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When truth is only a matter of opinion, advantage goes to the liars.

'One can only really travel if one lets oneself go, and takes what every place brings, without trying to turn it into a healthy, private pattern of one's own.' -Freya Stark

Beyond caste, creed, family or lineage,
That which is without name and form, beyond merit and demerit,
That which is beyond space, time and sense-objects,
You are that, God himself; Meditate this within yourself. ||Verse 254||
—Vivekachudamani, 8th Century AD\l "

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey
to the ocean of meanings.
The stream knows it can't stay on the mountain.
Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go,
in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.
-- Rumi

Once is a tragedy, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action.

My dad says, after the war was over, everyone came home to sort things out. There weren't gonna be any more wars. There weren't gonna be any more poor people. There weren't gonna be any more bad houses. There weren't gonna be any more people out of work. That was forty years ago.

Now they're trying to invent spaceships that drop bombs.

don''t cry when it's over- smile because it happened.

“Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
~ Andrzej Sapkowski

the great H. L. Mencken said, "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

''You can always charm more than one side of the story."

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people." - Abraham Joshua Heschel

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. - Mark Twain

If you watching this, then you do good! Willie happy!

-Willie

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few people." -- James Thurber

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." -Maya Angelou