Words of the Week

Happiness is like a butterfly.
The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
But if you turn your attention to other things,
It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
 – Henry David Thoreau

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Words of the Week

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh- at yourself. 
Ethel Barrymore

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. 
Marie Osmond

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering. 
Sri H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji)

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Words of the Week

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction

that human beings are not born once and for all

on the day their mothers give birth to them,

but that life obliges them over and over again

to give birth to themselves.”

– Gabriel García Márquez

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Words of the Week

“Do not be too moral.

You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Aim above morality.

Be not simply good,

be good for something.”

-Henry David Thoreau

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Words of the Week

“Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations.

There is more logic in humor than in anything else.

Because, you see, humor is truth.”

– Victor Borge

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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: ‘It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.'” Jim Jarmusch

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“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

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Words of the Week

Okay, so it’s been over 5 months since my last Words of the Week… so here’s to making up for lost time.

“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet.” – Anonymous

“Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.” – Melina Marchetta

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“When you are irritated tell yourself to shut up!” -R.B. Oulliet

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“I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays and pays and pays. No idea of retribution or punishment. Just exchange of values. You gave up something and got something else. Or you worked for something. You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth and knowing when you had it.”

-excerpt from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu

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