"The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth."
- Dean Koontz
“Words are the only bullets in Truth’s bandolier. And Poets are the Snipers.”
– Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"The greatest strength is gentleness."
- Iroquois Proverb
“And above it all the butterfly affect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single day in that human's life: unplannable, unpredictable, governed by the hidden tides of chaotic factors and buffered by butterfly wings...”
- Dan Simmons, The Hollow Man
"Every expression of closeness has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth."
- Dean Koontz
"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
“The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.”
- Dan Simmons, Prayers to Broken Stones
"After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC)
"Well hey, these things just snap right off!"
- Gary Larson
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"There's nothing to writing, really...all you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed."
- Ernest Hemingway
“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children."
- Sam Levenson
"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
- Hosea Ballou
"Sweater: n;
A garment worn by a child when its mother is chilly."
- Ambrose Pierce
"Stupidity has a price, and it always get's paid."
- Dan Simmons, (The Fall of Hyperion)
I somehow must have been switched up in the heavenly information database somehow from an individual human being to a military detachment or something…how could any one of the Gods think I would have been able to handle everything that continuously gets thrown at me from left field? I honestly don’t know if I even think Mother Teresa could have managed without eventually breaking down and saying, “fuck this, and fuck you – all of you…”
I used to feel like this too…until I learned recently that it does no good to complain or brood about it, you just have to shake it off and move on, try to make the best out of the worst. It’s all about attitude…
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I honestly wasn’t meaning to complain…just thinking in ink…thanks for sharing.
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Oh I didn’t mean it that way sorry if I used the wrong words, but I hope you understand 😉
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YEEEAAAAH!
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Funny, I was just reading a book that quoted from Mother Theresa’s personal papers. Apparently she lost God for some years.
I know that you will handle whatever comes your way. You’re wired like me in this. No matter how far or how hard you get knocked you get back up and keep putting one foot in front of the other. There really isn’t any other option, is there? What’s a miracle is that we still love and care despite it all. Sane people give up. Saints keeping getting back up even when they know God isn’t there and keep going even when it’s insane. You’re in the saint category.
That said, I’m instant rebel in a can: just add some stupid Calvinist saying about predestiny and endurance and watch me blow shit up. I don’t care if someone is a certified preacher-person: it is NEVER God’s will for people to suffer and struggle. Ever notice that the people who see God like that tend to cause a lot of suffering and struggling?
Chin up and (hugs).
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You’re awesome. Hugs back acha x
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what a horrible platitude that is! Like everybody wins and nobody dies, like survivors all haven’t by definition had more than they can handle. I always wonder how bullshit is supposed to help anything. It’s like a smoke bomb – “It’s all part of God’s plan” – POOF! I’m gone before you know what hit you.
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Amen to that NS.
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I had this last year. I have no answers for you, people deal in their own ways. I do know that like me you’re a human being and can not only get through it all, but thrive. You are strong ☺
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Hugs to you for that. X
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