Agreed! With so much real life problems waiting to be tackled, the last thing I'd want is to go read someone who increases the depression manifold. A pessimist is not only a sad sight but a bad read too.Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
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Agreed! With so much real life problems waiting to be tackled, the last thing I'd want is to go read someone who increases the depression manifold. A pessimist is not only a sad sight but a bad read too.Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
This is the kind of Friend You are-
Without making me realize
My soul’s anguished history,
You slip into my house at night,
And while I am sleeping,
You silently carry off
All my suffering and sordid past
In Your beautiful hands.
~ Hafiz
Nice little poem. I'm glad you find meaning in it.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. ~ Albert Camus
One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough. ~ Hafiz of Persia
Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains. ~ Hafiz of Persia
A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore. ~ Hafiz of Persia
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. ~ John Steinbeck
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. ~ John Steinbeck
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Art is the community’s medicine for the worst disease of the mind, corruption of consciousness.” R.G. Collingwood
"seeking to be more than man, we become less"
God is a cleaning company with a detergent made of silence. ~ C A Cafolini
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Originally Posted by cafolini
Do you know Hafiz is also referred to as Hafiz Shirazi? He was from Shiraz, Iran which is also the birthplace of Sa'di.
And that's a beautiful quote of Camus.
True! However, there are some people who hold art responsible for the corruption of consciousness. Deplorable and sad!Quote:
Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin
Character, not brain, will count at the crucial moment. ~ Tagore
Every cause produces more than one effect. ~ Herbert Spencer
Every effect is a cause. ~ C A Cafolini
“I don't believe in God, but I miss him."
Julian Barnes
If you shut the door to all errors, truths will be shut out. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ~ Woody Allen
If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number? ~ Robin Williams
One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. ~ Robert De Niro
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. ~ Mel Brooks
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~ John Wayne
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. ~ John Wayne
My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness. ~ Gregory Peck
Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? ~ Gregory Peck
I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. ~ Clint Eastwood
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. ~ Clint Eastwood
“Mon coeur est ŕ toi, mon sang ŕ l'Empereur, ma vie ŕ l'honneur” - Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle
Roughly translated - (my heart belongs to you, my blood for the Emperor, my life to honor)
My dignity requires that I trust that people mean what they say. I'll defend with my life freedom of speech. I think that's a good limit before we must move on to judge what they do. ~ C A Cafolini
Maybe it is best that we keep the quotes here, from established talented writers and not oneself - it helps filter out a lot of crap.
Many people want to carry the world on their shoulders; the little world they could gather and carry has no alternative but to lodge by force. They become very narrow-minded. ~ C A Cafolini
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Grandparents, under somewhat normal circumstances if such occur, should have a major advantage over the education of their grandchildren. They have been able to visit the pillow and the toilet for a much longer time. C A Cafolini
Ezra was right about half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. ~ Ernest Hemingway
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ~ Ernest Hemingway
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. ~ Ernest Hemingway
“Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms”
~ Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
It seems that contemporary weapons would not be able to produce WWIII. They are so fast, devastating, so accurate, that they will never produce such tedious negotiations, such lengthy plans; not enough time. People that count in this matter will negotiate with supersonic speed. Too much power will save us from WW. ~ C A Cafolini
It seems that contemporary weapons would not be able to produce WWIII. They are so fast, devastating, so accurate, that they will never produce such tedious negotiations, such lengthy plans; not enough time. People that count in this matter will negotiate with supersonic speed. Too much power will save us from WW. ~ C A Cafolini
Since I became an adult, and it took a while, whenever I heard anyone say, "I wouldn't get involved in politics," I knew he or she was up to hers or his knees in it. ~ C A Cafolini
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.~ Woody Allen
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have ~ Woody Allen
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. ~ Michel de Montaigne
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. ~ Michel de Montaigne
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ~ Michel de Montaigne
As I grow older, I can't help but feel I have the mind of a Marine with the power of an amoeaba. Earlier, as this transformation was taking place, I did not feel well. But I soon realized that it could be worse, much worse. I could have gained the mind of an amoeba with the power of a Marine. ~ C A Cafolini
I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in. ~ Gregory Peck
What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches. ~ Gregory Peck
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ~ Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~ Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. ~ Oscar Wilde
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. ~ Carlos Fuentes
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. ~ Carlos Fuentes
I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~ Paul M. Glaser
So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get. ~ Paul M. Glaser
So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie. ~ Paul M. Glaser