So here's the thing... I think a lot. I spend a whole lot of time thinkin'. So one would think I could have something to say.
But here's the thing: I am not so good at translating from thoughts to words.
I love books. They are everything to me: educational, entertaining, sometimes even escape. Of all the things I like about books, my favourite is that I can find phrases that put my thoughts into words so well.
So, I had to write a paper for a class which involved my citing multiple references to explain myself. Which was perfect for me from the research standpoint: by the time it was assigned, my research was mostly complete.
Anyway, these are the quotes I used... I just thought I would post them, because they are good quotes.
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts (Richard Bach, Illusions).
Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from who we have to learn, as well (Bach, Illusions).
Anybody whos ever mattered, anybody whos ever been happy, anybody whos ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest (Bach, Illusions).
If our friendship depends on things like space and time, weve destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, dont you think that we might see each other once or twice? (Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye (The Little Prince).
Every human who has ever been here has learned something that could be learned only here, and returned to his own world a changed person. Because he had seen you creatures in your true form, he was able to see his own world and his fellow humans with new eyes. Where he had seen only dull, every day reality, he now discovered wonders and mysteries (The Neverending Story).
I have a duty to all things . . . for, as a monk, I have put behind me all the bonds of desire, all worldly ties . . . But I remember the touch of her skin . . . and it is a memory I shall take to my grave, and beyond the grave. And the ties of affection are very hard to break (Neil Gaiman, The Dream Hunters).
Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash, and Im delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen).
The history of your country consists of nothing more than a squalid string of conspiracies, rebellions, revolutions and massacres. Every judgment seems to be motivated by greed, malice, hypocrisy, hatred, envy, lust, and madness! You have proved that ignorance, idleness and vice are the only qualifications for public office and that your laws are made by those whose only interest is in perverting them. I can only conclude that your people are the most pernicious race of odious little vermin that ever nature suffered to crawl upon the face of the Earth (Gullivers Travels (the TV version)).
I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse; certainly he might kill me, or perhaps banish or disenfranchise me, which he and maybe others think to be great harm, but I do not think so (Plato).
A man who really fights for justice must live a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time (Plato).
It is difficult to try to grasp something so elusive, and, by definition, barely visible. But it is something we are always attending to in that half-conscious way in which we often listen to music . . . The moment we try to listen to music with any kind of attentiveness, differences in style present themselves as self-evident (Edward Rothstein, Emblems of Mind).
The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is more important than the findings of science (Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World).
You can be very, very cruel just by acting with restraint, and everyone will say what a good chap you are.
You can kill somebody just by doing nothing, and be complimented at the inquest.
You can be absolutely right all through. And what youll get for it is a memory of happiness that might have been, if you had acted a bit kinder (Neville Shute, 'Round the Bend).
But here's the thing: I am not so good at translating from thoughts to words.
I love books. They are everything to me: educational, entertaining, sometimes even escape. Of all the things I like about books, my favourite is that I can find phrases that put my thoughts into words so well.
So, I had to write a paper for a class which involved my citing multiple references to explain myself. Which was perfect for me from the research standpoint: by the time it was assigned, my research was mostly complete.
Anyway, these are the quotes I used... I just thought I would post them, because they are good quotes.
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts (Richard Bach, Illusions).
Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from who we have to learn, as well (Bach, Illusions).
Anybody whos ever mattered, anybody whos ever been happy, anybody whos ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest (Bach, Illusions).
If our friendship depends on things like space and time, weve destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, dont you think that we might see each other once or twice? (Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye (The Little Prince).
Every human who has ever been here has learned something that could be learned only here, and returned to his own world a changed person. Because he had seen you creatures in your true form, he was able to see his own world and his fellow humans with new eyes. Where he had seen only dull, every day reality, he now discovered wonders and mysteries (The Neverending Story).
I have a duty to all things . . . for, as a monk, I have put behind me all the bonds of desire, all worldly ties . . . But I remember the touch of her skin . . . and it is a memory I shall take to my grave, and beyond the grave. And the ties of affection are very hard to break (Neil Gaiman, The Dream Hunters).
Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash, and Im delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen).
The history of your country consists of nothing more than a squalid string of conspiracies, rebellions, revolutions and massacres. Every judgment seems to be motivated by greed, malice, hypocrisy, hatred, envy, lust, and madness! You have proved that ignorance, idleness and vice are the only qualifications for public office and that your laws are made by those whose only interest is in perverting them. I can only conclude that your people are the most pernicious race of odious little vermin that ever nature suffered to crawl upon the face of the Earth (Gullivers Travels (the TV version)).
I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse; certainly he might kill me, or perhaps banish or disenfranchise me, which he and maybe others think to be great harm, but I do not think so (Plato).
A man who really fights for justice must live a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time (Plato).
It is difficult to try to grasp something so elusive, and, by definition, barely visible. But it is something we are always attending to in that half-conscious way in which we often listen to music . . . The moment we try to listen to music with any kind of attentiveness, differences in style present themselves as self-evident (Edward Rothstein, Emblems of Mind).
The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is more important than the findings of science (Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World).
You can be very, very cruel just by acting with restraint, and everyone will say what a good chap you are.
You can kill somebody just by doing nothing, and be complimented at the inquest.
You can be absolutely right all through. And what youll get for it is a memory of happiness that might have been, if you had acted a bit kinder (Neville Shute, 'Round the Bend).
I'd say my favorite of those quotes, and they're all incredible by the way, would have to be the one about Here and Now. I guess I feel that way pretty often because, when it comes down to it, we generally put off most easily the things which matter most. Why is that? What disease have we all contracted? Mr. Bach eloquently proved it to be the myth it is.