The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
-Iris Murdoch
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
-Iris Murdoch
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship. It is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him, and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The celebration of Mardi Gras is an episode that never becomes stale to the people of the city, however monotonous the description or even the enumeration of its entertainments appears to strangers. At any age it makes a Creole woman young to remember it as she saw it at eighteen; and the description of what it appeared to the eyes of eighteen, would be, perhaps, the only fair description of it, for if Mardi Gras means anything, it means illusion; and unfortunately, when one attains one's majority in the legal world, one ceases to be a citizen of Phantasmagoria
Live as if you're going to die tomorrow, Learn as if you're going to live forever
-Mahatma Gandhi
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-Albert Einstein
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
-Pierre Abelard
Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.
-Julia Child
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
-Epictetus
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
-Miguel de Cervantes
"Man is universe within himself"- Bob Marley
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
-George Bernard Shaw
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
-John Constable
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
-Johnny Cash
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
-Robert Collier
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
-Logan Pearsall Smith
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
-Jimmy Carter
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?
-Calvin and Hobbes
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree if independence still available under present circumstances. [Reporter 18 Nov, 1954]
-Albert Einstein
Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
-Karen Ravn
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
-Buddha
(building a barbecue pit)
English side ruined! Must use French instructions!
(reading)
"Le grille"?!! What the hell is Le grille?!!!?!
-Homer Simpson
The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart.
-John Welwood
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
-Jonathan Kozol
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life threatening.
-Maya Angelou
i'm beginning to think this billabong character is a bot.. unusual.. xD
Why would you think I'm a bot?
I manually post this every morning when I wake up. It kind of makes me feel good that you would think that though, it means I'm doing what I set out to do. I aim to post this every morning for as long as I possibly can.
May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
~Irish Blessing
Billabong is old-skool :)
Keep up the gd work Billabong :D
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
-Isiah Thomas
"Why fit in, when you're born to stand out"
-Oprah Winfrey
"If not you, who? If not now, when?"
-Me
my respects to billabong, i hope you keep it up. you got a name for me to relate to?
“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise”
- Alden Nowlan
"Tigers dies leaving their stripes, Man dies leaving their names"
-Local Saying
Where you are is where I want to be. And through your eyes all the things I want to see. And in the night you are my dream. You are everything to me.
-Dave Matthews Band
The 2nd day of a diet is always easier than the 1st. By the 2nd day you're off it.
-Jackie Gleason
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."
- unknown
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
-William Shakespeare
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society.
-Henry David Thoreau
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
-Andy Rooney
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
-Albert Einstein
