As stolen wholesale from prosepina, because I love it so much:

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright

Here's one of the quotes I was looking for - daily_zen again:

Don’t seek fame or fortune,
Glory or prosperity.
Just pass this life as is,
According to circumstances.
When the breath is gone,
Who is in charge?
After the death of the body,
There is only an empty name.
How long can a phantom like
Body last?

- Tung-shan (807-869)Looks like it's going to be hot today. ( Read more... )

L'amour n'est pas consolation, il est lumière.
Love is not consolation, it is light.
Simone Weil, Cahier VI (K6), as quoted in House of Leaves, p.655.I've had insomnia for a long time; people first commented on it when I was 16, at which point I tended to have one night a month of simply staying awake. Since then, the bouts have become more ( Read more... )

While out buying a card for Kirsten's birthday (a little late, but at least I gave her her present when she was over!), I found another card with a nice quote:
It is better to have lived
one day as tiger
than a thousand years
as a sheep.
Tibetan Proverb

It's one of the Scrawl / Tony Cresswell / urban graphic ltd ones that I keep finding and buying

As previously said, I rather liked the daily_zen for 28/10; the one for today is quite good as well, so here it is:

I explain to you matters
Pertaining to enlightenment,
But don’t try to keep
Your mind on them.
Just turn to the ocean
Of your own essence
And develop practical
Accord with its nature.

- Yangshan

I've also had Mansun's "Wide Open Space" in ( Read more... )

daily_zen for the win once more:

( Wisdom )

I rather liked today's daily_zen, which goes like this:

Don't seek fame or fortune,
Glory or prosperity.
Just pass this life as is,
According to circumstances.
When the breath is gone,
Who is in charge?
After the death of the body,
There is only an empty name.
When your clothes are worn,
Repair them over and over;
When you have no food,
Work to provide.
How ( Read more... )

Ahhhhhh.... Sunday, and I'm roasting chicken, along with onions and garlic cloves. There will also be new potatoes, savoy cabbage, and broccoli. Also, wine. You see, it's not that I'm unable to cook, at all; I'm pretty good, and I like trying out new things, but as the saying goes, "Never do anything yourself that others can do for you." (Agatha ( Read more... )

My, that's some bass... and why is it I cannot find the lyrics to "Bin Ich" anywhere? I think I'm just crap this evening. But I've managed to do some ironing without breaking anything, I'm going to have to count that as a success, relatively speaking.

If I get a chance later, I shall transcribe the lyrics, they are rather fun.
Later: ( here you go then )

That lunch deserves the moniker "indulgent" on every count. Good to catch up with M, too ( Read more... )