December 31, 2011

With or Without You, I Go On

With or without compassion,
Understanding,
Sanctity,
Love,
I go on.

With or without consent,
Support,
Favour,
A plan,
I go on.

With or without strength,
Courage,
Wisdom,
Serenity,
I go on.

With or without devotion,
Integrity,
Passion,
Tolerance,
I go on.

With or without adversity,
Perseverance,
Resilience,
You,
I go on.

~Kristine Hurt

December 30, 2011

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde

December 29, 2011

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy, than be a success at something I hate. ~ Unknown

December 28, 2011

The average man does not want to be free.  He simply wants to be safe. ~ H. L. Mencken

December 27, 2011

You can't polish a turd. ~ Unknown

December 26, 2011

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ~ Victor Hugo

December 25, 2011

For never in this world
Do hatreds cease by hatred.
By freedom from hatred they cease:
This is the eternal dhamma.
~ Dhammapada 5

December 24, 2011

Excuse me, but I think my karma just ran over your dogma. ~ Unknown

December 23, 2011

In depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus

December 22, 2011

If you think an education is expensive, try ignorance. ~ Unknown

December 21, 2011

All people have the right to stupidity but some abuse the privilege. ~ Michael Katzer

December 20, 2011

Never mistake age for maturity. ~ Unknown

December 19, 2011

Dear, never forget one little point.  You just work here. ~ Elizabeth Arden, to her husband

December 18, 2011

It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien (from "The Hobbit")

December 17, 2011

Re-examine all that you've been told in school, or in church, or in any book.  Dismiss whatever insults your soul. ~ Walt Whitman

December 16, 2011

A right is not what someone gives you; its what no one can take from you. ~ Ramsey Clark

December 15, 2011

Its a good idea to keep your words soft and sweet.  You never know when you may have to eat them. ~ Unknown

December 14, 2011

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

December 13, 2011

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.  Hate me because I'm beautiful AND your boyfriend wants to fuck me. ~ Unknown

December 12, 2011

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ~ Alice Walker

December 11, 2011

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details:
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.

And yet everything comes in season.
~ Heraklietos of Ephesos

December 10, 2011

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ~ G. K. Chesterton

December 09, 2011

Patriotism is thinly veiled racism. ~ Albert Einstein

December 08, 2011

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~ Aesop

December 07, 2011

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." ~ Dave Barry

December 06, 2011

The cause of every war in the world can be traced back to one of four things: prejudice, land, belief, and the British. ~ Unknown

December 05, 2011

I love humanity but I hate people. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

December 04, 2011

Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ~ Isaac Asimov

December 03, 2011

A man had to do what a man had to do.  And so had a woman. ~ Maeve Binchy (from "Silver Wedding")

December 02, 2011

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.  But it still needs to be mowed. ~ Unknown

December 01, 2011

So, you guys wanna hear a Black Flag song?  Four words: Before.  You.  Were.  Born.  The last time I was here with Black Flag, I was getting beer bottles thrown at my balls and white people were beating up black people.  You guys didn't even have a hair on your nuts! ~ Henry Rollins, at a Rollins Band gig in Austin, Texas, 13 June 1997.