Your Favorite Quotes!

Raime · 02-28-2020, 09:03 PM

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Help! He's turning her into a Papa Johns!

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ribbons · 06-03-2020, 10:59 PM

"Nothing human disgusts me, unless it's unkind, or violent." - Tennessee Williams

"Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?" - Bruno Schulz

goldendoodle · 06-04-2020, 05:39 AM

"Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden,
and softly,
and exclaiming of their dearness,
fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,

with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling,
their eagerness
to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are
nothing, forever?"
-from Peonies by Mary Oliver

"I have isolated and defined at last the death-dealing streak in me: it is rebellion. I am wild and would be tame. (Meek.) I recapitulate our original sin: rebellion, which is nothing more lofty than resentment. I pray God to break me, sincerely. I have cut through all the layers and am down to the primordial core: strife, not love; thanatos, not eros. One can go no further. It is killing me, this primordial evil in me. God help me. Erbarme mich, mein Gott! Oder ich bin verloren."
-Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick [22:9]

“Don’t allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Preserve your solitude. If the day ever comes when a real friendship is bestowed on you there will be no conflict between your inner solitude and this friendship. On the contrary, that is the infallible sign by which you will know it.”
-Simone Weil, from First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

audiocraze · 06-04-2020, 06:36 AM

"If you don’t have big dreams and goals you will end up working hard for someone who does."

Mindfulness · 06-04-2020, 11:21 AM

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“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”

~ George Orwell.

The Batlord · 06-04-2020, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by audiocraze

"If you don’t have big dreams and goals you will end up working hard for someone who does."

Oppress or be oppressed isn't exactly an inspiring message.

DwnWthVwls · 06-04-2020, 05:04 PM

Work isnt oppression.

The Batlord · 06-04-2020, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Work isnt oppression.

1. Workplace hierarchies can be argued to be oppression.

2. The context of that post implies that not having "big dreams and goals" leads to oppression by being at the bottom of a workplace hierarchy so that you should have "big dreams and goals" yourself which by implication means that you should strive to be an oppressor yourself by being higher in a workplace hierarchy.

DwnWthVwls · 06-04-2020, 08:39 PM

Nah, you just add in the oppression part cause of point 1.

Mindfulness · 06-05-2020, 06:32 AM

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"Dont fake it until you make it, believe it until you become it"

- a Instagram meme yesterday

06-04-2020, 05:39 AM	#403 (permalink)
goldendoodle god's favorite clown Join Date: Oct 2019 Posts: 139	"Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever?" -from Peonies by Mary Oliver "I have isolated and defined at last the death-dealing streak in me: it is rebellion. I am wild and would be tame. (Meek.) I recapitulate our original sin: rebellion, which is nothing more lofty than resentment. I pray God to break me, sincerely. I have cut through all the layers and am down to the primordial core: strife, not love; thanatos, not eros. One can go no further. It is killing me, this primordial evil in me. God help me. Erbarme mich, mein Gott! Oder ich bin verloren." -Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick [22:9] “Don’t allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Preserve your solitude. If the day ever comes when a real friendship is bestowed on you there will be no conflict between your inner solitude and this friendship. On the contrary, that is the infallible sign by which you will know it.” -Simone Weil, from First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge __________________ formerly Chiomara

06-03-2020, 10:59 PM	#402 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	"Nothing human disgusts me, unless it's unkind, or violent." - Tennessee Williams "Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?" - Bruno Schulz

06-04-2020, 06:36 AM	#404 (permalink)
audiocraze Groupie Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 6	"If you don’t have big dreams and goals you will end up working hard for someone who does."