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When your Mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
Topic: Innocence
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Topic: Meditation
Author: Sivananda
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
The hardest work of all is to do nothing.
Topic: Idleness
Author: Proverb
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.
Author: H L Mencken
The burnt child dreads the fire.
Topic: Fire
Author: Ben Jonson
Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know.
Better than a kick in the ass with a frozen boot ( reference to being better than something potentially worse).
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.
Topic: Society
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Topic: Change
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Topic: Love
Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
Topic: Nature
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Topic: Hatred
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
Topic: Attitude
Author: Arthur Ashe
I come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves, opening as I pass.
Topic: Spring
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--
Topic: Winter