Adages & Proverbs

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Getting out of bed is not an accomplishment.
Taking a shit is not an accomplishment.
Place of birth is not an accomplishment.
Genetic inheritance is not an accomplishment.
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[size=150]“The greatest accomplishment that any one human can achieve is to simply wake up in the morning. Everything else is extraordinary.”
-Me[/size]

:wink: Bluff

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haha…maybe you are sick if you find it an accomplishment to swing your legs from beneath a blanket!
Get well soon.
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[size=200]It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.[/size]

[size=200]No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow. [/size]

[size=200]The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.[/size]

[size=200] When the child falls the mother weeps; when the mother falls the child laughs.[/size] :laughing:

[size=150]African Proverbs[/size]

“Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.”–Mort Sahl, as quoted by Lewontin (2000).

[size=150]The deepest sexual penetration is really but a shadow of the way in which the Universe may penetrate us if we but allow it by sitting quietly and trustingly before this Universe. [/size]
ARCTURUS RISING (me)

[size=150]I got the better end of the deal. I only lent you my body - you lent me your dream[/size]
jude law as jerome in gattaca

If you linger to curse the snake that bit you, you will die from its poison.–me.

[size=150]Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll gladly listen.Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively,but don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect you don’t understand.[/size]
[size=150]-Unk.[/size]

[size=150]Faith and hope will always cancel out experience and guide one back into the old track to repeat the same old mistakes.[/size]
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[size=150]The truth is this. When a man is riding by night through this desert and something happens to make him loiter and lose touch with his companions - he hears Spirits talking in such a way that they seem to be his companions. Often these voices make him stray from the path, so that he never finds it again.[/size]
[size=150]- Marco Polo, The Travels [/size]

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”–Sherlock Holmes (Sir A. C. Doyle)

“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”–Sigmund Freud

" A mind is like a diaper. Both need changing often–and for the same reason."-- Woody Allen

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan

The best looking-glass is the eyes of a friend.
Irish Proverb

The dog that’s always on the go, is better than the one that’s always curled up.
Irish Proverb

Enjoy these little wisdom gems to ponder…

“A real friend never gets in your way - unless you happen to be on the way down.”
Dr Wayne Dyer

One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese Proverb

"Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
Japanese Proverb

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
French Proverb

Every seed knows its time.
Russian Proverb

Faults are thick where love is thin.
Danish Proverb

If you ever need a helping hand you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
Yiddish Proverb

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
Yiddish Proverb

If and When were planted and Nothing grew.
Turkish Proverb

A lake forms drop by drop.
Turkish Proverb

He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.
Turkish Proverb

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song!!!
Chinese Proverb

"Though pedantry denies,
It’s plain the Bible means
That Solomon grew wise
While talking to his queens. " --W. B. Yeats

Like. O:)

[size=150]“Realize that you should be figuring out your patterns.”[/size]

  • Mrs. Buddha.