[size=150]In real life, however, you don’t react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator? [/size]
Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005
[size=150]"The swirl of a galaxy and the swirl of a gown resemble one another not merely by accident, but because they follow the grain of the universe.‘’
- "Hunting for Hope’’ - Scott Russell Sanders
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I loved that.
[size=150]Round and Round they danced and swirled.[/size]
[size=150]The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word"[/size]
- Mata Hari
THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT FOOLS DESPISE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION. PROVERBS 1:7
SOLOMON; SON OF DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL
[size=150]No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. [/size]
Michel de Montaigne
[size=150]Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.[/size]
Michel de Montaigne
[size=150]When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. [/size]
Michel de Montaigne
I can surely attest to this^. 
Hi Yoda.
supercalifragilisticexpealodocious
even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
if you say it loud enough
you’ll always sound precocious
supercalifragilisticexpealodocious 
[size=150]I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. [/size]
G. K. CHESTERTON
me too
[size=150]The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. [/size]
~Lucretius
…shivers…
[size=150]The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently[/size]."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Thou Son, O how unlike the Father! First God Almighty comes with a Thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.”–William Blake
So old and rung out so much but ah so very true…
[size=150]This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet [/size]
“Pitying I wept to see the woe
That Love & Beauty undergo,
To be consumed in burning Fires
And in ungratified desires,”–Wm. Blake
It takes all worlds to make a kind.
Blake paraphrase–
“A truth when told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you could invent.”
“. . .God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is.”–Wm. Blake
[size=150]A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.” [/size]
― Rumi
[size=150]"Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall and falling,
they’re given wings.” [/size]
― Rumi
[size=150]Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. [/size]–Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
[size=150]The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. [/size]
G.K. Chesterton
[size=150]Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.[/size]
–William Blake