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Being Born is Like Being Kidnapped

Religion is the end of Love and honesty, the beginning of confusion; faith is a colourful hope or fear, the origin of folly. ~ Tao Te Ching #Quote

Even telepathic children have to eat their vegetables. ~ Jefferson Starship, Wild Eyes 👁👁 #Lyrics

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. ~ David Bowie #Quote

Don’t put all yours eggs in one basket. #Proverb

What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count. ~ Albert Einstein #Quote

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe #Quote

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ~ James Baldwin #Quote

I'm the mirror to your mood, you hate me and I hate you. ~ The Kinks, #Lyrics 

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. ~ Georges Bernanos #Quote

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. ~ Albert Einstein #Quote

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~ Phyllis Diller #Quote

For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. ~ Khalil Gibran #Quote

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn’t it be nice if eternity captured you smiling? ~ Robert Brault #Quote

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~ Benjamin Franklin #Quote

Variety is the spice of life. #Proverb

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense. ~ Aldous Huxley #Quote


I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ‘work,’ because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep 🛌. ~ Andy Warhol #Quote

Seduce my mind and you can have my body. Find my soul and I’m yours forever. ~ Anonymous #Quote

Waste your money 💰 and you're only out of money 💰, but waste your time ⏳ and you've lost a part of your life. ~ Michael Leboeuf #Quote

Grow love with me. ~ Yoko Ono #Quote

A foolish heart ❤️ will call on you to toss your dreams away, then turn around and blame you for the way you went astray. ~ Grateful Dead, Foolish heart ❤️ #lyrics

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. ~ Anon. #Quote

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart ❤️. ~ Robert Fulghum #Quote

Believing all the lies that they are telling you, buying all the products that they are selling you. ~ Rage Against The Machine, Bullet In The Head #Lyrics

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. ~ C.S. Lewis #Quote

When I die, I want people to play my music 🎶, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do. ~ Jimi Hendrix #Quote

Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music 🎶 again. ~ Jimi Hendrix, Third Stone From The Sun #Lyrics

Poetry is life distilled. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks #Quote

Faith: not wanting to know what is true. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche #Quote

I never had a shortage of people trying to warn me about the danger I pose to myself. ~ Drive By Truckers, Heathens #Lyrics

Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and education. ~ Braham Flexner #Quote

Jokes are grievances. ~ Marshall McLuhan #Quote

Spring has returned. The earth 🌎 is like a child that knows poems. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke #Quote

If wishes were horses beggars would ride. #Proverb

We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need. ~ David Bowie, Cygnet Committee #Quote

It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ~ Thomas Jefferson #Quote

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ~ Don Marquis #Quote

Religion, comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. ~ Sigmund Freud #Quote

You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers. #OneLiners

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. ~ Thomas Fuller #Quote

All the heroes and legends I knew as a child have turned into idols of clay. ~ Styx, Show Me The Way #Lyrics

Such a human waste, your eyes 👁👁 without a face. ~ Billy Idol, #Lyrics

Culture is defined by the ones least refined. And you'll be left behind, if you don't fit in. ~ Offspring, Americana #Lyrics

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. ~ Sylvia Plath #Quote

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. ~ Aldous Huxley #Quote

I got fire 🔥 in my mind, I got higher in my walkin', and I'm glowin' in the dark, I give you warnin'. ~ The Bee Gees, Night Fever #Lyrics

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. ~ C. G. Jung #Quote

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. ~ W. H. Auden #Quote

All’s fair in love and war. #Proverb

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! ~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin #Quote

Journalists should not be so distant that all they can hear are shouts, nor so close that they become more conspirators than critics. ~ Walter Lippman #Quote

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~ Cavett Robert #Quote


Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience. ~ Mason Cooley #Quote

All the times you lied, and all the times I cried, I'm never gonna be the same again. Lost in your world of fantasy, look what you've done to me. ~ Triumph, A World Of Fantasy #Lyrics

Miller's fingers are traveling down the length of her thigh, but Miller's mind is still wandering staring up at the sky. ~ Counting Crows, Miller's Angels #lyrics

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. ~ Denis Diderot #Quote

And in the end, the love you take. Is equal to the love, you make. ~ The Beatles #Lyrics

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote

Most smiles are started by another smile. ~ Author Unknown #Quote

An Englishman’s home is his castle. #Proverb

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. ~ Edward Gibbon #Quote

Empty vessels make the most noise. #Proverb

When I get a little money 💰, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. ~ Desiderius Erasmus #Quote

Half a loaf is better than none. #Proverb

When the shrivelled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. ~ Virginia Woolf #Quote

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too. ~ Source Unknown #Quote

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. #Quote

You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind. ~ The Kinks, #Lyrics Natural Gift




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