"We are all formed of Weakness and Error. Let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly." ~Voltaire.
"The worst thing you can do is say that you're alive when you are really in life's waiting room."~Waking Life.
"A true friend sees you act like a fool, and knows it isn't a permanent change."~?
"May I remove the three poisons of Lust, Hatred, and Ignorance! Destructive emotions will of course arise, but I will not voluntarily rush into them. I will also do whatever I can to generate the altruistic intention to become enlightened and implement compassion in my behavior. May whatever obstructs the generation of these things be pacified." ~Tibetan Buddhist Affirmation.
"There are many chances that the world may be nothing but a fairy pantomime of which no god has care...Good humour is a philosophic state of mind. It seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that we should always talk of philosophy with a smile. We owe it to the eternal to be virtuous, but we have the right to add to this tribute our irony as a sort of personal reprisal. In this way, we return to the right quarter jest for jest: We play the trick that has been played on us."~Renan.
Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
and walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves
moments before the
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