Quote Digest

[Mr Bekkler]

What is love?

[rushingwind]

"Make your choice, adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had."

This is my all-time favorite short poem/riddle.

[Kodokami]

Peace cannot be kept by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding.

Just finished the movie of Gundam 00. Damn. I'm itching for more but the extra novels and manga are all in Japanese...

[tushantin]

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

My school teachers were big on Einstein quotes. Imagine if I showed them this! 

[tushantin]

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

Hahaha... I feel stupid now... 

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”

I prefer to be the latter. XD When you realize that the world is gigantic ball of impossible things happening at the same time and so many intriguing things happening that usually go unnoticed, it makes reality not so different from fantasy.

Of course, I don't rely on miracles. I'm in the SPRINGTIME OF MY YOUTH, and I make it win!

[Boo the Gentleman Caller]

What is love?

Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me no more.

[tushantin]

Poker teaches you humility, emotional control and, most of all, patience. You realize that life in general is one big game of chance that you can kind of sort of control, but often is subject to just plain dumb luck, and that life is about how you react to that luck. To use an obnoxiously tired metaphor that's actually appropriate here, you learn that life will deal you a shitty hand every now and then (sometimes one after another for months on end). But when it does, you just have to toss the cards aside and wait for the next hand to come your way. The game goes on.

That's why gamblers tend to be a philosophical bunch.

Read more: 6 Reasons Professional Poker Is Way Harder Than It Looks | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_19303_6-reasons-professional-poker-way-harder-than-it-looks_p2.html#ixzz1Sy2dE22R

XD Ya know, like Setzer!

[Mr Bekkler]

What is love?

Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me no more.

[tushantin]

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations — past and present — are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hunger, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia. Thus, we are up against the paradox that the individual who is more complex, unpredictable, and mysterious than any communal entity is the one nearest to our understanding; so near that even the interval of millennia cannot weaken our feeling of kinship. If in some manner the voice of an individual reaches us from the remotest distance of time, it is a timeless voice speaking about ourselves.

Yay, individuality!  

Also:

A grey head does not make an elder. Not by years, not by grey hairs, not by riches or many relations did the seers make the Law: He is great to us who has learning.

A man should avoid these six like a leaking boat in the ocean: a teacher who does not teach, a priest who has not studied, a king who fails to protect, a wife who is abusive, a cowherd who wants a village, and a barber who wants a forest.

The intoxication with power is worse than drunkeness with liquor and such, for who is drunk with power does not come to his senses before he falls.

The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by any fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.

[tushantin]

You know you're an adult, not just when you're able to put the needs of others above your own, but when you're able to do it without giving a single thought to what they "owe" you in return. You realize that, at some point you weren't even aware of, you became the tap instead of the bucket. And then you look back and hate your younger self for living under the delusion that somehow a world full of buckets could function.

Read more: 5 Questions You Need to Ask (To Avoid Ruining Your Life) | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-questions-you-need-to-ask-to-avoid-ruining-your-life_p2/#ixzz1V2PvAF00

This guy, though one of the most depressing people I've ever seen, has all of my respect. 

[tushantin]

"The second freedom struggle has started ... This is a fight for change. Unless there is no change, there is no freedom, there is no actual democracy, there is no true republic, there is no true people's rule"

[Thought]

I believe that the great wisdom of the 80's can be summed up in the immortal words of Bill S. Preston, Esq. -- “Be excellent to each other.”

[Shee]

From an old friend.

the present is a warped reality occurring too quickly to accurately
interpret, past tense is the clarity of that warping.

[tushantin]

Bartimaeus: I'm not so good with the advice. How about a sarcastic comment?

Dang, if Lord J was a Djinni he'd be that sarcastic Bartimaeus. Or would you prefer to be the sophisticated Farqual?

[Sajainta]

A scarcastic comment sounds rather dangerous.  Does it leave a permanent scar?