The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. ~ James Fenton #Quote
As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it. ~ Andy Warhol #Quote
...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidity of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him. ~ John Updike #Quote
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools 🤡. ~ Douglas Adams #Quote
Crocodiles cry for the love of the crowd and three cheers from everyone. ~ The Cure, Disintegration #Lyrics
Study the past if you would define the future. ~ Confucius #Quote
Every abridgement of a good book 📖 is a fool abridged. ~ Michel de Montaigne #Quote
Every man has his faults. #Proverb
Old habits die hard. #Proverb
The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up… A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on your feet and grit under your finger nails. But more than that, it leaves you wiser and stronger next time ⏳… ~ Laurel House #Quote
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. ~ Erich Fromm #Quote
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. ~ Louis L'Amour #Quote
On a place they call the planet earth 🌎, my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by. ~ Electric Light Orchestra, Mission #Lyrics
Welcome to the human race with its wars, disease, and brutality. ~ The Pretenders, Show Me #Lyrics
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. ~ Confucius #Quote
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book 📖. ~ John Lennon //0-0\\ #Quote
End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek. ~ The Kinks, #Lyrics Come Dancing
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. ~ Harry S. Truman #Quote
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things… ~ Antoine de St-Exupéry #Quote
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ~ Erich Fromm #Quote
Bad taste makes the day go by faster. ~ Andy Warhol #Quote
Our hopes are but memories reversed. ~ Source Unknown #Quote
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. ~ J. P. Senn #Quote
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~ Brooks Atkinson #Quote
I asked her if she believe in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self harm. ~ Benedict Smith #Quote
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obedience to the heart ❤️. ~ William Butler Yeats #Quote
Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love. ~ Paulo Coelho #Quote
The first step is the hardest. #Proverb
Industrial man -- a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement. ~ Aldous Huxley #Quote
We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else. ~ Terence McKenna #Quote
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. ~ Kerry Thornley #Quote
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. ONLY what has been written AGAINST the market. ~ Ezra Pound #Quote
Art is to console those who are broken by life. ~ Vincent Van Gogh #Quote
A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it. ~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities #Quote
A prophet is not recognized in his own land. #Proverb
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. ~ Albert Camus #Quote
Adversity introduces a man to himself ~ Author Unknown #Quote
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society. ~ Confucius #Quote
We loved with a love that was more than love. ~ Edgar Allan Poe #Quote
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. ~ George Santayana #Quote
Only your friends steal your books. ~ Voltaire #Quote
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ~ Aldous Huxley #Quote
Only love can bring the rain ☔️ that makes you yearn to the sky. Only love can bring the rain ☔️ that falls like tears from on high. ~ The Who, Love Reign O'er Me #lyrics
I'm so happy, cause today I found my friends. They're in my head. ~ Nirvana #Quote Lithium
I think we’re all sort of imprisoned by – or at least bound to – the choices we make… You want to say no at the right time ⏳ and you want to say ‘yes’ more sparingly. ~ Bill Murray #Quote
The internet is the trailer park for the soul. ~ Marilyn Manson #Quote
All the stars 🌌 that never were are parking cars and pumping gas. ~ Dionne Warwick #Lyrics
To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it. ~ Bill Murray #Quote
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. ~ Lord Chesterfield #Quote
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~ Muhammad Ali #Quote
It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments. ~ Michel de Montaigne #Quote
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it. ~ Alan Kay #Quote
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ~ George Santayana #Quote
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. ~ Saint Augustine #Quote
There’s one born every minute. #Proverb
We become aware of the void as we fill it. ~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin #Quote
Giving money 💰 and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys 🗝 to teenage boys. ~ P.J. O'Rourke #Quote
Trust everybody, but cut the cards. ~ Finley Peter Dunne #Quote
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time ⏳ that occupies the same role. ~ Marshall McLuhan #Quote
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. ~ Wilson Mizner #Quote
Keep smiling — it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to. ~ Author Unknown #Quote
As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it. ~ Andy Warhol #Quote
...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidity of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him. ~ John Updike #Quote
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools 🤡. ~ Douglas Adams #Quote
Crocodiles cry for the love of the crowd and three cheers from everyone. ~ The Cure, Disintegration #Lyrics
Study the past if you would define the future. ~ Confucius #Quote
Every abridgement of a good book 📖 is a fool abridged. ~ Michel de Montaigne #Quote
Every man has his faults. #Proverb
Old habits die hard. #Proverb
The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up… A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on your feet and grit under your finger nails. But more than that, it leaves you wiser and stronger next time ⏳… ~ Laurel House #Quote
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. ~ Erich Fromm #Quote
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. ~ Louis L'Amour #Quote
On a place they call the planet earth 🌎, my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by. ~ Electric Light Orchestra, Mission #Lyrics
Welcome to the human race with its wars, disease, and brutality. ~ The Pretenders, Show Me #Lyrics
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. ~ Confucius #Quote
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book 📖. ~ John Lennon //0-0\\ #Quote
End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek. ~ The Kinks, #Lyrics Come Dancing
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. ~ Harry S. Truman #Quote
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things… ~ Antoine de St-Exupéry #Quote
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ~ Erich Fromm #Quote
Bad taste makes the day go by faster. ~ Andy Warhol #Quote
Our hopes are but memories reversed. ~ Source Unknown #Quote
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. ~ J. P. Senn #Quote
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~ Brooks Atkinson #Quote
I asked her if she believe in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self harm. ~ Benedict Smith #Quote
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obedience to the heart ❤️. ~ William Butler Yeats #Quote
Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love. ~ Paulo Coelho #Quote
The first step is the hardest. #Proverb
Industrial man -- a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement. ~ Aldous Huxley #Quote
We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else. ~ Terence McKenna #Quote
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. ~ Kerry Thornley #Quote
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. ONLY what has been written AGAINST the market. ~ Ezra Pound #Quote
Art is to console those who are broken by life. ~ Vincent Van Gogh #Quote
A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it. ~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities #Quote
A prophet is not recognized in his own land. #Proverb
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. ~ Albert Camus #Quote
Adversity introduces a man to himself ~ Author Unknown #Quote
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society. ~ Confucius #Quote
We loved with a love that was more than love. ~ Edgar Allan Poe #Quote
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. ~ George Santayana #Quote
Only your friends steal your books. ~ Voltaire #Quote
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ~ Aldous Huxley #Quote
Only love can bring the rain ☔️ that makes you yearn to the sky. Only love can bring the rain ☔️ that falls like tears from on high. ~ The Who, Love Reign O'er Me #lyrics
I'm so happy, cause today I found my friends. They're in my head. ~ Nirvana #Quote Lithium
I think we’re all sort of imprisoned by – or at least bound to – the choices we make… You want to say no at the right time ⏳ and you want to say ‘yes’ more sparingly. ~ Bill Murray #Quote
The internet is the trailer park for the soul. ~ Marilyn Manson #Quote
All the stars 🌌 that never were are parking cars and pumping gas. ~ Dionne Warwick #Lyrics
To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it. ~ Bill Murray #Quote
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. ~ Lord Chesterfield #Quote
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~ Muhammad Ali #Quote
It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments. ~ Michel de Montaigne #Quote
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it. ~ Alan Kay #Quote
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ~ George Santayana #Quote
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. ~ Saint Augustine #Quote
There’s one born every minute. #Proverb
We become aware of the void as we fill it. ~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin #Quote
Trust everybody, but cut the cards. ~ Finley Peter Dunne #Quote
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time ⏳ that occupies the same role. ~ Marshall McLuhan #Quote
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. ~ Wilson Mizner #Quote
Keep smiling — it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to. ~ Author Unknown #Quote
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