From quotations@ucdavis.edu Sat Feb 11 04:34:16 1995 Reply-To: quotations@ucdavis.edu Originator: quotations@ucdavis.edu Sender: quotations@ucdavis.edu Subject: QUOTATIONS digest 42 X-To: quotations@ucdavis.edu X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Quotations of all flavors QUOTATIONS Digest 42 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Max's Thoughts For The Day - A Farewell by "Chris West" 2) and just when I descover a gold mine. by SLROBERTS@TrentU.ca 3) Re: Final Plea by michael moncur 4) Farewell From Fuches by "Mr. Fuches" 5) WWW by AJ Murray 6) thought for today, 2/10/95 by George Osner 7) A premature Valentine by Hjl3525@aol.com 8) Max's Thoughts For The Day - 13 Feb 95 - the last try? by "Chris West" 9) Adieu, Quote Server by Tracy Monaghan 10) books... by Christopher_McKinstry@MBnet.MB.CA (Christopher McKinstry) 11) Favorite quotes. by Andy Birkhead ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic No. 1 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 10:36:57 EST From: "Chris West" To: quotations@ucdavis.edu Subject: Max's Thoughts For The Day - A Farewell Message-ID: <9501107924.AA792441550@CC.IMS.DISA.MIL> To all, It has been fun. I've enjoyed my association with all of you, albeit an electronic one. I wish I could step up to the task which Jason has filled so beautifully, but, alas, I can not. My thanks to you all, and to Jason. Perhaps we shall all meet, another time, another place, another server. If any of you would like to exchange quotes, on a one to one basis, I have a small distribution for "Max's Thoughts For The Day" which I will try to send out to those who are interested. Please stay safe, and take care Warmest regards Max and Chris "I have a long journey to take, and must bid the company farewell." Sir Walter Raleigh "Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do not meet again, why shall we smile: If not, why then this parting was well made." Shakespeare "Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell." Emily Dickinson ------------------------------ Topic No. 2 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:44:32 -0400 (EDT) From: SLROBERTS@TrentU.ca To: quotations@ucdavis.edu Subject: and just when I descover a gold mine. Message-ID: <01HMVSIZV1IA000AUW@TRENTU.CA> How sad. I guess this is my first and last day belonging to this wonderful service. Here's my favorites: Study widely. Question thoroughly. Deliberate carefully. Analyze clearly. Act conscientiously. - the sage kings Yao and Shun as described by Yamazaki Ansai Act (so) that you... treat humanity... never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end. - Kant It It is never too late to give up your prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. - Thoreau (sorry about the typo) do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words. - Rainer Maria Rilke Thanks for the short lived pleasure. Shannon Roberts ------------------------------ Topic No. 3 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 10:00:09 -0700 (MST) From: michael moncur To: jrnewquist@ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: Final Plea Message-ID: <199502101701.KAA22439@xmission.xmission.com> Jason R. Newquist writes: > Given that this is one of the last days that this listserv will be > active, I just thought I'd reiterate a plea to echo through the halls of > the net: > > Is there anyone that will pick up the torch and keep this > listserv alive? Anyone? > > If you have interest PLEASE contact me! My sysadmin can talk to your > sysadmin and they can make music together. :) I contacted Jason already, but I thought I'd leave an announcement here so that everyone can be aware. I'm working on getting a replacement mailing list set up. Depending on how things work, your addresses may or may not be copied automatically to it. If they are NOT, you will have to resubscribe to the new list. I'll post here (if there is still a here) as soon as I know the address. If you don't hear about it here, be sure to contact me (mgm@xmission.com) or look at my quotations web page (http://www.xmission.com/~mgm/quotes) to find out how to subscribe. ------------------------------ Topic No. 4 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 12:37:24 -0500 From: "Mr. Fuches" To: quotations@ucdavis.edu Subject: Farewell From Fuches Message-ID: "The world is a very strange place, and the dice are always rolling." - Can o' Beans, _Skinny Legs And All_ "Close, stand close to me Starbuck - let me look into a human eye. It is better than to gaze upon sea and sky. It is better than to gaze upon God." - Ahab, _Moby Dick_ "You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself." - Princess Anne "The world is a very cool place." - Miller Brewing Co. "'Goodbye,' says the dying man to the mirror they hold in front of him. 'We won't be seeing eachother anymore.'" - Valery "The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet." - Lao Tzu "But in the case of human beings, friendship is a transitory art, subject to discontinuance without further notice." - O. Henry, "Telemachus, Friend" "Never bet the devil your head." - E.A. Poe "Besides, we don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents." - Bob Ross, _Joy of Painting_ "Tread softly, for this is holy ground. It may be, could we look with knowing eyes, this spot we stand on is Paradise." - Christina Rossetti "My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'" - R.A. Heinlein, _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ "Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe." - Jean Rhys "Know the score." - William S. Burroughs "Gentlemen - we are history." - Rufus, _Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure_ "Words, words, words." - Hamlet "There's nothing quite so off-putting at a wedding as a priest with a huge erection." - Charles, _4 Weddings And A Funeral_ "If I cried me a river Of all my confessions Would I drown in my shallow regret?" - Sarah McLachlan ________________________________________________________________________ "Mr. Fuches" is: "As the people here grow colder, I turn Michael Fuchs to my computer, and spend my evenings fuches@virginia.edu with it, like a friend...." A Young Man, and Free - Kate Bush, 'Deeper Understanding' ________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Topic No. 5 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 10:23:12 -0800 (PST) From: AJ Murray To: Quotation Recipients Subject: WWW Message-ID: Does anybody know any WICKED web sites? ****************** AJ Murray 14978 NW Mill Rd Portland, OR 97231-2307 503-285-8349 Internet: murra_aj@catseq.catlin.edu CompuServe: >INTERNET murra_aj@catseq.catlin.edu AppleLink: murra_aj@catseq.catlin.edu@INTERNET# ****************** "If You Don't Care Where You Are, Then You Aren't Lost", "Micro Credo: Never Use A Computer Bigger Than You Can Lift", "Stealing A Rhinocerous Should Not Be Attempted Lightly", "A Truly Wise Man Never Plays Leap-Frog With A Unicorn", "You Know Its Going To Be A Bad Day When You Wake Up Face Down On The Pavement" ------------------------------ Topic No. 6 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:22:36 -0800 (PST) From: George Osner To: quotes distribution -- Dan Bratten , Subject: thought for today, 2/10/95 Message-ID: "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." >>>Theodore Roosevelt Goodbye to the list and many thanks to Jason. I hold out hope that the list can be reestablished in the near future in a new location. If so hopefully you will all continue with us on this journey. I will continue to make the thought for the day available on the ainet gopher. Please visit. gopher to: gopher.ainet.com/Misc/Quotations. The gopher continues to host the thought for the day, jeff's weekly quote collections, and a substantial archive of quotes arranged by topic. +-----------------------------------+ George Osner ------------------------------ Topic No. 7 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 18:00:01 -0500 From: Hjl3525@aol.com To: Quotations@ucdavis.edu Subject: A premature Valentine Message-ID: <950210175959_18283643@aol.com> 'The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with the true appreciation of beauty' --Anne Morrow Lindbergh 'The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own' --Disraeli 'Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of hand on hand, or mouth on mouth" --Tennessee Williams 'Love...is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real' --I Murdoch 'No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves' --Samuel Johnson There is one person who finds me good. Many of life's other traits -- intelligence, good looks, good health, musical talent, writing ability --are often things you are born with and cannot alter. But the capacity to be good, to make someone happy, is a creation of one's self; a very difficult thing to create; and hence, a very rewarding thing. --Isaac Asimov 'An old man in love is like a flower in winter' --Portugese proverb hjl ['A powerful relationship requires the capacity to enter another's reality; to see how that person sees the world.' -- ??] ------------------------------ Topic No. 8 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 17:24:23 EST From: "Chris West" To: quotations@ucdavis.edu Subject: Max's Thoughts For The Day - 13 Feb 95 - the last try? Message-ID: <9501107924.AA792467962@CC.IMS.DISA.MIL> "If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him". Robert Louis Stevenson "Love of bustle is not industry." Seneca "What is done well is done quickly enough." Augustus Caesar ------------------------------ Topic No. 9 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:49:04 -0800 (PST) From: Tracy Monaghan To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Adieu, Quote Server Message-ID: "Good night, good night! Parting Is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night Till it be morrow." Juliet Romeo and Juliet "Now it's time to say goodbye to all our company..." The Mouseketeers The Mickey Mouse Club "It's over. It's done. It's yesterday's mashed potatoes" Larry Appleton Perfect Strangers "Aloha, Suckers!" Jack Lord, Hawaii Five-O "So long, and thanks for all the fish" The Dolphins Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tracy Computuhsaurus Programmer University of Washington Seattle, Washington ------------------------------ Topic No. 10 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 23:38:39 -0600 From: Christopher_McKinstry@MBnet.MB.CA (Christopher McKinstry) To: quotations@ucdavis.edu Subject: books... Message-ID: <199502110536.AA11964@access.mbnet.mb.ca> well, i have enjoyed this list very much... it has done much for my thought processes.... before we loose this service, can people please post their favorite printed quotation collections... i am interested in picking up some references to help me with my own writing. thanks again, Thoughts of K. Christopher McKinstry http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~cmckin/ ============================================================================== -The spectrum of reality spans from objective, to subjective. A rock exists in objective reality, having its choices dictated by reality. God exists in subjective reality, his choices dictating reality. A man exists between these two poles; Science brings him closer to the rock, dreams bring him closer to God. ------------------------------ Topic No. 11 Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 06:44:41 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Birkhead To: quotations@ucdavis.edu Subject: Favorite quotes. Message-ID: Since the listserver is going down, I thought I would share some of my favorites with you. The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness ... No sensible man rejects the wantonly the confidence of his superiors. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies... Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness The search for truth is always a frustrating experience. Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee - The Garden of Rama If the people in the city dress as if for the beach, what do they wear at the beach? What pleasure is there in continual freedom from restraints? John Ash - The Sweeping Gesture Best American Poetry 1990 A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. Gustave Flaubert - Letter to Louise Colet The New International Dictionary of Quotations I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man? George Orwell - Coming Up For Air The New International Dictionary of Quotations He who seizes the right moment, is the right man. Goethe - Faust The New International Dictionary of Quotations Take Calculated Risks. that is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton - Letter to his Son - June 6, 1944 The New International Dictionary of Quotations Fortune sides with him who dares. Virgil - Aeneid The New International Dictionary of Quotations Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain - Pudd'nhead Wilson The New International Dictionary of Quotations Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful. Machiavelli - The Prince The New International Dictionary of Quotations ...Smallness and bitterness can only last as long as we allow them. Joyce Hifler - Indianapolis, Star Perhaps there isn't any change, ever, in anything. Perhaps unchangeable things only pass. John Steinbeck - To a God Unknown Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of life. John Steinbeck - To a God Unknown Don't throw the first punch. Wait'll you're hit before you put up your dukes. John Steinbeck - Sweet Thursday The nicest thing you can do for anybody is let them help you. John Steinbeck - Sweet Thursday These things...are known about greatness: Need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time - he can never return to simplicity. John Steinbeck - Sweet Thursday Change is difficult, uncomfortable and frightening. That's how we know we are changing. Bernie Siegel M.D. - Love Medicine and Miracles Change can't be prevented, only guided. David Brin - Earth So I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness. Robert Bly - The Man in the Black Coat Turns When people of today have full bellies, they are exactly like their ancestors of a million years ago: very slow to acknowledge the awful troubles they may be in. Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos I don't want to die. There's too much fun in this world, and a lot of them. And good books to read and fish to catch and pretty women to admire and good men to know. Why, life is a joy. Professor John Franklin Smith Charles Kuralt - A Life on the Road If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing up the ground, who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857 Art deals with the needs - the refueling - of man's conciseness. Ann Rand - Philosophy: Who needs it? ... Every traveler needs a carefree and optimistic spirit, curiosity about his surroundings, powers of keen observation - and a little bit of dumb luck. Charles Kuralt - A Life on the Road The tricycle principle is simple: "When doing a tricycle story, don't ride a tricycle." The story is about children dummy, not about you. Keep yourself out of it. Charles Kuralt - A Life on the Road When you find a writer who is really saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous. Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey ... If marriage isn't a first priority in your life you're not married. Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey There were five virtues of the medieval knight: temperance, courage, loyalty, courtesy, and love. Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey You've got to the top of the ladder and found it's against the wrong wall. Well, I think I found what it is you need to break through the wall. Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey You can get a lot of work done it you just stay with it and it's play instead of work. Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey An individual has to find what electrifies and enlivens his own heart, and wakes him. Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey Every decision made by a young person is life decisive. It really is. What seems to be a small problem is really a large one - wither the water falls six inches this way or six inches that way, down the other side - and so it is in life. Two people looking at each other in youth and their life destiny waiting there. So everything that is done early in life is functionally related to a life trajectory. Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey ...Physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance To travel is better than to arrive. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance It's nice to start journeys pleasantly, even when you know they won't stay that way. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The world's biggest fool can say the sun is shining, but that doesn't make it dark out. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Quality isn't a thing. It is an event. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ...Metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ...It's better not to see than to see wrongly. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Quality is a characteristic of thought and statement that is recognized by a non-thinking process. Because definitions are a product of rigid, formal thinking, quality cannot be defined. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Boredom means you're off the quality track, you're not seeing things freshly, you've lost your "beginners mind"...boredom means your gumption supply is low and must be replenished before anything else is done. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Each machine has it's own, unique personality which probably could be defined as the intuitive sum total of everything you know and feel about it. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ...The physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's the psychic distance... Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ...A machine that isn't checked out is a "down" machine and can't be used even though it may work perfectly. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The test of a machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If a machine produces tranquillity it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changes. The test of a machine's always your own mind, there isn't any other test. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The craftsman isn't ever following a single line of instruction. He's making decisions as he goes along. For that reason he'll be absorbed and attentive to what he's doing even though he doesn't deliberately contrive this. His motions and the machine are in a kind of harmony. He isn't following any set of written instructions because the nature of the material at hand determines his thoughts and motions, which simultaneously change the nature of the material at hand. The material and his thoughts are changing together in a progression of changes until his mind's at rest at the same time the material's right. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ...In college...you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything-from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance It's been necessary since before the time of Socrates to reject the passions, the emotions, in order to free the rational mind for an understanding of nature's order which was as yet unknown. Now it's time to further an understanding of nature's order by reassimilating those passions which were originally fled from. The passions, the emotions, the effective domain of man's consciousness, are a part of nature's order too. The central part. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance There is only one kind of person...who accepts or rejects the mythos in which he lives. And the definition of that person, when he has rejected the mythos...is "insane." To go outside the mythos is to become insane. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. This leaf has jagged edges. This rock looks loose. From this place the snow is less visible, even though closer. These are things you should notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant, right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there it. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance I see religion as only a way of asking unanswerable questions, of sharing the joy of a community quest, and solacing one another in our ignorance. David J. Boorstin - Living Philosophies ...Good fortune is not to be assumed but is possible. Norman Cousins - Living Philosophies Often, the possibilities are frightening, but what good does it do to stop in your tracks and start fretting? When the going gets tough, just about all you dan do is keep going forward, and press on as determinedly as you can. Chuck Yeager - Press On It's not bragging if you can back it up. Bud Anderson in Chuck Yeager - Press On If something's not fun, why do it? Chuck Yeager - Press On We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics The New International Dictionary of Quotations Hugh Rawson & Margaret Miner Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. George Eliot - Adam Bede The New International Dictionary of Quotations Hugh Rawson & Margaret Miner Our nature lies in movement; complete rest is death. Pascal - Pensees The New International Dictionary of Quotations Hugh Rawson & Margaret Miner No one knows what he can do till he tries. Peblilus Syrus - Moral Sayings The New International Dictionary of Quotations Hugh Rawson & Margaret Miner Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Dennis Diderot - Discours sur la poesie dramatique The New International Dictionary of Quotations Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Circles The New International Dictionary of Quotations Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. Hegel - Philosophy of History The New International Dictionary of Quotations Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do. John Steinbeck - The Pastures of Heaven It seems to me that a good thing or a kind thing must be very large to survive. Little good things are always destroyed by evil little things. Rarely is a big thing poisonous or treacherous. For this reason, in human thinking, bigness is an attribute of good and littleness of evil. John Steinbeck - The Pastures of Heaven No sorrow can survive the smothering of a little time. John Steinbeck - The Pastures of Heaven My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine, The rights of Man The New International Dictionary of Quotations Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner As soon as one is unhappy, one becomes moral. Proust, Remembrance of Things Past; Within a Budding Grove The New International Dictionary of Quotations Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner Inside us there is some secret. We are following a narrow ledge around a mountain, we are sailing on skeletal eerie craft over the buoyant ocean. Robert Bly - What Have I Ever Lost by Dying? The older we get the more we fail, but the more we fail the more we feel a part of the dead straw of the universe... Robert Bly - What Have I Ever Lost by Dying? I am aware of the consciousness I have, and I mourn the consciousness I do not have. Robert Bly - What Have I Ever Lost by Dying? I think play is the most serious thing in the world.. When I see someone who becomes serious and announces his work as a great discovery, I burst out in laughter. Jacques Cousteau Richard Munson - Costeau ...Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their eyes and ears to you. Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway - The Garden of Eden The world is composed of what we think it is; what we expect tends to happen; and what we expect is really what we desire. John Updike - Marry Me Pay for what you get because anything free has a rattlesnake under it. John Updike - Rabbit Redux It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will conquer. Terence McSwiney - IRA man who died on a hunger strike in 1920 John Conroy - Belfast Diary History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a while there gets too much of it to memorize and maybe thats when empires start to decline. John Updike - Rabbit is Rich Middle age is a wonderful country, all the things you thought would never happen are happening. John Updike - Rabbit is Rich ... In the end, there is nothing to understand you like your own blood. John Updike - Rabbit is Rich ... If you carried all the misery you've seen on your back you'd never get up in the morning. John Updike - Rabbit is Rich ... The most terrifying thing in the world is your own life, the fact that it's yours and nobody else's. John Updike - Rabbit is Rich To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. Anna Louise Strong A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. Andre Maurois And this is the simple truth--that to life is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground. Jose' Ortega y Gasset Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car. Laurence J. Peter If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. Thomas Pynchon The more fully I embrace a task the more full it becomes. Gary Phillips - The Sun - December 1993 The poem waited a long time. Waited while I got married and divorced and married again. Waited while I raised children. It curled up on the bed and read magazines. Sy Safransky - The Sun - December 1993 Remembering that sadness changes into something beautiful, something big, bigger than words; that sadness is warm, like the ocean that welcomes the setting sun, and full of dignity, like the mountain with its iron fist. Sy Safransky - The Sun - December 1993 What a struggle for one clear moment of awareness: shaft of sunlight, touch of grace. Sy Safransky - The Sun - December 1993 Not everyone who is old is wise. Only when old people are connected to this deep capacity to survive will they have the courage it takes to engage young people entering adult life. Michael Meade - The Sun - January 1994 People can help other people only when they have learned about the depths in themselves. Michael Meade - The Sun - January 1994 ...The old days weren't better (or worse) than today, just different. Sy Safransky - The Sun - January 1994 Soon birds will sing and morning will smile, and shake loose her hair, and open her tiny buttons one by one. Sy Safransky - The Sun - January 1994 ... the only reason that any conflict can't be immediately settled is that one side is holding on to an irrational position... James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun. Benjamin Hoff - The Tao of Pooh When you know and respect your own Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong. Benjamin Hoff - The Tao of Pooh Observe, Deduce, and Apply. Benjamin Hoff - The Te of Piglet ...Modesty, moderation, compassion and consideration... Benjamin Hoff - The Te of Piglet I have three treasures, Which I guard and keep. The first is compassion. The second is economy. The third is humility. From compassion comes courage. From economy comes the means to be generous. From humility comes responsible leadership. Lao-tse, Benjamin Hoff - The Te of Piglet To rejoice over victory by violence is to rejoice over slaughter. He who rejoices over slaughter cannot unite all within the empire...The wise ruler sees a military triumph as a funeral. Lao-tse, Benjamin Hoff - The Te of Piglet Because I don't want you to worry, I will eat more sensibly. Because I don't want you to know fear, I will drive with more awareness. Because I don't want you to feel jealosouy, I will dress with more compassion. Because I don't want to shatter your tranquillity, I will not misunder- stand so quickly. Truly, I want to be a comfort in your life, not a source of distress. And above all I want you to know the peace of God. Therefore, I will at least try to weigh the effects of everything I do, of every word I speak, of every line of thought I pursue. If I am your friend, how could I do less? Hugh and Gayle Prather - The Sun, May 1994 Let's use our knowledge of each other in a different way. We know how to hurt each other, how to humiliate and make each other angry. We know just what to say and do. Now let's take these same intuitions and learn to use them to make each other happy. Hugh and Gayle Prather - The Sun, May 1994 I cannot offer you the flare of a newly lit fire. For although love warms, it does not burn at all. My body is familiar to you now. It cannot give you conquest. It has become a little frayed and is no triumph over those who once might have looked with envy at your having me. But it can offer you affection without anxiety and many small comforts. My arms can still hold you and my words support you. And every time I touch you you will know that nothing fleeting motivates me. You can take all the pleasures I give into your heart, and they will not hurt. Nor will they vanish like youth or grow ugly like lust. They will simply lighten your load and soften your path, and bring you a rest that knows no end. Hugh and Gayle Prather - The Sun, May 1994 There is a necessity, when you are young, to make serious mistakes. This allows you the rest of your life to analyze them. It allows you to never again take anything for granted; to understand the difference between choice and obsession; to see, with far greater clarity than you ever imagined, your own relationship to the universe. Ruth Rudner - Poet, The Sun, May 1994 The difference between youth and middle age is not physical. It is in how you see the soul. Ruth Rudner - Poet, The Sun, May 1994 Which came first, the missionary or the missionary position? Jeffrey J. Merrick - Cabin Pressure, The Sun, May 1994 The old have an obligation t be exemplary, if they can--and since nobody can be completely exemplary, they also have an obligation to be intelligent about their failings. they're going to be remembered in one way or another, so they have an obligation to see that they're remembered not as a liability or a great burden, but as a help. Wendell Berry - The Sun, February 1994 The first characteristic of a plan is that it won't work. The bigger the plan and the more far-reaching and "futuristic" it is, the less likely it is to work. Wendell Berry - The Sun, February 1994 If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. Mary Beth Danielson - Mothering, Spring 1991 There is an intensity to being alive that I've only brushed against. Beyond percepteion there is something unimaginable, and to get there, I must shatter everything I know. Peter Searls - The Sun, July 1994 Every moment makes me a different person. Peter Searls - The Sun, July 1994 Feeling nothing is worse than feeling pain. Peter Searls - The Sun, July 1994 The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. Alden Nowlan - The Sun, August 1994 And some, like me, are just beginning to guess at the powerful religion of ordinary life, a spirituality of freshly mopped floors and staked dishes and clothes blowing on the line. Adair Lara Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snow in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary. Henry David Thoreau That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better. Madeleine L'Engle For me, preparing meals is about creating tangible, edible proof of how much I care about people and want to nourish and sustain them, including myself. Anjelina Citron - The Sun, June 1994 Follow on in your journey, daughter, and leave me behind. For I will not go with you -- and you will not stay with me. S.L. Wisenberg - The Sun, September 1994 To carry an anger against anyone is to poison your own head, administering more venom each time you replay the injury in your mind. If you cease repeating the offense inwardly, your outward anger will dissipate. D. Patrick Miller - The Sun, September 1994 If a program was shot properly, you could edit it together with just cuts. But if you can't cut it, dissolve it. And if you can't dissolve it, justify it. Then finally, if you can't justify it, call it art. Donna Weller - Videotape Editor If have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership. Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching I'm wary of men and women whose speeches are impassioned but who rarely listen; who know how to save the world but not their own neglected marriages. Rather than face the dark side of their own consciousness, they exhort us to march behind them in teh lengthening shadows, to live (and die) for their truth (or re-election). Sy Safransky - The Sun, October 1994 I hope you enjoyed them! See ya in the newsgroup. Peace, Andy andyb@indy.net ------------------------------ End of QUOTATIONS Digest 42 ***************************