== Quotes 2005 == If you can free yourself from the bonds of jealousy, you can soar the heavens like the angels! - Rumi Metaphysically wrinke free. - Colin Farrell in 'The Recruit' A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. - M. Scott Peck I am like a child playing on the beach by the sea while the vast ocean of truth lies unexplored before me. - Isaac Newton 'They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality...and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening." - George Orwell "1984" War Is Peace Freedom Is Slavery Ignorance Is Strength - George Orwell, "1984" I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Frank Herbert, "Dune" Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. - Lily Tomlin Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler (1612-1680) We all enter this world the same way...naked, screaming, soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to end there. You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. - Anne Lamott Love vs being RIGHT love vs having ones way Love vs resentment Love vs nitpicking Love vs judging Love vs having control Love vs expectations and dissapointment... Love VS COMPATABILITY? To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. It's a man's world, and you men can have it. In wildness is the preservation of the world. I love acting. It is so much more real than life. Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. It is never too late to give up our prejudices. Join the army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill 'em. - Woody Allen Only those that attempt the ridiculous can achieve the impossible. No sage or savior has ever endorsed greed and gluttony as a path toward social justice or personal fulfillment. These sane and enlightened people come to us from all cultures and all eras, sometimes knowing of each other but more often not. Socrates and Jesus, Lao Tzu and Tolstoi, Gandhi and Martin Buber -- no one can find in their lives and words a jot of support for a political and economic regime that encourages the acquisition of wealth far beyond what is needed for the necessaries -- or even the restorative pleasures -- of life while consigning the masses to live and work in squalor. - Stephen J. Fortunato, Associate Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court