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Reply #30 posted 07/30/08 5:29pm

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Ace said:

cubic61052 said:

"No one will ever get out of this world alive. Resolve therefore to maintain a reasonable sense of values.
Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth; without it, happiness is almost impossible.
Resolve to be cheerful and helpful. People will repay you in kind.
Avoid angry, abrasive persons. They are generally vengeful.
Avoid zealots. They are usually humorless.
Resolve to listen more and talk less. No one ever learns anything by talking.
Be chary of giving advice. Wise men don't need it, and fools won't heed it.
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Some time in life, you will have been all of these.
Do not equate money with success. There are many successful moneymakers who are miserable failures as human beings. What counts most about success is how a person achieves it."

I like this a lot. Where's it from?


Not sure....I'll look when I get home...

I like it so much that I have it memorized....

cool
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
Dalai Lama
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Reply #31 posted 07/30/08 5:31pm

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applekisses said:

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.


If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.


Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.


Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.


Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.


Strive to be happy.


--- Max Ehrmann, 1927


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In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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Reply #32 posted 07/30/08 5:47pm

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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. -Robert Frost
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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Reply #33 posted 07/30/08 6:41pm

RenHoek

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mdiver said:

Fuck you Dan-Mdiver , The Org every fucking day


That's a new favorite!
A working class Hero is something to be ~ Lennon
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Reply #34 posted 07/30/08 6:56pm

RenHoek

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applekisses said:

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.


If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.


Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.


Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.


Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.


Strive to be happy.


--- Max Ehrmann, 1927


Ahhh, the Desiderata... that's a classic. I love this poem! clapping
A working class Hero is something to be ~ Lennon
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Reply #35 posted 07/30/08 6:56pm

MuthaFunka

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"(Good) luck is the residue of preparation" - Jack Youngblood

"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose" - Langston Hughes

"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you" - Langston Hughes

"We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line" - Langston Hughes

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?" - Langston Hughes

"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul" - Langston Hughes

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth and race" - Booker T. Washington

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else" Booker T. Washington

"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him" - Booker T. Washington

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up" - Booker T. Washington

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning" - Frederick Douglass

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" - Frederick Douglass

"What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" - Frederick Douglass

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships" - W. E. B. Du Bois

"But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire" - W. E. B. Du Bois

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them" - James A. Baldwin

"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black" - James A. Baldwin

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have" - James A. Baldwin

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions" - James A. Baldwin

"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it" - James A. Baldwin

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time" - James A. Baldwin
nWo: bboy87 - Timmy84 - LittleBlueCorvette - MuthaFunka - phunkdaddy - Christopher

MuthaFunka - Black...by popular demand
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Reply #36 posted 07/30/08 7:02pm

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"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it" - James A. Baldwin

I like this. cool
LET A WOMAN BE A WOMAN AND A MAN BE A MAN
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Reply #37 posted 07/30/08 7:04pm

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"Regret is the cancer of life". Not sure if anybody else said it, but it's something I've been thinking a lot to myself recently.
RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you.
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Reply #38 posted 07/30/08 7:04pm

MuthaFunka

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rolling said:

"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it" - James A. Baldwin

I like this. cool


thumbs up!
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Reply #39 posted 07/30/08 7:10pm

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"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,

Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend

More than cool reason ever comprehends.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,

Are of imagination all compact"
-W.S.
If you will, so will I
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Reply #40 posted 07/30/08 7:13pm

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Another one I really like is "Death kills you but once, but fear kills you over and over again" I cant remember who said it though.
LET A WOMAN BE A WOMAN AND A MAN BE A MAN
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Reply #41 posted 07/30/08 7:31pm

onenitealone

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'Don't Mess With My Toot Toot' - Denise Lasalle






Poetry. Sheer poetry.
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Reply #42 posted 07/30/08 7:49pm

applekisses

Intolerance lies at the core of evil.
Not the intolerance that results
from any threat or danger.
But intolerance of another being who dares to exist.
Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us,
because every human being secretly desires
the entire universe to himself.
Our only way out is to learn
compassion without cause. To care for each other
simple because that 'other' exists.

- Rabbi Menachem Mendle
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Reply #43 posted 07/30/08 7:57pm

BlueZebra

When I look at myself, I scare myself. When I compare myself, I reassure myself.

It's probably not a good translation. Read it on the whiteboard of the HR Manager when I went to sign my contract smile
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Reply #44 posted 07/30/08 8:08pm

Ace

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Reply #45 posted 07/30/08 8:24pm

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Anxiety said:

"better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all mystery."

- my mom used to say that a lot, i don't know who came up with it. shrug


i like that alot lol
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Reply #46 posted 07/30/08 9:37pm

SCNDLS

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I don't give two pumps and a stroke what nobody thinks. - Stymie lol
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Reply #47 posted 07/30/08 9:43pm

NDRU

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I was messing with this quote last night, still needs some work, though:

"You can have stuff handed to you on a silver platter but you have to hire a caterer."
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Reply #48 posted 07/30/08 9:45pm

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'Sure as eggs' - my Gran.
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Reply #49 posted 07/30/08 9:47pm

Imago

onenitealone said:

'Sure as eggs' - my Gran.

get on skype
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Reply #50 posted 07/30/08 9:50pm

mdiver

Imago said:

onenitealone said:

'Sure as eggs' - my Gran.

get on skype


Fuck you Dan
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Reply #51 posted 07/30/08 9:52pm

Imago

mdiver said:

Imago said:


get on skype


Fuck you Dan



Straight up:


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Reply #52 posted 07/30/08 9:56pm

mdiver

Imago said:

mdiver said:



Fuck you Dan



Straight up:




'n shit falloff

Mate we gotta see you guys soon
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Reply #53 posted 07/30/08 10:03pm

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Imago said:

mdiver said:



Fuck you Dan



Straight up:




WTF and this is your quote is it, Imago you never fail to disappoint me.
LET A WOMAN BE A WOMAN AND A MAN BE A MAN
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Reply #54 posted 07/30/08 10:05pm

SirPsycho

"the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt.."- bertrand russell
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Reply #55 posted 07/30/08 10:12pm

NDRU

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SirPsycho said:

"the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt.."- bertrand russell


Good one! nod
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Reply #56 posted 07/30/08 10:16pm

RenHoek

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Ace said:





Ace, that was some funny shit right there...
A working class Hero is something to be ~ Lennon
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Reply #57 posted 07/30/08 10:17pm

NDRU

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"Whooo Hooo"--America
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Reply #58 posted 07/30/08 10:22pm

onenitealone

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'Yaaaaays' - Morris Day


'3fine' - Imago, c/o Graffiti Bridge neutral
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Reply #59 posted 07/30/08 10:24pm

Imago

onenitealone said:

'Yaaaaays' - Morris Day


'3fine' - Imago, c/o Graffiti Bridge neutral

falloff

If you don't get on skype or answer your phone NOW, we're through!
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