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POPSWhat a Lady I'd like to take credit for this clip, but someone sent it to me because it was their favorite quote. Someone who had a lot of great ideas that I'm looking forward to hearing more of in the future. Go for it honey. :)
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POPSThe life-giving power of literature
I used to get bored out of my brain before I started reading I could never latch on to it to easily till I found words of wisdom and writing that could be applied to life also learning about the outside world/universe through factual writing like national geographic and the guardian newspaper has really opened a lot of doors for life,conversation,enjoyment and distraction reading offered answers to the meaning of life and the universe which had seriously distressed me beforehand the quote from volataire sums it up: Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day." — Voltaire this is particulary true in the days of crappy prime time tv shows and hyped up media I also read somewhere about the calming effect good reading material promoting creative thought can have on ones nerves which I found very true oh and the source goodreads is awesome che
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POPSSartre - A new syncopated Quote the syncopated quote, which i will do my best to clip from time to time .. -) are aim to bring a syncope in the inevitable monotony of our life. And of course to try present some wit & some humor (4 the sake of some forsaken joy to come forth) .. :-)
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POPSJefferson - A new Quote - by a deeply religious nonbeliever dear clipper.. i would like 2 re-mark that these Quotes i try send from time 2 time, are an experiment 2collect sayings & maxims that may enhance wit wisdom & humor, and may correspond with the spirit of Einstein`s words: " I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is somewhat new kind of religion. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that nothing to do with mysticism. I don`t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it."
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POPSLuis Borges - A new Quote (by a deeply religious non believer) " The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be “a patriot to heaven,” and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country. " —Jorge Luis Borges, “Homage to Victoria Ocampo”, in Borges en Su
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POPSHafiz 3 - Anew Quote - (by a deeply religious non believer) i have collected 9 selected Hafiz poems in 3 clips from the book "The Gift" 4 wit, wisdom & 4 your joy .. ;-) "We have not come here to take prisoners," writes Hafiz, "but to surrender ever more deeply to freedom and joy." In "Your Mother and My Mother," the poet writes: "Fear is the cheapest room in the house. / I would like to see you living / In better conditions."
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POPSHafiz 2 - A new Quote - (by a deeply religious nonbeliever) i have collected 9 selected Hafiz poems in 3 clips from the book "The Gift" 4 wit, wisdom & 4 your joy .. ;-) This deliriously enchanting collection of 250 poems is one of the best books of 1999. Hafiz (1320-1389), according to Daniel Ladinsky (the translator) "We have not come here to take prisoners," writes Hafiz, "but to surrender ever more deeply to freedom and joy." In "Your Mother and My Mother," the poet writes: "Fear is the cheapest room in the house. / I would like to see you living / In better conditions."
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POPSHafiz - A new Quote (of a deeply religious nonbeliever) i collected 9 selected Hafiz poems in 3 clips from the book "The Gift" 4 wit, wisdom & 4 your joy .. ;-) extracted from review in Morning Light Bookstore: " With this collection of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Daniel Ladinsky has brilliantly succeeded in capturing the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and religious voices. Though Hafiz is only now being discovered by many in the West, his poems have had a deeply felt influence here. Of Hafiz, Emerson said, "He fears nothing. He sees too far; he sees throughout; such is the only man I wish to... be." While Goethe enthused, "This is a madness I know well -- Hafiz has no peer."
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POPSA new Quote (by deeply religious nonbeliever) 1. the above quote is graven on Kazantzakis tombstone 2. " They think of me as a scholar, an intellectual, a pen-pusher. And I am none of them. When I write, my fingers get covered not in ink, but in blood. I think I am nothing more than this: an undaunted soul. " Words Nikos Kazantzakis used to describe himself in 1950.
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POPSA new Quote (by deeply religious nonbeliever) Whitman : " I CELEBRATE myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you. " Taklamakan : "Desert of Death" ; "place of no return" ; "if you go in you won`t come out"
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POPSQuote from: A `deeply religious nonbeliever` * There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986) * i send this clip again now with the pic .. hope u enjoy it -)
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POPSQuote from: A `deeply religious nonbeliever` this time i will comment with yet another quote :-) * There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
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