PEACE IS THE ONLY WAR WORTH WAGING. ALBERT CAMUS
WILLIAM BLAKE 1757-1827 “THE LITTLE BLACK BOY”
“Liberate the instinctual self to defeat reason.”
MAKE YOUR OWN RULES OR BE A SLAVE TO ANOTHER MAN’S.
WE are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.
IF THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
TO SEE THE WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND
AND A HEAVEN IN A WILD FLOWER,
HOLD INFINITY IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND,
AND ETERNITY IN AN HOUR.
IN the universe, there are things that are known and things that are unknown, and in between there are doors.
THE person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.
LOVE is weak when there is more doubt than trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
WHAT IS NOW PROVED WAS ONCE ONLY IMAGINED.
TO SOME PEOPLE A TREE is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.
AS WE ARE, SO WE SEE.
THE IMAGINATION IS NOT A STATE: IT IS HUMAN EXISTENCE ITSELF.
WHEN I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
ENLIGHTENMENT MEANS TAKING FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE.
THE MAN who never alters his opinions is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.
JOY and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every Grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
EVERY MAN WHO IS NOT AN ARTIST IS A TRAITOR TO HIS OWN NATURE.
BETTER TO SHUN THE BAIT THAN STRUGGLE IN THE SNARE.
YOU BECOME WHAT YOU BEHOLD.
EXUBERANCE IS BEAUTY.
YOU never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
THE WOMAN that does not love your frowns will never embrace your smiles.
IN your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth,
And all you behold, though it appears without,
It is within, in your imagination,
Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
I MUST create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
THINK in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
SOME ARE BORN TO SWEET DELIGHT. SOME ARE BORN TO ENDLESS NIGHT.
A TRUTH TOLD with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
THERE is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.
I SEE THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE ALL AT ONCE BEFORE ME.
HE WHO KISSES JOY AS IT FLIES BY WILL LIVE IN ETERNITY’S SUNRISE.
P.G.WOODHOUSE 1881-1975 “Introducing Jeeves”
I ALWAYS ADVISE PEOPLE NOT TO GIVE ADVICE.
SOME MINDS are like soup in a poor restaurant–better left unstirred.
I ALWAYS STRIVE, when I can, to spread sweetness and light.
EVERYTHING IN LIFE that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
ALCOHOL IS A MISUNDERSTOOD VITAMIN.
THERE is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
IT IS A GOOD RULE in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
AT the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
THE VOICE OF LOVE SEEMED TO CALL TO ME, BUT IT WAS THE WRONG NUMBER.
SHE LOOKED as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say ‘when.’
WELL, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.
BLAKE: Do what your will this life’s a fiction and is made up of contradictions.
POETRY, PAINTING & MUSIC, the three powers in man of conversing with paradise which the flood did not sweep away.
A GOOD LOCAL PUB has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer and there’s more conversation.
I SEE THROUGH MY EYES, NOT WITH THEM.
WHY stand we here trembling around, calling on god for help and not ourselves in whom God dwells.