December 2009
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“Falling for him once: Temptation
Falling for him twice: Destiny
Getting your...”
– “So what does love at first sight feel like?”
“Like gravity, irresistible.”
—Joseph Tsang
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What can you give to a man who has everything?
You give him admiration
What is the one thing a man who has everything needs?
Someone to share it with
—Joseph Tsang
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“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and...”
– George Carlin
just as anyone who reads less than you is stupid, and anyone who reads more a nerd. I was just thinking about this today. People complain about their memory all the time but i almost never hear anyone complain about their intellect.
—Joseph Tsang
(last line was a quote from...
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“I’d rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.”
– Terry Pratchett
and that is exactly what an ape would want.
—Joseph Tsang
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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is required. The stars neither require it nor demand it.
—Annie Dillard
A very moving quote i came across today that made me think of why God feels so distant at times.
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Last night i dreamed of my step dad slapping my mom across the living room.
I nearly killed him.
Walking away from his bloody corpse, i turned around and said, “It’s true Jesus was willing to die for the Father, but what the gospels left out was that He was also ready to kill for the mother.”
And then i woke up…a Catholic?
—Joseph Tsang
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“The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chosen to invent one of my own.”
– Peter Doherty
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
—George Bernard Shaw
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“Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity, and so we ask ourselves, will our...”
– Narrator, “Troy”
Submitted by albanydia
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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
and the joy of literature is to find out what you wrote meant more than what you intend.
—Joseph Tsang
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates (via quote-book)
For a philosopher, yes! But what about the musician, the dancer, or the chef? On what grounds do you, Socrates, esteem the head over the heart, or truth over beauty? You can’t, but appeal to prejudice.
Then I shall likewise, and my claim is sincerity! I will prefer...
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The Wine
pagesofmymind:
Sometimes I let my eyes un-focus
And let every emotion I’m feeling take me over in waves
Then I blink,
And I’m back.
C.S. Lewis said that in heaven sleep will only be a conscious repose; no longer a necessity but forever a pure enjoyment.
I suppose the same can apply to emotions. There for the first time, we will taste in full the sweet tang of sadness, made from the tears...
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when i say i am a christian...
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I’m not shouting I’m clean livin’. I’m whispering I was lost, now I’m found. When I say I am a Christian, I don’t speak of this with pride. I’m confessing that I stumble & need Christ to be my guide. When I say I am a Christian, I’m not trying to be strong. I’m professing that I’m weak & need His strength to carry on. When I say I am a Christian, I’m not...
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Everything he read in his books took possession of...
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-Don Quixote / Cervantes
A: “Your life sounds like a book”
B: “Books, my dear, record lives.”
A: “Every thing you say sounds like a quote.”
B: “Quotes, are the voices of great men.”
A: ”Quotes and books bore me!”
B: “That says more about you than about the book”
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Person A: John Pipper said “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him”
And I am very satisfied in him right now.
Person B: says the rich lawyer with all the girls
Person A: And that is what Satan said about Job
—Joseph Tsang
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“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions...”
– Buddha
This is perhaps the principle reason why Chinese philosophers are regarded as second class thinkers. Genius is the ability to see similarity in differences, and differences among similarities. The Chinese philosophers have refused to see at all, evidenced by their art which shows all of...
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Brain Washing
Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s as useful as your appendix. He’s making sure your attention is...
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“So many ways to say “I love you”, never enough to say how much.”
– Unknown
because that’s what actions are for.
—Joseph Tsang
(submitted by modegeliebter) (via quote-book)
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