[Gen] Quote du jour

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. -Carl Jung

 

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. -Gaston Bachelard

 

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." Mark Twain (1835-1910)

 

I like that quote SS!

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. -Warren Beatty

 

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. -Charles Dickens

 

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion. -Lin-Chi

 

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. -Mahatma Gandhi

 

Found this one particularly relevant, given the upcoming release of Episode III:

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

 

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. -Brendan Francis

 

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. -Alexander Pope

 

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right. -Carl Schurz 1829-1906, German-born American Senato

 

The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness. -Norman Cousins

 

"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live

 

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. Amos Bronson Alcott

 

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. -Aristotle

 

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. -Hilaire Belloc

 

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. -Robert Brault

 

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

 

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. -Richard Lovelace

 

"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

 

"Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valor pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the hell with you!"

-Conan the Barbarian, 1982

 

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment. - Steven Halpern

 

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. -Billy Joel

 

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together, All things connect. -Chief Seattle

 

We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression. -Lord Byron