16. You must be a stupid lot.You take your most beloved and revered men and cast him into the ground to be devoured by creeping things and worms. We on the other hand, burn him in a twinkling so that instantly he enters paradise.
These words should ring true to one and all.......
"The thinnest thread of hope can carry you across the deepest of chasms if you don't let go."
anybody ever thinking of hurting themselves might take just a bit of solice in these words, certainly not an answer to anyones problems but heeding those words is an alternative.
hang tough, fuck it! be so bold that you laugh in the face of danger.
"Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
-----Albert Einstein
"One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts."
'Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. ...Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.'
'Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.'
"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"
"What if God were not exactly truth, ...? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?"
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
"History always repeats itself" (i think this one really applies as with what is currently happening to our system of government here in the us as it day by day turns to a dictatorship)
"...but if you can get the right book at the right time you taste joys not only bodily, physical, but spiritual also, which pass one out above and beyond one's miserable self, as it were through huge air, following the light of another man's thought. And you can never be quite the old self again. You have forgotten a little bit: or rather pushed it out with a little of the inspiration of what is immortal in someone who has gone before you."
"Reason calls the grave a gateway of peace: and instinct shuns it."
"I like so much the being left alone that I tend to leave other people alone, too"
"I'm not, I think, a lonely person; though often and generally alone..."
"There are fleas of all grades; and so I have felt the awkward feeling of having smaller creatures than myself admiring me. I was so sorry to put you to that awkwardness; but it was inevitable. You have had a lifetime of achievement, and I was a flash in the pan. However I'm a very happy flash, and I am continually winning moments of great enjoyment."
"Once, when we were talking of man's greed, he said, 'The fools don't realize that their possessions, in time, come to possess them.'"
"You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Day seems to dawn, sun to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am going to do puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever seen a leaf fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That's the feeling."
Be the more selfless person and be the one to drop a grudge no matter what. Anything else is pointless, the world gets nowhere. Cannabis is caught in the middle when we act out of hate. Be inspired by words of wisdom.