."
~ Alice Walker, "The Color Purple"
* * * * * * * * *
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
~ Albert Einstein
* * * * * * * * *
"Grieve not,
nor speak of me
with tears,
But laugh and
talk of me
As if I were
beside you.
I loved you so -
‘twas heaven
here with you."
-Isla Paschal Richardson
* * * * * * * * *
"Mourning never ends."
-- "'Illuminatus!" ~ Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
* * * * * * * * *
A Veteran - whether active duty, retired or reserve - is someone who at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "My Country and it's people", for an amount of "up to and including my life."
* * * * * * * * *
A fight to the death between zombies has a few inherent problems.
* * * * * * * * *
"I'm gonna base this moment on who I'm stuck in a room with. It's what life is. It's a series of rooms. And who we get stuck in those rooms with adds up to what our lives are."
` Eve, 'House MD' "One Day, One Room"
* * * * * * * * *
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gilbran
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" Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't
mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."
~ 'Harry Dresden' - "Storm Front" by Jim Butcher